Fortune favours the brave, as the saying goes. The saying doesn't cover PS2s, unfortunately.

We've all seen countless attempts by people trying to run older console games on a PC, either through reverse engineering the code or the use of emulators, but one plucky hardware modder has decided that the time was ripe to do the reverse: Get an old games console to become a PC by running Windows.

Okay, so the operating system in question just happens to be Windows 95, so it's not exactly what you'd call recent, but when you consider that the hardware chosen for the attempt was a PlayStation 2, the choice of software is perhaps more understandable. Anyway, the foolhardy brave modder who undertook the task was modding YouTube channel MetraByte (via Hackaday).

The detailed video breaks down the necessary stages required to get a 25-year-old console to run Windows, and it goes as well as you imagine it would. First of all, Windows 95 is designed to be run on an x86 processing platform, but Sony's second generation of PlayStation doesn't sport any such chips. Its main CPU is MIPS-based, so the first port of call for MetraByte was getting a suitable x86 emulator installed.