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For those of you with a beefy PC, and some old PS2 games, this site is wonderful.

Playing FFX, or Kingdom Hearts with no loading times and higher resolution graphics? I don't see how you could beat that, gaming wise.

On a side note, FFX is almost ten years old. I can't believe it. Now I feel old :(

It took me like ten minutes to get through all the configs, honestly. Sure, beefy compared to most emulators, but worth the time considering the alternative would be to purchase another olde model PS2, then order another poptop case mod so I can play my games.

I'm not great with computers, either.

But there's a guide section and it's brilliant. I got set up on FFX within about 10 minutes... 50 FPS (unless the screen's really cluttered) and it's higher resolution than PS2. It's lovely.

The BIOS is a bit trickier because unless you're a PS2 techno-wiz you have to download it, but it's easy to find via bittorrent. There's some kind of legal mumbo-jumbo involved.

My PS2 still runs just fine. It's even one of the release models that had a habit self destructing. It's too bad that the games look like absolute crap on an HDTV though.

I should have been more specific, "Something cheap, and/or free." I put MP Trilogy on my Gamefly list (I recently renewed my GF subscription) But they've already started letting me down.

My major problem with GF was that their turn around times on sending a game in, and getting one back was no less than a week and a half. They opened a couple new distribution centers since I quit last year, and so now, their turnarounds are averaging about 4 days, a remarkable improvement.

But, their gamefly list is nearly useless, ranking games in order of desire from most wanted to least is effectively useless. The first two games they sent to me were number 3 and 4 on my list, and I was ok with that, because I still wanted to play them, but I really wanted to play 1 and 2. I put a high demand game at 1 (Uncharted 2) and a seemingly low demand game at 2 (Overlord 2) but they skipped both of them. Then, I sent a game back, and they skipped over the first FIVE games on my list. That **** is getting old real quick.

I just sent back Valkyrie Profile for the DS, and if they don't send me one of my top three games in return, I may have to cancel my subscription again, and look for alternatives to take a big bite out of my spending on games.

I first started using PCSX2 half a year ago. I gave my old PS2 to my cousins, and my PS3 is not a backwards compatible model. I still have all my PS2 games, my cousins only used the PS2 for the DDR games.

I was surprised by how compatible it was. It played my FFX, FFX-2, KH and KH2, Grandia 2 pretty much perfectly. Grandia had some dialog and voice acting sync issues, but nothing serious.

The only thing it couldn't play was my Xenosaga games. Well, it could play them, but during the cutscenes it was 1-4 FPS max. And a game that is 95% cutscenes... that doesn't work well.

And this was with 0.9.6, they recently released a couple new beta builds that I haven't tried out, which may have fixed a few issues.


As far as emulators go, and idiot-proof-ness, PCSX2 is very high on the list. It comes with every plugin you need. The only thing it doesn't come with is the illegal part (obviously). The only emulators that are more idiot-proof are the old consoles, like NES, SNES, GBA, which have near perfect emulation without even using a copyrighted BIOS image. PSX emulators are harder to use than the PS2 emulator, just because of the shear amount of plugins available and how much you have to change to create compatible configurations for games.

I agree with Nixnox if it is stupidly difficult to get something to run I won't fool with it. Don't want to have to look for a illegal bios file that isn't supplied with the emulator or have to download 5 different programs to extract this, convert that etc etc. Plus when you get into emulators on PC alot of times you have stupid bugs here and there and its still not the same unless you go out and buy special controllers etc. By the time you do all of that might as well just play it on the original system.

I remember what a pain alot of those dreamcast emulators where. IF you could find a premade cdi it wasn't too bad but you had to do everything just right or the thing wouldn't boot.

Well... Time to go find a copy of Persona 4, and attempt to get a PS3 controller running on my PC.

Speaking of this, does anybody know if there's drivers/etc out there that allow for a PS3 controller to work on 64bit Win7?

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EDIT: BTW, those plugins do exist, in the plugin folder, and I directed PCSX2 as to where those plugins are, but still nothing.

EDIT2: I, uh... acquired a BIOS, thinking the lack of that might be a problem. Still no go, still claiming those plugins do not exist. Also, acquiring a BIOS is more work than my original question of "do I simply have to double click the PCSX2 install file, and tell it where to put it?" As you can see, that question is not "do I simply have to double click the PCSX2 install file, tell it where to put it, then go hunt down a BIOS and put that in the proper folder, then tweak with settings till it works?"

My attention span has waned.

EDIT3: Your face.

EDIT4: Your Mom.

Edited, Nov 4th 2009 9:41am by NixNot

Gah...

Got the non-beta version working... audio stutters, and runs at about half speed... game runs well when there's no vocals. Except for the fact that some of the effects are screwed up, and make the game unplayable.

Like I said earlier, PS2 emulation is still horribly imperfect, and by no means idiot-proof, so I'll just go back to never being able to play Persona 4 without buying another PS2. Trying to get the emulator to run the game right is just going to infuriate me, so I'm going to give up now, and uninstall this nonsense and be done with it.

Ok, here we go. And yes, use 0.9.6. It's stable. The beta is for people who are happy to work out the bugs and crashes of the new version.

Not stunning, by any means. but much better than you'd expect from an 8 year old game.

...what?

I got as far as the bit where you get the golf club. I have no idea what you're talking about.

That first twist shocked the hell out of me, though. I did not see that coming at all.