Sony Confirms It's Working On A PS2 Emulator For PlayStation 4

Sony have confirmed they've been working on a emulator that allows you to play PlayStation 2 games on the PlayStation 4.

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It seems without anyone knowing Sony have been working on a emulator that allows you to play PlayStation 2 games on the PlayStation 4, those sly rouges.

In a statement released by a Sony representative they address the current status of the emulators development:

"We are working on utilising PS2 emulation technology to bring PS2 games forward to the current generation. We have nothing further to comment at this point in time."

So that’s it? No information on how far into the development stages they’re in or when we can expect a release date? Sony are being very vague about it and to be fair the public would not have found out if it wasn’t for Eurogamer stumbling upon it by chance. They recently received a special edition copy of the new Star Wars: Battlefront game for PS4, which came with a code for four downloadable titles: Super Star Wars, Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter, Star Wars: Racer Revenge and Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, all of which were orginally released on the PlayStation 2.

According to Tech Radar:

When the team went to boot up the three old PS2 titles, something strange happened. An old PS2 logo came up in "all of its poorly upscaled glory when you boot each title." Eurogamer reports that there was also a system in place to emulate a PS2 memory card to save your spot in the games and a prompt at the start of the emulation that told them that the select and start buttons can be accessed by pressing on the left and right of the DualShock 4's trackpad.

Whilst this is exciting news for PlayStation community once can’t help but suspect this is in retaliation to Microsoft developing backwards compatibility for over 100 Xbox 360 titles to play on the Xbox One. Coincidence? We think not.

Make sure to check back here for further details regarding details on the PS2 emulator.

[Via Tech Radar]

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