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I remember those EB machines. I only ever saw a single one, in Japan, and never used it. We actually started working on the PS 2 before there was any hardware
by gumby 4y ago
I remember those EB machines. I only ever saw a single one, in Japan, and never used it. We actually started working on the PS 2 before there was any hardware at all (even the Toshiba CPU had not been finished) and wrote the simulator so development could start before the hardware was available.
Oddly enough the first time I ever clapped eyes on a production PS 2 was at Fry’s, and it was a slimline (2nd gen) so that would have been five or six years after launch.
We were also working on the Dreamcast at the same time, but less deeply. Obviously there was no direct overlap. Luckily I never ended up visiting both companies the same day.
- aap_ 4y agoThat's really interesting. Was the emulator called SKY by any chance? And do you know if it survived in any way? As a PS2 fan I'd so much love to see it.
- gumby 4y agoI don’t remember that name. Part of it (a plug in for the emotion engine) might never have been available outside SCEI, I don’t know. The main part (CPU and memory emulator) we wrote was released as open source and for all I know may even survive today for modern processors.