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Can u take the software from a 60gb or 80gb ps3 to play ps2 games and put it on a 40gb ps3? - Tret H OR does it need some sort of chip??????????

Best Answer: No, the emulation is not purely software-based for either machine, so what you are asking can not be done just through software. The 60GB machine used a 100% hardware emulation approach including the "emotion engine" to natively run PS2 games. To be clear, there are actually 2 parts of the emulation in the 60GB, usually referred to as EE+GS emulation. EE is the "emotion engine", GS is the "graphics synthesizer". Basically, the PS3 reads and runs the PS2 game using the emotion chip and emulates the graphics with a PS2 graphics synthesizer. The 80GB, however, uses a part software, part hardware emulation. The part of the hardware emulation that was removed was the "emotion engine" hence how everyone refers to this difference. This was replaced by software emulation, which is usually regarded as inferior. However, the 80GB actually still has the GS hardware in it to emulate the graphics for PS2 games--hence replicating this emulation in a 40GB machine is not a simple task of just moving the software emulation. So, to be concise, no, there is no convenient software-based method for you to make your 40GB PS3 play PS2 games, as the 40GB has none of this (no EE, no GS, no software emulator) - insomniac

NO!!!60gb uses the Emotion engine( hardware) 80gb uses a software emulater and I wouldn't know were to start - MR. KRATOS

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