Iirc, the first models of the PS3 had basically most of the drives of the PS2 and PS1 inside it. Making it the best Consoles to emulate PS2, since it was running on basically original hardware.
Playstation 1 was always emulated, it has good compatibility but is forced to at least 480p so it's kind of ugly, soft. The PS2 was not emulated, full hardware in the A01 and B01, C01/D01/E01 have the GPU emulated by software. Neither has perfect compatibility, and since original PS3s are trying to catch fire all the time it's less practical than just owning a PS2.
The Emotion Engine! The later PS3 slim dropped the EE chip and switched to software emulation of it, which meant that like 50% of PS2 games no longer functioned because the emulation wasn't as good as having the actual chip, which was a shame but I bet it represented a significant amount of the price drop.
Iirc, the first models of the PS3 had basically most of the drives of the PS2 and PS1 inside it. Making it the best Consoles to emulate PS2, since it was running on basically original hardware.
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Playstation 1 was always emulated, it has good compatibility but is forced to at least 480p so it's kind of ugly, soft. The PS2 was not emulated, full hardware in the A01 and B01, C01/D01/E01 have the GPU emulated by software. Neither has perfect compatibility, and since original PS3s are trying to catch fire all the time it's less practical than just owning a PS2.
The Emotion Engine! The later PS3 slim dropped the EE chip and switched to software emulation of it, which meant that like 50% of PS2 games no longer functioned because the emulation wasn't as good as having the actual chip, which was a shame but I bet it represented a significant amount of the price drop.