Sony using open source emulator for PlayStation Classic plug-and-play

Enlarge / Inside that tiny box is the same open source emulator you can download right now on your PC (plus 20 game files). (credit: Sony)
Sony's upcoming PlayStation Classic uses the open source emulator PCSX ReARMed to recreate its selection of 20 classic games. Kotaku's recent hands-on report with the plug-and-play HDMI system noticed an on-screen menu listing a legal license for the emulator.
ReARMed is a popular, modernized branch of the original PCSX emulator, which was actively developed from 2000 to 2003 for Linux, Mac, and Windows. A new branch called PCSX Reloaded picked up that development later in the decade, adding new features and fixing bugs and eventually leading to the ReARMed fork. The emulator supports network play and a 'save rewind' feature that lets you easily reverse recent gameplay, two features that seem to be missing from the PlayStation Classic.
For its recently released NES and SNES Classic micro-consoles, Nintendo used specially crafted emulators developed by its European Research and Development division. That emulator offered more vibrant colors and less blurriness than Nintendo's previous Virtual Console emulators for the Wii, Wii U, and 3DS.
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