Talk:Emulation

Discussion, ideas, brainstormings goes here

No hurry this rebuilding take days, weeks or more in the way i see, at this day (october 7 2017) the emulation frontpage and talk pages has been splitted and cleaned up completly, the reason for this carnage is because i think is better to start from scratch without any restriction in how are going to look and his purposes, there are a lot fo details needed to be mentioned but this is just an introductory explain of the discussion that goes under this line, feel free to join the party by giving your ideas and oppinions and help to solve the problems

Bringing back some moved texts

Probably there are lot of small sentences or sections that has been moved to the other pages... but could fit well here because are general concepts or could work as an introduction... the rule of gold now is this page is "noob oriented" and the others are "technically oriented", im not experienced in emulators so much to make this changes rewriting and moving texts back and forth and i fear to "break" something though--Sandungas (talk) 13:58, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

Wiki main page templates restructuring

I think we need a new template on main page for the game compatibility lists, actually right now are inside a "revere engineering" template and thats not right. Additionally we have the page OFW2CFW game compatibility list that doesnt fits in any other template... so in few words we need a Template:Game Compatibility Lists template for the main page... or something like that (any idea is welcome)--Sandungas (talk) 13:58, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

Old PS2 Game compatibility lists in talk pages

There was some huge compatibility lists made by euss iirc that has been moved to Talk:PS2 Emulation/Old PS2 Game Compatibility Lists. Was made long ago when there was no pages in wiki dedicated to games compatibility, now we are using a new style for game compatibility lists such PS2 Classics Emulator Compatibility List, we should try to move that info to the new format and creating all the needed new pages for the different "emulation enviroments"--Sandungas (talk) 13:58, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

Wiki avigation tables/lists for emulation frontpage

• ps1_emu.self
  • available for PS3 models - all
  • available in firmwares - since 1.02
  • game format - original CD inserted in the drive
  • savedata format (hdd) - dev_hdd0/savedata/vmc/<virtual_memcard>.VM1
  • savedata format (usb) - dev_usb0/PS3/EXPORT/PSV/<Save_ID>.PSV
  • savedata format (mc) - mc_root/ (by using a memory card adapter)
  • technical page - PS1 Emulation
  • game compatibility list - NEEDED

• ps1_netemu.self
  • available for PS3 models - all (PS1 classics)
  • available in firmwares - since 1.70
  • game format - ISO.BIN.EDAT (officially), BIN/CUE (unofficially)
  • savedata format (hdd) - ?
  • savedata format (usb) - dev_usb0/PSP/SAVEDATA/<SAVEDATA_DIRECTORY>/SCEVMC0.VMP
  • savedata format (mc) - allowed ?
  • technical page - PS1 Emulation
  • game compatibility list - PS1 Classics Emulator Compatibility List

• ps1_newemu.self
  • available for PS3 models - ?
  • available in firmwares - since 2.10
  • game format - ?
  • savedata format/path - ?
  • technical page - PS1 Emulation
  • game compatibility list - needed ?

• ps2_emu.self
  • available for PS3 models - CECHA and CECHB (COK-001)
  • available in firmwares - since 1.02
  • game format - original CD/DVD inserted in the drive
  • savedata format (hdd) - dev_hdd0/savedata/vmc/<virtual_memcard>.VM2
  • savedata format (usb) - dev_usb0/PS3/EXPORT/PSV/<Save_ID>.PSV
  • savedata format (mc) - mc_root/ (by using a memory card adapter)
  • game install - yes (only few games, by using a PS2 virtual hdd IMAGE.DAT)
  • savedata format/path - ?
  • technical page - PS2 Emulation
  • game compatibility list - NEEDED

• ps2_gxemu.self
  • available for PS3 models - CECHC (COK-002)
  • available in firmwares - since 1.50
  • game format - original CD/DVD inserted in the drive
  • game install - yes (only few games, by using a PS2 virtual hdd IMAGE.DAT)
  • savedata format/path - ?
  • technical page - PS2 Emulation
  • game compatibility list - NEEDED

• ps2_softemu.self
  • available for PS3 models - fats/slim newer than CECHC
  • available in firmwares - since 1.90 then blocked in 3.50 and removed in 4.21 ?
  • game format - original CD/DVD inserted in the drive
  • savedata format/path - ?
  • technical page - PS2 Emulation
  • game compatibility list - not needed (abandoned officially and superseded by netemu)

• ps2_netemu.self
  • available for PS3 models - all (PS2 classics)
  • available in firmwares - since 3.70
  • game format - ISO.BIN.EDAT ISO.BIN.ENC (officially), BIN CUE (unofficially)
  • savedata format/path - APPDIR/USRDIR/SAVEDATA/SCEVMC0.VME and SCEVMC1.VME
  • settings - by using CONFIG files
  • technical page - PS2 Emulation
  • game compatibility list - PS2 Classics Emulator Compatibility List

• psp_emulator.elf
  • available for PS3 models - all but CECHB ? (PSP Remasters ?)
  • available in firmwares - since 3.15
  • game format - ISO.BIN.EDAT and APPDIR/USRDIR/CONTENT/EBOOT.PBP/DATA.PSAR ? (PSP minis)
  • savedata format (hdd) - dev_hdd0/home/<userid>/minis_savedata/<SAVEDATA_DIRECTORY>/Files
  • savedata format (usb) - dev_usb0/PSP/SAVEDATA/<SAVEDATA_DIRECTORY>/Files
  • savedata format/path - ?
  • technical page - PSP Emulation
  • game compatibility list - PSP Emulator Compatibility List

• psp_translator.elf
  • available for PS3 models - all but CECHB ? (PSP Minis ?)
  • available in firmwares - since 3.15
  • game format - ?
  • savedata format/path - ?
  • technical page - PSP Emulation
  • game compatibility list - Needed ? (for minis ?)