Sonys playing dirty pool

**robotdevil** · May 11th, 2006, 13:38

Wow, very interesting concept Larry. Also, everyone's so focused on this being a PS1 EMU they think that Sony will be dumb enough to release ROMs. Personally, I believe Sony will be putting the older games out on UMD (like how Nintendo released their "Classic" series for GBA). And again (agreeing with all who said it before) EMU's are NOT illegal, some of the code required to make them functional is (i.e. BIOS dumps, roms, etc). All of you with NesterJ and ROMs you didn't dump have broken the law. Especially if you have ROMs that you never owned. But back to my point, how did you get those ROMs for NES? Exactly, the same thing would happen to PS1 ROMs. I'm not saying I wouldn't like to see PS1 off the memstick (would really help batt life), but I don't think it's a realistic expectation. Lets give Sony a little credit, they are a giant evil corporation bent on ruling every facet of their systems, but they aren't stupid. But lets see if we can learn from this, if Sony does release them as downloadable ROMs that's going to give us ALOT of materials to work with. Alot of eboots to be unpacked and dissected. And I agree with Voltron, who better to create a PS1 emu? Lets face it, they know more about both systems than anyone else.

And I also agree that this won't stop the homebrew scene from creating their own EMU, DCEMU might not host it

but some of the other, eh, less reputable sites would. And there's allways bittorrent.....

**MikeDX** · May 11th, 2006, 13:40

Shadow, if you shaved your goatee off and ditch those shades, I'd join your gang

**shadowprophet** · May 11th, 2006, 13:45

where the hell have you been ?
I havnt seen you on irc in a while

**AcerVentura** · May 11th, 2006, 14:08

Shadowprophet, you need to catch up on some sleep, dude.

Next you'll be telling us Sony killed JFK and Elvis.

Besides, Sony's offering is only an "emulator" by very loose definition. It sounds like instead of making the PSP think that its a PS1, they are just re-compiling PS1 games to run on PSP.

Think of Capcom and Namco and Midway classic re-releases. Not really emulating, just porting the games to PSP platform.

**MikeDX** · May 11th, 2006, 14:09

Originally Posted by shadowprophet

where the hell have you been ?
I havnt seen you on irc in a while

I couldnt get on efnet for some reason, my ip range seems to be blacklisted

**shadowprophet** · May 11th, 2006, 14:10

Originally Posted by AcerVentura

Shadowprophet, you need to catch up on some sleep, dude.

Next you'll be telling us Sony killed JFK and Elvis.

Besides, Sony's offering is only an "emulator" by very loose definition. It sounds like instead of making the PSP think that its a PS1, they are just re-compiling PS1 games to run on PSP.

Think of Capcom and Namco and Midway classic re-releases. Not really emulating, just porting the games to PSP platform.

Sony did kill JFK,

Elvis told me so

lol

**Larry** · May 11th, 2006, 14:22

Originally Posted by AcerVentura

Besides, Sony's offering is only an "emulator" by very loose definition. It sounds like instead of making the PSP think that its a PS1, they are just re-compiling PS1 games to run on PSP.

like what i said.

But ya if they make a 3rd software emulator, and then have seperate roms.

it would be as easy to use illegals as it would be to use those spiffy nes roms.

So ya, porting, re-compiling, all that stuff is the only logical way to do it to avoid piracy as much as possible for downloadables.

long live ps1

**slaphappygamer** · May 11th, 2006, 14:26

so emulatoin is ok as long as $ony releases it. those hippo-crits.

**goldensupersonic** · May 11th, 2006, 15:33

Ummmmmm who said it would be an emu it could be just bootable ISOs on the PSP.

**Lumir** · May 11th, 2006, 16:28

Seriously. This topic is over-rated. Until the actuall information on the sony proclaimed ps1 emu is out i suggest we all just wait. I also noticed that the ridge racer game displayed at e3 did not boot through a emu like the snes emu we all know. Instead it booted strait from the mem stick as a game. Just like our homebrew, in fact exactly like it.

I speculate along with everyone here that sony has come up with some kind of compiler, transformer, to transform ps1 games into eboots bootable strait off the mem stick. If thats the case then either that will be hacked to allow older firmware versions a chance, or an actuall ps1 emu will come out. If not on this site, on a site somewere in africa, if not on a site on bittorrent.