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9465060 No.9465060 [Reply] [Original]

Is PS2 emulation good yet?

>> No.9465065

>>9465060
good enough to play most of the games worth playing

>> No.9465067

>>9465060
It's decent, depends on what you consider good

>> No.9465071

>>9465067
Will it mostly work without FMVs breaking and shit?
I don't really care if it's "cycle accurate", since I just barely know what that means to begin with.

>> No.9465072

>>9465060
It's fantastic if you have a ryzen series or i5 series made in the last 10 years.

>> No.9465082

>>9465060
no
it probably never be

>> No.9465118

>>9465060
It's better, recent updates have helped PCSX2 a lot with some new blood steering the ship. Though it's also in a weird place where the 'official' versions are in some weird limbo and you need to grab the nightlies which are so far ahead they feel like a different emulator. Still by no means perfect though, I'll always advise just sticking a hard drive in an old PS2 instead.

>> No.9465119

Games are still buggy as ever, so no.

>> No.9465172

>>9465060
Nightly builds are pretty great right now

>> No.9465176

works for me

>> No.9465221

>>9465060
Yea, I use it all the time. Just go get the test version and follow the guides for setting up the game you want.

>> No.9465262

It's good enough for most use cases. It still has input lag so have fun beating Godhand on kick me sign, but for casually playing most of the library it works fine.

>> No.9465273
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9465273

It has gotten better significantly, but it still can't play pic related properly.

>> No.9465698

>>9465060
PCSX2 is getting pretty good, they really cleaned up their act during the last couple of years. I have never used Play! (purei) but the guy is still working on it.
There's also dobiestation but the last commit was back in April https://github.com/PSI-Rockin/DobieStation and it's in a really experimental state.

>> No.9465709

I just want Xbox emulation to be good bros... I don't care if the games are on PS2 or PC, I want the Xbox versions of Halo and Fable and KOTOR and everything else, just like when I was a kid

>> No.9465714

>>9465709
Xemu has pretty good compatibility
https://xemu.app/#compatibility
if you have a non-potato processor. It plays Ninja Gaiden Black like nobody's business.

>> No.9465715

>>9465060
this looks like james mixed with the dark souls guy

>> No.9467435

>>9465060

Yes (for the most part)

However, MX4SIO has been a godsend for those who still have a working PS2 though. Just buy one of RGEEK's MX4ISO kits off of Amazon and you are practically good to go.

However, the Duckstation emulator is still the best way to play PS1 games.

>> No.9467449
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9467449

PCSX2 use to be incredibly mediocre for the longest time but over the past two or so years it's become incredibly good thanks to many changes in the backend from new contributors and changing its UI framework from WxWidgets to Qt6.

>> No.9467475

>>9465709
xemu has made great strides. A lot of games run fairly well in it now.

>> No.9467597

>>9465709
You know you can play all of those on PC right?

>> No.9467607

It's good enough to run with minimal configuration on a low end gaeming pc.

However, it's not quite there for normies/"virtual consoles" and ARM devices with no configuration. You'd spend less money soft modding a ps2.

>> No.9467613

>>9465072
>>9467607
i played dreamcast, and ps2 without a GPU kek
i910900K and integrated graphics (32gb ram)
i used a liquid cooling setup but still ridiculous

>> No.9468387

Every six months or so I see a thread about how PCSX2 is "finally" good now, I redownload the latest version and try it, and shit still has microstutters in every game I try.

>> No.9468428

>>9465060
It's good enough

>> No.9468476

>>9465118
This is the correct answer. The Nightlies PCSX2 is a huge difference. Practically every criticism I had against emulation went away the last few months. So much more updates and UI changes that were desperately needed. The pace is great.

>> No.9468498

>>9468387
>>9465119
Show proof, name games and the errors.

>> No.9470078

>>9468476
Yeah, it's crazy just how different PCSX2 Stable and PCSX2 Nightly is these days. They're like different emulators entirely.

>> No.9470118

>>9465118
Yup. Nightly builds are key. It's why the ps2 emulator works so god damn good on Steam Deck because some Chad made the Nightly build the default

>> No.9470128

>>9465060
take a wild guess

>> No.9470130

>>9468498
THPS black screens
Splashdown black water, bug was present since the early versions way back in 2009 and it's still present today.
https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/issues/5157
Hitman Codename 47 glitchy everything

>> No.9470206

>>9465119
That's just the normal 6th gen flair.

>> No.9470242
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9470242

>>9465060
The Nightly builds have been getting really good. It's almost like a completely different emulator compared to the stable build

>> No.9470258

>>9465060
define "good".
You can play like 98% of the library at native resolutions in software render mode and they'll be fine. You may get occasional lines on textures or weird hiccups, but most games are playable without much fuss.
Now, if you want to do directx/vulkan hardware rendering, you're getting about 60% of the library working.
For example, Shadow Hearts 1 has ridiculous slowdown when not in software render mode.
Shadow Hearts 2 has black screen whenever the judgement ring spins for combat. These are 10 year old problems that will probably never be fixed because "you can just play it at 240p in software mode"
That's the general vibe of PS2 emulation.

>> No.9470327

>>9465071
Yes if devs added a hack for your game to play FMV on a software render.

>> No.9470365

Yes, dont let the pcsx2 schizo on /v/ tell you otherwise

>> No.9470391

Can I play haunting ground on it yet

>> No.9470396
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9470396

>Ridge Racer V use to behave terribly in hardware mode for the longest time, mostly thanks to the reflective surfaces on cars completely glitching out
>Just recently tried it again after a couple updates and the reflections work now and the game doesn't stutter to shit
Pretty cool.

>> No.9470845

>>9465262
i beat god hand kms no upgrades without any issue.

>> No.9470935

my copy of persona 5r I'm emulating on switch is running better than emulating p3fes and p4 on ps2 a few years back lol. Ps2 emu was terrible for a long time

>> No.9471038

its the best on xbox series s. sounds funny but its true. everything runs alot better than on pc