Why is PS2 emulation still awful after all these years?

because your computer sucks

>awful
never had a problem with any game

>>382227763
Because you keep using your shitty computer and complain about it

N64 is so much worse that you have no right to complain.

>>382227763
I have no problems with it

>>382227763

I have no problems with it.

Stop using a fucking potato built to run word and start using a higher end PC and then you'll be fine

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>This thread
>Again
>Every single day
>With the same replies

>>382227763
Also download a developer build stupid stop using that old ass 1.4.0

>>382228956
pcsx2 drones are really stupid

>>382229009
>1.4
>pic is clearly 1.2

>>382228956
Maybe OP should figure something about it

>>382227763
You're trying to use PCSX2 like an enhancing emulator which it sucks dick at. Most games run fine on the software renderer if you don't mind the original hardware limitations.

>>382229253
this, it's really badly optimized

>>382229135
That's probably some pic redownloaded several times and I assume OP isn't that stupid to download an older stable build

>>382228734
What obscure games are you playing? Ive never had a problem with it.

>>382227836
Ratchet and Clank runs like ass

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There are only two types of people that complain about pcsx2. It's either an autist who gets upset when they see a single bullet casing missing a shadow, or an underaged poorfag who cannot run pcsx2 smoothly on a celeron laptop

I'm emulating ace combat zero, everything is flawless but the ground far away goes insane with the textures, anyone knows how to fix it?

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>>382227763
Its not? But your also on 1.2.1 which is multiple years out of date.

MGS2 goes down from 60fps to 16 when I go into the tanker on my non-toaster PC. How do I fix this?

Never had an issue with it honestly. Only problems I've had have been visuals like the game wasn't meant to be played in the resolution so you can see characters just standing walking in 1 spot until they're needed for the scene. Or it will fuck with the text onscreen.

>>382229678
Stop using your mommy's laptop
https://youtu.be/WkoUju7VsTA

>>382229856
Probably mess around with your settings. You knew this.

>>382227763
Because the PS2's guts are a bit of a clusterfuck.

>>382227763
Because you're trying to play games that aren't the meme games the developers code in a shitload of personal fixes for.

Why anyone would bother with PS2 emulators when you can buy a console to softmod, an HDD or some blank DVD and run every game way better for all of 40 dollars max I will never know

>>382230181
Because I can make the games look not like smudgy ass.

>>382229678
Dragon Quest 8 needs shadow fixes every now and then

>>382227763

>Need a high-end PC to plays games made for a console released in 2001

MASTER RACE

>>382227763
It's not

>>382227836
Try playing Timesplliters

>>382230384
I bet you use "retro" filters too you fucking philistine

>>382227763
was it? Last time i was playing on Celeron and it was somewhat serviceable

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would i be able to run any PS2 games? would be nice to be able to play timesplitters

>>382227763
i played p3 earlier on my windows 10 pc with an i5 4690k @ 3.5Ghz and it worked fine, albeit a few glitches here and there.

>>382227836
Predator: Concrete jungle has tons of graphical bugs. One of the vision modes is unusable. And I mean that in the literal sense, not the /v/ "anything under 60 fps is literally unplayable garbage" sense.

But on the other hand, I've hard far more issues with GC emulation. Skies of Arcadia and Custom Robo always crashed at certain story parts.

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I got an i5 6600k, gtx 1070 and i've never had any problems with PCSX2 EXCEPT when i tried emulating shadow of the colossus, for NO fucking reason it slowed down like it was running at 15fps even though it was limited to stable 60, no matter what i changed.

Any good plugin suggestions and configs for a laptop with integrated graphix? I just want to play games with zero slowdown, even if it means downgraded graphics.

>>382230532
Wouldn't that go against my earlier statement?

>>382230532
Have you used a PS2? It looks like ass.

>>382230695
So you got the core Shadow of the Colossus experience.

>>382230453
We don't do it because we want, but rather because we can. How's your backwards compatibility and homebrew emulation going, consolecuck?

>>382230695
The '60' just means it's running at full speed. SotC ran like shit on the PS2, so that's why it still runs that way on PCSX2 despite saying it runs full speed.

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What're some good games to emulate on PS2?

Why can't the people who worked on Dolphin work on a PS2 emulator? Dolphin is fucking GOAT tier, PCSX2 is kinda "oh look, I can play ps2 games on pc" tier.

it's sad and fucking annoying how you have to keep changing shit tons of setting sometimes.

>>382230929
persona 3 and persona 4 worked fine for me. great games if you haven't played them.

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>>382230929
GOD HAND

>>382227836
Ape escape 3 slows down.

>>382230929
Steambot Chronicles and R.A.D

>>382230929
Dark cloud 2

>>382230634
I don't know why it always lagged when fighting against golden enemies.

>>382227836
ape escape 2, vexx

>>382230929
Shadow tower abyss
Hungry Ghosts
SMT nocturne
Time splitters

apparently is because the PS2's hardware lacks documentation and the little there is is only in Japanese.

But yeah, pcsx2 is an awful emulator. I can run most games alright but the games ALWAYS have lots of accuracy problems like missing shadows, wrong texture patterns etc.

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>>382231271
>Vexx

Cycle accurate PS2 emulation when?

>>382227836
MGS3

>>382231871
2040s

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>>382229009
which build should I download

>>382227836
most games are alright, its just some older ones like Ace Combat 04 that are littered with bugs

>>382231970
Lastest, always

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>>382227836
MGS3 runs like shite

>>382232027
ok, thank senpai

>>382230453
>can't play their own games
4THE PLAYERS

guys do you know where i can find the ape escape 3 and vice city isos, i checked emuparadise and they dont have it, im pretty sure anything else is malware

>>382232216
iso zone

>>382230578
>that GPU in otherwise shit specs

Anyways, some shit should be playable. Worth checking out and seeing how everything runs

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>>382227763
>Still can't emulate Klonoa 2 without the game crashing after every level

>>382227836
It looks like ass
Look at dolphin and how it doesn't look like ass
I don't know the term for it, im pretty sure it upscales it

>>382232527
It has a lot of bugs and requires acquiring a BIOS which might scare away alot of newbies and retards from playing
Also
I tried playing KH2 and it looked like utter shit
Much prefer dolphin for netplay to play melee and modded brawl amongst other thinfs

>>382229952
No fucking way.
Ratchet and Clank was finally fixed?

>>382227836
>works for me

>>382227763
>trying to play ZoE2
Fuck.

>>382232216
http://www.theisozone.com/downloads/playstation/ps2-isos/ape-escape-3-sces53642/
Cant find the Japanese one. Oh well, at least it's voiced by British people so its somewhat bearable.

>>382232683
like a year ago you cuck

>>382232085

?
Just ran through it for the umpeenth time a couple of months ago, runs pretty much at 60 throughout the whole game.
Only big "Slowdown" I had was fighting against The Fury

Because PCSX2 is a garbage plugin-based emulator and we will never get anything else.

>>382229856
Why would you not just play the PC version of the game? It's a shitty port don't get me wrong, but it's still better than emulation.

>>382227763
The Plugin/modular ideas carried over from PS1/N64 emulation.
Part of the reason Dolphin is so good is they fucked that shit off early.

PPSSPP, RPCS3, Xenia and CEMU all went the same way as Dolphin and benefited as a result.

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>>382227836
>/v/ always whines and bitches about PCSX2
>Try it with like 10 games
>They all work 100% fine

Persona 4 has this weird bug where whenever it saves the game a thin yellow line would appear on the far right screen briefly, but other than that I have no idea where all the frustration toward this emulator comes from. It works fine, not just on my old machine with horrible hardware but my newer one as well.

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>>382233486
Could it be the BIOS that's required to run the thing in the first place?

>>382233241
>paying for games

>>382232302
>>382232797
thanks guys
downloading now

>>382233589
That was so easy to find I don't even remember how I found it.

>>382230695
Have you tried raising VU Cycle Stealing to 2 or slightly above 2?

>>382233592
This might blow your mind anon, but it is possible to pirate PC games and not just PS2 ISOs.

The music is fantastic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA458PJ5hE8

>>382233794
I don't feel like checking right now, but the only torrents are probably like 15 years old and don't work anymore.

>>382230695
That's because SoC ran HORRIBLY on the original hardware. Overclock the internal speeds, but even then it's not that great an experience. If you're not poor you can get the PS3 HD version that fixes the frame rate and ups the visuals or wait and get the PS4 Bluepoint version that looks fucking amazing.

I played both the PS3 version and PC and even with adjustments and good hardware emulating the PS2 game just feels horrible.

>>382233592
>>382234017
A game that popular will have seeders for years

>>382234171
>ever wasting your time seeding
LOVING
EVERY
LAUGH

>>382233678
I'm sorry what are you talking about?

>>382234017
It has a well seeded torrent on TPB nigger.

>>382234317
You might not do it, but others are. So you still have no excuse. How lazy are you to not spend like 10 seconds looking up a torrent on TPB?

>>382234430
The BIOS? I still have the Bios files I downloaded from some site years ago, I don't even remember downloading them. Finding the BIOS files isn't the problem.

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>>382232648
>modded Brawl
mah nigga

>>382230929
Klonoa 2

>>382227763
Well the ps2 was kind of a clusterfuck.

That said the emu does work so long as you set it right for individual games and have a good computer.

I emulated mgs3 on my laptop ffs.

>>382230929
Shadow of the Colossus
Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3
Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen 2
007: Anything or Nothing

>>382227763
Emulating anything properly beyond the PS2 is almost fucking impossible due to their clusterfuck hardwares.
The source code for the PS2's main chip still hasnt been cracked and the same goes for ps3 so thats why emulating them is a bitch.

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What are the minimum system requirements for PCSX2?

>>382235225
This. With the proper source code, ps2 and ps3 games runs like SNES on a gtx960.

>>382227763
Completed Ace Combat 5 and 0 on my laptop and 4 on main PC.

The only real problem I had was Siren having solid fog you can't see through and Project Zero 1 not detecting some of your shots, both of which are fixed by turning on software mode.

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>download pcsx2 to play ZOE
>slow downs anytime im in battle with a lot of enemies
>just say fuck it and buy ZOE HD
>it has the same fucking slowdown problems

>>382235417
Depends entirely on the game.

>>382227806
Literally modern core i3 alone is enough to emulate software renderer

>>382230653
>Skies of Arcadia crashing
How long ago was this? I played the whole game recently without crashing.

>>382233114
play! is making big progress. it will definitely be a viable alternative within the next couple years.

>>382235417
A decent computer from the last 7 years. i played SMT nocturne on my previous old PC which was an e8400 cpu and gtx 260 gpu.

It won't be long now before anything can play ps2 games, like how right now anything can play ps1 games and /v/ will soon instead be whining about how you need a super computer to emulate ps3.

>>382229253
No it doesn't. Software renderer is the most accurate mode, but most games run it like ass. Hardware is fast but not accurate by any means

>>382236075
>most games run it like ass
Increase thread number.

>>382235998
Meanwhile, the original Xbox from 2001 can't be emulated at all.

>>382236280
no one c a r e s

The only games I've had a problem with are SotC and a Raiden game, the latter being fixed fucking around with video settings. You're a fucking faggot anon-kun.

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What about emulating XBOX games? Nobody seems to care about it.

>>382236367

>>382236280
>>382236327

>>382235998
wrong. In 10 years from now people will still be bitching the same.
tech is stalling like crazy and the only games anyone can emulate without issue is from SNES era and older.

>>382236367
you can emulate xbox games by having a PC
no actual emulator necessary

>>382233114
This.

Any emulator is implant plugins/speedhacks in its development hit a wall at some point . Just look at Project 64 for another example of this.

The Dolphin team did good when they axed plugins development.

>>382236506
if it's 99% accurate it's good enough you fucking autist

>>382236367
Because

Development time >>>>>>>>>>>> Potential interest

Nobody wants to build an entire fucking emulator to play the two Xbox games that were a 6/10 at best.

>>382235417
It depend on the game.

Some games won't run well even on 5ghz CPUs.

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>>382236553

This actually makes sense. I've never thought of it that way.

>>382235625
>>382235998
>>382236625
For Rule of Rose?

for all the people wanting to play timesplitters 2 just play it on dolphin since it was a gamecube game

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Because PCSX2 is hacks on top of hacks. Also the people creating it.

>>382227763
I had problem with that on my old CPU, apparently PCSX2 likes Intel way more than AMD.
Just few niche titles tho

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>>382232683
>>382229952

still seems pretty buggy desu

>>382236592
Dont talk to your superiors like that you little bitch autist.

>>382236594
I want to play ninja gaiden black, I heard it was better than a 6/10

>>382236824
is there a better alternative for PS1 and 2?

>>382230653
Yeah but that has a PC port.

>>382236828
everything likes intel way more than AMD.

>>382236824
What build is that on?
Because Nocturne only ended up like that on dev builds, normal build it was fine.

>>382235417
there is no "minimum" since hardware requirements vary greatly from game to game.

>>382236924
PS1: Mednefen or Mednefen hardware in retroarch
PS2: PCSX2 or Play, eventually.

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>>382236594
I want this.

>>382232216
vice city is on pc you idot

>>382235435
>With the proper source code, ps2 and ps3 games runs like SNES on a gtx960.
>>382235225
>The source code for the PS2's main chip still hasnt been cracked and the same goes for ps3 so thats why emulating them is a bitch.

The source code for these consoles will never be cracked though. For one thing, the companies themselves don't maintain the documentation, secondly, they are on a level of complexity where reverse-engineering just doesn't cut it.

>>382236913
just emulate the shitty ps3 versions in a few years

>>382229698
Well, there's a third kind: people who became spoiled by dolphin and PPSSPP and expect the same kind of click and play experience from PCSX2. The same kind that never had to fiddle with a PS1 or N64 emulator back when.

>>382236924
PCSX-R PXGP and Mednafen
Mednafen is even more pain to use than PCSX-R though but once it's running it's nice.

>>382236594
3 WORDS:

Metal
Wolf
Chaos

>>382227763
man i got a phat ps2 and stuck a hdd then softmodded it to emulate ps2 cause it sucks so muhc on pc

so much for pcmr haha fagits

>>382236954
whatever was latest dev build at the time because 1.4 still sucks.

>>382229009
Man, fuck is up with the dev builds not working for me anymore? I have the fucking up to date runtime and the builds are 32bit like my OS, but running the .exe just gives me an error message telling it's not a valid application.

>>382227836
I had trouble running Destroy All Humans, it even crashed on me a few times, eventually I just gave up.

>>382237171
I've played quite a few games on PCSX2 and have never had to "fiddle" with anything.

>>382232340
You, shut up.
>>382230578
You need a better processor. You might be able to play older PS2 games at native res in hardware mode.

>>382235417
A mid-range PC from 2008.

>>382237171
>spoiled
systems lower specced than PS1/N64 aren't pain to emulate
systems past PS1/PS2/N64 are not pain to emulate just because they're demanding

Modular design was a mistake.

>>382237325
How convenient, considering all the games that need software mode to even run properly. Also convenient because you had to at least pick the proper graphics plugin, setup your BIOS, and so on.
You must be a special boy who gets different things than the rest of us because Jesus loves you.

>>382227836
Try playing Sly 3.

>>382227836
Sly games are really tough to emulate on my PC atleast

>>382237472
Don't you just download the BIOS off the internet? I don't know anything about the graphics plugins.

>>382234032
>PS3 version
They fucked that up too. Wander shakes and staggers at anything slightly shaky.

>>382230578
emulating anything but 4th gen and below is shady on an amd apu, let alone that one. man, I've got an a6-5400k sitting in a dead motherboard that I hung on my wall as a decoration, it'd be a waste of energy to even use for a facebook machine. if I haven't driven the point home, you seriously need to upgrade your cpu if you want to play games that aren't from 2006 or before, let alone emulate anything.

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>>382237481
>>382237516
For a game about sneaking and stealing, it sure is hard to pirate.

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It took awhile for me to hook up my PS4 controller and configure it, especially THEM STICKS!
But although I can barely run it well, I played Timesplitters well, but future perfect had terrible game glitches.

>>382237801
What. xinput controllers work out of the box, you don't even have to configure them. Why aren't you using DS4windows?

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wen you realize all the sprites are tweened

Sony use PCSX2 code for backwards compatibility so it is doing something right.

>>382237636
>I don't know anything about the graphics plugins.
You must have tried like three games, then.

>>382237956
They did for the PS3 models which had software emulation, which were so bad they had to remove the capability from further models.

>>382237801
I actually did use DS4 for my ps4 to be hooked up

>>382238224
What I don't get is why people run 480p games in 1080p resolution. Is looking at horribly muddy textures that much fun?

>>382238142
I thought the software emulation was the more accurate? When a game has issues I put it in software mode and it resolves the issue but obviously it uses a lot more CPU.

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>>382238327

>>382230731
you cannot play ps2 emulated games with an integrated hard, not trying to meme you but it's just not gonna work

>>382238327
Games are heavily reliant on 3D assets look amazing when upscaled. Some games might look a little off, but most games look much better. Worst case scenario you get a glitch but most of the time it looks fine but with slightly shittier textures than you'd expect from another HD game.

>>382238390
PS1 games should be emulated at 4k minimum
Those unfiltered 32x32 textures deserve it.

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>>382238327
Wait, are you actually a subhuman shill?

>>382229705

Yo buddy.

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>>382236794
plz respond

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>>382227836
Mercenaries

>>382238391
If he has a decent CPU he could set it to software mode a try

>>382238327
if upscaled properly with some SSAA it looks incredibly better
An old game would look shit anyway on modern monitors, so if the remaking/remastering is done right at least you can have those textures stretched properly and enjoy the artstyle without cutting yourself on sharp pixels

>>382237083
Anon... A PC version of that game exists.

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>>382238959
>90% off on steam
TIME TO PLAY

>>382236856
Because you're a fucking retard, I'm not spoon-feeding you shit btw

>>382236856
you're not using the fixed version

>>382239168
Have a nice weekend, anon.

>>382238327
You'd be surprised how well some ps2 games can look at 1080p. SH2 and 3 are prime example

>>382237912
hardware sprite rotation boi

>>382238385
Actual PS2 hardware, not PC GPU hardware emulation.

>>382233083
which should be consistent with the PS2 disc version, because i remember having lag during that fight too

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>>382239676
it look interesting

>>382238390
PXGP? I can't get some games to run properly, something forces filtering on even though I have it disabled. Crash 1 and 2 get black mess around the sprites and some world objects but FF7 is fine.

>>382236594
this

its why we gave up, faggots
just mod your xbox and do it that way
100% accurate and all the games work without plugins

same with PS2, faggots
god, i hate you emu fags so fucking much

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>>382240167
You can disable that but I forgot exactly which dictionary you need to go.

>>382230514
im playing timesplitters 2 splitscreen and have had no problems.

>>382231271
ape escape 2 makes me so goddamn sad that it's broken. on top of objects not knowing what texture to apply, i can't swim down. shit makes me so mad.

>>382240350
JUST MOD YOUR PS2
YOU DONT GET THAT SHIT HAPPENING!

>>382238385
That's on PCSX2, I'm talking about the actual PS3. the original 60GB model had a PS2 inside (hardware), so it didn't use emulation at all. The other models had to use emulation (software) to run things and were fucking terrible.
Within PCSX2 and more specifically GSDX, software mode refers to running the graphics on the processor only and hardware mode refers to getting help from the graphics card.

>>382230929
shinobi and nightshade.

>>382238556
Yeah, try that with Resident Evil or Fear Effect 2. Not everything upscales as nicely as Crash Bandicoot.

>>382240675
>shinobi
Jesus christ It's been 9 years since I last played it, and I can't beat the samurai

>>382238675
That's my main gripe, I absolutely love that game but it looks like ass in software and hardware mode. The sequel is so shit I can't even be bothered.

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>>382240707
He has a point, Fear Effect has too much FMV.

>>382240579
>implying i have a ps2 to mod
>implying i care enough to buy a ps2 to mod
yeah, i want it working on pc so i want to have zero financial obligations to the game. i bought a gamecube+a bunch of games for 30 bucks a few years ago and still feel bad because i didn't end up using it that much. bad bang for buck

>>382240890
you get the games for free, idiot
a ps2 is like $5 now
fuck off

>>382240794
>tfw you will never be as good as this guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L003ZvGxvKs&index=8&list=PLd8P9ALNJpFTN_arBwcZ7XoPf51_5ysYx

>>382238556
or you could go turbo autist like me and get a 4:3 crt monitor and emulate shit in the native resolution and aspect ratio.

>>382235225
>source code for the main chip
Do you have any idea what you're talking about?

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>>382230929
Fucking this. This game I bought on a whim back in the day and was blown away.

>>382241215
>a ps2 is like $5 now
more like 50, and i just said i feel bad about spending 30 on a gamecube. fuck you.

>>382241530
High-res, perspective correct PS1 games look wonderful on CRT.
I miss my old ass PC that had composite out. FF8's PC version looked great on my CRT.

>>382241753
you are without a doubt the worst gamer I have ever heard of

>>382230929
Ace combat 4, 5 and 0
Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3
Final Fantasy X and XII
Rogue Galaxy
Grandia III

last time i was in one of these threads someone kept recommending PCSX2Bonus
if you use it make sure to disable auto-downloading of metadata, it's an awesome way to get you banned from GameFAQs

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>>382230929
AEUG vs Titans works flawlessly.

>>382241868
didnt you hear, dude? gamers died back in 2014. kotaku said so.

>>382241919
That looks great

>>382227763
Because, like every other emulator, the devs called it a day when they saw their favorite games could run just fine. Why do you think every N64 emulator runs Mario & Zelda perfectly, but everything else is a broken mess?

>>382240579
Playing pirated games on a PS2 is much harder than it is on a Dreamcast. At least it was the last time I checked.

>>382242117
its easy as shit
just get an HDD, network adapter and free mcboot
shit, this is like too computer hard for you fucks or something?

yeah, its not as simple as DC (we all wish it was for every system) but its easier than having to put all sorts of gay plugins and shit to get a game working when just putting it on the HDD and running it off PS2 works 100% all the fucking time with what you fags want to play.

>>382242385
>fmcb
yeah good luck getting lucky enough to find the right game to boot and install it
t. someone who did get lucky

>>382242117
In brazil a lot of stores used to jailbreak your ps2. It was pretty easy to find and play pirate games.

>>382242385
Is it really that simple? As I said, the last time I checked it wasn't as easy as that, so maybe it's gotten better since then.

>TFW Xbox emulation could have had a chance to be revived and make loads of progress if that ledditor didn't gut the dev kit to make a shitty PC

How's this deal?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/PlayStation-2-PS2-Modded-Console-Free-McBoot-With-Emulator-ISO-Transfer-KIT-/322548478763?hash=item4b1963332b:g:dnEAAOSwjDZYhUYT

You're trying to reproduce the effects of hardware with software.

>>382242603
it's not very easy to live in brazil though

What if I want to pirate shit on a slim?

>>382242980
As has been the strategy for PC's dominance for as long as it has existed.

There once existed software to emulate sound card out of your beeper.

>>382242809
On that note, remember that guy who found a copy of the Starcraft source code, and turned it in for a trip to fucking blizzcon?
What is it about reddit that attracts the biggest fucking beta faggots in the world?

>>382227763

What's your problem? Budokai 3 and Infinite World run like a dream and those are the only games you need to play, ever.

>>382243218
It's just the generic american way of thinking, with the worship of companies and all.

>>382243015
It's fine here, at least for me... I can't say about the others tho.

>>382227836
Pretty sure people can't even get past Klonoa 2's title screen.

>>382229952
>can clearly see FPS drops in the video

fuck off shill. this game will never work fine on this emulator

>>382238570
Do you even know what that word means

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Why are there always better and more abundant emulators for Nintendo platforms compared to Playstations, Segas, and Xboxes?

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>>382242809
OwO
what's this?

How is PS1 and PSP emulation these days?

>>382243783
>he thinks the ps2 didn't lag at all
oh man, must be nice being a delusional twelve year old

>>382243937
ps1 is doing pretty good and psp is fucking perfect.

>>382243915
Is that seriously what the internals of the Xbox look like? It's just a fucking PC, where did the RnD money go?

>>382227763
People don't care enough to make a shitty console playable on PC. That why we don't have Xbox emulators and PS3 and 4 emulators.

>>382242809
> noooo muh free gayms
Oh, I'm sorry. "Preservation", lol

>>382244068
What about Nintendo?

>>382227763
>Why is PS2 emulation still awful after all these years?
because the dev team has the wrong mindset.
more often then not, games have issues that can only be fixed running in software mode.
rather than trying to address every issue so its fixed in hardware mode, for some reason they think software mode is fine.

gamecube, wii, and soon 3ds emulation will have surpassed ps2 emulation.

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>>382243937
Literally better than ever
Still can't play Pangya though

>>382244068
>this delusion

there are autismos literally paying other autismos on Patreon to make emulators, you cuck.

Does Legaia 2: Duel Saga run like shit for anyone else? as soon as I get to the forest at the beginning of the game textures are missing and the game gets all fucked up looking

>>382243908
Nintendobros are just too smart.

Softmodding > Emulation

>>382244171
>>382244270
>What is bait
Fucking summerfags, you have to be at least 18 to post here.

>>382227763
ppsspp is the nicest emulator to date, someone makes a PS3 one it's gg

>>382242561

You don't need a game if you're using a hard drive.

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>>382244020
are you fucking retarded? it's an xbox dev kit, so it literally is a computer. dev kits work by emulating the hardware specifications of the end product, hence why at trade shows and expos you'll see a computer running demos of new consoles, like in pic related.

the big deal is what was on the hdd that the retard who took this pic wiped and wrote over. he said "windows couldn't read the hdd and it was just some old 20gb hdd" cause it was formatted in a file system that windows doesn't handle, like exfat or something.

>>382244501
I w-was just b-baiting! XD

>>382227763

My computer has run every iso I've ever tried without problems. Your PC must be shit I can even play most games with 8x normal resolution and max AA settings

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>>382227763
https://boards.fireden.net/v/thread/315077830/#315077830

Fuck off, consolefag

>>382244568
>are you fucking retarded? it's an xbox dev kit,
OH FUCK ANON I'M SO SORRY, MY MENTAL ILLNESS PREVENTED ME FROM MAKING THAT DISTINCTION.

>>382244734
It's genuinely much easier to use discs rather than .isos

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>>382244803
well maybe if you weren't a retarded console fag you'd know what a pc looks like inside. this is what an og xbox looks like when taken apart.

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never had any problems

>>382245041
Yeah no shit you fucking faggot, which is why the other pic is confusing because it says "RIPXBAWKS" and has what looks like PC parts. It makes sense that it would be the dev kit, which is the whole fucking point of my original post.

Maybe work on clear communication before calling people retarded.

>>382245290
same, I guess you could say it works on my machine

>>382244891
regale me with the specs of that sweet 200 disc changer dvd drive, bro

>>382245431
If you already own the game, what's the point in downloading it?

>>382245336
someone is assblasted. maybe you should have said "looks like a devkit, not an xbox"

maybe you need to work on your communication

>>382236594

Ninja Gaiden Black
Panzer Dragoon Orta
Jet Set Radio Future
Breakdown

>6/10 at best.

>>382245620
I'm not that guy, but legally you're supposed to make rips of your own games.

>>382246089
Yeah, so? You're also legally not meant to use an emulator

>>382246089
He's desperate for replies, logic is of no use to him.

>>382227763
>3rd worlder with a toaster
>wonders why an emulator isn't giving him 60fps at 1080p like in counterstrike

>>382246279
Pretty sure that you are if you rip your own BIOS.

>>382246279
Emulators are perfectly legal as long as you rip shit from your own console and games
which nobody fucking does but just pretends to do so that "johnny law" doesn't come crashing down on them

>>382246898
I'm just saying, you'd be going into so much effort for something you could already do on the PS2 itself.

Anyway, my original point was that it's easier to use a disc instead of downloading an .iso file. If you don't understand, it's because PCSX2 CAN run physical discs from whatever drive it's mounted on.

>>382247098
Is there any point to using an emulator if you're doing it 100% legally (at least from a non-developer point of view)? I mean, you have to already own the console to do all of that stuff.

>>382227763
Stop playing on toasters.

>>382227763
My ps2 emulates them just fine. PC bros are full of hot air, weak ass shit.

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>>382244134

>>382238673
what they meant by "depends on the game" is that you won't know until you manage to run it

I feel the PCSX2 get tons of undeserved shit because their emu is not dolphin. I honestly don't see why it should strive to be, especially considering how complex the PS2 hardware is compared to the gamecube's.

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>>382230929
gregory horror show. It's super comfy

>>382248070
>especially considering how complex the PS2 hardware is
It is complex to develop for, but that doesn't mean it's complex to emulate.

>>382248440
Yes it is, it's not a single core processor like the Gekko. Also your statements contradict each other.

>>382227763
Really? I finished all Shin Megami Tensei games on it and the only ones with some slowdowns are the Raidou Kuzunoha games, but they are still playable. I'm using a notebook.

>>382248543
How? It's difficult to develop for as you needed to make heavy use of vector logic in your game, otherwise about half of PS2's hardware would just sit idle, not even mentioning the lack of memory in relevant places (Icache, Dcache, VRAM etc.). Emulating the console is by no means the same as making stuff run on the console.

>>382249046
The addition of vector co-processors, synching them and emulating the whole thing isn't exactly easy as you propose.

>>382236367
XQEMU is being developed and has been making a lot of progress recently nigger.

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>>382227763
>>382229678
>>382230514
>>382230653
>>382231087
>>382231271
>>382231916
>>382232085
>>382232527
>>382237230
>>382237481
>>382237516
>>382238675
>>382243626
>He hasn't played 1.5.0 yet
You're missing out.

>>382249583
excuse my ignorane, but what game?

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>>382250345
Battlefield 2: Modern Combat, a.k.a. the best Battlefield game.

https://files.catbox.moe/08ccne.webm

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>>382230929
Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne and the Digital Devil Saga duology.

>>382249265
The biggest issue would be sync, but even simulating the VUs shouldn't be a hard task to achieve as all you work with are a few very basic instructions (add, mul, div, sqrt, jmp, AND, OR, sin, branch, load, stor, mov) and their variations.

>>382250914
thanks, that does look pretty good. gonna have to throw that in the ole phats hdd and give it a whirl sometime

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>>382243626
Just played your little game, gay boy

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>>382251687
It's pretty damn good, yeah.

Also, Ace Combat 5 and Zero also got texture fixes.

>>382251801
How is 4?
I'm downloading it right now

>>382251801
just started playing ace combat 5, actually. fun af, I had no idea PS2 had good jet sims but I'm playing it on a real ps2 on my kv-27fs120. pic related, looks a hell of a lot better irl. I guess cameras don't capture interlaced well or something?

>>382252115
4 is still fucked because it's engine is ancient. The other two work.

>>382230695
That's because it originally ran like that doofus

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>>382252126
I wonder if it will be upside down this time...

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>>382227763
Use the dev version, ya dork. It can play majority of games, and some of the most problematic games (like MGS, Ratchet, or Ace Combat) are fixed mostly but they're definitely playable.

Although, I can't defend the dev team's incompetencies. They couldn't fixed their own wiki page, for fuck's sake.

>>382252839
Australian here, it's now upside down.

>>382253159
>dev version
Shut the fuck up, retard.

>>382253837
What's your problem

Where the fuck is a psvita emulator?

>>382242879
>$138
all you need is a memory card with the hack on it and you'll be fine afaik

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-32MB-PS2-Memory-Card-with-instaled-Free-McBoot-1-953-FMCB-Region-Free-/252961747815?hash=item3ae5b1f367:g:UFEAAOSws5pZKnBJ

>>382229450
Yoshi story, its pretty obscure.

So obscure it's better to emulate it using dolphin.

>>382255124
I didn't do that. I just took an IDE HDD and transferred some shit over using a program and it booted in freemcboot

http://theisozone.com/tutorials/ps2/hardware-and-modding/ps2-hdd-modding-tutorial-hddosd/

use this guide and you're fine, but make sure to get the latest version of ps2loader or you'll suffer from issues like .hack not having proper voiceovers (sta-ccato!)

So why is 1.4 bad? Using it right now

Does anyone know how to get the garage in MC3DE to stop flickering on PCSX?

Still got my Swap Magic discs I got about a decade ago. That, my slim PS2, component cables and a bunch of DVD-Rs. Comfy times.

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>>382229678
What's up 2012!?!?!?!? How's a half a decade ago? No speed hacks. Just plugged and played on my laptop with an iGPU. I'm almost done with the game.

>>382255547
Because it's old

>>382236856
>not using mipmapping
GOD FUCKING DAMN IT YOU MISSED THE ENTIRE FUCKING POINT

PCSX2 HAS SUPPORTED SOFTWARE MIPMAPPING FOR HALF A DECADE, AND IT RAN FINE IF YOU HAD AN INSANE CPU. A FEW MONTHS AGO THEY ADDED MIPMAPPING (FUCKING FINALLY) TO THE HARDWARE RENDERER THAT UTILIZES YOUR GPU TO RUN FASTER.

DO YOU FUCKING GET IT YET?

>>382255501
isozone won't fucking load for me, it's been doing this all day
Is it like this for anyone else?

>>382255727
>!?!?!?!?
>wangblows 10

>>382235417
It used to be anything decent if the game didn't use mipmapping, or a quad core Intel as fast as it can go to do the rendering on the CPU so you can have mipmapping. You could always play mimapped games even with meh hardware, you'd just have to not use mipmapping, which causes distant textures to be garbage (literally).

That was the case until recently, though. Mipmapping is now available in the hardware accelerated renderer, and most decent PCs should be able to decently play anything.

is it possible to interface PPSSPP and PCSX2 for games with interconnectivity like MGS?
i don't actually plan on doing it, I'm just curious

>>382251473
To be precise, 127 instructions total to emulate VU0/VU1 in micro mode and additional 90 instructions to emulate VU0 in macro mode. But that's not enough, you also need to exactly implement certain functions (RNG for one), flags, control states, stalling FDIV or EFU if you attempt to execute an instruction while it's executing previous one and it goes on and on and on.

>>382256391
your isp may be screwing you over, try loading a cache or google translate version of the page.

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=en&tl=co&u=http%3A%2F%2Ftheisozone.com%2Ftutorials%2Fps2%2Fhardware-and-modding%2Fps2-hdd-modding-tutorial-hddosd%2F&anno=2

just click original in the top right

>>382237472
>all the games that need software mode to even run properly
Literally next to zero at this point. Get with the times.

>>382247268
It's very possible you could own a PS2, rip the BIOS, and then have it fail and resort to emulating it.

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>>382255160
Yoshi Story works fine in Retroarch with the latest Mupen64 core, Haha!

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>>382256674
Nope, not possible yet.

>>382251756
You can't even play half the game. Without it crashing after each level.

>>382227836
go ahead and try running Ratchet and Clank 3.
lemme know once you get it running smoothly with no horrendous graphical bugs. ;)

>>382256757
naw i'm at my school right now, thats why
thanks tho ill check this out

VITA
EMULATION
FUCKING
WHEN

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>>382259923
It was fixed in the recent nightlies.

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>>382260227
RCPS3 has PoC Vita emulation already though it doesn't run any commercial games.

like 90% of the people ive come across who shit on pcsx2 are either too lazy or dumb to tool around with the configurations and try different plug ins/settings
You can play ps2 games
on your pc
for fucking free
that shit blew my mind as a kid(granted it was with snes games instead when I first found emulation) but emulation is still pc's glorious trump card

>>382260573
Got any good websites to pirate vita games?

>>382227763
because you usually need roughly 10 times as much processing power to emulate, and current computers can barely keep up with that.

>>382260895
Kek. Shut the fuck up.

>>382260895
You can run PCSX2 on an i3
t. used to play it on an i3

>>382261519
you better change it back or else we'll both be sorry

>>382261519
I run pcsx2 on my dual core pentium laptop.

Granted, it's on native res and barely run on 2x but it ran.

>>382260573
How do you play vita games on RCPS3?

>>382259169
>can't get past menu
>get past menu
>c-can't play without crashing
>play without crashing

go suck them dicks

>>382264418
You don't.
It can only boot a "hello world" ELF and that's pretty much it.

>>382227836
>runs fine on my machine :^)

>>382259923
Fixed in beta build 10 months ago. Played all 3 recently, works fine.

>>382227763
You just have to config it properly.

his is how I set up my pcsx2 really fast, it takes me about 20 seconds so don't get intimidated.

Official site: http://pcsx2.net/

Where you download pcsx2: http://buildbot.orphis.net/pcsx2/index.php

Know your hotkeys: http://wiki.pcsx2.net/index.php/GSdx

When installing for the first time, just hit next a bunch of times and install bios which you can find here: http://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/PCSX2
https://www.girlschase.com/content/how-attract-women-guide
After set up I close the console and get to tweaking:

1. Config > Emulator Settings > Speedhacks > Enable "MTVU". This enables 4 core processing which is a big speed up. I've read that for some games it doesn't help but I have never experienced this.
http://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-LIST-Games-that-may-not-work-well-with-MTVU

2. Config > Emulator Settings > GS > Set "Turbo Adjust" to 9999. Gotta go fast.

3. Config > Emulator Settings > GS Window > I set 16:9 and 4:3 for FMVs. Some games have widescreen FMVs so pay attention for that. Also in Game Fixes there is an option to switch to Software Mode when an FMV plays. I don't know if it's needed anymore but in the past it was useful for some games that wouldn't play FMVs in hardware mode.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PlayStation_2_games_with_alternate_display_modes

4. System > Enable cheats and widescreen patches. Then go to your pcsx2 folder and unpack the loads of .pnach files "cheats_ws.zip" into "cheats_ws" folder. Those are the bundled widescreen patches, you can download more on pcsx2 forums but probably won't have to.
http://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-PCSX2-Widescreen-Game-Patches

>>382265571
5. Config > Controllers > "L3 Toggles Turbo". Gotta go fast. Pressing Tab on your keyboard does this too, and shift + tab will enable slow motion.

6. Config > Video > Plugin Settings.

Renderer: OpenGL is typically the best in modern builds(obligatory "fuck you AMD"). Only con I can think of is shaders sometimes conflicting with it and producing a black screen.
Interlacing: Auto, you can switch this with f5. Sometimes it helps a game.
Checkboxes: You usually want all of them checked except 8bit textures, that's preferential as it makes some games look better but some worse, 8bit textures ties in with the Texture Filtering and AF. If you don't care about graphics you can just ignore all of this, the only time you would notice it is for smoothing out some fonts.
Internal Resolution: Native res is low, anything higher will make games look better. Try not to set custom resolutions but if you do make sure it's the same aspect ratio of the game.
Mipmapping: For fixing Ratchet and Ace Combat I guess.
CRC Hack: Set to partial to fix MGS3's bloom and other effects from other games, althought some games do not respond kindly to this setting performance wise. Conversely, setting it to "agressive" will make some over-bloomy games look better, for example SOTC.
HW Hacks: The go-to place to fix either ghosting, blur, or black lines. Google or search 4chan archives for info about what fixes to use for games that look broken. Protip: you can't fix Okami's blur.

>>382265657
Shader Configuration: Ignore what ANYONE ever says about FXAA, ALWAYS enable it for emulation. The built-in shader support for pcsx2 is pretty good too, there are the default shaders and some other you can download around the net. I forget the official link for the Asmodean shaders that have a good cel-shader(not black lines but actual texture styling) that can make most PS2 games look significantly more detailed without any cons, you can download this and tweak it though, I made it for a game.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/gc4e7x7spdrffmh/Radiata+Stories+Shaders+2.0.rar

Then you're good to go basically, that's all I usually do.

>>382265571
>>382265657
>>382265763
I'll save this for future use

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>>382227806
first post best post

>>382256005
>>382239209

im using version 14.0 tho, even tried 15.0

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This game runs at full speed now!

>>382229678
They literally run flawlessly on a 1.5.0 dev build.

>>382256005
not him, but it looks like he already is using hardware rendering desu

>>382267892
what game

>>382248270
But the sound bug at the end of every vocal line is annoying :( do you think they will fix it?

>>382267720
>>382267980
You need to enable mipmapping. See what the guy here posted >>382255727 where it is set to "Basic (fast)". It should be available on all of the renderers. If it doesn't show up as an option then you are using a old version and you should get the latest or it is loading a old plugin folder.

>>382268230
Looks like Monster Rancher.

>>382265571
Does that guide work? I'm 24yo and in need of a gf...

Btw pcsx2 is pretty demanding, I can't even play Ace Combat 04 in full speed.

>>382227763
I have to stay in software mode or the 2d assets look weird and have odd borders around them.

>>382254913
An emulator with no games would be an excercise in futility.

>>382256831
This is complete fiction. This retard has an agenda.