PCSX2 2.0 | Ten games that it fixed (and ten games that it couldn't fix)

[@criticaledge7612]

I'm so happy that ps2 games are getting well preserved. That library is pure gold.

[@Siranoxz]

Unless some of these are on PC it makes really no difference to presserve an inferior version.

[@criticaledge7612]

@@Siranoxz not always the case, some ps2 exclusives had effects removed for the pc port. Eg. Take a look at the devil may cry games there's a few vids showing the difference in what was lost during porting. In some case pc games had superior graphics but suffered in other areas eg. Devil may cry 3 had a terrible pc port. The hd collection is better but it took so long. I'm also not sure if the pc version has multi-player like ps2. I'll admit that many pc ports were better especially in games like most wanted or underground 2 just I wish that pc had more split screen and better controller support for older titles.

[@jaodasilva7993]

@@Siranoxz most pc ports are shit

[@sypharorigin]

A few of the "not fixed" games works well in 1.6.0 version. Thought that could be worth a mention :)

[@n-tertainmentx-tended4760]

Alright. Thanks.

[@raphael-gabrielmorand3626]

Thanks for the info, which games seem to work?

[@sypharorigin]

@@raphael-gabrielmorand3626 Beyond good & evil, Manhunt 2, Ridge Racer 5, Splashdown and Toca Race Driver 3. Haven't actually tried the other ones in the "not fixed part" of this video, but those 5 works without a single error/bug as far as I've played. I've finished Beyond good & evil, Manhunt 2 and Splashdown, but maybe ~50% of the other 2. For me 1.6.0 is the best so far, but I use 1.7.4086 for software rendering some 2D fighting games. Some of my most played games can't use upscaling as good with the 2.0 version either so my main will probably stay 1.6 unless I bump into any real issues.

[@tonistarks2874]

U should try using the nightly build instead of the stable version 1.6, it's way better than the 1.6 and the new Pcsx2 2.0 interface is identical to the nightly build so I I've been playing this all this time 😂all my roms work well with this nightly build.i haven't checked the 2.0 yet but I'm good for now

[@Ahakartune]

Nicktoons unite cutscenes are still messed up

[@voxdeus]

Hillaruous this is just now suddenly a big deal while people have been playing on the nightly build and had these improvements for years 😂

[@SRC267]

Only a handful of people, Devs, emulation enthusiasts etc use nightly builds. The vast majority of people, casual folk, those who have kids etc use stable. They will notice the big difference.

[@xXPSi77Xx]

I was thinking exactly the same thing lol. Everyone was already saying to use the nightly build

[@mechadeka]

@@SRC267 Bro it's not some high concept cerebral task to use a beta version of a program. "Causal folk" don't know what an emulator is in the first place.

[@eternalreturnal]

​@@SRC267"people who have kids use stable builds" Somehow i find this statement quite funny. As if parents who use the nightly builds of pcsx2 are being negligent, bringing chaos and inviting instability to their homes

[@markinscotland]

@@eternalreturnal 🤣🤣🤣

[@imembridibuddha]

Driv3r and Stuntman's AI logic, Manhunt 2 and True Crime are in serious need of fixing. Hopefully they will find a way.

[@Dynamo128]

I was under the impression Stuntman had been fixed... Is that still not the case then?

[@chris_player2]

@@Dynamo128 there is a 60fps patch for stuntman but it still has issues

[@ZeroDigitalArt]

@@chris_player2 Not in the Nightly builds. All of those games work with small tweaks.

[@imembridibuddha]

@@ZeroDigitalArt Even AI?

[@NinjaxWizardGoVroom]

Driv3r still doesn’t work? Dang man

[@Jose-ue3bu]

Thought 2.0 was something special. Turns out I've been using it for the past six months.

[@d0dg3st4r]

@@Jose-ue3bu 🍪

[@Sancsteq]

Nightly?

[@Jose-ue3bu]

@@Sancsteq Yes

[@DRLZEca]

Thank you so much for these videos, im sure you know how much we appreciate these. Youre a gem to the community

[@n-tertainmentx-tended4760]

Thank you very much. I'm just glad people can appreciate it.

[@andrewplush]

the video I had a feeling you were going to make! so glad to see emulators are getting better and better 🙌!

[@n-tertainmentx-tended4760]

Good anticipation. Yeah, I sorta had to make it.

[@Nachy]

Another game that hasn't been fixed that I think deserves attention is Stuntman from 2002. The AI is broken and doesn't follow its intended scripting, thus rendering a fair amount of missions unfinishable. Driv3r is on the same engine and I don't know if you were able to test some of the missions in the campaign with 2.0 but it exhibits similar behavior. You won't be able to complete mission 2 due to this emulation bug.

[@NEOL1NK]

Kingdom Hearts still has those weird lines on dialog and menu textures when you upscale. Messing with the offsets kinda clears up some of it, but not all of it, or even introduces new artifacts.

[@astrodome1994]

Last year I was playing "Star Wars: Racer Revenge" on my Steam Deck, and it was running great until I got to "The Grand Reefs" toward the end of the game and track textures got so glitchy that I couldn't navigate the track properly, forcing me to abandon the playthrough. I hope it's been fixed since, 'cause that was one of my personal favorites as a kid.

[@D.Ghost92]

Great improvement, Looks great with the TimeSplitters Resurgence Mod in my channel. Lights still bleed through buildings but I can mod the lights out as a temp fix

[@NemeZisUK]

R-Type Final had a strange issue on the Dimension Jump level where the background didn't render correctly with the effect. I wonder if that has been fixed?

[@n-tertainmentx-tended4760]

That would be interesting to know.

[@NemeZisUK]

@@n-tertainmentx-tended4760 I'll try it out and upload a video

[@zagStygian]

Crossing my fingers at fixing True Crime New York City.

[@logandunlap9156]

i'm so glad to hear that the ace combat games just work now those games had some real funky issues and it was a shame since those are such good games

[@nova3530onyt]

Been using the nightly for them and the performance was great. No glitches as far as I know. Played the trilogy well. Updated to the latest today and saw an improvement in 5 the most. Previously had frame drops on an older gpu in my old laptop. Just remember to switch the emulator settings to wide screen 16:9 and in game too. And change the internal resolution to something more crisper. Happy hunting fellow ace.

[@NotOrdinaryInGames]

Beyond Good & Evil is also a good game to test your PS2. If it's hardware after model 70000, you will get an audio glitch after playing normally for a little while. You'll know it when you hear it.

[@g04tn4d0]

Awesome! Now if only XEMU would do the same.

[@sebastiangonzales46]

Stenzek really evolved this emulator to what it is today

[@DudeinThatCorner]

If anyone wants to look into playing The Godfather, I'd recommend playing the PS3 version on RPCS3. It's an enhanced edition and ultimately better than the PS2 version and it works amazingly with PS3 emulation. At least to say it's been perfect for me.

[@electricfire7]

Primal finally fixed!.. Only ran in software mode for me at the time and that was with a different version of PCSX2.

[@n-tertainmentx-tended4760]

Yeah, it was one of those must-play games on PS2.

[@tidzej5400]

What's more - there is 60 fps patch that works very well!

[@MetalJody1990]

More fixes: Freekstyle no longer has invisible walls on the tracks. Rayman 2: Revolution (from my medium testing) has no game-breaking cutscenes. Toy Story 3 no longer has bloom ghosting. Fixes needed: Shox has some texture glitches. Midnight Club 3 Dub Edition Remix has bloom light ghosting (can be fixed by switching to software and back to hardware) and there is present z-fighting on many distant textures. Stuntman's driver AI is still screwed up. What a beautiful emulator. I love it.

[@soulbrother5435]

So hyped to revisit Burnout 3 properly! What about shadow of the colossus?

[@n-tertainmentx-tended4760]

Shadow of the Colossus has been fully playable for yonks.

[@merrymuso]

Toca Race Driver 2 works faultlessly in v 1.74013 I play it a bit on xlink kai LAN MODE over the internet with my cousin and it works FAULTLESSLY in 4k 60 FPS Graphically and Performance wise.All the Burnout Games suffer from Lens Flare issues in 2 player mode in the very latest updates creating lighting vertical lines which while NOT unplayable are annoying.(ONLY in the 2nd players portion of the screen) on Burnout 3 Burnout Revenge and Burnout Dominator.What is impressive in the burnout games now though with the update is the patch to make the 2 player mode run in 60 fps like the 1 player mode does!! Hopefully they can do that in other games too like ATV OFF ROAD FURY 4 a two player 60 FPS PATCH in that game would be great too.

[@mgf909]

The one game I couldn’t play on 1.6 was Spiderman 2 now it runs really well.

[@RTPJu]

The only of those I really miss is Tourist Trophy. It's a pretty amazing update

[@olevet75]

You would think RRV would've been fixed by now, maybe next release

[@n-tertainmentx-tended4760]

It's fully playable, as long as you don't mind the glittering bumper, I suppose.

[@HesarealNoWhereMan]

The Punisher, Fallout Brotherhood of Steel and Balders Gate need to be fixed also.

[@pacothemajestic]

Dynasty Warriors Gundam 2 unfortunately has not been fixed, vertical lines run across the screen at every resolution, causing a screen-tearing like effect, but vertical instead of horizontal.

[@n-tertainmentx-tended4760]

Thanks.

[@strugglesnuggledslime7040]

Huh?Dont seem to have that problem on 1.7

[@bambangwaseso7899]

Every PS2 Musou games from Koei seems to have that issue on PCSX2.

[@xMawkKnightx]

Mercenaries still has some audio issues, Valkyrie Profile 2 Silmeria still needs a lot of tweaking and can't run at 4k. Lastly, Final Fantasy X-2 also can't render at 4k (at least for me it can't). Still good to see pcxs2 is constantly getting updates. Hopefully these games get fixed too 😅🙂.

[@ContraWolf]

I'm pretty sure I'm alone in this but I hope Warhammer 40K fire warrior gets fixed someday

[@golbibulbus5183]

I knew BG&E would be on the unfixed list. I suffered through its broken shadows & red water while playing this with Retroachievements. However I may master the cheevo set on this version. Then I'd like to try the GameCube version on Dolphin when it gets a set. At least it will work better.

[@DarkmoonWinter]

With this update I can finally play Dragon Quest 8 and Metal Gear Solid 3 fully internal upscaled on a 4k display without any frame drops on my 4070 which was never before possible till now.

[@ian.swift.31614]

pretty interesting that this happened about the same time dolphin did a total version revision.

[@eruner7888]

DBZ Infinite World has a strange glich that turn black the aura of the characters when you play the flying minigame chasing checkpoints

[@elchinothegreat4977]

I just want stuntman to finally run on an emulator.. I have it physically but to have it in a higher resolution would be crazy

[@smith3527]

another fixed game is battelfield 2 modern combat, it had a black bar covering 80% of the screen so it was unplayable unless you were using software renderer, it was such a huge fix

[@n-tertainmentx-tended4760]

That's true. Frames still randomly dip a little.

[@lurkerrekrul]

It was always possible to fix the sky in Burnout. Press F9 on the car selection screen, start an event, then press F9 again. This fixed the sky and it stayed in effect until you quit the game. Sure, it's better to have it fixed in the emulator, it's just not accurate to say that people couldn't have a normal sky before this update.

[@user-tl3us3ic3m]

first time I even heard about project snowblind)

[@MiniMatthew]

It fixed Lord of the rings return of the king for me on the steam deck & it looks much sharper!

[@asawyer2872]

God I hope they fix stuntman one day.

[@PainWrld]

I think it mightve fixed the matrix path of neo too, because I loaded it up last night and the ghosting was waayyy less and actually was playable

[@Folkster1915]

Nice video, Glad the Emu scene is getting some love. btw Raw Danger on the PCSX2 still hasn't been fixed, it runs on like 5 fps lol.

[@AmodeusR]

Amazing video! Thanks for the effort of making it. I'd just recommend changin the song you put on the 10 games that still need work. That song is too funny, it doesn't fit the context xd

[@n-tertainmentx-tended4760]

Thanks for the vote of confidence. The song was there for comedic purposes.

[@AmodeusR]

@@n-tertainmentx-tended4760 Right on the spot then haha

[@alexisguerrero7551]

This amazing, I wish they did this for the n64 and ps1 and og xbox.

[@MrVecheater]

Z Battle Gate in Tenkaichi 1 doesn't seem to work anymore. It gets stuck in the loading screen

[@vijo9611]

I think the True Crime NYC is the hardest one to emulate properly, game is unpolished and got lots of bugs on console, but it's playble, on the emulator game is making even more bugs... being also a graphical benchmark for Ps2 this is a real challenge. Maybe there is somebody who is intrested in fixing this game, because I think that's the best way to begin in proper emulation, but this human needs to be mad 😅

[@Witchling86]

I really really recommend using the nightly build instead of the stable. Not only is it almost just as ”stable” as the stable build, a lot of the fixes mentioned here have been fixed for months or years and upcomming fixes are added much earlier than the stable build.

[@marcludwick512]

I've used the stable build. Do you know how to bring the memory card or save states from games over to a new build or version?

[@Witchling86]

@@marcludwick512 The recommended way is to load those games in the stable build, save the games like you normally would on a ps2, on the digital memory cards. Update it to the nightly and load the saves from the memory cards. Some times you can drag and drop the stable save states to the nightly. But that does not always work.

[@mrrooster4876]

Godfather and True Crime were 2 games I was hoping I'd be able to play again. What about Black and Scarface?

[@n-tertainmentx-tended4760]

Black and Scarface are fine, yes.

[@mrrooster4876]

@@n-tertainmentx-tended4760 What about the Def Jam Wrestling games?

[@n-tertainmentx-tended4760]

@@mrrooster4876 I'll have to have a look, since I don't know.

[@saloz9483]

to be fair for manhunt 2 I wouldn't even bother playing the PS2 version when the PSP uncensored version exist and runs fine.

[@shorty1k]

Aww man, I was hoping for Ridge Racer to be working correctly by now

[@mr_chere]

Star Wars Battlefront also seem to have been improved. No more atrocious blur

[@chris_player2]

4:50 this one...even on original hardware had issues its a shame its a great game

[@1RacerXer]

They STILL haven't fixed Splashdown :( It runs fine for me in software mode but I would still like to be able to upscale it.

[@AfroSnackey]

Beyond Good and Evil works on the Gamecube emulator if you're really desperate to play

[@JDelwynn]

PC already has two versions you can choose from, no need for an emulator...

[@user-it3oo2oe8j]

I hope LRPS2 can also be updated to version 2.0

[@matitone]

don't use that shit, just use the official pcsx2, it will always be better

[@MrMEGALOL01]

I just wish that in God Of War 2 there wern't that weird line following Kratos when you upscale above 1080p.

[@n-tertainmentx-tended4760]

That can be fixed with manual fixes. Can't remember the specific fix though. It could be "align sprite".

[@MrMEGALOL01]

@@n-tertainmentx-tended4760 I cannot for love of god ( of war ) find it tho ! I even scoured wiki and it says it is a problem with emulator and there is no fix.

[@scarvello]

It’s a crime that Sony just doesn’t implement this into their software and overall game catalog. So many gems just buried because they’re too lazy to give fans what they want.

[@clamojoat8543]

its because the industry would accuse them of giving in to piracy. like with nintendo. there emulator isn't an emulator so they claim.

[@matisvegli1995]

U Need pay taxes and pay workers for It, not all are thief like emulator creators

[@fillerbunnyninjashark271]

Sony doesn't have fans. They have consumers. Their customers are share holders.

[@M_CFV]

@@clamojoat8543 LMAO this is painfully ignorant. Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft ALL 3 USE EMULATION CONSTANTLY on their current generation, and past generation, systems.

[@clamojoat8543]

@@M_CFV i stopped doing consoles after ps3.

[@chris_player2]

manhunt 2 i even finished it with the 60fps patch and my only two complaints are the little square on the top left corner and a few frame drops

[@tenow]

Software render is fine, I was using it since 2016. All of this is/was not an issue, so it's mostly GSDX and not PCSX2 discussion. Games like Stuntman are actually unplayable and unlikely to be fixed.

[@deathdoor]

Didn't expect this. Ridge Racer V, a launch title still not working right? Also, Tourist Trophy, a "mod" of Gran Turismo 4 doesn't work?

[@n-tertainmentx-tended4760]

Unfortunately, that is the case. 😔

[@DemoniteBL]

Is there a list of all fixed games? Ford Racing & DTM Race Driver are some games I deleted just recently because of the visual bugs. Edit: Ok nvm, you demonstrate that DTM (TOCA) doesn't work in the video. lol

[@bambangwaseso7899]

Still waiting for screen tearing fix on Musou games.

[@sheldonxwilliams]

I'm shocked that ultimate spider man didn't get fixen

[@n-tertainmentx-tended4760]

It still has teething performance issues, unfortunately.

[@DannyNilsson]

OMG the choice of music in the end part of the video gave me a headache.

[@ViperAcidZX]

A game that is sadly overlooked and I would categorize as Unplayable is the SEGA AGES Series Vol. 31: Cyber Troopers Virtual-ON, which sadly is just god awful on PCSX2 from the times I tried to play it on the emulator. With hardware renders, the game plays in a slideshow frame-rate with broken colors and distorted audio that is ear-grating, and while switching to software renderer fixes the colors, it doesn't fix anything else from my personal experience. I really wish the PCSX2 developers would fix this game already because it has been this broken for many years now and even the new update hasn't solved it when I was playing the pre-2.0 nightly builds.

[@Slymi69]

I want to know what the state of turok evolution is now after the update. Pre update, the game has so many graphical bugs, especially while going under water. It’s a mess. Thankfully tho the GameCube version on dolphin runs perfectly tho

[@n-tertainmentx-tended4760]

I'll have a look when I can, but currently I'm knee-deep in my next video.

[@b1gland]

What made Ridge Racer V hard to be fixed even it a PS2 launch game?

[@n-tertainmentx-tended4760]

To be fair, it emulates 'almost' perfectly, except for that sparkly-grainy thing on the bumper.

[@chadbrick67]

Just so you know if you use software mode on a older build it runs perfectly. But to be honest on this new build with upscaled graphics it looks spot on. You need a strong pc for software mode. I have a I9 14900k rtx 4080. But it also is fine on my 5900x other pc

[@meecob]

I never got the black sky on the burnout games

[@metalslayergameplays6089]

4:54 Thanks for update on true crime so I don't need to check it for myself.

[@jardelortiz6762]

Forgot to mention hitman contracts and blood money.

[@n-tertainmentx-tended4760]

True. I don't know everything, so if you guys can tell me what I missed, it's much appreciated.

[@vergil1155]

Blood money on the nightly build has broken shadows.

[@ryandavid1277]

I wonder if Dirge of Cerberus was fixed

[@TheWilku22]

Awesome ❤

[@Staenley]

i hoped they had feature to enable or disable motion blur and blurry image i know they had this feature anti blurry image but in some game they still looks soo blur like nfs most wanted, bully, gta sa.

[@n-tertainmentx-tended4760]

I think if a game has a Progressive Scan patch, that will help to eliminate motion-blur.

[@Staenley]

@@n-tertainmentx-tended4760 ah yes progressive scan the feature that had in god of war 1 and 2 i leave that off and soften in gow 1 i turn off too and game look sharp i think yeah the progressive scan and soften its the problem but some game in the display setting no have kind of that option it has to do with the graphic setting or hack patches.

[@NinjaRunningWild]

3:20 Is that a flute having a seizure? 🫨

[@andremalerba5281]

FINALLY!! And it took them only 10y to fix Burnout games! Have they ever fixed Battlefield 2 only running in Software mode?

[@n-tertainmentx-tended4760]

Battlefield does run fine in hardware mode now, but there are occasional frame hitches.

[@andremalerba5281]

​@@n-tertainmentx-tended4760thanks! I've gotta got it a try!

[@Darkotaku85]

I wish PCS2X devs weren't so damn paranoid about obviously abandoned/non-existent copyrights and permitted certain prototype games such as Goemon Zero to actually be playable on the emulator. For now it's only playable on a custom older build.

[@chadbrick67]

Shut up

[@fillerbunnyninjashark271]

Curious if namco's Gundam game was finally fixed. Even on nightly, the game only works through software rendering

[@tonynguyen7976]

Does the new update fix the ghosting in GTA San andreas? If not does anyone know of any fixes that stop the ghosting? TIA

[@leedudgeon5861]

Turn of trails in the normal menu bro

[@JoeyJoJoJoestarJuniorShabadoo]

They need to bring back shader support. What a absolutely stupid decision to remove it.

[@DDRmails]

colin mcrae rally 05 is still broken? its sad, thanks ppsspp - that version works perfectly

[@nobodysyafiq4286]

How about Sniper Elite? The game got a pretty terrible graphical issue especially when playing with the coop mode

[@Mangomesh]

Does anyone know if Red Faction is fixed yet, I tested it out a year ago and the rocket launcher suffers from texture screen error?

[@N3xlow]

the it just works part was fire 😀🤣

[@jakemartinez9473]

so sad about the stuntman games

[@2PlayerVersus]

Quake 3 revolution has flickering textures

[@n-tertainmentx-tended4760]

Okay.

[@heyimdemon]

even if they do fix the graphics in true crime NY the input latency is too high to enjoy the game anyway sadly

[@nikodem123asdf]

Are those results regarding only the upscaling? What about playing those "problematic " games in software mode? I personally don't care for upscaling and just want my shitty aliasing and pixels to be accurate.

[@user-nd2up7jm2d]

Is this update available on linux also?

[@n-tertainmentx-tended4760]

I would imagine so, although I have no way of testing.

[@ZeroDigitalArt]

For people that use the Nightly builds, True crime, Manhunt 2 and The Godfather can run fine. Nightly is better than using the stable build, with almost daily updates to the program.

[@damasake]

where to get pressure sensitive face buttons for mgs2/3 without getting dualshock1/2/3?

[@DrDemoman74]

Whats the story with ridge racer V?

[@perfect_genius7058]

Проходят десятилетия, а эмулятор самой популярной консоли всё никак не может избавиться от "детских болезней" -_-

[@liuwang9899]

Manhunt 2 works, but only the PAL version is fixed (both retail and uncut versions)

[@mrjaked420]

whats the first game at 30 seconds in? looks good asf for some reason.

[@n-tertainmentx-tended4760]

The racing game? That's Burnout 3.

[@ObinnaUgochukwu-hb2hb]

Marvel nemesis 😢

[@equanimity92]

moment of silence for people who didn't know about nightly builds for the last 10 years💀

[@flenx4383]

can you do best way to play bully pls :)

[@chris_player2]

how about the AI in Driver 3? the companion AI had issues

[@GooseDaPlaymaker]

Get back at me when they fix True Crime: NYC. A crying shame, I tell you...

[@Yngdady]

Driv3r and Stuntman are still broken 😡

[@Dadflaps]

why are so many Aussies into emulation? almost every guide or in depth video I see are by an Aussie haha