How hard would it be to do this..

adamknox · 10 Aug 2010 at 01:17

for the makers to take a best selling game for the ps2 (e.g Silent hill 2, metal gear solid 2) and convert it to run on a ps3.. God of war makers did it with 1 and 2 to great effect!! I would love to be able to play SH2 and MGS2 again in HD!
If it doesnt take too long surely it seems a good idea? they release old games (mega drive collection) which i dont imagine have that much pulling power compared to a metal gear or a silent hill classic! I know for sure id buy it! WHOS WITH ME!
Ive even tryed a ps2 emulater which works fine on my pc.. except for input lag which makes it hardly playable

Smit · 10 Aug 2010 at 06:42

It would be harder than you imagine (I would think).

If it was so simple I believe they would have been able to just emulate the game but the PS3 (now and anything other than the older 60GB models) don't have the hardware inside for the PS2 games and the software emulation is evidently not good enough or they would still offer it.
Then if you want it in HD, depending on the game it may require having to redo most of the textures throughout the game.

msmalls74 · 10 Aug 2010 at 07:07

Well there seems to be quite a bit of noise coming for these HD remakes, sly cooper hd is coming out this year with all the Slys upgraded to HD. You also have reports if PoP, Splinter Cell and Team ICO games having a remake, with MGS though it would be upto konami to start the ball rolling.

Talbs13 · 10 Aug 2010 at 09:35

Oh how much I would pay for MGS 2 to be available on the PS3

Annoying having to get the PS2 out all the time.

antijoke · 10 Aug 2010 at 09:55

I would love a HD re-make of MGS/MGS2/MGS3.

I've never played MGS3.

LeJosh · 10 Aug 2010 at 10:26

Talbs13 said:
Oh how much I would pay for MGS 2 to be available on the PS3 Annoying having to get the PS2 out all the time.

Use an emulator if you have the disc?

Margaret · 10 Aug 2010 at 10:30

Never had any input lag problems with a PS2 emulator before, the games look so much better than they did being played on my old 60Gb PS3

adamknox · 10 Aug 2010 at 10:59

LeJosh said:
Use an emulator if you have the disc?

Some people have input lag (like my self)

Margaret said:
Never had any input lag problems with a PS2 emulator before, the games look so much better than they did being played on my old 60Gb PS3

I tryed street fighter 2, silent hill 2 and fifa 06 all had lag :'( lol maybe i was doing something wrong tho ><

adamknox · 10 Aug 2010 at 11:00

Smit said:
It would be harder than you imagine (I would think).

If it was so simple I believe they would have been able to just emulate the game but the PS3 (now and anything other than the older 60GB models) don't have the hardware inside for the PS2 games and the software emulation is evidently not good enough or they would still offer it.
Then if you want it in HD, depending on the game it may require having to redo most of the textures throughout the game.

I guess so

was hopeing it would been easier! lol Ive seen people make there own texture mods for games like oblivion. Transforming the lanscapres into HD and it looking good (not amazing but a lot better)

ah well