PS2 on BC PS3 CFW

[Dayle Hall]

I have a backwards compatible 60gb PS3 with CFW and i want to play my PS2 games that I've backed up.

How do i make sure I'm using the PS2 hardware and not full emulation?

 

[Coro]

I have a backwards compatible 60gb PS3 with CFW and i want to play my PS2 games that I've backed up.

How do i make sure I'm using the PS2 hardware and not full emulation?

if you use a disc (real or backup) it has to use the hardware. if you load iso it may use the software emu (ps2netemu) depending how you launch

 

[Dayle Hall]

The backup is on my usb (to pro long the life of the disc drive)

Which way do i need to launch to make sure it used the hardware and not the emulation?

 

[Joonie]

The backup is on my usb (to pro long the life of the disc drive)

Which way do i need to launch to make sure it used the hardware and not the emulation?

Make sure to install a COBRA CFW. (ex: REBUG 4.86.1 LITE)
Just rip the PS2 games to your PS3 HDD (internal), place the ISO files to /dev_hdd0/PS2ISO/ and use a backup manager homebrew to mount the game as a disc then run it from there. By default it's going to use a "hardware emulation" to run the game.

You can't run PS2 games off of USB, you must copy them to internal HDD either via FTP or backup manager.

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[QuidamPhx]

As far as I know, any method that mounts the games for the system to see as a disc, will use hardware. WebMan, ManaGunz, etc. The system doesn't know it's not a real disc. If you've converted to a PS2 classic, that's when it would use emulation.

 

[Dayle Hall]

Ok thanks. And i assume it doesn't matter what region it is either?

 

[QuidamPhx]

Nope. Usually PS2 is region-locked, but as you're already circumventing that, it'll just play as a regular game.