Thread 724984343

Today, over 99.5% of PlayStation 2 games are playable on the PCSX2. Discounting regional variants and versions of games, only four games aren’t rated as “Playable” or “Perfect” on PCSX2’s compatibility list. These are DRIV3R, Final Fantasy XI, Marvel Nemesis – Rise of the Imperfects, and World Series Baseball 2K3.

>emulating
you didn't beat the game

>>724984343 (OP)
>F tier character becomes A tier with a nightly build
Name em

>>724984343 (OP)
is it the most pirated / emulated 3d console?

>>724984343 (OP)
I do all my PS2 emulation on Android on my chinkheld, but PCSX2 gitting gud is always good too, especially since more modern systems have been getting worse and greedier by the gen and the more people with access to retro games, the better.
One of these days, I'm gonna buy my parents one of those micro PCs and just load it up with upscaled retro games I think they'd like, as well as any other PC goodies I think they'd use since they don't have a PC and they'd be tickled by the idea of doing PC shit on their huge-ass TVs so they don't have to squint.

Hey, I played Rise of the Imperfects. Surprised to hear it's so hard to emulate.

Given how fucking loose the term playable is for the wiki 98% is likely bullshit.

>yeah bro, I played for 20 minutes game is fine
>*marks as playable*
>game hardlocks at a cutscene 3 hours in

>>724984343 (OP)
>1.23% perfect
Its over

>>724984717
https://youtu.be/t4QTRSFDTj8?t=69

Full explanation:

This game was programmed in such a way that it needs all parts of the PS2's infrastructure (CPU/GPU/RAM) to be very strictly synced with each other, having very tight timings. PCSX2 currently cannot time it that accurately without games running at >1 FPS. Most games don't care and run fine, but Marvel Nemesis is not most games. If you mention Marvel Nemesis around a PCSX2 dev, the response will either be disgust or dread.

>>724984343 (OP)
>DRIV3R
Ironicly the one game I want. Loved it on Xbox. Had cops chasing me in god mode with custom music on. Also game had an amazing ost.

this game doesn't work without lines on everything

>>724984734
The standards for perfect emulation are incredibly high.

>>724984806
Stop using anything other than software mode.

>>724984721
I love this video so much, I think of it every time someone describes something emulating in a "playable" state https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MiX5dE1Fq4

>>724984343 (OP)
wait, does steambot chronicles work now or is that under 'in-game'

>>724984721
I find the opposite to be true much more often

Whenever you look at the wiki the test reports are always on some fucker's laptop or phone

>>724984783
Driver 3, gfx were crazy for the time as were the destructible cars. It was a bit janky but I had fun with it as a fan of the first 2

did they ever fix the problem with ace combat 4 cut scenes or the save point in xenosaga 1?

>>724984895
>test reports are always on some fucker's laptop or phone
Laptop users - and now phone users - are the living bane of emulator devs.

>>724984886
still blurry as fuck but it """"works""""

>>724984886
I beat it years ago, it worked fine
The was some glitchy rainy forest and one specific cutscene where I had to change some floating point settings for npc to appear but other than that it was fully playable
Connie best girl btw

>>724984343 (OP)
I know that its always been hip and trendy to hate on Driver 3, but why is that so hard to emulate?

>>724984721
Eh, I've found a lot of the time with these things, they end up being the other way around, where the tests done to call it "playable" or "in-game" or whatever was done like 5 years ago and the game just works™ because the tests are so out of date that whatever issues the testers had are long-past fixed.

Also yeah, Brazilians testing Okage on a 20-year old laptop they fished from a river, heh.

>>724984343 (OP)
>Final Fantasy XI
Isn't it strictly online? Is just the singleplayer aspects of it emulated?

>>724984343 (OP)
>supports
xenosaga 3 doesn't render correctly, fuck off with your propaganda

Can anyone recommend some games?
I want to play something with good and smooth gameplay that easily stands the test of time, like dmc3, crash, gow and such
The more obscure the better. Some truly hidden gems.

>>724984343 (OP)
>over 99.5% of PlayStation 2 games are playable on the PCSX2***********
all the asterisks you forgot

Why does original Xbox emulation still suck in 2025?

Is it really just a lack of interest?

>>724984954
they claim the black plane in 3rd person and broken ground textures are fixed now, and there's no error log for cutscenes in the wiki so i dunno if that's fixed

>>724984343 (OP)
yeah but every update introduces new bugs into other games. like the Silent Hill games have had issues with the game's noise filter not always being applied correctly which it didn't have before.

"playable" can either mean "bloom effects break when upscaled to 16x" or "the other drivers fall off the track in this racing game"

>>724985165
there are private servers, you can connect to them via modded PS2s or emulation.

>PS2 emulation sucks because of these two broken hacky games
yeah and PS1 emulation sucks because you can't play monkey hero

dumb

>>724985237
MGS games (3 in particular)
Ratchet and Clank trilogy
God Hand
god of war
Prince of Persia (i'd skip Warrior Within but if you like early 2000 edge, go for it, play on easy though)
Sly Cooper trilogy
Jak and Daxter trilogy (be ready for the shift in 2)
Bully
GTA SA
Timesplitters 2/Future Perfect if you want an actual story
Psi-Ops or that other Psychic game, forgot the name
Metal Arms Glitch in the System
Resident Evil 4
Silent Hill 2
Spiderman 2
Bully
Black
The Suffering

These are the more unique games, off the top of my head. Shit like this doesn't come out these days

>>724984343 (OP)
an impressive library of customized hacks but was it really less work than making a proper emulator?

>>724985823
I'm not saying it sucks, I'm saying "playable" is absolute bullshit.

>>724985237
Downhill Domination
SSX
TimeSplitters
Shadow of Rome (half the game is broken up by mediocre PS2 era stealth sections, but the gladiator sections are fun)

>>724985237
Shinobi
Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven

>>724985237
Def Jam Vendetta and Fight for New York. put hundreds of hours in these back on ps2 and xbox

>>724985838
>that other Psychic game, forgot the name
Ah found it, it's called Second Sight
here's more since you wanted obscure games

heard .hack is decent
The godfather is actually pretty good but I enjoy the Wii version more
The Scarface game
Ultimate Spiderman (my fav spiderman game of all time)
GUN is FUN
Urban Chaos is pretty dope
wasn't there a LOTR rpg game that was good? There's also a battlefront clone of LOTR (not a joke)
The Getaway is british GTA
Total Overdose is mexican Max Payne where you can dual wield machine gun guitar cases
Matrix PON is a wild ride
Alias (lol)

>>724986420
>wasn't there a LOTR rpg game that was good?
Return of the King

Also I played Alias on PC and it was bad, no idea about PS2 version.

>>724984954
I finished all of the uncensored undub of Xenosaga last spring and had little issues except for Saga 1. Saga 1 I had random GPU crashes whenever I tried to play that card game mini game. Luckily you can ignore that menu entirely and still 100% the game. I read somewhere that its better to play on native to avoid any problems like this. I set my game to native and never had any problems like that again. Was still too scared to try the card game mini game again though so I don't if it really fixed anything. I never had or saw any problems with ground textures like the other anon mentioned.

Saga 1 just a really badly coded game. There's also a bug that seems to exist on consoles where the area where you play as a character with duel guns for the first time. There's an extra door you need to unlock before leaving that area otherwise it'll become perma locked and the game will freeze whenever you try to go back and open that door.

Other than that, those were my only issues with Xenosaga 1.

>>724986517
I have this wierd nostalgic vibe about it.
I remember pestering my dad to download and burn it for me and I found the premise intresting. Had no idea it was based on a tv show or something.

>>724986517
Nah, he's talking about The Third Age which was unexpectedly good. ROTK was a hack 'n' slash (and a 10/10 one).

>>724984780
awww come on that one was fun fuck sake

>>724984921
>Driver 3, gfx were crazy for the time as were the destructible cars.

It was a far cry from Carmageddon 2 and even that was only a slight upgrade from Terep 2.

>>724986612
Okay, I take it back, this tummykino can't be bad.

>>724984780
Reminds me of how true crime new york (which is broken on everything) divides by zero on gamecube which made dolphin go haywire.

>>724985378
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4l2SQNScb8 it's gotten a lot better

>>724986763
oh yeah that show. I watched that back in the day. I do not remember a SINGLE thing about it

>>724984343 (OP)
I have a ps2 with an ssd and opl. I have a crt. I even did the noctua fan mod. I couldn't care less about this.

>>724986763
this looks like a ps2 horror game lol. literally reminds me the back of the silent hill 2 case

>>724987246
I remember that she tells her fiance about being a spy or some shit in the first episode and then he dies and then she finds out she is working for some terrorist agency and not the government or some shit. People only watched it for prime Jennifer Garner anyway.

>>724987173
what's the point of dedicating time to optimize games with pc ports?

>>724987320
OPL compatibility is not perfect as well, sadly. Even if much much better.

>>724987432
Food for the chink handhelds.

>>724987360
I'm pretty sure my whole family watched it together, and we watched all 5 seasons, but yeah, just a total mind void. I remember the actor who played the dad, but that's it

>>724984343 (OP)
Don't care. Still using the PS2 with FMCB.

>>724987621
one day that crt will break....and you'll be forced to buy an upscaler....then the hard drive in your ps2 will shit itself and you'll have to buy another one and spend hours transferring your isos to it....then the ps2 itself will die.....then you'll be wondering why you don't just switch to emulation

Is the latency still dogshit thanks to the audio plugin?

>>724987829
Not that anon but I have 2 more crts on standby with internal part replacements and a couple boards that see the most wear on standby for when that happens. Wanters get what they want. Speculators never had anything in the first place.
Did the same for my og xbox because the new ones fucking suck anus.

>>724986665
Yeah, Third Age was basically Final Fantasy X with a Tolkien skin and I ate up every second of it. The turn-based battles were tight, and that weird “original characters just offscreen during major movie events” thing kinda worked in a janky PS2 way. Also that Helm’s Deep fight where you summon ghosts like it’s Kingdom Hearts? Peak weird tie-in game energy.

>>724984343 (OP)
>marvel nemesis - rise of the imperfects
what's up with it? not that it's a great game. seemed like a shovelware brawler. kind of reminded me of games like def jam but worse

>>724985237
burnout

>>724988861
>>724984780

>>724984452
>blocks you're path

>>724984343 (OP)
XI on the 'log

>CHADulating
you beat the game

>>724984564
Pretty sure that just means it has/had the most games.
I'd wager older Nintendo games (SNES, N64, GBA, DS and 3DS) are most commonly emulated as very few have PC ports.

>>724984343 (OP)
>perfect 1.23%

>>724984343 (OP)
>perfect is a little above 1%
wtf?

softmod chads where you at?

>>724984343 (OP)
I downloaded the most recent pcsx2 the other day and was playing some Yakuza 2 and the input delay was awful. No clue what the deal is there but fuck pcsx2 I guess

>>724984721
Never EVER trust emulator compatibility charts. They're always full of outdated info, and/or maintained by autistic third worlders running literal potatos.

>try to look up emulation issues and troubleshooting
>its all mobile shit support
When the fuck did this happen? Its like every fucking site now supports mobile phone emulators and have to dig hard for actual PC emulation.

>>724994098
Have you tried adding "PC+OS+emulator+issue" to your search?

>>724984884 >>724987173
it looks 'playable' now
https://youtu.be/M4l2SQNScb8?t=1053

>>724985378
CXBX may have promised direct-binary conversion only to run into apparent undocumented GPU calls, but Xenia, RPCS3, and even ShadPS4, which is also x86 based, went along much faster.

>>724994560
>>724984884
1 FPS is playable to the Xemu team.

>>724984564
PCSX2 used to have download stats on their website, if you check archive.org you could get some info on that.

>>724984343 (OP)
I still haven't finished ffX it crashes after the boat (after the blitzball tournament

>>724987340
Is that early 2000's edge

>>724984878
vulkan says otherwise

>>724994369
Yes

>just "emulation"
>5,000,000 results
>PC+emulation
>5 results

Joking aside, the worst part is how emulators for modern systems now have "android versions", most of which are using the same name as the ones used for PC.

>>724984343 (OP)
Rise of the imperfects is giga fucked to emulate I was reading some shit apparently someone who worked on the game was helping with the solution but idk if they ever fixed it, it doesnt emulate on anything else either, really a shame such a fun game.

>>724995238
cant you just play it on console x isnt expensive is it

>>724990805
>he played and beat 130 games in 3 years
>that's roughly 43 games a year
>3,5 games a moth

Is this even possible to accomplish as an adult? For a while now i've only managed to beat a dozen or so games a year, last year i managed to beat 11, and so far i've only cleared 6. How many games have you beat this year, /v/?

>>724999175
that fag is doing some kind of challenge like "Can I beat every PS2 game ever released?"

>>724999175
it may also depend on your definition of "beat". are you a completionist guy, or a "I saw the ending" guy? for example I've beaten about 27 games so far this year, some are VNs, some were just the ending, and some were pretty thorough.

>>724986665
ROTK was brutally hard

>>724994560
Forza Motorsport is marked as playable but you can't even finish a single 3 lap race without the emulator freezing and wiping your progress.

>>724997735
Direct3D?

>>724984564
where is this from? I tried freemedia wiki but no website has the look like that

>>724984343 (OP)
>Devil May Cry 2 Perfect
of course

Does leddit really need to make an article and 2 threads for this? >>724997438

>>725001462
Yep

>>724984343 (OP)
What about having 100% compatibility and supporting the retro community by buying games and hardware instead of stealing games to use with emulation? Ever thought about that, huh?

>>724984343 (OP)
REMEMBER TO ENABLE THESE HACKS AND TOGGLE SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE RENDERING EVERY 3 MINUTES AND IGNORE THE LINE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SCREEN AND THE SLOWDOWN IN CUTSCENES

>>724999439
Feel like that's already been done to death

>>724999745
Well, my definition of it is playing until you see the ending, it's extremely rare for me to 100% something.

>>725002352
why does pcsx2 make autists go ape shit?

>>724987829
All things end. One day you will play ps2 for the very last time and never again. This must be accepted. To cling onto what has ended, to try and experience it in a crippled half-state is not healthy. Its better to let it go.

I own a ps2 for ps2 games on hard drive. I own a vita for vita, psp and ps1 games. I don't own a ps3 because it has no good games

>>724984343 (OP)
>FFXI
Why the fuck would you emulate an MMO?
PCfags belong in gas chambers.

>>725006493
that's why it doesn't work retardo

>>724984343 (OP)
we keep losing, bros...
how? we were doing so good, and now suddenly the tides turn on us

People really misrepresent this emulator. Like it's fucking garbage. If you settle in to "play a video game" you won't do it here.

You're always unfucking something every hour. Xenia as well. Youtube clips of only a little bit and people posting "works GREAT" is all just made up.

>>724987829
PS2s litter retro stores for $100 a piece we will be fine.

>>725008470
normalniggers have no standards

>>725008470
Xenia plays Tenchu Z perfectly so it's perfect. Fable 2 runs too so that's cool.

PCSX2 is for all intents and purposes perfect 99.5% of the time.