As Shaun said, the reason it's hard is because the PS2 had different processors than the PS3, meaning everything had to be "translated" from PS2 instructions to PS3 instructions. Emulation is hard, especially for a sophisticated console like the PS2. And if it had, it wouldn't have increased PS3 game sales very much - and Sony wouldn't make any more money than they already had on the PS2 games people owned. This was probably a losing investment for them, since the PS2 part wasn't the main attraction it probably didn't increase PS3 sales very much. Basically Sony was having to pay for PS2 and PS3 hardware in manufacturing, and then selling it at the PS3's price. In addition to Shaun's very good answer, consider the cost of emulation.įirst, the PS3's with the extra hardware for running PS2 games. While the first PS2 models incorporated hardware of the PS1 (like its CPU), later PS2 models completely emulated the PS1 via software (and were thinner). In 2000, Sony bought a Playstation emulator called Virtual Game Station. PS1, being a system simpler and older than the PS2, is easier to emulate using only software. They also have a compatibility tool that you can use to see if specific games can play on those specific models. Sony has a knowledgebase article that explains which three versions can play PS2 games. Models since the MSG:IV bundle had neither the CPU nor the software emulation of the CPU required to play older games. It can still play most PS2 games, but support isn't as good as the earlier models with the actual EE CPU. The 80GB Metal Gear Solid IV bundle had the GPU as well, but replaced the Emotion Engine chip with software emulation of the chip. These models can play almost all PS2 games. This CPU/GPU combo was put in all PS2 units and in the first variants of the PS3 (the NTSC 20GB and 60GB models) to make them backward-compatible. PS2 games were created to work on Sony's Emotion Engine CPU and their Graphics Synthesizer GPU. They cannot run on the CPU designed for the PS3. But please be aware that it's on a little planet orbiting Proxima Centauri.PS2 games were made for an older CPU. Send me the stuff, I'll send you the coordinates for the gold mine. It's a drive emulator, you don't even have access to the Xbox 360's firmware with Deal. And your little XK3Y is not even a hack, it's a noob's way of playing copied games on an Xbox 360 and that's all it can do. Maybe it is possible to code a working N64 emulator for a fully hacked Xbox 360 (JTAG or RGH), but that's about what the hardware can do. The only way possible to make an Xbox 360 play PS3 games is to build a PS3 into an Xbox 360 case. The PS3 has a better processor than the Xbox 360 (and yes, Xbox 360 and Xbox 360 Slim have basically the same hardware), but the Xbox 360's GPU is better and as far as I remember correctly it has more RAM.Īnd raghavsood999: Please get a dictionary and check what sarcasm is. A PS2 emulator should be possible, there is a good working Gamecube emulator and the Cube had more power than the PS2. There isn't even a working PS2 or Xbox emulator for PC, let alone a PS3 or Xbox 360 one. To emulate anything decently you need a system close to ten times better than the system you want to emulate. I hope that i am in the right section since this is for the xbox 360 modding and hacking. I need one for the xbox 360 console ONLY though. I have heard of many ps3 emu for pc and for xbox 360's but not if they work. I need that method were i will load the EMULATOR via the xkey ODE virtual drive loader with the ISO format and then it shall load a nice clean GUI were i can select games from. If there are any emu for NES please state. Just like the dvd menu, i want a GUI based environment with which i can select the games from a usb port since my PS3 emu will load via the xkey. Say i insert ISO image and tell xkey to load. I need to know that if i have a virtual drive loader like xkey, then is it possable to launch a ps3 emulator as a game or turn it into an ISO file instead so that my XKEY can read it? I need to know even if they are not any emulators for ps3 as they ARE for NES, and nintendo/SEGA companies, just list em all here. It can't do anything a jtag would do say, load xex menu. ISO images or play a dual layer xbox 360 dvd from a dual layer dvd drive. I have the xkey V2 with the latest firmware. Just like the xbox 360 has some downloads for NES, nintendo emulators using a JTAG hack mod or glitch mod hack, i am just wondering if there is one without a modchip/jtag installed. Hello people, i am just wondering if there is a playstation 3 emulator available for download somewere for the Microsoft xbox 360 slim console?
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