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[Chris9620]

Hi!

I know this is a supercard site, but i am not registered with any sony forums!

Does anyone know if there is a good PS2 emulator available? I want to play some games, and can't decide if i should buy a PS2 and mod it. Obviously a good, high compatability emulator would be much cheaper!!!

I haven't dabbled in the emu scene for years, so i'm a LOT behind the times!!!

Cheers for any help!

Chris

[uzumakishade]

a good site that discusses emus (doesnt post links to roms tho) is www.ngemu.com

[dantheman]

Oh wow, at first I thought this was going to be a question about if there was a PS2 emulator for the DS or not.  Glad to see I was wrong.

http://www.zophar.net might also be helpful, though they haven't updated in years.

[Altor]

Not really, no.  We still haven't got N64 emulation 100% yet.

[Perseid]

There is PCSX2, but it's not quite there yet IMO. Compatibility is still low and it's slow. It does run FFX fairly well and VERY slowly(about 30FPS on my Athlon64 3700+) and I wasn't patient enough to try anything else.

[Koji]

There is PCSX2, but it's not quite there yet IMO. Compatibility is still low and it's slow. It does run FFX fairly well and VERY slowly(about 30FPS on my Athlon64 3700+) and I wasn't patient enough to try anything else.

I heard what really makes a big difference are dual and quad core processors. If you don't have one, I wouldn't suggest wasting your time on them as most games will run too slow.

Altor: We still haven't even gotten SNES emulation 100% yet on PCs :p

[sneef]

you mean pcsx2 is optimized for multi-core, multi-threaded processing?  wow.. sophisticated homebrew

Altor: We still haven't even gotten SNES emulation 100% yet on PCs :p

true, but it's not because of lack of processing power..

[sonicwind]

yes it is...............we need that 80core thing intel is making NOW!

[Koji]

you mean pcsx2 is optimized for multi-core, multi-threaded processing?  wow.. sophisticated homebrew

Altor: We still haven't even gotten SNES emulation 100% yet on PCs :p

true, but it's not because of lack of processing power..

Yeah, they made a big news post about it like 3-4 months ago. Something like a 50% speed increase using multicore chips versus a standard processor. Don't have the time to look it up right this second, but it's in the NGemu archives if you're interested.

[Haoie]

PS1 emulation isn't all that good either. EPSXE still has a lot of issues, and man do you have to tweak with plugins for every game or what.

[Perseid]

EPSXE isn't perfect but it is what I would consider a 'good' emulator. Yes, changing the settings is annoying but so long as I can get most games to work somehow, that's fine.

[Koji]

That's the problem with the plugin system that most modern emulators are using... Complexity. Since all the plugins are seperate from the emulator, the emulator can't "expect" a feature to be in all of them, thus options have to be selected and adjusted on both sides.

The (main) benefit is the emu author can still keep his source to himself and just release a plugin spec which allows anyone to work on parts of the emu.

[look]

Hi!

I know this is a supercard site, but i am not registered with any sony forums!

Does anyone know if there is a good PS2 emulator available? I want to play some games, and can't decide if i should buy a PS2 and mod it. Obviously a good, high compatability emulator would be much cheaper!!!

I haven't dabbled in the emu scene for years, so i'm a LOT behind the times!!!

Cheers for any help!

Chris

I've got a modded ps2 i want to sell.

http://www.scdev.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9327