Sony enabled PS2 backwards compatibility for the PS4 without telling anyone

Sony enabled PS2 backwards compatibility for the PS4 without telling anyone

By Nick Pino

Sony enabled PS2 backwards compatibility for the PS4 without telling anyone

Microsoft may have gotten all the attention this week for its latest update to the Xbox One that enables backwards compatibility for over 100 Xbox 360 titles, but it seems Sony might have done the same thing for the PS4 with less celebration.

Eurogamer recently received the Special Edition Star Wars Battlefront PS4, along with the code for four downloadable titles: Super Star Wars, Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter, Star Wars: Racer Revenge and Star Wars: Bounty Hunter.

When the team went to boot up the three old PS2 titles, something strange happened. An old PS2 logo came up in “all of its poorly upscaled glory when you boot each title.” Eurogamer reports that there was also a system in place to emulate a PS2 memory card to save your spot in the games and a prompt at the start of the emulation that told them that the select and start buttons can be accessed by pressing on the left and right of the DualShock 4’s trackpad.

If these titles were ports of the original games, there’d be no need for the prompts or memory card emulation, the games would work natively with the PS4 software leading …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Gaming

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