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I got rid of my ps2 MANY years ago when I got a PS3. Recently my PS3 has been pissing me off because it doesn't play newer PS3 games without having some kind of graphic issue (I guess Sony didn't want to support old systems anymore).
Somebody told me about this recently and told me I need the bios from my own system. So the point of this thread is, is there a ps2 bios on my PS3 or am I pretty much out of luck?
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I think this was already discusses. There should be at least a subset of the ps2 bios. But i guess nobody knows if it is sufficient and how to extract it. I think this would be not your prefered path...
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It shouldn't be that hard nor expensive to find a 2nd hand PS2, it doesn't even have to be a perfectly working example, as long as it can boot up the extracting software you should be fine.
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hmm, so after adding dummy bytes, it'll actually work?
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12-19-2015, 11:28 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-19-2015, 11:30 PM by willkuer.)
Have you tried that? Or anybody else?
I don't think that a 'normal' ps2-bios version should be inside the ps3 bios as the ps3 is just not a ps2. It has different hardware. The bios is for communicating with the hardware. I really think it should be different on the ps3..
I would guess the largest part of the ps2 bios on the ps2 and on the ps3 are equivalent. But I guess especially the important hw interface stuff is quite different.
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12-19-2015, 11:40 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-19-2015, 11:45 PM by BlackDaemon.
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I already tried that, also ps2 emulator .self's inside ps2emu folder contains cut ps2 bios, which works on PCSX2 only using "Boot CDVD (fast)" mode. PCSX2 detects ps1rom.bin as "USA v1.90 (23/06/2003)".
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