/vr/ - Retro Games

Ps2 games work great over SMB but the Ps1 games either don't work at all or are pretty choppy
I spent a couple hours batch converting and renaming them all to work with Popstarter/OPL and it's dawning on me the "perfect" compatibility is probably sub-20%, versus like 80% which is what the compatibility list suggests. I'll probably blow some time playing Civ II but apart from that I think I wasted an afternoon. I don't know who blew their time retrofitting Popstarter into OPL, it just doesn't work the vast majority of the time.
I know using burned discs is better but I already fried a laser on another PS2 that way lol
This whole scene kind of seems like a mess. Reading the PS2Home forums it's apparent most of these people were insane or at least somewhat petty and a ton of the work was probably left undone. Not to mention the forums themselves are the worst of Web1.0 multi-color text-walls, and the links can only decay from here on.

It's a shame that Sony controls these two massive game libraries and all their future consoles are both ultra-locked down and pretty poorly receptive to backwards compatibility at all.