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It’s Official, PS2 Emulation is Coming to PS4
Many classic PlayStation titles have already made it to the PS4 through remasters, PlayStation NOW, and even a few bundles, such as the Star Wars Battlefront bundle that comes with a handful of older Star Wars games. What’s interesting about the Star Wars bundle is that a handful of them aren’t just ports of old code, as Digital Foundry reported in their hands-on preview.
This suggests they’re running on emulation software, and that means Sony’s finally following through on their promise to bring PS1 and PS2 era games to the PS4. So are they? Yup.
“We are working on utilizing PS2 emulation technology to bring PS2 games forward to the current generation,” a Sony representative confirmed in an email to Wired.
Earlier this month, Microsoft brought 104 games from the Xbox 360 to the Xbox One, with another batch of backwards compatible games coming next month. It’s unlikely to make much of a difference for the Xbox One, which is still trailing the PS4 by a considerable margin, but that doesn’t mean Sony can’t match them with something like this.
In addition to being the most successful gaming console, the PS2 has a library of games that’s second to none. It hosted some of the greatest entries in series like Resident Evil, Fatal Frame and Silent Hill, and they could use some love.
Which PS2 horror game would you most like to see get emulation support on the PS4?
All of us here at Bloody Disgusting are deeply saddened to learn that George A. Romero Foundation Founder and President Suzanne Desrocher-Romero has passed away.
GARF shared in a statement on socials, “It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Suzanne Desrocher Romero. Suzanne passed away of natural causes on June 24 at her home in Toronto after a prolonged illness.”
The statement continues, “Suzanne was the fierce leader of the George A. Romero Estate and The George A. Romero Foundation. She worked tirelessly to preserve George’s legacy. Her work at the foundation will continue to inspire and live on for generations to come. The family asks for privacy at this time.”
Desrocher-Romero founded GARF in 2018, after her late husband’s passing in 2017, and has been a fierce advocate for his legacy and the arts. It was her mission to “strengthen horror as a serious field of global study,” and she was a tremendous fighter on behalf of Romero’s works and supporting new filmmakers inspired by his legacy.
It was Desrocher-Romero who spearheaded the recovery and restoration of The Amusement Park, and, as the person in charge of the George A. Romero estate, worked closely with author Daniel Kraus on completing unfinished novels like Pay the Piper and The Living Dead. She most recently celebrated the restoration of her favorite of Romero’s zombie films, Day of the Dead, and was hard at work producing the upcoming film Twilight of the Dead.
That passionate advocacy led to Suzanne Desrocher-Romero becoming family to Bloody Disgusting as well.
2023 marked the start of an ongoing partnership between Bloody FM and GARF on The Dead, a scripted audio series spanning multiple seasons that saw Desrocher-Romero working closely with the Bloody FM team and mentoring the series’s contributing writers with GARF. To say her loss will be felt internally is an understatement.
“Anytime George Romero is mentioned is good, because what we are doing is to provide a healthy legacy. We’re uplifting his legacy, we’re supporting the archive, and we’re also supporting the Horror Study Center. So, all of these three things are what the Foundation is striving to do. As far as I’m concerned, the more we say George Romero’s name, the better it is,” Desrocher-Romero recently told BD.
It’s the perfect encapsulation of her unwavering enthusiasm for supporting Romero’s legacy and the horror genre, and just a glimpse at how much she contributed to preserving it. She is, in short, an inspiration.
We send our deepest condolences to Suzanne Desrocher-Romero’s family, friends, and GARF.
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