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Yakuzaice on 29 June 2009
forest-spirit said:
Will I finally be able to play PS/PS2 games on the PS3 without finding the old one? That's good.

All PS3's have ps1 BC.



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Vashyo on 29 June 2009

I haven't touched my ps2 since I got ps3, I have the 40GB ps3 without b/c. Still I doubt I'd play the ps2 games on ps3 (well maybe FF12).



CDiablo on 29 June 2009

Methinks this tech will be for a PS2 downloadable game service. At this point Im not too sure if its worth having BC in the system due to the fact that you can make a lot of money off of DL'ed games instead of giving the money to gamestop.



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Steroid on 29 June 2009
CDiablo said:
Methinks this tech will be for a PS2 downloadable game service. At this point Im not too sure if its worth having BC in the system due to the fact that you can make a lot of money off of DL'ed games instead of giving the money to gamestop.

That makes sense and I wouldn't mind. There are some PS2 gems I simply cannot find. Ico and Persona 3 come to mind.



Carl on 29 June 2009
CDiablo said:
Methinks this tech will be for a PS2 downloadable game service. At this point Im not too sure if its worth having BC in the system due to the fact that you can make a lot of money off of DL'ed games instead of giving the money to gamestop.

That... would be awesome.

1 drawback i see though, is how the hell will they get all the PS2 games on, if they havent even got the whole PS1 library yet?



                            

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drkohler on 29 June 2009
markers said:
and so it begins...

Hmm.. I don't see any Shadows or Vorlons here.

This is a follow-up patent (from late 2007) describing the emulation of the emotion engine in the PS3. Nowhere do I see mentioning the emulation of the graphics synthesizer of the PS2 in the pictures or the patent application (You know, the one chip they could never emulate in software due to excessive memory bandwith usage in the PS2).



markers on 29 June 2009
drkohler said:
markers said:
and so it begins...

Hmm.. I don't see any Shadows or Vorlons here.

This is a follow-up patent (from late 2007) describing the emulation of the emotion engine in the PS3. Nowhere do I see mentioning the emulation of the graphics synthesizer of the PS2 in the pictures or the patent application (You know, the one chip they could never emulate in software due to excessive memory bandwith usage in the PS2).

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Crazymann on 29 June 2009

This is old tech. Furthermore, this implementation is only slightly different than the HLE that has been used for years to kludge emulation of advanced systems.

I remember when UltraHLE was released, and everyone went crazy. However, each game required lots of TLC to make work. It would be cool if true, but I don't think we'll be seeing any comprehensive PS2 emulation on newer PS3 systems any time soon.



outlawauron on 29 June 2009
Carl2291 said:
CDiablo said:
Methinks this tech will be for a PS2 downloadable game service. At this point Im not too sure if its worth having BC in the system due to the fact that you can make a lot of money off of DL'ed games instead of giving the money to gamestop.

That... would be awesome.

1 drawback i see though, is how the hell will they get all the PS2 games on, if they havent even got the whole PS1 library yet?

Come on, they're getting better! We get around 1 PS1 game a week.



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darconi on 29 June 2009

Its not that surprisingly the possibility is there. There are already emulators on the internet for PS2 on a normal PC. This is basically the same thing but translated from PC code to PS3 cell code.

On the other hand, I expect they will never get 100% compatibility with all older games, just like the 360 has only partial compatibility.