My PS2 is also modded so that I could install a hard drive into it, and install (at least most of) my PS2 games to its hard drive, and run them from there, instead of having to swap CDs or DVDs in the tray all the time. It worked (works, I guess) quite well, but as said, I am more into PCSX2 emulation nowadays.

I am not that interested in newer generation (PS3, PS4, XBox360, XboxOne...) emulation because I feel most of their games are generic cross-platform games, for the most part. So if I want to play some Call of Duty or whatever, why not just try to play the PC version then. Even said consoles, especially XBox, genres seem to be quite similar to PC game genres.

On earlier console generations (PS2 and Playstation), the console games and their genres differed much more from PC games, so that is why I find it more interesting to try to emulate them. And then there are of course the Nintendo consoles, N64, Gamecube etc., they certainly have kinds of games you don't generally see, or at least saw, on PC.

Another thing is, don't those newer consoles usually have quite advanced gamepads with odd functionalities that are not necessarily recreated on PC gamepads? I recall that already on the PS2 gamepad, some of the face buttons were actually analog (ie. it mattered how strongly you pushed them), and that was not the case with equivalent PC gamepads? (Or then I remember that wrong... but I recall the PS2 games like Metal Gear Solid 2 and/or 3 would have used that feature too?).

So I am wondering how such console emulators would be able to emulate such advanced hardware (gamepad) functionalities? And now PS5 has some weird haptic feedback blaa blaa in its gamepads...

I guess that makes Nintendo Wii games pretty hard to emulate as well, as didn't it have those weird sticks you'd wave around in mid-air? I think I've seen a couple thousand videos of people destroying their living room lamps in the ceiling or their TV, while swinging around those "nunchaku-sticks"? Or at least hitting their kid to the mouth with them accidentally.

I figure it is quite hard to emulate those controllers with a mouse or a generic gamepad?