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PS2 Emulation for PS4 - Confirmed

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On Thursday evening, Sony confirmed to Wired, an American magazine, that they are - 

 

 

working on utilizing PS2 emulation technology to bring PS2 games forward to the current generation, 

 

- Sony representative in an email to Wired

 

 

It also seems that they won't be ports of the older PS2 games, but instead will run on proprietary emulation software; there is not yet clear indication as to whether games will be available through the digital store, or whether owners can use their old physical copies, as Sony hasn't commented on what their intentions are. 

 

Though, there is already games available for the PS4 that were original PS2 games - the Star Wars: Battlefront bundle that was released in Wednesday's digital store update: 

 

 

As DigitalFoundry and Eurogamer pointed out earlier this month, the recently-released Star Wars: Battlefront bundle for the PS4 includes three Star Wars PS2 games that appear to be emulated, rather than ported, to the newer system. There are numerous clues suggesting that this is the case, including the appearance of the classic PlayStation 2 logo before the games load; the inclusion of an emulation system for memory cards; and the automatic mapping of old controller buttons on to the new Dual Shock 4. The games also receive a pretty impressive resolution boost, as DigitalFoundry shows in this informative video:

 

 

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PS2 games on PS4 hardware? YAY finally a steady 60 FPS :P

 

jk, would love to play some games from PS2 again on my PS4 

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I hope it just lets you use the disk, if it does then its amazing

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I hope it just lets you use the disk, if it does then its amazing

>Digital only atm

>only 4 games supported atm

Was disappointed. They shouldn't have mentioned it until it was further along.

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Retoast...

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/488183-update-confirmedsony-enabled-ps2-backwards-compatibility-for-the-ps4-without-telling-anyone/

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>Digital only atm

>only 4 games supported atm

Was disappointed. They shouldn't have mentioned it until it was further along.

 

Im sad now

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Unsurprisingly to be honest. Sad it took them so long to realise people wanted this. 

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Retoast...

Always link what it is a repost of and properly report it, otherwise a post saying "Retoast..." is useless

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Always link what it is a repost of and properly report it, otherwise a post saying "Retoast..." is useless

I have, was just getting the link.

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