apart from a bc ps3 your best bet is a modded ps2 with a hdmi setup imo or go the emulator route. 5. Lexaraj. • 4 yr. ago. A PS2 with HDBOOT works fantastic. A few games may require some tweaking within the loader settings but everything essentially runs perfectly. 1. Leightonw87. • 4 yr. ago. The closest thing they can do is to read PS2 discs and copy the contents onto the HDD to be played from there via the in-built emulator. Some people say that entering into "Factory Service Mode (FSM)" makes a non-BC PS3 play PS2 discs directly from the BD Drive, but I don't know how this is achieved and I guess compatibility rate is the same as any non-BC models. The simple answer is no, at least, not officially. It would be easy enough to insert a disc from a classic game into the PS4 and get playing, but unfortunately the console is not compatible with discs built for PS2 and PS3. This is especially surprising considering that Microsoft offers backwards compatibility with the Xbox One, allowing gamers The best way to play PS2 games is on a PS2. Like the other user said, you can jailbreak your PS3 and play PS2 just fine if you do everything right. Other times it won't work without glitches, if at all. However, the games will always run best on the console they are made to run on. Square-Enit • 2 yr. ago. Play PlayStation online games the same way you would play offline games except you must join a game on the PlayStation Network. The option to join a network game appears in the menu when you begin to play any game that is network-enabled. Here are the titles of some popular PS3 online games that you might want to try. Killzone 2. Trophy Points: 52. Gender: Male. Apologies for my nievity, but I have seen a couple of posts about converting PS2 games to "PS2 classic" format so that they run on a CFW PS3. Does this mean that I can now run PS2 games on my own CFW PS3 (slim model). Again I apologise for my lack of knowledge, but being able to play some of my fave PS2 games on Yes you should be able to if it really is the first manufactured system. I believe all you have to download from the ps store is some ps2 software thingy. Should work after that. [deleted] • 5 yr. ago. Unfortunately ps2 disc based games are region locked so that’s a no no , ps3 is region free you can buy eu ps3 games and play on your Anything above that such as Dreamcast or PS2 do not have cores in the PS3 version of Retroarch. Assuming you have a non-BC PS3 and if so even then many PS2 games are already supported via software emulation so again no need for it in Retroarch anyway. Systems you can easily emulate in PS3 Retroarch include: NES. SNES. It can be found sticked on the front page of r/ps2 . I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns. A PS2 to pc usb adapter will work fine, I tried it on my ps3 and all the buttons work except the start and select, There's no vibration either. If your PS2 game supports 480p, you can select this option from within the game menu. And the PS3 will output in 480p. Later PS3 models that lacked the ability to play PS2 discs could still download PS2 Classic games from the PlayStation Store. These games were stored on the PS3’s HDD and ran on an emulator. F3eaLz.