PS2 emulator?

bahnstormer · March 9th, 2005, 07:00 PM

besides this one

Sony Playstation 2 Emulator

Pcsx2 0.7 (win32 version) (ready to use) (new)

Pcsx2 0.7 (Linux version) (if your using this you don't need it ready to use) (new)

which i haven't gotten to work, does anyone have a ps2 emulator?!?!?

swek · March 9th, 2005, 07:19 PM

Ammount of work involved to configure: http://www.pcsx2.net/guide/index.php
And the result you'll archieve: http://www.ngemu.com/forums/showthre...8&page=1&pp=20.
Way to much work involved for a partly stable Emulator. Why not buy a PS2, seems like the easier route to get PS2 Games to work images/smilies/wink.gif

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Kip_6666 · March 9th, 2005, 07:26 PM

I looked into this some time ago, and i remember not being able to find the proper bios file images/smilies/sad.gif

bone · March 9th, 2005, 07:35 PM

i realy don't understand why this doesn't exist yet. basically, a ps2 is just an ordinary pc, so it shouldn't be that hard to implement.

zenon · March 9th, 2005, 08:30 PM

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Originally Posted by bone

i realy don't understand why this doesn't exist yet. basically, a ps2 is just an ordinary pc, so it shouldn't be that hard to implement.

No. It's not at all. It's not even close. Ask anyone who has tried to program games for the thing. An xBox is basically an ordinary PC, but taking advantage of the PS2's power requires really talented programmers.

All of these emulators are just silly. Go out and buy a PS2.

oliB · March 9th, 2005, 08:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zenon

An xBox is basically an ordinary PC,...

So...is a working X-Box emulator available? images/smilies/wink.gif

cya
Oliver

v0od0o · March 9th, 2005, 08:55 PM

The ps2 a pc ?
It's as far as you can get from a pc without being a microwave oven.
The "heart" of the PS2 is the emotion engine. First of all it's a 128bit architecture, ur pc is probably a 32bit architecture unless it's an Athlon64.
The Emotion Engine contains two 64-bit integer units with a 128-bit SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data, like SSE and SSE2 instructions) multi-media command unit, two independent floating point vector calculation units (VU0, VU1), an MPEG 2 decoder circuit.

I think now you can guess why it could be hard to emulate images/smilies/smile.gif

Derek · March 9th, 2005, 09:05 PM

Atleast they have nice frame rates when running games! 0.88fps! images/smilies/eek.gif

Kip_6666 · March 9th, 2005, 10:09 PM

You can get linux running on it though.

Kip_6666 · March 9th, 2005, 10:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zenon

Go out and buy a PS2.

Can you buy me one?

Dark_Templer_102 · March 10th, 2005, 12:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by oliB

Quote:

Originally Posted by zenon

An xBox is basically an ordinary PC,...

So...is a working X-Box emulator available? images/smilies/wink.gif

cya
Oliver

Prob yes, but not off the top of my head

The x-suck, i mean box, has some speical encodeing on the CDs, but bascially everything else is Computer....X-box controllers? they are USB ports, i kid you not, i have a X-box to USB converter i made and it works (but u need to DL some drivers, it not plug and play, sadly)

zenon · March 10th, 2005, 02:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kip_6666

Quote:

Originally Posted by zenon

Go out and buy a PS2.

Can you buy me one?

No.

But really, even if there were a PS2 emulator, it would be extremely buggy and probably look like crap. Dreamcast emulation is still quite problematic.

Quote:

Originally Posted by v0od0o

The ps2 a pc ?
It's as far as you can get from a pc without being a microwave oven.
The "heart" of the PS2 is the emotion engine. First of all it's a 128bit architecture, ur pc is probably a 32bit architecture unless it's an Athlon64.
The Emotion Engine contains two 64-bit integer units with a 128-bit SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data, like SSE and SSE2 instructions) multi-media command unit, two independent floating point vector calculation units (VU0, VU1), an MPEG 2 decoder circuit.

I think now you can guess why it could be hard to emulate images/smilies/smile.gif

Thanks for backing me up on that one Voodoo. As you can see, the PS2 isn't even remotely similar to a PC. It has a DVD drive and you can play video games on it - that's as close to a PC as it gets.

I have little to no interest in emulation, so I don't really keep on things, but as far as I know there is a semi-stable xBox emulator. I remember hearing about one called Xeon that could emulate Halo.

I just really don't see the point in emulating consoles though. I'm a bit of a console and video game collector, so I'm pretty dedicated to consoles. Console games are designed to be played through a very specific piece of hardware in a very specific way. Everything from the control scheme to the load times are carefully controlled and engineered by the game designers. Playing the games through a PC with some crap joypad or keyboard just destroys the experience.

jeffy777 · March 10th, 2005, 04:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zenon

No.

But really, even if there were a PS2 emulator, it would be extremely buggy and probably look like crap. Dreamcast emulation is still quite problematic.

I wish they just made all of the PS2 games for PC, since the ones they do make for PC run just as good if you have good hardware.

Quote:

Originally Posted by zenon

Everything from the control scheme to the load times are carefully controlled and engineered by the game designers. Playing the games through a PC with some crap joypad or keyboard just destroys the experience.

Well, you can use PS controllers on PC if you get an adaptor.

zenon · March 10th, 2005, 04:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jeffy777

Quote:

Originally Posted by zenon

No.

But really, even if there were a PS2 emulator, it would be extremely buggy and probably look like crap. Dreamcast emulation is still quite problematic.

I wish they just made all of the PS2 games for PC, since the ones they do make for PC run just as good if you have good hardware.

Quote:

Originally Posted by zenon

Everything from the control scheme to the load times are carefully controlled and engineered by the game designers. Playing the games through a PC with some crap joypad or keyboard just destroys the experience.

Well, you can use PS controllers on PC if you get an adaptor.

Well, you just don't get it then. A console is something completely and inherently different from a PC and the games should naturally be completely different as well.

I don't want to get into a big ludological rant but video games and computer games are completely different and should stay that way.

Kip_6666 · March 10th, 2005, 08:42 AM

Well everything up untill the dreamcast has been emulated to great sucess soi far. The super nintendo, ps1 and n64 are very well supported. Some even offer superiour visual enhancements like fsaa via d3d support.

We'll just have to wait untill someone, or a team takes the trouble and gets the ps2 emulator finished. Theres no denying that theres already some substancial progress.

zenon · March 10th, 2005, 08:47 AM

^ Well, yes, it will happen eventually, but I don't imagine it will for a while.

I still don't understand why you would want to play console games on a computer though. It completely destroys the experience. I guess if you are a cheap bastard and enjoy playing bastardized games it would be perfect. images/smilies/wacko.gif

Kip_6666 · March 10th, 2005, 09:15 AM

Very nice way of putting it images/smilies/wave.gif

But you own a ps2, so i understand you bias views.

I bet you can figure proper arguments against what you just said yourself.

With a proper joystick, the ps1, snes and previous consoles (neo geo is another great one) are pretty much the same (honestly). Its hard to get a proper snes these days, let alone games for it. The internet is a great solution in that aspect.

But i agree, the ps2 is another story atm.

v0od0o · March 10th, 2005, 09:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zenon

^ Well, yes, it will happen eventually, but I don't imagine it will for a while.

I don't think it will ever happen, becausethe PS3 will be out by the time they're close, so it would be pointless to continue trying to emulate the PS2 I think images/smilies/smile.gif

jasonchiu · March 10th, 2005, 10:29 AM

my friends play n64 games on school ocmputers lol but the keys are everywhere i think

bahnstormer · March 10th, 2005, 04:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zenon

^ Well, yes, it will happen eventually, but I don't imagine it will for a while.

I still don't understand why you would want to play console games on a computer though. It completely destroys the experience. I guess if you are a cheap bastard and enjoy playing bastardized games it would be perfect. images/smilies/wacko.gif

i'm not really following your arguement zenon...

what is this experience u speak of?
sitting on a hard floor 2 feet in front of a tv for 15 minutes (exagerating)
trying to type your name in using the left right up down
keys?

or is it the experience that u have a buddy next to you
and when he hides u glance over and see exactly where
he is...?

to be fair, i've NEVER owned a console in my life....
i've played many, but never owned one so i'd like
for you to tell me about your "experiences"

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March 9th, 2005, 07:19 PM	#2
swek Global Moderator Joined: May 19th, 2004 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Hamburg, Germany Age: 26 Posts: 4,345 Car: Does a bicycle count? Rep Power: 47	Ammount of work involved to configure: http://www.pcsx2.net/guide/index.php And the result you'll archieve: http://www.ngemu.com/forums/showthre...8&page=1&pp=20. Way to much work involved for a partly stable Emulator. Why not buy a PS2, seems like the easier route to get PS2 Games to work .

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v0od0o Joined: Oct 25th, 2004 Last Online: January 2nd, 2009 Location: Egyptian living in Redmond, USA Posts: 1,618 Rep Power: 19	The ps2 a pc ? It's as far as you can get from a pc without being a microwave oven. The "heart" of the PS2 is the emotion engine. First of all it's a 128bit architecture, ur pc is probably a 32bit architecture unless it's an Athlon64. The Emotion Engine contains two 64-bit integer units with a 128-bit SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data, like SSE and SSE2 instructions) multi-media command unit, two independent floating point vector calculation units (VU0, VU1), an MPEG 2 decoder circuit. I think now you can guess why it could be hard to emulate __________________ .

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Kip_6666 I Bought This Title :o Joined: May 17th, 2004 Last Online: Yesterday Location: The Netherlands Age: 23 Posts: 2,967 Car: Saab 93 2.0t @ stage 3 now Rep Power: 31	Well everything up untill the dreamcast has been emulated to great sucess soi far. The super nintendo, ps1 and n64 are very well supported. Some even offer superiour visual enhancements like fsaa via d3d support. We'll just have to wait untill someone, or a team takes the trouble and gets the ps2 emulator finished. Theres no denying that theres already some substancial progress. __________________ http://www.internet-memes.com My Flickr

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zenon VIP Joined: Mar 8th, 2004 Last Online: April 3rd, 2007 Location: Vancouver, Canada Posts: 2,546 Rep Power: 22	^ Well, yes, it will happen eventually, but I don't imagine it will for a while. I still don't understand why you would want to play console games on a computer though. It completely destroys the experience. I guess if you are a cheap bastard and enjoy playing bastardized games it would be perfect. __________________ *Disclaimer: 'Official "What's that Song?" Guy' unless said song is European house music or sung in German.

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Kip_6666 I Bought This Title :o Joined: May 17th, 2004 Last Online: Yesterday Location: The Netherlands Age: 23 Posts: 2,967 Car: Saab 93 2.0t @ stage 3 now Rep Power: 31	Very nice way of putting it But you own a ps2, so i understand you bias views. I bet you can figure proper arguments against what you just said yourself. With a proper joystick, the ps1, snes and previous consoles (neo geo is another great one) are pretty much the same (honestly). Its hard to get a proper snes these days, let alone games for it. The internet is a great solution in that aspect. But i agree, the ps2 is another story atm. __________________ http://www.internet-memes.com My Flickr

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jasonchiu Joined: May 26th, 2004 Last Online: August 26th, 2005 Location: hong kong Posts: 5,216 Rep Power: 0	my friends play n64 games on school ocmputers lol but the keys are everywhere i think

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