• n4sdaq@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    Can confirm. I’ve played the first one on Steam Deck and it plays great. The new launcher is super easy to use as well.

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      5 months ago

      Playing through the third one right now, the first 2 ran great already, and the launcher really is convenient, before it was all manual commands in the terminal.

      One advice I would give is to delete the rom file and the iso_data/{gamename} folders after the games are fully installed to save space, since it’s several gigabytes per game that are not used after the installation

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            5 months ago

            Agreed, just like any other emulation. The term “legal” threw me, because most people don’t have personal ROMs of PS2 games hanging around.

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              5 months ago

              Tbf, of all consoles, PlayStation games are the easiest to actually dump legally owned copies of, all you need is a bluray reader and you can do all of them.

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      5 months ago

      How is this legal?

      In a world where Meta got caught torrenting entire book archives, anything goes these days.

      But strictly speaking, it’s not because it’s based on decompilation and not a clean room reimplementation of the engine. That’s like using a translation service to translate a copyrighted book into another language and then manually iron out the kinks. But in a world of mass piracy for LLM training, nobody gives a shit about such little projects any longer.