Sony’s New Hope: PS2 Emulation on the PS3

I just wish I could play PS2 games on my PSP.

Honestly if I can't hack the console to make it region free and allow me to use ISO's instead of physical media, then I'm not that interested.

When will these companies join the 20th century?

let more companies drop sony!

Moar!
EA, Blizzard, Ubisoft, 2K, all drop ps3

and let the stupid japs afford their own machine

Soon they will realize their xenophobia is simply stupidity

I still play my PS2 even to this day and still yet to buy a PS3.... ^_^
Albeit, with very crappy games to say the least. T_T

how about PS1 & PS2 on PS3?So i can play old Final Fantasy games for the Nth time.

I have a feeling sony is going to start experimenting on new software for better emulation and mess up.

This is almost reason enough to get a ps3 if this happens, but if it's only ps2 emulation my ps2 won't be going anywhere. Even now I still play ps1 games and pick up the occasional odd one I didn't get to play before.

I'll play my Einhander until the day the disc dissolves.

Now if they started making ps2/3 collections of older games...

weeeee?

At the same time it seems to highlight the stark contrast between the library for the PS2 and the PS3 as it stands currently.

PS3 owners, it could be said, are getting told by this, but it's very subtly done.

Pal ps3 use software emulation and okami was beautiful upscaled to 720p, still wouldn't throw out my chipped ps2 since it can play games from any region.

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Let's see...

Looks at PS2 and PS1 by "Gaming Throne"...laughs...

Then again, people begging the pawn shop dealer to unload their PS2 and piles of games they paid $1000+ for so they could have 1/10 that to go towards their next $1000 PS3 plus a few games is what put it in the "Used" market for me to get it at a sane cost since I can wait a few years...

When I finally got a PS3 around the time MGS4 came out, I was under the false impression that ALL PS3 SKUs were backwards-compatible. I hadn't been keeping up with the news and simply assumed that the feature in question was included. I'll never forgive Sony for springing a metric ton of gimped hardware on people during that transition period where they dropped backwards-compatibility.

Sony whined that the 360 is a "piecemeal" console with all its add-ons? Yeah, right. At least if you get the wrong 360 SKU, you can upgrade it later. If you get the wrong PS3 SKU, you're pretty much screwed.

I want a pink PS2 controller! So awesome looking!

Good thing I bought a PS3 within the first few months of release, it plays all PS2 games fine

Wii FTW. Huge-ass library of NES, SNES, N64, and GC games in one console, plus the Wii games. Epic win. Plus, I need Zelda and Mario. There's a reason Super Mario Galaxy was awarded Best Game of the Year(on all consoles) in 2007 you know. And Twilight Princess is the best Zelda game since Ocarina of Time, which in it's time was awarded Best Game of All Time(though that award is obviously dated now, I think it still deserves it). Owning alot of awesome GC games, like Luigi's Mansion, Super Mario Sunshine, Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, and The Legend of Zelda Wind Waker(Limited Edition with Ocarina of Time Master Quest. ^^), owning a Wii is a must for me when coupled with all the great downloadable N64 games, and the new Mario and Zelda one's. Most other games I play on my PC. There are a few PS3/XBox 360 exclusions that I want, which will probably cause me to buy them in the future, but the list is short. Good PC and Wii combination is win imo. And my chipped PS2 for all the Japanese Anime-fighters, Devil May Cry series, and Legacy of Kain series games offcourse. ^^

Dreamcast lol

I am loving my refurbished 60 GB PS3 from GameStop, since it is natively compatible with PS2 games.

Seriously, if you want one now, just walk in and ask where you can find one (i.e. what is the nearest location). (Sorry if you are outside of the USA.)

Or you can buy a broken 60GB on eBay and pay for Sony's repair service. They will give you the same exact model you have them repair.

once Sony release that firmware update...i'm buying a PS3

Meh, PS3 is a sinking ship, the sooner they start working on PS4 and avoid past idiocies, the better. As it is, good games still come PS2's way and Wii won the next gen race by the millions. Just admit your console failed to compete even with the 360 and got owned by a console with crappier hardware because your marketing and PR crew were retards, and do something better next time.

There's a lot of evidence that Sony never plans anything ahead of time. I'm pretty sure that they just react to the whims and complaints from their fanbase and say they where gonna do it all from the start.

That said, I'll finally dump my PS2 once there's some way to support most of its controllers and accessories and supports playing pirated ISOs via the hard drive.

Recently there are rumours of pictures of the ps3 slim.
from the looks of it, it doesn't look like it has a gloss finish , looks like the casing of the old ps2 :S
pretty cheap looking

I already bought a PS3 with the Emotion Engine about 6 months ago for $300. The only PS3 game I have played on for more than 20 hours is probably Armored Core FA. Aside from that, I've been catching up on some old PS2 and PS1 games.

My PS3 is backwards compatible which is good since I've only purchased like 4 ps3 games since I bought the thing 2 years ago. Even now I am playing a ps2 game on it. It's a good thing they realized the backwards compatibility is such a key feature and was a major part of the ps2's success. Now if only they would realize the market needs more than just FPS and sports games clones to survive.

I will never drop my Ps2... since it can play modded games :3

So, supposedly, would this also be something for us Eurofags?

They better damn well do that. It was a travesty that they got rid of PS2 backwards compatibility.

Idiots! Just because Sony files a patent for SOMETHING THEY HAVE ALREADY DONE (*cough* 80GB *cough*) doesn't mean you should get excited! Sony has been able to emulate the EE on the Cell for *YEARS* now! It's the GS that they haven't been able to. Without that, PS2 emulation is just a fantasy. Unless that happens, stop jumping at every piece of junk that comes along that makes you think otherwise.

My PS3 is backwards compatible, but my PS2 is modded so I play Japanese games on that

I have a fully backwards compatible PS3, thank god, since the PS2 is such a piece of shit. I mean, in terms of how it's put together. Incredible fucking library, but goddamn... I own a lot of fucking consoles and the only one I've ever had to open up and perform amateur electronic surgery on was my PS2--and the DREs have come back so I'd have to fix it again if I didn't have my big black box of love.

I wish they could combine Nintendium indestructibility with a library worth having. I can't remember the last time I touched my Gamecube, but it does still work, despite taking a terrible beating over the years.

oh yeah

But you must not dump your PS2s! Rogue countries and freedom haters might exploit its hardware to fire ze missiles!

Why would you not make a system backwards compatible?!

Unless you were from microsoft, did the Xbox even have any good games?

The day a firmware update will make all ps3 backwards compatible with ps2 will be the day I'll pick up a ps3.