The use of emulators to bring older games to places they either ordinarily wouldn’t be able to go, or bring older games back from the dead, has been used for years now, and the Playstation Classic emulator is the most recent example, especially since it’s PCSX, an open-source emulator. The Playstation Classic is the most recent of the various types of miniaturized classic consoles that have been released on the market in the past few years, such as the NES and SNES Classics, and like its two predecessors it comes with around 20 of the Playstation’s most classic games. These games include the original Metal Gear Solid, Tekken 3, Wild Arms, Rayman, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six, Parasite Eve, and the original Grand Theft Auto, making it a large hodgepodge of gaming history for some of gaming history’s greatest and most influential titles. However, what makes the Playstation Classic Emulator isn’t what games it’s running, but more for the fact that it’s an open-source emulator, rather than a custom-written one that Sony made specifically for the mini in the same way that Nintendo did for their two classic consoles. It sends a message to the entire gaming community, mainly that just because an emulator is fan-made doesn’t mean that it’s completely unsuitable to be used for actual games, and despite Nintendo’s attempts at getting rid of emulation, it seems rather hypocritical for other companies to start getting rid of it, especially if they use open-source emulators themselves. It’s made even more… [Read full story]
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