Comment by EricE

"I think what they ended up doing was just embedding a PS1 into the PS2, so use of the C APIs never mattered." I'm not sure on the PS2 but I know that's what they did in the PS3 - I found the 60GB launch PS3 that had the hardware PS2 embedded as well as the greatest amount of ports and maybe a few other aspects that made it one of the more sought after PS3 version. I still use it as a Bluray player and occasionally fire up Little Big Planet - still one of my favorite games.