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PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 reaches a new milestone: 75% of all PS3 games are now playable on PC
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Unfortunately not all the fats could run PS2 games, only the CECHAxx and CECHBxx (NTSC) had the hardware to run PS2 games. The early PAL models (CECHCxx and CECHExx) had software emulation apparently, dunno if it was any good. I hunted down a fat model specifically because I wanted the backwards compatibility, can't remember which model I ended up buying, but it was not a backwards compatible one. Very disappointed at the time, but I was still sad when it died.
Also the possiblity to dualboot Linux was patched out pretty quickly if I remember correctly, people were pretty peeved about it.
Hmm I wonder if mine is that old. I got it used from a friend that also got it used back in the day. I never even tried sticking one of my PS2 games in it.
If it has a shitton of ports in the front, USB and SD card and all sorts of stuff, there's a good chance. If it only has 2 USB ports, probably not.
Doh, no such luck for me. Oh well, I still have my PS2 lol.
They play PS2 games just fine, all PS3 models do. It's something like 7% of games in the entire library that have issues with the software emulator but the vast majority of games will run and play without any problems.
The hardware backwards compatibility makes it slightly easier to use physical discs, that's about it. It also doesn't play every game perfectly like the original console, but it is slightly better than software.
Noooo... that's not right at all. If we are talking unmodified hardware. The original models did have something like 99% compatibility, but as the generation moved on, the fat models removed more components to make it cheaper and made PS2 backward compatibility more software driven... until the slim models removed PS2 disc reading completely.
We used to look at the hard drive size to gauge. 20GB & 60GB was full hardware, 80GB was partial software, anything above was a slim and had no PS2 abilities.
PS1 muddies the water because all PS3s can play PS1 game discs.
This used to confuse so many people because I swapped the hard drive for a 120 gig SSD. So I then had a 120 gig "60 gig" PS3. "the slim model?" No, the fat one "But then what model had...?" Yeah it was a pain to explain to some people what exactly it was.