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Re: Play FF7 CC on PC?
« Reply #25 on: 2009-07-30 01:01:31 »
There's more than just clock speed to keep in mind. It also depends on how similar the graphics and sound architectures are. Furthermore, there's a huge difference, for example, between a 300MHz Pentium, a 300MHz ARM, and a 300MHz PPC.

Just look at Snezziboy on the GBA. It plays Super Mario World at full speed. This is because the SNES and the GBA are similar enough that a lot of tasks that would be done in software on most emulators can be handled completely by hardware.

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Re: Play FF7 CC on PC?
« Reply #26 on: 2009-07-30 07:58:42 »
PCSX2 started the project right after the PS2 was released.
And it still can't play many games...

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Re: Play FF7 CC on PC?
« Reply #27 on: 2009-07-30 13:29:54 »
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you're saying the ps2 isn't powerful enough to emulate psp?

it certainly is, only problem is there isn't an emulator.
yes, ps2 is not powerful enough to emulate psp.

psp definitely loses in raw cpu power comparison against ps2. ps2 has monstrous bandwidth between cpu, system ram and gfx ram and can process insane amounts of data on-the-fly. that was the main goal of ps2 design.

but it won't help with psp games, since they do not have such requirements. also ps2 architecture is mostly optimized towards 3d transforms of non-repetitive data, which also does not help with emulation (keep in mind that ps2 snes emulator does not achieve full framerate in most games), which is usually a complex operation of repetitive data, usually requiring a lot of caching.

psp is designed to be less power-hungry and it has totally different design. in that department psp is slower, because it was designed to conserve power, and be a small device (low power, low heat)

that said, keep in mind that psp has a dedicated multimedia chip, that can handle dvd resolution h264 movies. i'm not sure what can it also be used for. and the main psp cpu has higher clock speed than ps2 cpu.

in order to properly emulate totally different cpu you usually need a machine few times faster. the more differences between host and emulated hardware - the more overhead.

also keep in mind that emulator itself takes some ram. after it would start,  you would have less than 32mb of ram left on the ps2. i'm not sure how much ram do psp games actually use, but that would already be a problem.

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Re: Play FF7 CC on PC?
« Reply #28 on: 2009-07-30 15:26:23 »
Yeah the only feasible platform to emulate a PSP on would be modern PCs.

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Re: Play FF7 CC on PC?
« Reply #29 on: 2009-08-01 04:55:03 »
A PS3 could easily run PSP games....if Sony ever decided to write an emulator for it, that is...

The hardware used in PSP's and PS3's are similar, but different (not as different as between PS2 and PSP, however...don't quote me on this though, I haven't looked this up)

And a modern PS3 CAN emulate PS2 games, which run natively at higher resolutions than PSP games, but put a roughly equal strain on the graphics device.

That being said, there's no reason why a PS3 (which has a built-in Upscaling mechanism) can't emulate and upscale a PSP game.

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Re: Play FF7 CC on PC?
« Reply #30 on: 2009-08-01 05:24:21 »
A PS3 could easily run PSP games....if Sony ever decided to write an emulator for it, that is...

The hardware used in PSP's and PS3's are similar, but different (not as different as between PS2 and PSP, however...don't quote me on this though, I haven't looked this up)

And a modern PS3 CAN emulate PS2 games, which run natively at higher resolutions than PSP games, but put a roughly equal strain on the graphics device.

That being said, there's no reason why a PS3 (which has a built-in Upscaling mechanism) can't emulate and upscale a PSP game.

Well yeah there's no other problems but the fact you can't run homebrew on PS3 and Sony will never make it run PSP games - they removed PS2 compatibility pretty fast because the PS2 is still selling like hotcakes. If they made PS3s run PSP games, it would certainly hit PSP sales hard.

Thus, like I said, there's no other option than PC.

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« Reply #31 on: 2009-08-07 06:59:29 »
i have searched AND read, every result i got under the ext searches
1 song
2 music
3 auto play
4 automatically play

there was nothing available for instant song play on home page.

any ideas?
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« Reply #32 on: 2009-08-07 17:30:46 »
i have searched AND read, every result i got under the ext searches
1 song
2 music
3 auto play
4 automatically play

there was nothing available for instant song play on home page.

any ideas?
thanks
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