14th April 2005, 7:35 AM
Yeah, the PS2 uses the same input/output as the PS1, and has enough in common that very little emulating need be done. In fact, from what I read a long time ago just before the PS2 came out, they would not have bothered even adding backwards compatibility except that it was a fairly easy process to do so. Now, even if it's tough, companies don't have much of a choice.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)