PlayStation 4 has learned how to emulate PS2 console games

Representatives of Sony promised to make libraries of games popular PS1 and PS2 consoles available on the new PlayStation 4 console in 2014, but months went by, and the classic games from old platforms were still unavailable to fans. However, this month there was one curious event, which may mean the early appearance of PS2-games on the PS4 platform, which will be launched from under the official emulator.

Together with a copy of the new Star Wars: Battlefront Ultimate Edition Star Wars: Battlefront Ultimate Edition, the PS4 owners received a set of four classic games of the series: Super Star Wars, Star Wars: Racer Revenge, Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter and Star Wars: Bounty Hunter. If the first one appeared in the original on the 16-bit console of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, the last three appeared on the PlayStation 2 console. One would think that these are hastily ports for the new x86 PS4 architecture, if not for a few very important details.

Firstly, before launching the games, the famous PlayStation 2 logo appears, which clearly means loading the BIOS of this console. Secondly, PS4 offers you to create a virtual memory card to save the game. Thirdly, the control in games is exactly the same as on PS2, and the Start and Select buttons are spaced on the left and right edge of the DualShock 4 controller touchpad. Digital Foundry specialists even made a careful comparison of the original games with their re-released versions and confirmed that Before us, quality emulation.

A little later, an official representative of Sony confirmed that these games really used an emulator to work on the PS4 console. At the moment, the company's engineers are working hard to make the library of classic PS2 games available to the owners of the PlayStation 4 console. However, the company declined to comment more diligently. Personally, I suspect that we will not be able to run games from the original PS2-disks. Traditionally, we will be allowed to purchase classic games at a reduced price, which is somewhat sad against the background of the recently announced backward compatibility of Xbox One with the disk versions of the games of the Xbox 360 console.

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