Rumors from left field: emulator firmware to eventually upscale PSOne/2 titles? |
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So Las Vegas must be laying odds on what will happen at GDC 2007 in San Francisco (although this writer's money is on a StarCraft II... I wish), but this one is right out of left field. The same Rumor Reporter who hinted at 32-player Warhawk dogfights tossed something into the ring that just blew that buzz away. Or generate accusations of natural fertilizer-peddling, depending on whether you buy this or not.He claims (from a nameless source) that in the near future, probably summer, the same emulator firmware that's being used as the backwards compatibility core of European PS3s will have the ability to upscale PSOne and PS2 titles to 1080i/720p using the PS3's HD scaler (plus hardware for PSOne titles, perhaps).
He says that not all legacy PS games will be supported by this feature at first. He says that Sony will concentrate on expanding the compatibility list of the emulator software first. Still, the expectation is that a few legacy titles at a time will be upscale-ablelized (for lack of a better word) and added to the list at intervals.
If this is true, (if this is true), we believe it is either quite possible or contemplated that US and Japanese-release PS3s will get a similar treatment - either with future firmware updates overriding the Emotion Engine chip (most likely option), or complementing the hardware compatibility in those PS3s. But that's as much off the top of our head as this rumor is from left field. (Either way, it's not like a feature like this can be locked in one region. Can it?)
And the final claim from Rumor Reporter is that all of this will be announced at the GDC 2007 Sony keynote. He even bets on simply sitting back and waiting for the official announcement. Now you know why RAINBOW was deployed to Las Vegas. This sort of rumor-mongering can be murder on the bookies before the confirmation/denial.
Dang, R.R., when you say you "send Sony fans' heads spinning", we don't know whether to clap our hands or call an exorcist.
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D: Great, ... anyone care?(... besides the junkie that will probably view this post soon.)
thats why i collect games and buy them not to throw them away every time the "particular" brand throws a new console. i hate the industry when they dont support old software, software that you spend so much hard EARNED money. i have a big collection of ps1 & ps2 games that i hard collected and cost me so MUCH MONEY and i dont want to throw it away because this sony M'FERS have so minimal problems or a so lazy to program small fixes on the new machine. so like a consumer I DO CARE about Backwards compatibility. I PAY money for the machine so i do NEED for what i pay off. PD: i dont care about the haters around and the xbots or kiddy hoes who comes in here to say ***** about that BC is dont need it. this is when we have to seperate CASUALS vs HARD CORE GAMERS.
this is cool...but does it make any graphical changes at all, lol...im just curious!
sure most peope expect game systems to emulate at least the last system. but you can only be backwards compatible to a certain extent. adding previous system's chips will just boost the price up. And software emulation can only go so far. Game companies are trying to work on future technology more than trying to emulate older technology.
... companies could care less about backwards compatibility. The only reason it's around is as a selling point. Look at nintendo and how many ways they rape customers out of their money (Zelda NES ported for GBA! For only $20? Wow!) On the other hand, exactly how much more would it cost to put in the hardware to run PS1-generation (12 yrs old) or PS2-generation (7 yrs old) titles? Seriously.
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