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[Kosheh]

I can't be the only one upset that Sony ported a handful of PS2 games to the PS4 instead of actual backwards compatibility like they said.

Oh, I am - but they never actually said "We're bringing backwards compatibility to the console so you can just pop in your discs and play". To be fair, this is fine too because when there's trophy support, it's like...
you're playing the game for the first time again and unlocking stupid little rewards for doing so :V They can't add flags in for backwards-compatible games.
Like, it's definitely software-based emulation

I guess the Wii is backwards compatible with the following then:
NES
SNES
N64
SEGA Master System (whoa, that's not even a Nintendo Console!)
SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis
One console I forgot the name of, but had King of Fighters or something
Arcade cabinets

And since the Wii U can emulate a Wii, it has all that and:
Gameboy Advance
Nintendo DS
Wii again

Umm.... the only thing it's backwards-compatible with is the Wii. Everything else is emulated. When the term "backwards-compatible" is used it's like...you can actually put your old discs in and they work without a problem. The easier way to describe it is

Backwards-compatibility = hardware emulation. There's an actual chip which functions like the previous-gen system that works when you put the old disc in.
Virtual Console, Sony's "Classics" on PSN = software emulation. It's just emulators written for the console with tweaks for each individual game.
I believe the Sony emulators would work with any game you threw in there hypothetically (as all games were no bigger than a specific size) but Virtual Console require tweaks specifically to support the size of the cartridge and based on the specific hardware in the chip (i.e. Mode-7 or the Super FX chip. Hacked VC games on the Wii required ROMs to be injected into games with similar sizes etc.)

Also how can you forget the Neo-Geo MVS. It was literally an arcade cabinet in a console, and that's groundbreaking. lol
Like, you could actually put the big ROM cartridges from Neo-Geo AVS machines (the arcade) and they'd play arcade-perfect with some additional features for the MVS (like add training modes and user-friendly option menus)