More than 500 PlayStation 2 games are currently playable on PlayStation 4, but there is one very big catch if you want that huge hit of nostalgia.
As more and more games are remastered and remade, and a new generation of console is on the horizon, backward compatibility is being talked about more than ever. The PlayStation 4 has definitively won this generation of the console war, but many of its fans, and of course, its detractors, have one major issue with it: the lack of backward compatibility.
Sony has already confirmed that the PlayStation 5 will be able to play most PS4 games, so a step in the right direction. This gen though, some PS4 owners took matters into their own hands. If your PS4 is “jailbroken,” then it’s possible to play more than 500 different PlayStation 2 titles on the console.
Right now, around 1000 PS2 games have been tested through a new emulator. PS Scene developer Roxanne made the announcement via the PS2 Emulation Wiki Page. In the announcement, she mentioned that of those 1000, only around 500 have worked with no real issues. The rest of the lot either have gnarly bugs, brutal crashes, or just flatout refuse to play. While, sure, only half of the tested games work, 500 PS2 games on the PS4 is nothing to scoff at.
It’s especially impressive considering that the PS4 architecture doesn’t have native PS2 support, unlike the PS3, which supported the legacy console via chipset. This is something that developers have concocted from scratch and built from the ground. No small feat, to be sure.
Emulation is needed for these games to be played on the PS4, and it does require jumping through a few hoops before it can be done. However, for gamers who don’t have a working PS2, this might be the only way to relive and replay some of their favorites from what was the best-selling console ever. Especially since backward compatibility on the PS5 has only been confirmed to go as far back as the PS4.
Source: Multiplayer First
