Can the 3ds emulate ps2?

[Morgana Veil]

I think the old saying was (at least during the PS2 era)

"the PC hardware needs to be ten times more powerful than the thing you are trying to emulate"

It still kind of holds true. You aren't going to correctly emulate the next generation of consoles on even current-day powerful hardware. It will be a few years at least. Since pretty much every game system coming out next will be just locked-down PCs with custom operating systems, which I suppose is what they are now anyway. Your question has been answered ten times over already, anyway.

If you want to emulate a PS2 on the go, get a Steam Deck or something equivalent. That's about your best option.

 

[qw90700]

"the PC hardware needs to be ten times more powerful than the thing you are trying to emulate"

However it's a simple not so realistic statement, because while "power" really matter what really matters is the laws of physics that limits what can happen in this existence.

When people think of a program they think it's some "magical shit", and the word "digital" causes misunderstanding and further leads people to thinking "it's beyond of laws of physics like magic shit", but in reality despite an emulator is "software-simulation" it's still laws of physics thing. Then people think analog and digital is opposites like analog is "real laws of physics shit" and "digital is not even about laws of physics" when analog can happen by naturally due to laws of physics, digital can also happen by naturally due to laws of physics + it also happens artificially. Meaning when something can only exist artificially you cannot make it happen naturally, when someting can only happen naturally you cannot artificially make it happen if you cannot simulate the necessary natural conditions for it to happen. So in a way an emulator tries to simulate analog and digital aspect of a device in software level by simulating its natural enviorement in the digital realm by simulating it faithfully as much as emulator can, and it also translates digital logic of how the device work into the digital realm of how the target device works.

Simply put:

When a device mostly works in analog-way it gets harder to digitilize it. Sometimes something works just because of the way laws of physics work so it requires immense reverse engineering to make it emulated but mostly you can "faithfully replicate" it as much as you can so it won't be always a 1:1 replication despite simulation is good and the target device has the immense power to handle the simulation.

When a device's way of working digitally is too different than how the target device work it gets harder to replicate these digital quirks that happen due to dthe ifference between how both devices works. Usually emulators only simulate what a game need to run ok by bypassing and finding workarounds to make the game run smoothly by sacrificing by not emulating all aspect of the game.

When a console's analog and digital way of working is against how target device work it gets almost impossible to emulate it that only a really capable person can the emulation happen.

Otherwise why 3DS can't emulate a PS2 is because of above points + "it lacks power".

 

[Matricks]

In laymans term its still Magic to put compressed program of a living space sized box/room/stadion/country of activity / retro consoles into a tiny pc / emulators.

 

[Yousef Yousef]

I’m surprised this still gets asked cuz the answer feels pretty obvious.

 

[Matricks]

Because the dumb question confirmed OP was just awoken after living under the rocks for centuries, hence extended explainations updates is neccessary.

 

[qw90700]

At least 3DS can emulate sexy girls lolol.

Edit: Since the "sexy girls advertisement message" from a bot deleted this joke became meaningless lolol.

 

[ThirteeTooBeets]

Even if it could I don't think the graphical capabilities could keep up in terms of quality

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Can the PS2 emulate the 3DS?

 

[RETRO-VETRO RETRO-VETRO]

No.

Straight-forward.

 

[Danieru-Emanyueru]

I've watched a few videos on YouTube about this, but everyone says the same thing: it doesn't work. But that's not surprising.

 

[ThunderBoy]

Can the PS2 emulate the 3DS?

 

[Deleted member 881671]

Would the Switch be able to do something like that? Good question?

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

I've always been wondering if a console could be theoretically powerful enough to be able to run games from a handheld released after it.

The Dreamcast could've ran the GBA.

Would the Switch be able to do something like that? Good question?

The Xbox 360 could run the PS2 via emulation?

 

[Deleted member 403103]

Can the PS2 emulate the 3DS?

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[Ikagura Ikagura]

A bit tricky

 

[Deleted member 881671]

I've always been wondering if a console could be theoretically powerful enough to be able to run games from a handheld released after it.

The Dreamcast could've ran the GBA.


The Xbox 360 could run the PS2 via emulation?

Hmm, maybe the Switch should be able to do it too but I don't know much about that sort of thing.

 

[qw90700]

Would the Switch be able to do something like that? Good question?

PS2 is ok for Switch 1 and it's possible for it to emulate PS3. However PS2 emulation need better optimization for emulator, PS3 is in the same boat but Switch 1 benefits a lot from overclocking when it kinda by default run "underclocked" way so here overlocking it kinda means making it run in its "normal potential" so we can call it "unlocking its real power!!!!" lol. But it doesn't mean Switch 1 can play every PS3 game, there may be a significant amount of games that it lacks enough power to even go into in-game let alone can survive without crashing in some games' main menu especially if they use 3D render of a scene with some exceptions of course.