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)
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Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 week agoFinished 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
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.
GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Parasite eve 1 or 2? I don’t think I ever got past the final boss in 2, buddy was impossible
Auster@thebrainbin.org 2 days ago
GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I never played the third birthday one either. Number two is great, but it goes from like challenging to next level nightmare impossible right at the end.