That's not my experience at all. It's like we're living in opposite worlds.

5 of them.

I've only ever had one PS2. Still works 21 years later. I just turned it on to check, though on the rare occasion that I actually want to play a PS2 game I use the PCSX2 emulator instead, leading to my second point.

if the emulation for it wasn't spotty.

PCSX2 seems to be working fine for anyone with a decent enough computer.

Killzone (2004), Cold Winter (2005), Black (2006), Dark Cloud, Seek and Destroy, The Seed: Warzone and a heap of other games that I've tried work perfectly. Encountered no problems whatsoever. I don't even think that much messing around with the emulator options needs to be done. Connect the PS4 DualShock to the PC via USB and these games function just as they would on the PS2 except with a much higher resolution. I haven't found any problems with the ePSXe emulator for PS1 either.

The only PS2 game that I can think of that emulates poorly is Scarface: The World Is Yours (2006). And even that game doesn't seem to have performance or stability problems, only annoying vertical coloured bars down the screen.

That's not my experience at all. It's like we're living in opposite worlds.

5 of them.

I've only ever had one PS2. Still works 21 years later. I just turned it on to check, though on the rare occasion that I actually want to play a PS2 game I use the PCSX2 emulator instead, leading to my second point.

if the emulation for it wasn't spotty.

PCSX2 seems to be working fine for anyone with a decent enough computer.

Killzone (2004), Cold Winter (2005), Black (2006), Dark Cloud, Seek and Destroy, The Seed: Warzone and a heap of other games that I've tried work perfectly. Encountered no problems whatsoever. I don't even think that much messing around with the options needs to be done. Connect the PS4 DualShock on the PC and these games function just as they would on the PS2 except with a much higher resolution. I haven't found any problems with the ePSXe emulator for PS1 either.

The only PS2 game that I can think of that emulates poorly is Scarface: The World Is Yours (2006). And even that game doesn't seem to have performance or stability problems, only annoying vertical coloured bars down the screen.