The PS2’s Backwards Compatibility from the Engineer Who Built It

Post by opan » Wed, Mar 01, 2023, 6:41 AM UTC

RajT88 wrote: post #14

In my humble opinion, the PS2 is the best retro console for tinkering. So many of them were sold, they can be had cheaply, lots of aftermarket stuff for them (HDD/Network adapter), Crazy huge library of weird and interesting titles, vibrantly active homebrew community. And of course, the built-in backwards compatibility. Several interesting hardware revisions to play with as well (although the "fat" ones are the most…

The GameCube is pretty sweet these days with PicoBoot + SD2SP2 + Swiss. Don't forget the Game Boy Player either. If you get a DOL-001 model (has the digital video port) you can also very easily get a good image out of it with an external HDMI adapter. It's arguably the best way to play GBA games.

Post by highwaylights » Thu, Mar 02, 2023, 9:55 AM UTC

zoklet-enjoyer wrote: post #41

autoexec wrote: post #40

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I agree, FF7 was a long long time ago, but the warnings are still nice and appreciated. New people are born, grow up, and get introduced to old things after all. Plus, some gamers are always playing a decade or two behind since prices become dirt cheap, games get re-released in more complete forms without a need for buying a bunch of DLC to access the parts they paywalled off, and most of the bugs and crashes will be…

I started playing FF7 recently. I never had a PlayStation growing up and a remake came out a few years ago.

The remake by the way is brilliant in it's own right.

The team made comments around making something sufficiently different that it wouldn't be seen as trying to replace the original, but that could sit alongside it as a retelling of the story. I think they absolutely nailed it in this regard and if anything, finishing FF7R has me wanting to play through the original all over again.

Even at that, I wouldn't expect the spoiler we're talking about from the article to happen the same way in Rebirth, or possibly even at all. It's too good of an opportunity to surprise people that I think they take a dramatically different direction (my guess would be on the same story element happening featuring another major character, but this seems like lazy writing).

Very excited for the next entry regardless.

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