How to play PS2 games on a 40GB PS3

Is there a software hack you can do to play PS2 games on a 40GB PS3?

So when the PS2 came out you spent hundreds of pounds to fill your games rack with the latest games. Now the PS3 is out you still have some of those timeless classics. Thing is, you’ve gone and bought the 40GB PS3 which cannot play PS2 games.

You’ve come here to find out how to play your PS2 games on your 40GB PS3 by using some software transfer. The truth is, you cannot simply transfer the software from a 60GB or 80GB PS3 and here’s why, courtesy of a Yahoo Answer:

The emulation is not purely software-based for either machine (80GB & 60GB) so playing PS2 games on them doesn’t simply use software.

The 60GB machine used a 100% hardware emulation approach including the “emotion engine” to natively run PS2 games. To be clear, there are actually 2 parts of the emulation in the 60GB, usually referred to as EE+GS emulation. EE is the “emotion engine”, GS is the “graphics synthesizer”. Basically, the PS3 reads and runs the PS2 game using the emotion chip and emulates the graphics with a PS2 graphics synthesizer.

The 80GB, however, uses a part software, part hardware emulation. The part of the hardware emulation that was removed was the “emotion engine” hence how everyone refers to this difference. This was replaced by software emulation, which is usually regarded as inferior. However, the 80GB actually still has the GS hardware in it to emulate the graphics for PS2 games–hence replicating this emulation in a 40GB machine is not a simple task of just moving the software emulation.

So, to be concise, no, there is no convenient software-based method for you to make your 40GB PS3 play PS2 games, as the 40GB has none of this (no EE, no GS, no software emulator).

So there you go all you 40GB PS3 owners. Seems like your stuffed!