ps3 emulators question?
Anyway i have a 40 gig and was wondering about two things:
1. Is it possible for me to play my NES, SNES, PS2, Dreamcast, N64, and genesis games using emulators on yellow dog linux 6 running on my ps3?
2. Does anybody know of a LIVE DISC PS2 emulator for the 40 gig ps3 that i could download?
Theoretically you should be able to play NES, and SNES games on the Linux System of the PS3.
However, for the more advanced 3D consoles, you will have several Problems.
First, these Emulators are still in development, and a lot of things don’t work.
And most importantly, the Linux System runs in a Virtual Hardware Environment on the PS3, wich doesn’t allow Linux to use the 3D hardware accelleration.
So it would be unbearably slow to play 3D-heavy games from PS2, Dreamcast and N64.
Below is a website with some Linux Emulators. However how well they run on the PS3 is another question. Try for yourself what works best for you.
As for the Live PS2 Emulator disc: There is none.
Even if there were, it has to be a digitally signed PS3 program.
As with the consoles before, the PS3 has a very strict copy protection.
On the old consoles it was pretty easy to find out how the protection works, as everything was done on the hardware itself.
However on the PS3, the whole system runs in a virtual hardware environment, making it very difficult to find a way to run downloaded software.
So even if the PS2 Emulator disc would exist, you can’t download it and expect it to run.
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