PS2 Emulator, Virtually No Set-up

[Winston]

*I Have Uploaded the newest PS2 emulator*

I have also preset some settings that will push most games FPS to 60 (40 is the bare minimum for gameplay). A few artifacts/glitches will happen but 90% of the game will run quite smoothly. The following is a picture of the activated speedhacks. This window can be accessed by going to the congif tab, video (GS), Core GS Settings..., Speedhacks Tab.

http://www.coolrom.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=179&pictureid=4975

These can be tweaked during gameplay to maximize the FPS.

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System Requirements

Minimum

2.0 Ghz Dual Core
1GB RAM
512mb Video Card (ATI Radeon 2600 or Nvidia 8600 GT)

Recommended

2.8 Dual Core or Any Quad-Core (2.0 or better)
2GB RAM
1GB Video Card (ATI Radeon 5650 or GeForce GTS 250M or Anything Better)

These are based off of laptop hardware. If you have the Desktop Hardware it will only perform better.

So the Emulator is ready to go. If it prompts you for anything, the BIOSes are in the BIOS folder and the plugins are in the plugin folder.
Another small fix is to open your task manager and right-click the emulator process and choose "Set Priority" then click "Realtime". This
will dedicate more of your processor to the emulator increasing FPS slightly.

Any Questions or Problems Post them here, on my profile, or Private Message me.

Have Fun!

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Download Links

NEW EMULATOR DOWNLOAD THIS ONE! :)

http://www.filesend.net/download.php?f=64f6d6066f71a0a6c595116917ff27da

OLD EMULATOR, DOWNLOAD IF THE NEW EMULATOR IS NOT WORKING

http://www.filesend.net/download.php?f=cf9e02015415e70f6d98ec8a9dc26be1

[Kilghard Wolf]

What would be amazing to get for that would be the Baldur's Gate games... so epic.

[Winston]

Does the Baldur series look demanding? In respects to could an average computer run it?

[Kilghard Wolf]

I think so. It doesn't have a lot of FMV's, none that I can remember, and it's not very highly detailed. I think Elder Scrolls 4 or maybe even 3 would be more demanding. I also haven't seen a copy of it for about 3 years though, so my memories might not be the best to go off.

[Winston]

3 not so much. It needed very little specs for PC like 800 Mhz.. Oblivion otherwise number 4 needs 3 Ghz and with it running on a PS2 emulator same or more. But did they even release it for PS2?

[Kilghard Wolf]

Not Elder Scrolls, I was just using that as a reference for graphics and such, cuz I couldn't think of anything else.

[Winston]

oh, yeah i see I misread. well it gives me a good idea yeah, thanks mate.

[philhoang88]

I've been looking for this. Want to play my Naruto!!!

[Winston]

Just A Question; But could you get it to work, just to see if any of the BS I have scribbled up there helps anyone.

[SilentMouse]

I assume you can just stick a PS2 game into the comp and use an iso creator, then run that iso?

[Winston]

I Ended Up Doing that very thing to play god of war. I haven't really fiddled around with it long enough to try and produce and results because when you load from an ISO it is MUCH faster than via CD/DVD. Do you have an ISO creator? Or do you want a reliable one I can show you?

[SilentMouse]

I Ended Up Doing that very thing to play god of war. I haven't really fiddled around with it long enough to try and produce and results because when you load from an ISO it is MUCH faster than via CD/DVD. Do you have an ISO creator? Or do you want a reliable one I can show you?

Nah, i have a good ISO creator (LCISO creator).

Just tried running The Sims: Bustin' Out and it was horrible quality and jerky.

[Winston]

I'll tell you right now bud, if you try to run that without at LEAST 256 Megs of discrete VRAM, 1 Gig of Ram on XP or 2 on Vista, And at least a 1.8 Duo Intel CPU It Will LAAAAGGG like crazy.

[mr_snarky]

is there a good site to download games for the ps2 emulator?

[Winston]

There still for sale so its considered warez. Which is illegal to pirate. You could try a warez site but I rather not provide any links openly because they are banned on this forum.

[Winston]

Hmm good question. Since its based off the BIOS of a PS2 emulator, I should think not though.

[Winston]

Well duh lol There supposed to act like the actual console, or handheld in this case. Because people are re-creating the BIOS, or Taking it from the console to work on a PC.

[Winston]

Lol Save us A LOTTTT OF TIME! hehe

[Winston]

Well sure we could. Internet compatibility is easy, its been done even with the ZSNES. And All you have to do is download the "rom" type file or application to go along with it to run on the wii emulator,

[Winston]

Apparently, look in the tabs apparently you can network play

[Winston]

If you get it to work haha. I've never actually bothered with the thing haha

[Goveynetcom]

Thanks but aren't PS2 BIOS illegal? I mean since they still make PS2 games? I know PS1 BIOS is legal but I don't think the second one is.:confused:

[Winston]

Thanks but aren't PS2 BIOS illegal? I mean since they still make PS2 games? I know PS1 BIOS is legal but I don't think the second one is.:confused:

Perhaps the PS2 BIOS is a creation of my own?

[Goveynetcom]

Ah, well just wondering.

[Winston]

Okidokie. Are you downloading it?

[Goveynetcom]

Okidokie. Are you downloading it? Actually I downloaded it before I posted, I didn't really mind the legality of it. I was just wondering about the legality is all.

[Winston]

Is it working for you?

[Goveynetcom]

Not really, I have a weak PC. I will test again when I add a new Graphics card, among other things. Although probably not for a long while. Sorry I couldn't be of much help :( .

[Winston]

Thats alright. Most necessary things are a powerful CPU and Video card, Like I said I'd recommend a 2.0 intel duo core or better and a 512 meg discrete video card.

[anatolii]

hey man i just downloaded ur pcsx2 gj iv been trying the pcxs2 beta 9.63 and its no better than the orginal exept for the japanesse bios i needed for KH2:final mix, since i just bought it off ebay in mint with KH:CoM, anyhow can this run disc? and if not can u recommend or possably post a link for a iso creater? thx if you can, and again gj :)

[Winston]

It should be able to, but I haven't tried it myself because I have no PS2 haha.

Yes I can... http://rapidshare.com/files/170454769/MagicISO_Maker_5_1_.4.By.arunthegreat.rar

Its saved as rar, so if you don't have winrar, you can just google it and its a free download... or look on cnet.com, anywhere really. And a tutorial...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrjcTFADo3E

If theres any problems contact me.

[grundlehax]

Damn wish I had a better computer to try this out D:

[kill_one]

thank you very much! I do not see the hour to try it

[Naildir]

i am so gonna try this when i get my new pc since there are so many games i want to play on ps2 but one question like when you play a ps2 game through the emulator doesn't it like jerk around alot or somthing
does it run perfectly smooth?

[Winston]

i am so gonna try this when i get my new pc since there are so many games i want to play on ps2 but one question like when you play a ps2 game through the emulator doesn't it like jerk around alot or somthing
does it run perfectly smooth?

If you have a decent computer. I posted up some more or less minimal requirements, if you match them it should be good for the lower end games, but if you want to play god of war, or any FF, you'll need a bit more than that. Not much more though.

And... TechFairy?

Are you Trying to steal my thunder here? Haha :nono::p

[zacttodd]

I was just wondering were u got FFX12? I have never played it before and I would like to try it out

[Winston]

I Borrowed the game from a friend to rip to my computer.

If you want links to download it private message me.

[zuratai]

can you help me set this up

[Winston]

Sure, What do you need help with.

[zuratai]

Ok i got it all set up and all but my game final fantasy 10 goes in slow motion. I have a 9880gt with 4gigs of ram on a 3.00ghz duel core processor with windows xp.

[Winston]

I had the same problem. And I think its to do with it not being optimized for multiple cores. This might work.

CTRL+ALT+DELETE

Then find it in your processes. Make sure the affinity ( right-click ) is set to All processors, but change the priority to high or realtime. There are also some things you can check off in configuration to make the emulator " optimized " for dual core but it sucks ***. Try this first.

[k-uri]

if i get this to work it would destroy my whole life lol

[rurokenshlnx]

I have a 2.16ghz / 2.17ghz dual core (I think, it's on laptop and I haven't gone on the laptop for a bit) with 1200mb of VRAM. Would this be ok? I've tried playing Need For Speed Underground on the laptop via PCSX2 but it is so bad, frame-rate & sound. I might try this out, but my laptop isn't the greatest either.

[ut15]

where could i get a working PS2 emulator for pentium 4

[Winston]

I have a 2.16ghz / 2.17ghz dual core (I think, it's on laptop and I haven't gone on the laptop for a bit) with 1200mb of VRAM. Would this be ok? I've tried playing Need For Speed Underground on the laptop via PCSX2 but it is so bad, frame-rate & sound. I might try this out, but my laptop isn't the greatest either.

1200 shared? Or total. Likely shared.

If you have some crappy intel graphics card ( X3100 or 4500 ) don't even bother. If your sporting an Nvidia or ATI card come back to me and i'll get to you. But figure that out first.

[Winston]

where could i get a working PS2 emulator for pentium 4

Any PS2 emulator will work with a P4. Matters what its clocked at ( EX. 3.17 GHZ) or if its over-clocked ( 4GHZ.. this would be suitable ). See the problem with a PS2 emulator is that your trying to run a system on top of a system. Two BIOS's two machines trying to function in 1. But when the first machine is powerful enough it easy to run both. P4 probably won't cut it unless you've got it clocked high up.

...what i'm kind of trying to say is that there really is no PS2 emulator that will run at a lower affinity then the next. So try over-clocking your system if you've got a low clocked CPU.

Also like I said first post... 1 GB RAM recommended, Dual core 2 GHZ ( or 4GHZ single core ) and definitely 512 meg vid card ATI or NVIDIA no intel crap. Those integrated cards are pieces of crap. ( although a 256mb DDR3 is also acceptable )

Yay

[Maelick]

your setup works better than the one on mine. I have 1 gig ram more, and a faster processor than you say and it still runs like hell for me, i changed so many settings and edited so much that i think i ruined it! Thanks bro!

man i need to get off my *** and upgrade my power supply to support SLI so i can run this dope *** graphics card in my system, XFX Black edition http://www.amazon.com/XFX-PVT98WYDBF-GeForce-Black-Video/dp/B001NPIZN0/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255359315&sr=8-2

just picked it up last week cant wait to see this baby in action...forgot to get a friggin 70 dollar power supply :FAIL:

[Winston]

No Problem..

Well that is a pretty good video card, it can definitely run most games at near or full graphics, but you want some really, "dope" stuff, then look at the Nvidia 200 series (GTX SLI), so like 260, 280, 295, with like.. 1-4 Gigs of DDR3 memory and crazy clock speeds.

I'm looking to get a new laptop with the Nvidia GTX 1GB DDR3 260M

Or to buy this video card for my desktop..

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=5034920&Sku=P450-4884

1GB of DDR5 Memory!

Only 200 bucks sweet stuff haha.

[Darth Gazak]

I managed to run FFX on my system, and it was playable. Vice City was a different matter, it was choppy and glitchy. It took a bit of tinkering, but FFX looked fairly good, although the sound was a bit weird, and i eventually turned it off.

Ran on:
C2D E6850 @ 3.3 Ghz
GeForce GTS250 OC
3 GB DDR2 800

FFX Playability: 8/10 (No sound)
Vice City Playability: 3/10

I think I'm gonna wait a while before i start seriously emulating PS2; after all, i have one in my room!

[Winston]

Well, this emulator definitely needs a bit more work. Of course, a new one could also be released I'm unaware of, but this is more of a... try for fun thing haha.

[Darth Gazak]

There's been good progress though; last time i checked it, every game i tried was unplayable, and my computer is no slouch! Now most (if not all) 2D games work fine, and certain 3D games are acceptable.

I never completely optomised the emulator, so i could potentially squeeze a little extra frames per second from it. When I have time i'll give it another shot.

[Maelick]

sweet thanks, i apparently destroyed mine trying to optomize it lol. Save me the time of trying to get it workin right again :D

[mbasco08]

yes please... i just wish they made one for the mac

[tornadojoe]

What would be amazing to get for that would be the Baldur's Gate games... so epic.

Champions is so very much better than Baldurs Gate....

[Winston]

Champions is so very much better than Baldurs Gate....

Oh No! Beef Beef Beef!

[arvills03]

ahhaa nice thanks!

[Winston]

I'm still looking for an updated version or better version of a PS2 emulator... Its not exactly been my primary priority ( sweet alliteration ) but I haven't really seen anything worth looking at yet.

If I find one that really stands out i'll stick up a new thread

[bloodraven13]

Lord Winston, Your Highness,
King of New England,
This humble peasant girl would dearly love to have a copy of FF12. She played it practically nonstop when she actually owned a PS2, back before the war and the drought and all that, and misses Ivalice something awful. You could make her life complete by uploading the ISO. Won't you help her, please?

Edit: Never mind, read a coupla posts down about how it's still on sale an' all so... got the torrent goin' - my comp should be cool with it specswise; I'll let you know how it pans out.

[Winston]

Lord Winston, Your Highness,
King of New England,
This humble peasant girl would dearly love to have a copy of FF12. She played it practically nonstop when she actually owned a PS2, back before the war and the drought and all that, and misses Ivalice something awful. You could make her life complete by uploading the ISO. Won't you help her, please?

Edit: Never mind, read a coupla posts down about how it's still on sale an' all so... got the torrent goin' - my comp should be cool with it specswise; I'll let you know how it pans out.

Its just so annoying when I upload and my connection times out. I start to break things when its like a 3GB file and it stops at like 95%... ACK So I'm not doing it right now haha.....

Please tell me the results.

[hengcoolrom]

can u teach me how to setup the pcsx2 0.9.6 settings? i mean i need the best settings, because i already try 2 of my pc, both also feel super lag, screen shaking, the games i try was champion return to arm, onimusha dawn of dream and gundam battle assault 3.

1st pc(laptop) spec
Intel Dual Core 2.2 GHz
RAM 2GB DDR2
Mobile Intel(R) Series Express Chipset Family 256MB
Window XP

2nd pc(desktop) spec
Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz
RAM 2GB DDR2
GeForce 9400GT 1GB
Window XP

i think my pc spec is ok, but duno why i feel so lag, then i think is my settings problem, so i hope u can solve my problem.

[Winston]

can u teach me how to setup the pcsx2 0.9.6 settings? i mean i need the best settings, because i already try 2 of my pc, both also feel super lag, screen shaking, the games i try was champion return to arm, onimusha dawn of dream and gundam battle assault 3.

1st pc(laptop) spec
Intel Dual Core 2.2 GHz
RAM 2GB DDR2
Mobile Intel(R) Series Express Chipset Family 256MB
Window XP

2nd pc(desktop) spec
Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz
RAM 2GB DDR2
GeForce 9400GT 1GB
Window XP

i think my pc spec is ok, but duno why i feel so lag, then i think is my settings problem, so i hope u can solve my problem.

Yeah your laptop is good in the CPU department but certainly lacking in the Video card one...

Your Desktop is packing VRAM, but not RAM, and the processor is also okay. I think the biggest problem that I should think that arises with this emulator is that you have to have one crazy machine to run it. Not because the PS2 is "amazing" haha but the emulator is a piece of crap :P Not coded well I guess? I myself with my specs, which is a 1.9 duo with a 512mb Vid Card, is not sufficient to run it, and I have tried every configuration possible and only achieved FPS of about 75% of full speed. Sooooooooo..... it won't really help if I tell you anything haha. But you can definitely if I recall set the graphics incredibly low, and pretty much make the characters look like single polygons haha. Well not really, but you get the idea.

[the master 123]

ps 2 is a complex system compare to ps1\n64 so naturally it hard to emulate. project 64 require a pentium 4@1.5(recommend specs) cpu or comparable to run most game at full speed and it been around for while for example. However it is possible over time that the emulator will get much faster, however I intel inter grate graphic will never due though. however the pentium 4 most likely never be able to run ps2 emulation properly though

[Darth Gazak]

VRAM isn't as important as GPU core and memory clock when it comes to emulating; a great amount of VRAM is only necessary when displaying images or 3D graphics of high resolution, which isn't the case with emulating as these consoles are designed to output on a regular TV, which has a vastly inferior resolution to computer monitors.

I wouldn't worry about your computer's performance in regards to this emulator, hengcoolrom, as it is still in it's fledgling stages and the PS2 is a fairly modern piece of hardware, in the context of emulation.

[hengcoolrom]

Yeah your laptop is good in the CPU department but certainly lacking in the Video card one...

Your Desktop is packing VRAM, but not RAM, and the processor is also okay. I think the biggest problem that I should think that arises with this emulator is that you have to have one crazy machine to run it. Not because the PS2 is "amazing" haha but the emulator is a piece of crap :P Not coded well I guess? I myself with my specs, which is a 1.9 duo with a 512mb Vid Card, is not sufficient to run it, and I have tried every configuration possible and only achieved FPS of about 75% of full speed. Sooooooooo..... it won't really help if I tell you anything haha. But you can definitely if I recall set the graphics incredibly low, and pretty much make the characters look like single polygons haha. Well not really, but you get the idea.

The crazy machine to run it? may i know the best pc system requirement to play it? i mean play without lag or screen shaking anymore, want smooth smooth.

[Winston]

VRAM isn't as important as GPU core and memory clock when it comes to emulating; a great amount of VRAM is only necessary when displaying images or 3D graphics of high resolution, which isn't the case with emulating as these consoles are designed to output on a regular TV, which has a vastly inferior resolution to computer monitors.

I wouldn't worry about your computer's performance in regards to this emulator, hengcoolrom, as it is still in it's fledgling stages and the PS2 is a fairly modern piece of hardware, in the context of emulation.

Following trend, as VRAM increases so does GPU and memory clock. So does pixel shader etc etc. I felt Icono was computer literate enough to understand so.

And for computer specs, I'd say 8800 Nvidia series and up and the ATI 4000 series? DDR3 RAM would be wicked, and 2 really high clocked CPU's? 2 3.4's would be wicked. Also a high RPM HDD

[hengcoolrom]

Following trend, as VRAM increases so does GPU and memory clock. So does pixel shader etc etc. I felt Icono was computer literate enough to understand so.

And for computer specs, I'd say 8800 Nvidia series and up and the ATI 4000 series? DDR3 RAM would be wicked, and 2 really high clocked CPU's? 2 3.4's would be wicked. Also a high RPM HDD

May i knw how much RPM only count as high RPM HDD? currently use 7200 RPM HD, oh man... upgrade to tis spec my wallet going to boom.

[Winston]

Desktop Hard drive RPM goes up to 12k RPM, also 10K, if your choosing a cheaper Hard drive, but you might as well go all out. RAID0 hard drives are pretty speedy too haha

[zacksteele]

i think it is against the rules for this site. We aren't suppose to put up current stuff.

[luis_carlos73]

heyy thankyou downloading yeaaa

[uber10100]

PS2 Emulator!! WOOOOOT

[Winston]

i think it is against the rules for this site. We aren't suppose to put up current stuff.

Tis' No Longer Current.

[ganaru87]

I present you another Playstation emulator. Apparently you can run PS2 Games directly off you media drive but I don't have PS2 games so I have The ISO's. The ones I have are FF10 and FF12 if there is any requests.

All you have to really do I go to configure, to Cdvdrom, Select ISO and input the ISO you have. If your can't get your PS2 games to work Rip them to your Hard Drive, I recommend Magic ISO ( I can provide links if needed ).

Im not sure if you need to set up the BIOS either, but I can provide a step by step guide to that as well. I have provided a BIOS Package compressed in winrar format ( links may be provided for winrar application ) but there is probably sufficient BIOS images already in the BIOS folder. The executable file for the emulator can be found in "Pcsx2 0.9.4 Folder" its called pcsx2t. If you want to chose the BIOS it can be configured in there.

The only issue with this emulator is that it eats CPU. For decent FPS ( Frame rate ) in some games you'll need at least a Intel 1.8 Duo Core. 1-2 Gigs of Ram. And I Would say recommended video card has 512 dedicated memory.For some of the earlier games though you'll probably be good with an intel P4 2.0 Ghz or AMD 2500+ or higher.

There are README files provided inside of the file. If there are any issues leave a post I'll answer ASAP. As well, any requests for links or ISO I have, ( I will try and get God of War 1 & 2 GH2, and DBZ Games too from friends with discs ) Just private message me, post on my public profile or leave a post here.

I know its a little messy... but hey its free :D



http://www.filesend.net/download.php?f=cf9e02015415e70f6d98ec8a9dc26be1

your files are corrupt now.

[krystofer]

Can you Pm me the links to get those i would like to test it out i have a decent machine so i think i would be able to run the ps2 emu with possible a littlebit of lag maby who knows worth a shot dunno where to get a PS2 ISO or w/e u wanna call them.

[Winston]

First page bro. Apparently corrupt though.

[jbeats]

i just posted links in the Emulator section with direct links to download playstation 2 emu and a guide to use it but heres the link to that page

http://www.coolrom.com/forums/showthread.php?p=375606#post375606

[Winston]

This is not what I insinuated.

[Daemonikat]

got it to work....nice job....like you said, its a cpu hog, so your inputs are a little behind, but its nice. Thnx so much. dont forget to set your patch and bios paths....that had me stuck for a sec lol. Cant get it to run direct from dvd but the iso's work
question...im getting a note to set it to real time (virtual ram) but cant find the settings your pointing at....im running windows 7 (standard/no hacks) any help?

[Winston]

Yeah sure go to your start bar. Right-click on empty space. Chose task manager Go to processes then right click on the PS2 emulator process it will looks something like pcsx, then go to set priority and select real time. I've added this to my new description along with the updated emulator and plugins.

[Ss4gogeta0]

I think I actually first tried a PS2 Emu back in 07...
was playing my REO F2 cd on it... sadly it was soo damn slow due to me having a pre 2006 Grafix card...

[Winston]

Same here. I had a 1.9 duo core and a 512 meg video card at the time, but it wasn't enough. I would still only get 40FPS max. It had no dual core support at the time which was pretty rough lol. Although for some reason... my hardware back then runs a PS emulator better than my current hardware... which is a nuisance considering it is literally twice as good as my old specs. Well, what can you do!

[paragon5]

:mad3:where ps 2 emulator full with bios and the other??????

[Winston]

:mad3:where ps 2 emulator full with bios and the other??????

First Page? In the Download? In the BIOS folder?

[DarkZio]

I never asked but is this the 9.7 version?

[Winston]

I never asked but is this the 9.7 version?

Nope, 9.8. :)

[DarkZio]

This emulator runs nice when u use directx11 hardware graphics setting and dx9 is needed for some games

[Winston]

This emulator runs nice when u use directx11 hardware graphics setting and dx9 is needed for some games

Definitely. You just have to make sure you have the DX11 software and the Video card to boot. In retrospect though, if you don't even have a video card that can use DX11 then I would probably recommend not using a PS2 emulator lol. Well.. at least have a DX10 compatible card at the minimum. DX9, stick to PS1, but I digress, DX11 is definitely good when you can use it, but DX9 still must be used for some games.