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From what I gather, I think the prudent thing to do is to sell both the PS2 and TV.  Unless you think you'll be using your PS2 some time soon, but it doesn't sound like it.  Plus, I wouldn't be surprised if the price of a PS2 drops after the PS3 is released.

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Why do I somehow doubt PS2 emulation is going to get anywhere fast considering where Saturn emulation is at present...

I haven't tried it, but supposedly one of the most recent PS2 emus can run things at close to full speed.

-Joshua

You know anything more about this? I have been wondering why the Wii won't do this...I'd love to play classics like NiGHTS and Panzer Dragoon Saga one day. Saturn emulation should be possible with current technology right?

One would think... but apparently it's still barely functional at best, at least according to the people I know who really heavily follow the emulation scene (personally I'm one of those people who is really anal about playing games on their original hardware if possible, so I can't really say anything absolutely for certain).  It might just be the overly complex Saturn design, though?  (but if that's the case, I thought the PS2 was pretty convoluted and un-friendly for developers too)

All I know about Saturn was that Yu Suzuki came out and said something to the effect that only 1 in every 100 programmers would get the most out of the Saturn's hardware. I appreciate the guy's honesty, but that couldn't have helped Sega's position with 3rd parties. Just ask Sony.

I think what I gathered about PS2 was that it was a pain getting the games running (limited RAM), but once they were up, there wasn't any problems with performance (jaggies aside). With Saturn, the parallel dual chip set-up kept leading to performance hits in games, so technically while the Saturn was as powerful as the PS1, it couldn't show it (or at least developers weren't willing to tweak their games accordingly). Also, Saturn had originally been designed as a 2D only system, but once Sega saw the PS1 specs, it had less than a year to improve the 3D capabilities. PS2's innards were planned out much more in advance, so they probably make more sense.

Full article here. Very good read about the Saturn's demise (and other Sega consoles) and poor planning:

http://www.eidolons-inn.net/segabase/

VGA Boxes aren't too terribly expensive, I got mine for less than $40 years ago, and it works great.  Here's one that doesn't look too bad:

http://www.amazon.com/PS2-VGA-BOX/dp/B0 … videogames

As much as I hate to recommend it, ebay might have a good selection and prices for something like this, it's where I got mine, and mine has console-specific AV connectors for GCB, N64 and PS2, as well as RCA inputs, ie. if you want to use a light gun or plug any RCA A/V input into it.

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I'm not sure what resolution the VGA box outputs at, it might be specific to each model or something.  I don't think mine ever came with any instructions at all.