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Sol420

07/28/16 07:24AM

emulation advice/questions

As the title says, I have some questions about emulating games on PC, specifically PS2.

1: are there multiple programs that are capable of emulating PS2 games? If so, which is the best one?
2: Is it as simple as just downloading the appropriate program and running it or do I have to set up specific equipment for the emulation to run smoothly?
3:which sites do you usually use to download games?

And that's pretty much it. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. My PS2 may be running fine right now but it will eventually fail so I want to be prepared.

MilesHypnoPrower

07/28/16 07:29AM

Piece of advice 1: Stop. Emulating is bad.
Piece of advice 2: Playstation emulation sucks. There's no PS game, 1, 2, or 3, that I've heard of anybody successfully emulating. Even if emulating wasn't bad, it still sucks.

Sorry for the negative response, but I hope this helps.

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07/28/16 07:31AM

Sol420 said:
As the title says, I have some questions about emulating games on PC, specifically PS2.

1: are there multiple programs that are capable of emulating PS2 games? If so, which is the best one?
2: Is it as simple as just downloading the appropriate program and running it or do I have to set up specific equipment for the emulation to run smoothly?
3:which sites do you usually use to download games?

And that's pretty much it. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. My PS2 may be running fine right now but it will eventually fail so I want to be prepared.

the only semi-reliable one is PCSX2.
just download it, install it, download the ISOs/ROMs, and make sure you tweak your settings a ton. every game seems to have optimal settings it runs at, but you can use speedhack presets that are built in to the program.
I usually get my games from coolrom.com, and emuparadise, but if you have a game disc you can often use that too (though some games don't read on regular CD drives, usually the older ones)

Warning: Emulation of any console requires a decent amount of power in your computer. So don't expect to get more than 20-30 fps on any game on a dual core processor with intel 4000 graphics. if even that

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07/28/16 07:31AM

MilesHypnoPrower said:
Piece of advice 1: Stop. Emulating is bad.
Piece of advice 2: Playstation emulation sucks. There's no PS game, 1, 2, or 3, that I've heard of anybody successfully emulating. Even if emulating wasn't bad, it still sucks.

Sorry for the negative response, but I hope this helps.

lol, bad bait bruh

WhyWouldYouDoThat

07/28/16 08:23AM

MilesHypnoPrower said:
Piece of advice 1: Stop. Emulating is bad.
Piece of advice 2: Playstation emulation sucks. There's no PS game, 1, 2, or 3, that I've heard of anybody successfully emulating. Even if emulating wasn't bad, it still sucks.

Sorry for the negative response, but I hope this helps.

lol you are completely wrong, dude.
1. Emulation is fine. Quit being a bitch.
2. PS1 and PSP emulation are damn near perfect. Probably around 90% of PS1 games emulate pretty much flawlessly (with maybe minor graphical glitches at worst) and I'd say around 80% of PSP games emulate well. If your computer is strong enough, I guess. PS2 emulation is not as good but I'd say it has about 70% of the more notable titles in a playable state (again, requires a strong PC to get a stable framerate). PS3 emulation on the other hand is still pretty early in development so pretty much nothing works (yet).

As for OP's questions...

Sol420 said:
As the title says, I have some questions about emulating games on PC, specifically PS2.

1: are there multiple programs that are capable of emulating PS2 games? If so, which is the best one?
2: Is it as simple as just downloading the appropriate program and running it or do I have to set up specific equipment for the emulation to run smoothly?
3:which sites do you usually use to download games?

And that's pretty much it. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. My PS2 may be running fine right now but it will eventually fail so I want to be prepared.

1. PCSX2 is all you need for PS2 games. You'll need to find the BIOS though to make it work.
2. There are a ton of different settings and plugins for it and it's a bitch to swap them around when playing different games. You can use the wiki on the PCSX2 site for optimal settings per game.
3. I primarily use Emuparadise, Nicoblog and Romulation (though that requires you to earn points to download large files, so it should be your last resort).

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07/28/16 07:09PM

WhyWouldYouDoThat said:
lol you are completely wrong, dude.
1. Emulation is fine. Quit being a bitch.
2. PS1 and PSP emulation are damn near perfect. Probably around 90% of PS1 games emulate pretty much flawlessly (with maybe minor graphical glitches at worst) and I'd say around 80% of PSP games emulate well. If your computer is strong enough, I guess. PS2 emulation is not as good but I'd say it has about 70% of the more notable titles in a playable state (again, requires a strong PC to get a stable framerate). PS3 emulation on the other hand is still pretty early in development so pretty much nothing works (yet).

As for OP's questions...

1. PCSX2 is all you need for PS2 games. You'll need to find the BIOS though to make it work.
2. There are a ton of different settings and plugins for it and it's a bitch to swap them around when playing different games. You can use the wiki on the PCSX2 site for optimal settings per game.
3. I primarily use Emuparadise, Nicoblog and Romulation (though that requires you to earn points to download large files, so it should be your last resort).

Oh wow, yes the BIOS. I feel stupid for forgetting, but I have them all archived from when I first started emulating years and years ago. thanks for adding that! I'd feel like a jackass if OP came back being like "why won't it work? you lied to me!!! it's not simple!"

but i still stand by the playing with speedhack presets. that's served me well since the beginning for me.
pcsx1 is the one that has all the finicky plugins in my experience.

Anon_3.141

07/28/16 10:32PM

WhyWouldYouDoThat said:
BIOS

bullet said:
BIOS

Okay... What's this "BIOS" you two are talking about? Is it like GLaDOS? Or is it an acronym for Bitcoin Inheritance Operating System? I'm hoping it's the latter, because GLaDOS was bad enough, what with her not giving us the promised cake and all, then leaving us in a random field with no actual resolution to the mystery of WTF happened in that facility (other than, of course, the fact that we got to portal to the moon (Space! Space! I'M IN SPAAAAAAACE!), and also learned that GLaDOS is actually the uploaded mind/memories of a secretary who was in love with that guy who ran the place before Life After People decided to CAUSE the scenario they use metaphorically for the basis of their show to work at all (All the Humans are gone now... Whoops, guess we shouldn't have let that "Brexit" thing happen, and then elect one of the two numbskulls left in the running as the new US president mere MONTHS afterwards.
Seriously, people can be so idiotic during times when shit goes down, and as a result of said idiocy, cause more shit to go down (Baically, the initial shit is a microscopic pile of fly poo, and the shit that people toss down in reaction is a mountain range of elephant dung...).

(We also learned that we should never trust a round (probably made of a metal of some description) oculus-inspired entity that talks (non-stop, might I add) in a British Accent not to go completely guano (guano=fancy word for bat-shit) crazy when given absolute power... (But let's not invoke that idiot Nigel Farage too, too much, okay? We don't need to bring THAT amalgamation of horribly disfigured demon-spawns back into the limelight...)))

JksAccount

07/28/16 10:47PM

Anon_3.141 said:
*Crazy talk*

You forgot to close at least one of those brackets.

WhyWouldYouDoThat

07/28/16 11:00PM

Anon_3.141 said:
Okay... What's this "BIOS" you two are talking about? Is it like GLaDOS? Or is it an acronym for Bitcoin Inheritance Operating System? I'm hoping it's the latter, because GLaDOS was bad enough, what with her not giving us the promised cake and all, then leaving us in a random field with no actual resolution to the mystery of WTF happened in that facility (other than, of course, the fact that we got to portal to the moon (Space! Space! I'M IN SPAAAAAAACE!), and also learned that GLaDOS is actually the uploaded mind/memories of a secretary who was in love with that guy who ran the place before Life After People decided to CAUSE the scenario they use metaphorically for the basis of their show to work at all (All the Humans are gone now... Whoops, guess we shouldn't have let that "Brexit" thing happen, and then elect one of the two numbskulls left in the running as the new US president mere MONTHS afterwards.
Seriously, people can be so idiotic during times when shit goes down, and as a result of said idiocy, cause more shit to go down (Baically, the initial shit is a microscopic pile of fly poo, and the shit that people toss down in reaction is a mountain range of elephant dung...).

(We also learned that we should never trust a round (probably made of a metal of some description) oculus-inspired entity that talks (non-stop, might I add) in a British Accent not to go completely guano (guano=fancy word for bat-shit) crazy when given absolute power... (But let's not invoke that idiot Nigel Farage too, too much, okay? We don't need to bring THAT amalgamation of horribly disfigured demon-spawns back into the limelight...)))

BIOS is the basic system operating system, more or less. Without the BIOS, nothing can boot. In the case of some emulators, it's actually illegal for them to distribute the BIOS (but not the emulator itself), so the BIOS has to be hosted elsewhere and found by the user manually. PCSX2 is one of such emulators that won't run anything without you adding the BIOS files from somewhere else.

That's fair.

Sol420

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