Is this abandonware? Why the fuck is it still so fucking bad?

no X3D processor

sub 3kmhz ram

3060ti

Jill Yourself Now!

tourist gatekept by a simple google search
lmao

nightly releases

too many regressions for me to handle.

wirks on my machin

mgs2, mgs3

I'm playing YGO GX Tag Force Evo right now.
Even if the series is on PSP, but I wanted to try this one.

Jesus these NPC don't fuck around with their decks.

they finally fixed the text glitch

You fucking poorfag, you thought it was going to run in your thirdie laptop kek

Are you the "glyphs on GoW look bad at native resolution, which only faggots run at" guy?

People saying to use the nightly aren’t wrong, but they’re probably remembering the days when stable releases came out like every five years. The stable release is perfectly fine, it’s like two months old. PCSX2 is not going to substantially change at this point and have its “ps1 with mednafen moment” until we get CPUs that can run the whole in software mode without drops, and with the rate of CPU improvement lately I think we’ll be waiting quite a while.

theres no real reason to play the ps2 versions over the HD Remasters. Especially with MGS3 as the ps2 version was 30fps.

True, but if this faggot can't run PS2 games, the PS3 emulator will brick his computer

dont have a shit PC

has a shit PC himself

lol, lmao even. Must be nice to be this retarded i suppose

I've arrived to say that the program still runs like shit. Pic related. I've realized that the poor performance is the fault of game optimization. I get frame drops in the exact same spots that I did with worse specs.

Unless some of you fellas are using some crazy wizard settings that just fix everything, I'm still unimpressed with PS2 emulation

Xenosaga , especially 3 is still an amazing game. You can also play Shadow Hearts for some serious kino

Entirely game dependant

I never said it didn’t run like shit you stratospheric faggot. I just said it’s not going to change anytime soon.

Those framedrops you speak of happened in the og console versions too. My guess is there's no way to fix that without breaking the game. Just stop being a fps nigger

Tokyo Bus Guide 2

His CPU is more than enough to handle emulation, though.
Have you tried overclocking the EE for those games? Also, some (like Cave stuff) is intentional to match the arcade hardware for accurate play.

hardware mode just works
set it to 1x and you have software mode but without making your cpu responsible for rendering 3d graphics

Overclock the EE Cycle Rate.

ironically I used it in a potato laptop back in the day with absolutely no fucking problem. OP is just seething about gay nitpicks

not him but I heard using overclocking breaks shit in a lot of ps2 games.

t. Parappa the Rapper 2 chad

It does. Only fat retards complained about frame drops back in the day, and the same applies today. Chads don't give a fuck and just play the game like god intended

I generally run at 300% until I have problems (rarely) and set that specific game to less.

Did God intend for them to be played in Hardware or software mode?

Not posting the game

The emu literally runs better than real hardware, erasing stutters and load issues.
You're just retarded.

Godhand

erasing stutters

Not even.

Anyway, try playing Stuntman if you want to have a laugh

I'll try this, thanks

but muh textures muh broken effects

Wrong, it's going to have its "N64 with parallel-rdp" moment very soon because the same guy who made that is working on PS2 right now. Software-mode level accuracy with upscaling. It also makes the PCSX2 devs seethe for some reason.

shame the artist fucked up his hands and can only do sketches or flat colored works as a compromise

some reason

why would the dev that had a monopoly on the particular scene seethe at someone making something better than their shit

Random stutters on Burnout Revenge
Complete texture fuckery on Sonic Heroes
Stuntman is completely unplayable, literally, there's some discussion about it online

switch 2?

Stuntman

youtu.be/aK5rRVfXDXI?si=Ua_9XUaAfBHHFV04
It does look like shit

I'll buy a switch 2 if heroes can hack it

Weak bait.

OP is dolfin'ing

not playing in software

ngmi

I think Nintendo is is requesting people to hack their gey shit.

What's the difference between software rendering and hardware rendering?

a license?

All of them. Every single last one. Games don't age, fuck off you low effort shitposter.

I like it for RA.
Yeah I'm autistic but it helps push me into playing a bunch of old cool stuff I never did.

what are your favorite? ps2 had a shit load of good games

Do you ever get tired of posting stupid shit for attention?

I've been playing and beating PS2 games on this thing for at least a decade even when I had a poorfag laptop and it's only ever given me minor nitpick problems that can be fixed by changing settings. Fair compromise for being able to play a library of thousands of games on your computer for free with increased resolution, patches etc. Feel free to learn how to code and contribute to its development instead of being a whiny bitch though.

play suikoden tactics

thread about emulation on modern normalfag and zoomer infested Anon Babble

moronic attention seeking op

retarded tech questions

whining about games aging

faggots unironically praising cheevos

I think I'm getting too old for this place, I genuinely can't fucking stand it here anymore

14700K

Anon, I...

stop trying to quote people then

stuntman is not completely unplayable. it's just the weird method of scripting the dev team used for pursuit vehicles, slightest infinitesimal inaccuracy in the physics engine means the static inputs the devs assigned would compound into catastrophic failure.

play game

bad?

i kinda feel you man, tho i think there's nothing wrong about achievements on repeat playthroughs
but when Anon Babble went down i realized we don't got nowhere else to go and it sucks
t. 30yo boomer

I don't want to play bad games but if I did and for some reason it wasn't emulatable I'd buy it for a dollar at a flea market and run it on my PS2 I've owned since it released because I'm not 15 years old.

software is more accurate but you can't make any modifications and it has higher performance demands.

it's weak

cheevos are cool if they're used as an adhoc way to add new gameplay objectives.

I'm really interested in what kind of things people will do with switch 2

I can see messing with them on repeated playthroughs but

I wouldn't have touched these old games if they didn't have achievements

is the sort of sentiment that should have your videogame privileges taken away

I'm 8 years older than you

And yet it works on his machine

Why do PC gamers insist on circumventing console exclusivity? Play games meant for PC if that's all you're going to use.

every single video game is created on a PC

noooooo stop running software on your software running machine

Consolefag cultists are mentally ill

I'm a fucking retard

Bro, it works perfectly fine on a 8700H + 1050 4gb laptop, hell, the narcissist faggot that made duckstation made a port for android and it ran perfectly fine on a phone, albeit, the nigger literally threw a fit over "harassment" and stopped releasing that emulator.

yes, there is
removed content

Duckstation on Android got a recent update
Wtf are you talking about?

You're just retard anon.

wut game?

Software is very accurate and sidesteps a lot of bugs and glitches but looks literally the same as an actual PS2's output, so 480i, no fancy upscaling or anti-aliasing, huge pixels.

About aethersx2 you fucking retard, why even comment if you can't into reading comprehension?

Good. Games look like shit all stretched out and artificially upscaled. You see shit you're not supposed to

Duckstation on my phone has really bad audio desync and I cant fix it by adjusting settings, any tips?

Idiotic low IQ low understanding moronic post right here. Fucking moronic dumbfuck underage doesn't know the difference between software and hardware and assumes being locked to options through software means you cannot achieve the same output with hardware acceleration.

phone

Yea try snapping it in half, shoving it up your ass and begging mommy to stop letting you post on Anon Babble you stupid fuck.

Games look shitty stretched out. Simple as

means you cannot achieve the same output with hardware acceleration.

the hardware renderer at 1x doesnt always create the same output as the software renderer.

I hate that modifier keys there just dont fucking work properly

Play godhand on keyboard (Yes I am retarded, save yourself the work)

Want to bind right stick on shift+WASD for dodging

For some fucking reason it now thinks i am constantly holding shift

Inverting it does jack and shit, since the switch is not instant and it just gets stuck often

Does not happen with any other fucking button, only the sticks

What the fuck is that shit

You didn't even read what I fucking said.

Want to bind right stick on shift+WASD for dodging

why not use a controller?

anon plays games like this

like the psp's dithering effect

ppsspp has no option to keep it on when using hardware rendering

No, I want to play Vagrant Story while I'm not working at work.

and you just suffer with touchscreen controls?

I pay get a usb controller if I can fix the sound issues.
Slower paced games are no issue for touch controls.

Should I get a usb PS2 controller? Or just use my PS4 controller?

Software you cant do any modification like higher res or fps but it will run the game pretty much exactly how it was on ps2 so you may need to do that for certain games or certain sections in some games

PS2 and PS3 controllers have pressure sensitive face buttons. Not many games use them at all but MGS2 + MGS3 do.

are you talking about the dream sequence in mgs3? its only like a 2 minute part of the game so its not a big deal.

never had problems with it desu
and i use it very often

Works on my machine

That hardware rendering leads to many graphical glitches, only software rendering is relatively good

Get a PS3 controller instead, just make sure it's genuine. That way you get pressure sensitivity with PCSX2 and RPCS3.

Damn this looks sick, is it good?

It will never not be funny how PS2 games that were in the bargain bin back in the day look amazing compared to modern games.

I had nothing to do at work and i didnt bring one.

Nanobreaker is pretty good, 7/10 game trapped in a 2/10 story.

PS2 games look better on PC
Running them on the actual PS2 hardware is a crime against art

I have a PS3 controller. I just didnt know it worked with windows.

Kill yourself already

ill make this thread again later

Still does not support controllers in the select games menu

I never had issues with this emulator and I've seen threads like this for years now. What fucking games are you faggots playing? Why haven't you reported whatever issues you have instead of creating the same thread for years?

Do any of those mini pc things run this emulator well? I was thinking about getting one for my boomer older brother as he stopped playing games in the ps2 gen but at Christmas he seemed to like playing random ps2 games on my PC. Like those arduino things. Can any of them run PCSX2 well?

Yeah, that’s basically the tradeoff with PCSX2—hardware mode gives you nicer upscaling but also throws a tantrum with post-processing and shadows unless you tweak per-game settings like some kind of emulator archaeologist. Meanwhile, software mode just works but turns your CPU into a space heater. Best approach is to toggle between the two when stuff starts spazzing out.

PS3s controllers work on windows but setting them up is turbo jank
as far as I remember you have to do ultra esoteric shit like

unpair it from the PS3 or whatever other device you used it beforehand before you try to use it on PC

install the software which looks shady even if it is legit

have a dedicated bluetooth dongle exclusively for that controller or stick to using it through a cable, yes I am 100% serious

once in a while the drivers fuck up and you have to wipe them and reinstall them, the software for making dualshock 3s work on windows has dedicated buttons solely for that anyway

It's retard-proof now, there's an official Sony driver and a very good open-source driver as well. Follow the instructions on the RPCS3 website.

that's very good news to me but I have been out of the loop when it comes to PC gaming for almost a decade
thanks nigga

so how do you make it playable? there's a mission where the NPC car drives into the wall each time and I haven't seen any solutions

just use it wired

that's what I used to do and even then the drivers would still occasionally fuck up and have to get wiped and reinstalled
it may be my pothead memory at work but I vaguely remember the controller didn't even like getting plugged into a different USB port from the one I normally used

They aren't stretched out when you run the games in higher resolution, you actually see everything is pretty clear detail.
Same thing with expanding your camera to be widescreen, however this does look like shit because you will see models pop in and freeze in weird poses cause they're supposed to be offscreen as far as the game is concerned.

I do prefer software rendering though cause its less hassle and looks exactly how I remember the games looking.

I ran PCSX2 emulator on PC from 2011, I don't see why modern mini PCs couldn't. It's not a matter of running well, it's a matter of running well at resolution/settings you want. I think current top end of mobile PCs is AI Max+ 395 with 8060s graphics

I remember the days when PCSX2 was an utter shit emulators and games like Ace Combat were truly completely unplayable due to some AI planes, mostly bombers, and also ships not having any collision models
considering the whole project started as an hackjob solely meant for playing Final Fantasy 10 and nothing else, at least as far as I know, it's surprising to see how far it got, that said the emulator became actually alright around 2014 or thereabouts

It's just so refreshing seeing custom built engines and stuff. Totally unique methods of doing animations and visual effects, even the camera work is really cool.
Then you play them and realize they're bad, but it's still cool.

runs every game for me perfectly.

Ace Combat ps2 games, Most Armored Core games as well.

You mean RPCS3, right?

MOMO is such a good girl.

PCSX2 in hardware mode isn't very taxing on hardware. One of those cheap N100 mini PCs is totally sufficient for that.

something like this? amazon.co.uk/BOSGAME-Computers-Windows-Desktop-Gen3-2/dp/B0CQLXTH9Y

why not just buy a laptop instead of a piece of junk

The RetroArch fork is basically perfect

The story is pure slop but the game itself is gud, solid AA from the time with a really cool gimmick where you bathe in gallons of blood and get stronger, the animations are top tier.

its not for me. its for my boomer brother for him to put beside his tv.

use the nightly build

mgs series
ratchet and clank series
ico
shadow of colossus
onimusha series
god of war series

last year i played mgs2 and 3 for the first time in over a decade and they both still made me cry.

I just started grandia 3 with the HD remaster pack, 60 fps fix, and widescreen patch. Game is great.

i like seeing stuff i'm not suppose to

WIDER

how many times can you say this works though?

So what do people usually run with for the video renderer? I've been sticking with vulkan and haven't ran into any issues with what i've been playing so far.

no modern controllers have pressure sensitive buttons?

lol I'm playing tony hawks underground and I just noticed that tricks are basically impossible to nail on hardware rendering. I was trying to do the Nut Buster for a half hour until I switched to software and then did it first try. Imagine my surprise.

I'd say it varies per game. Hardware makes it look prettier, at the expense of game mechanics not quite functioning normally

Update your drivers
Get a better graphic card

i'll run software native for 2d games but i don't really want to run a blurry 3d game if I have the option not to.

damn you made it look like a low budget dreamcast game

I don't know about those Intel machines, but I know the newer Ryzen machines have great integrated graphics that can play games like GTA5 and Witcher 3.

vulkan is the most accurate
with that gpu you can run blend accuracy at full or max which is the most important setting

Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude
School Days

The only ps2 games with explicit sex. Too bad they are blacklisted in lots of Rom sites

You get to pick between interlacing artifacts and upscaling artifacts.

Pretty much, it was a terrible gimmick to be honest and I'm glad it's gone.

100% of the time in 3d games

rogue galaxy, radiata stories, persona games, dirge of cerberus, berserk, and though I personally though onimusha was bad even back then

better graphics on ps2

I will now play your video game

software rendering is just rendering the game using you CPU.
Hardware rendering is using a GPU. And you need a GPU for the blend accuracy and other features of ps2

blend accuracy

i never notice a difference in the games I play with this setting. is there any examples of it where it actually matters?

the ps3 version of mgs2/3 has broken sound and graphics

I always thought it doesnt actually have sex?

Ape Escape 2 and 3.

this
the pressure sensitive controls in MGS2/3 are utter shit
even Gran Turismo on OG hardware played much better when binding the throttle to L2 and R2 instead of the face buttons

I do remember the rain just didnt show or some shit

software rendering and hardware rendering?

CPU rendering (accurate, slower, low res, doesn't require you to have powerful GPU) vs GPU rendering (not so accurate, fast, any resolution and native upscaling support)

will I like Parasite Eve if I like classic Resident Evil, Silent Hill and other games of the same genre?

how does shadow hearts run?

lots of games had dirty hacks around it but they're being removed in favor of better accuracy
off the top of my head digtal devil saga had problems with the minimap and twisted metal with the text without hacks and lower blend

Mona Sax? More like Mona Sex

Like the other anon said, it plays more like Chrono Trigger than a traditional survival horror, but its still solid and in terms of atmosphere it tops Resident Evil. Parasite Eve 2 is still worth playing at least once but it's definitely a downgrade compared to the original.

i see. i changed grandia 3 to full / max and both were giving some nasty performance dips but that may be due to me running the 60 fps patch and HD assets. i haven't ran into any glaring issues with the game so i'll just leave it on default.

tells others not to have a shit pc

has one himself

why are you niggers like this, you need to get along

t.3070

To add to this Aya is a top-tier waifu

These threads always have

the retard who can't afford a cheap PC in 20 fucking 25 and claims emulation is soulless

the cuck who collects all sorts of old consoles and physical games but never plays any of them and hates emulation

the console cuck who gets mad at emulation

the crt retard who swears crt filters/tvs are the way to play old games but they never play anything themselves and just shitpost all day on emulation threads/forums on the internet with handpicked screenshots

the retard who can't setup their emulators and claim it doesn't work

the retard who spends all day downloading romsets and every emulator under the sun but never play anything beyond taking a couple of screenshots to shitpost on emulation threads

the retard who replies to any of the above

Not on topic, but anything on PS3 worth emulating except Dragon's Crown?

Tokyo Jungle, Demon's Souls, GT5/6

Didn't the pc versions fix the ps3 version fuck ups, I don't think there would be a reason to play the console hd ports

Every year more games run better. It's like getting new releases lmao

the retard who replies to any of the above

that's me

There was just more creativity in the industry back then. Even the 7/10s which are often dismissed had something worth checking out.

Folklore. youtu.be/Orjhs7VhxsQ

Dark Cloud 2

brave soul..

GAMESAAR cyclone 2 gyro works for rpcs3 and the few games that use it
my DS4 is going into the trash

Kino. I'll try it out.

Does a switch pro controller work well for ps1/2/3 emulation?

3D dot game heros, AFRIKA,

what is that tv thing youre using?

megabezel shader or something like that

Does a switch pro controller work well

No.

why not?

Armored Core 3 and Silent Line

I'm saying it doesn't work well in general. Stick drift and a shitty D-Pad. In terms of its compatibility with PS1/2/3 emulators it's no worse than any other controller, I just think it's a shitty controller in gneral.

so would a dualshock 4 be better? My switch pro controller is in pristine condition with no stick drift, but the dshock is a little scuffed.

DS4 is a much better controller in most aspects so I'd say so, yeah. Plus, if you're going to be emulating PS1, D-Pad was the default so you're going to want a decent one. DS4's is a lot better than Switch Pro's in my experience.

I beat timesplitters future perfect today and it was great. They don't make them like they used to.

Well then, I'll get to fixing the ds4. I'm trying to actually play the metal gear games for the first time. Don't want to slip out of cover because of a shitty dpad or something like that

DS4/5 is awesome for emulation because of the touchpad, you can bind save states and pauses to it

Burnout Revenge is a 0-issue game and Sonic Heroes has minor shadow flickering

You are confirmed retarded

a new ps2 game hasnt come out in 20 years

Peace Walker

MGS4 and Ratchet and Clank crashes a lot.

I played this a few years ago. I forgot how much of a grind the dungeons were. Also there was some kind of glitch that wouldn't allow me to upgrade the robot suit.

Yeah, no. I have one of the best PC's you can possibly build and they have issues. Whether it's a settings thing, I don't know, but regardless

MGS2, MGS3
DMC1, DMC3
God Hand
GTA3, GTA: VC, GTA: SA
LOK: Soul reaver 2, LOK: Defiance
Manhunt 2
Max Payne 1, Max Payne 2
RE4
Silent Hill 2
Simpsons Hit & Run
Spiderman 2

Then there's some shittier games that are still fun like:
Dynasty Warriors 3
God of War 1, God of War 2
Indigo Prophecy
LOTR: The Two Towers
Star Wars Battlefront 1&2
Yakuza 1, Yakuza 2

And if you're into co-op/multiplayer games then there's:
DBZ BT3
Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks
Simpsons Road Rage
Timesplitters: Future Perfect

I got a pretty large physical collection so there's probably still a few gems I haven't got around to playing yet

What was the LOTR game that was like a copy of FF10? That was pretty decent.

this one?

yeah. Its actually pretty decent for what it is

it's alright. All LOTR games tend to be rehash of something else

the fuck is that ram? that's like ddr3 speeds.

Retard question, but can this also play PS1 Games like how the PS2 could play both or do I just need another emulator for that?

You need a different emulator. Duckstation is currently the best and looks similar to PCSX2.

mgs2

true

mgs3

lol no, zero soliton radar and retarded archaic movement system, glad the remake fixed it desu

google, you stupid nigger shill

Do I have to use Retroarch if I want shaders?

This emulator being fuckin doo doo ass made me invest $800 into a PS2 setup.

Retrotink 5x (already had 1st party component cables)

Wingman PS2 converter

Dualshock 4 controller

Sata Network Adapter

250GB drive

Freedom McDonalds memory card

Yall gay niggas can keep your "frame skips" and "speedhacks".

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