Mal

Derail away. :-) My guess is that it wouldn't be perfect...but if you could run whatever unsigned code on the PS3 that you want, it makes sense that the right team of people could probably get an emulator working that could make at least some games playable.

I'd say 99.9% impossible. You'd need a very dedicated team. We're 10 years in and the PS2 emulator on PC is only starting to become pretty competent. And that required the advent of multi-core processes and powerful (DX10+) GPUs. Also the Cell is very fiddly. I'm not sure you'd get EMU's for any other console either.

I donno, Dean. You might be right about the PS3 not ever being able to properly emulate a PS2 game...but I'm pretty sure that emulators would spring up for the PS3 relatively quickly after the right teams had access to the right tools. (Not saying there isn't a huge difference between a SNES, Saturn and PS2, but the earlier stuff would definitely see emulators, and the more recent stuff...I think people would certainly give it a good college try.