How to make PlayStation 2 Games look INCREDIBLE with PCSX2 Emulator 2024

This is the latest release of PCSX2 Nightly in which I will show you how to get the best settings for graphics and upscaling playstation 2 games to 4k and beyond.
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[@JustJamie1983]

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[@Bijuklich]

ok tutorial, you covered the basics :) i like watching your videos lately, everything pretty much already seen, but your voice is calming...lots of stuff to do in pcsx2, you can do miracles :) also there are already hundreds of custom patches, hacks, custom hd textures, shaders, mods, etc....good video, and keep up the good work :)

[@JustJamie1983]

Hey, thanks. You might be interested in todays video. Releasing in 15 mins. Push notifications so you don't miss it.

[@acronym.4328]

Thanks for this tutorial, it's always appreciated! On an extra note, remember that certain games have received Widescreen Patches and many people have created HD Texture Packs for several PS2 games that polish them up quite a lot alongside the settings given here. When it comes to remastering them on our own, it's good to know that we have many options thanks to the community. Have a swell day :)

[@JustJamie1983]

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[@UltimateMoralizer]

I also managed to get PCSX2 (Nightly Build) to work on my Lenovo Legion Go. There’s even less hiccups than there are on the N64 emulators. It goes to show that every emulator works differently.

[@JustJamie1983]

Absolutely. Built by different devs using different programs as well as either using the CPU as the main power or the GPU or both at once.

[@Megalocade]

Pcsx2 is really coming on now, its got to a point now that I've ditched my original ps2 and ripped all my games and now play them through the pc with better resolution, I've had the latest nightly build for some time now and every night there is boat load of new updates done, really glad they got Ridge racer v to work in hardware mode now there is still some small graphics glitches here and there but it works now rather than running it in software mode.

[@JustJamie1983]

Hey, no probs at all my friend. Enjoy 😉

[@dogfrog9543]

Was playing LOTR - The Third Age recently on deck and the aliasing was out of control at default settings. Found a post about the upscaling and even at 1080p it looks amazing.

[@7F0X7]

On multiple musou games there's a widescreen "cheat" patch that legitimately adds to the side of the game without stretching the graphics. It's works great, so you play in true wide screen, but there's an issue on all the games with about 8 evenly spaced *vertical* screen tear lines where the lines from top to bottom are narrow, but distorted pixels. I have tried everything under to sun to make it go away, but the *ONLY* thing that's done it is to use "software renderer" which makes the entire games looks extremely pixelated and ugly. If you or anyone else knows how to fix this *specific issue,* I would greatly appreciate it. The lines are narrow, but one of them is always dead center of the screen, so character faces always end up getting bisected by it and it's totally immersion breaking for me.

[@kristina7long71]

Thank you so much 💋👌

[@JustJamie1983]

My pleasure.

[@FreddieFraggs]

Good upload! 👍 I use a fork of PCSX2 called XBSX2 for my Xbox Series X. Full speed 4k 60fps no problem! I aint tried outrun yet though........

[@JustJamie1983]

Jeez. As you can see, Outrun looks pretty spectacular upscaled.

[@FreddieFraggs]

​@JustJamie1983 Yeah man agreed! Will check it out tomorrow for myself. 👍

[@YoshiIsCool1]

Thanks Bro It Worked.

[@JustJamie1983]

My pleasure 😉

[@dreyb1801]

With 16:9 aspect ratio, it should be scaled up proportionally without distortion because it's a proportional ratio to 4:3. 16:10 would definitely look overstretched vertically.

[@JustJamie1983]

Like this one? kzbin.info/www/bejne/jKW9iYOjfJiLftk

[@mikeclark4480]

Have you done these setup videos in Batocera ? V39 looks to be dropping soon and the latest build is very good for a all in one setup.

[@JustJamie1983]

Yes, absolutely. Batocera is looking to release soon. I will do something similiar shortly. Stay tuned.

[@mikeclark4480]

@@JustJamie1983 that is awesome !

[@JustJamie1983]

:)@@mikeclark4480

[@mikeclark4480]

@@JustJamie1983 always !

[@gabrieldelgado7956]

Hello, can it also be improved in Retrobat? thanks for your videos

[@JustJamie1983]

I will be talking about something similiar very soon. Stay tuned.

[@tybittz]

Is there any way to get the widescreen patch properly working on mac os???? The image still looks stretched even when I enable it.

[@JustJamie1983]

I've no idea for Mac sorry.

[@Yuanshaohd7e7]

I have a question Jamie, do I need a laptop with dedicated GPU to replicate all this? I've read a bit that mostly emulators are utilizing CPU more than GPU, so I wonder would a laptop with Ryzen APU (Ryzen 5 8645hs, which only has a iGPU equivalent to GTX1630) run perfectly fine?

[@JustJamie1983]

I would urge anybody to have a modest GPU.

[@Yuanshaohd7e7]

@@JustJamie1983 At the same price a could get a laptop with a RTX 3050, but its processor is intel 12th gen. Is it still worth it?

[@520heihei]

Thank you so much. I’m just can’t play with og setting.

[@JustJamie1983]

Hey, no probs at all.

[@AndrewTSq]

yout pcsx2 does not look anything like mine lol. I have Emulation settings EE, VU, GS, GS Window, Speedhack to play around with?

[@JustJamie1983]

Are you using Nightly or stable? Are you running the latest?

[@Xombigod]

I have trouble with the sound slowing to a crawl.

[@JustJamie1983]

Check out my main PCSX2 setup guide. This is video enhancements guide.

[@HDSRosa]

I realized i can play psx games and even sega games with this, but graphics are not the best. Do you think i need to set it up properly according to the psx console or i should download another emulator only dedicated for psx?

[@izg93027]

I tried the same setup for ICO and sometimes the screen goes completely black though when it doesn't it looks beautiful. Why is that happening? I really wanna know

[@JustJamie1983]

Possibly something to do with the video driver?

[@izg93027]

@@JustJamie1983 what can I do?

[@JustJamie1983]

Change the driver.

[@izg93027]

@@JustJamie1983 what options should appear?

[@IamLegend32]

Is there any way to set custom controls per game?

[@JustJamie1983]

Yes. Go into each game individually and set controller mappings.

[@radicalbyte]

Dude you need to do something about the audio, it's way too quiet compared to other channels.

[@JustJamie1983]

All I can suggest is using a different way to watch. My phone sounds fine as well as my PC and TV. Audio levels are also fine whilst recording. Having said that, my laptop is quiet and that's down to bad volume control.

[@radicalbyte]

@@JustJamie1983 I'm using a HD600, they're used for mastering in the music industry, together with an Qudelix DAC/AMP. The problem is that other channels often apply dynamic compression (sometimes called normalisation / loudness). I just amped up the volume to watch then dropped it afterwards, but it's always courteous to let people know as it'll hit you in the algorithm (another common one being unbalanced channels - left is muted or lower volume than right).

[@superuthless]

[@JustJamie1983]

Hey

[@fwiler]

Please don't run widescreen without an actual ps2x2 widescreen patch for the game. It looks horrible.

[@JustJamie1983]

That's subjective. Because you don't like it. Why would others not? People are different, and that's what is important :)

[@d1btd3265]

​@@JustJamie1983nope, he's right. This looks horrendous stretched.

[@JustJamie1983]

@d1btd3265 I do mention in the video about being stretched, right?

[@pdiscool]

Is there a way to patch it so that it doesn’t look stretched?

[@JustJamie1983]

@pdiscool their is my friend. I will be covering this shortly as a separate guide.

[@Celorion2]

i have a i7 4790k 16 gig ram a gigabyte 4070 12 gb i think il be fine on 4k 1080p

[@JustJamie1983]

Give it a whirl

[@darexas1602]

Why would one play Outrun through PCSX2 when there is a native PC version running like a dream?

[@JustJamie1983]

Why not?

[@michaelangst6078]

I'm still waiting for them to increase the resolution past 8x or allow custom resolution again so I can play in 8K on newer builds. It's nuts how I have to play on a build 5 years ago and pray everything works just to play in 8k

[@joehood732]

1080p and scanlines for me.

[@JustJamie1983]

Good choice

[@DrNutrijorge]

try distro Bazzite much better

[@JustJamie1983]

I've not heard of that.

[@jiujitsuG0D]

You messed up. Anisotropic filtering doesn't help with jaggies . At all.. you are getting it confused with anti aliasing. Anisotropic filtering literally has zero performance hit on any gpu. Even st 16x. .

[@JustJamie1983]

Nope. No mess up at all. As you likely know AF is debatable and not strictly true what you claim here. No mix up with anti-aliasing.

[@kevinpatel265]

To be brutally honest, Outrun 2 is a terrible game to play on PCSX2. Its better to play the native PC port of it that already has the HD textures built into it. You probably should've used a PS2 exclusive like Time Crisis 2 or Tekken 5 to show an example of this because I don't really see that much of an improvement in the PS2 version of Outrun 2.

[@JustJamie1983]

Just an example.

[@fabio78]

Lol "how to make PS2 games look incredible", proceeds to stretch a 3:4 game horribly without a wide-screen patch or selecting wide-screen in the video options. Just amazing...

[@JustJamie1983]

Here you go mate. Be amazed with this guide: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jKW9iYOjfJiLftk

[@JustJamie1983]

PS - that's "4:3"

[@fabio78]

@@JustJamie1983 so you did your homework, eventually. Bravo! 👏

[@JustJamie1983]

@fabio78 what's with the troll behaviour?