Sony's new PlayStation 2 emulator tested - and it's another disappointing effort. Subpar image quality, poor filtering options and bugs do these classics no favours.
Sony's new PlayStation 2 emulator tested - and it's another disappointing effort. Subpar image quality, poor filtering options and bugs do these classics no favours.
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Sony's new PlayStation 2 emulator tested - and it's another disappointing effort
Like, how do you even screw this up? Sony...the ones who have access to all the super secret technical documents, full source codes, CAD drawings, prototypes, probably even people still working there who worked on it originally etc. Things that many who work on the open source emulators can only dream of seeing.
Made a shit emulator.
Creating a good emulator takes a lot of time and money, and that I think is the true reason why.
What they have released is a MVP, a minimum viable product, it checks all the boxes for a releaseable thing and that's what the higher ups, the product leads and other finance stakeholders want to hear.
Additional features or proper scaling? Yeah, nice we put that on the list for MVP+, for sure! When will that come? Nobody knows and we have no development time to work on it because now with the release the focus was shifted to the next project, but it is on the list and we will come back to it.
I have heard that so often in so many projects I was part of, as a grunt with no power, and for nearly all of them I still wait for the MVP+ time to ever happen.
Them, the ones having full control on the platform, failed were foss developpers succeed. They have no excuse.
They don't want it to succeed.
Why?
They even messed up the emulation on their PS Classic, despite being based on a simpler console and having full control of the hardware and software.
Sony screws up everything.
It looks like their complaints are primarily about how they handle processing the output (scaling and filters). That's not anything having internal documents helps with.