Fast forward twenty years. That same PS2 is long gone, lost to a basement flood or a forgotten garage sale. But the itch to play Silent Hill 2 or Burnout 3 never really goes away. I had the emulator ready on my PC, the legal game backups waiting in a folder, but I was missing the heartbeat of the machine: the BIOS.
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