Ooo didn’t know the ps3 could run ps1 games
Comment on My PS1 died today
Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 week ago
Respect for the soldier fallen after so long in combat 🫡
Also if you still want to play the game and wouldn't mind doing so on another device, iirc the PS2 can run natively PS1 games, any of the PS3 models can for sure (it's different from the PS2 compatibility from the PS3), you can convert the game to run on the PSP and/or Vita, and there are emulators that have their own solutions to not need BIOS files.
smeg@feddit.uk 1 week ago
Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 week ago
Finished Parasite Eve that way. The final challenge without save states was... interesting.
Just worth noting Sony's PS1 emulator is historically unstable with certain games. FFV, for example, if you play the black label release, the save screen has some issue (maybe a memory leak?) that makes the whole game utterly freeze, and that the further you are into the game, the more unstable that screen gets (meanwhile in the PSP with a dump of the same disc, iirc the graphics in the save screen just get increasingly corrupted)
smeg@feddit.uk 1 week ago
So the ps3 is running an emulator? I thought console backwards compatibility usually came from having the original console’s CPU available (as a sound processor or similar)
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
They embedded a PS1 in the PS2, but the PS1 compatibility for the PS3 and later is emulation. Also the PS2 compatibility for most of the revisions of the PS3 is emulated too. Only a couple of the earliest models crammed a PS2 in there
Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 week ago
Been quite a few years since I last dug in the subject, but from what I remember, Sony used for the PS1 an emulator called "POPS", and Sony up to the Vita added hardware from the previous generation into the new console, but I don't remember any mentions of them adding hardware further than a single generation.
And a surprise to me, but apparently according to this wiki (cw: Fandom), the PS3 used some degree of emulation even for the PS2. Rather curious as to run PS2 games, the PS3 boots into a PS2 mode, which feels almost like a dual boot.
Worx@lemmynsfw.com 1 week ago
I’ll have to check about the backwards compatibility, I’m sure a newer device would be easier to buy. I did have a PS2 once but I must have sold it… Maybe it went towards a Wii?
Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 week ago
Rereading, one part of what I said wasn't clear: Emulators themselves you should be able to find for PC and phones. And if on PC, you should be able to play directly from the disc drive.