PS2 drive in Solaris 10 based system?

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crazy

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I have a new computer, and I am going to take my Playstation 2 CD drive out of my PS2 and put it into my computer. I was wondering, on a solaris based system if it would be possible to run a PS2 game on the computer. I am not sure if I would have to format or configure anything differently though. Anyboy do anything familiar/will I be able to run PS2 games even if I did get my computer configured to recognize the drive?
 
I know it's a DVD drive. I know what emulation software is. However, I want to configure the drive, once I instal it, to recognize PS2 games, and run them as executable programs. I have slight knowledge in assembly language, if that would help.
 
Like I said you need to emulate the PS2 environment (aka the PS2 operating system), the drive shouldn't need any configuring
 
Last time I checked PSX wasn't even emulated too well, nor was Dreamcast, Saturn, or most any other CD based system. For one, you have to do more than just run the software, you have to simulate the hardware. Just swapping the drive will do nothing. Sure, I wouldn't be suprised if you COULD use it in your computer, but it's just a standard DVD-ROM...

As I tell people, for the NES, you needed something like a Pentium 75. N64 is around a P4 level. PS2 is probably still out of most computer's capabilities.

Now Xbox runs on more standard hardware, from what I hear, and should be availible sooner as you COULD just load the OS...eh, from what I've herad at least, but my newest console is a dreamcast, so what do I know :P
 
Well, I am running a Xeon motherboard with dual 3.6GHz processors, plus a second motherboard with a Athlon 64Bit processor, with a 36.7GB SCSI HD interface. That runs my PSX emulator, good enough.
 
Dude...no offence but you don't seem to know nearly as much about computers as you're trying to let off nor do I beleive you have such systems. Either way, a PSX emulator can be run on a K6-2 333Mhz at decent speeds, so what you say isn't all that impressive. The hardware of the PSX is NOTHING compared to current systems.

All I can say is hold off if you really want it... I've not been emulating nearly as much as I used to, but last time I checked, there still wasn't much progress on 32+bit systems.

Something else to keep in mind is how the programs are made. I remember back in my P75 days an emulator that would run fine on my comuter, then one that wouldn't get but about 10FPS! There's much more to emulating than you think...
 
No offence, but the system I named isn't that expensive, it costed a little over 2,900. The only thing difficult for it was finding an appropriate case, which I ended up using a server chassis. I never said claimed to be a computer expert, I am better in networking. Then finally, my main question was, about whether or not I could run emulation software on Solaris 10?
 
probably not, maybe someone has a W32 emulator for Solaris (emulating an environment for an emulator, I like it :D)
 
that is what emulation tries to do, usually the people who make the emulators will make the source code available (unless they are selling the emulator) so you could, in theory port an emulator to Solaris

No, you can't really copy the PS2 OS from the PS2, it interfaces directly with the PS2 hardware which means it wont get along with PC hardware
 
Most emulators I ever see don't look anything like the OS from the console. Oh well, guess I could try to learn Assembly language or something, and make my own emulator. What if I took all the components out of my PS2 and put them in my server chassis?
 
Since you have a PS2, is there any reason you want to play the games on your computer?

If you took everything from your PS2 and put it all in the chasis I don't see any reason it wouldn't work but if you do try it don't blame me if it doesn't work anymore :)
 
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