When will the PS2 functional emulator come?

[Cristallerine]

Hi ppl,

I'm wondering whether someone could give me an approximate year or month when the PS2 emulator will play commercial games on PC... For I would like to play Spyro (Yr of the Dragon) on PC, but since it's an old game it'll be hard to find it on the market in 2-3 yrs from now...
Can anyone help plz?
Thx,
Cristallerine.

[Guitar Gamer]

Approximations may prove useless in this area of emulation. The best bet is to generally go with the assumption that its going to take a long time (over a single year) to get anything up to a playable level at all. And then comes the post tasks of making the games work from start to finish without ten thousand bugs, etc. It'll be a while. Definitely won't happen in months - not something you wanna sit and wait for.

[onewecallgod]

theres a chance that it may never happen too....

[belmont]

When the PS2 price drops to 149 euro\$ I don't think there will be a need for an emulator anymore.Anyone could buy one instead of a new G-force card for example.

[onewecallgod]

you wouldnt need a 6800 to emulate PS2, would you???

[Cristallerine]

Oh, well I'm in a bad case then... That's sad!

[M.H.A.Q.S.]

I don't really see the point of emulating a console. :P

[Guitar Gamer]

I do it simply for fun. I own all the consoles I emulate (well, most of them anyway). I get a kick out of playing games on my monitor I guess. There's also some nice graphic improvements through emulation (like Final Fantasy 8 for example) in "some" cases.

I don't know why everyone else does it... but I do it because its within the area of interest I like to dwaddle in... nothing more really...

Then again, I guess it started out as being a way to escape not being able to afford the real deal. <_< :P

[onewecallgod]

i do it because i&#39;m too cheap to buy the console...