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Omie Jay

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I want a ps3, mainly because of God of War 3, but theres other good games too. If i do get one sometime, i'll be trading in ps2 and 10 games (lets hope that deal comes out again).
This leaves me with 2 ps2 games, and it just so happens, that they are God of War and God of War 2.
Now, i do NOT wanna surrender these 2 games, since theyre my all time favourite, and i do recall that the first released ps3's were backward compatible. I think one model actually had the ps2 hardware in it, and the other had a ps2 emulator in it.

Is it possible to emulate the ps2 on current ps3's? Can a ps2 emulator be purchased (or downloaded, i dare say?) from somewhere for the ps3, to enable it to run ps2 games?
 
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IIRC; there is no way to currently play the PS2 games on the PS3 hardware. It's got something to do with the emote software or something, but yeah. Just get a slim PS2, they're going for pretty cheap atm ($130?).

But no way to play PS2 on the current PS3 hardwares yet...
 
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Omie Jay said:
I want a ps3, mainly because of God of War 3, but theres other good games too. If i do get one sometime, i'll be trading in ps2 and 10 games (lets hope that deal comes out again).
This leaves me with 2 ps2 games, and it just so happens, that they are God of War and God of War 2.
Now, i do NOT wanna surrender these 2 games, since theyre my all time favourite, and i do recall that the first released ps3's were backward compatible. I think one model actually had the ps2 hardware in it, and the other had a ps2 emulator in it.

Is it possible to emulate the ps2 on current ps3's? Can a ps2 emulator be purchased (or downloaded, i dare say?) from somewhere for the ps3, to enable it to run ps2 games?
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Only way to get it backwards compatible is to the buy the first released ps3's which are the 60Gb model, although they do cost a little more then the actually 80gb ones out now.
 
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Lol L2 buy 60gig one when they came out, i did.

Add me to your PSN: Jabstah
 
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Stanman said:
Lol L2 buy 60gig one when they came out, i did.

Add me to your PSN: Jabstah
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u can still buy the 60gb model from ebay and other online stores, or you can get a preowned one from ebgames.
 
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