The Best PS2 Emulator Has A HUGE UPDATE!

The Best PS2 Emulator Has A HUGE UPDATE! - PCSX2 2.0

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@ryler7 5 ай бұрын

The nightly builds of PCSX2 are always recommended over the stable versions as you always get the latest and greatest right of the bat. It's updates are fairly frequent as well as automatic, so all you do is just open the app and it updates itself. Most of the updates are small, but there's a chance a big and significant updates dropping once in a while.

@laserfights 5 ай бұрын

In recent years I’ve always used nightly, but I’ve never dug into the patch history deep enough to see what sorts of issues have popped up (if any) from them. So if i’m recommending to new users or someone who hasn’t touched it in a long time, I feel more confident in recommending the newest stable build. As stable build gets older, checking out nightly will become more and more important. Thank you for your comment. I’m going to pin it :)

@dlaldlaldlanutsntnstn1418 5 ай бұрын

The burnout sky box has been fixed for like 2 years in the nightly build

@nthnglsn 5 ай бұрын

ultimate spider man is now payable with a 60fps patch, also driv3r is fixed. It's amazing

@NinjaxWizardGoVroom 5 ай бұрын

Really driv3r? Serious? Like does it run good now because I never could get that to run worth a spit

@nthnglsn 5 ай бұрын

@NinjaxWizardGoVroom only played maybe a half hour but before it was missing textures and buildings. Looks great now

@TheChairmanZero 5 ай бұрын

Ultimate Spider Man is playable without needing any kind of patch on PCSX2. Idk why you even mentioned a 60fps Patch lmao

@nthnglsn 5 ай бұрын

@TheChairmanZero maybe I'm thinking of dolphin but one of them was locked at 30fps. Also there is now a conveniently located 60fps patch in the games settings regardless of if it hit 60 before, its now better. And the only way it worked on pcsx2 was on software mode, which is fine if you want an og experience but you can't upscale it that way. Either way this update makes it significantly better.

@TheChairmanZero 5 ай бұрын

@@nthnglsn the only game I've encountered that doesn't run perfectly fine, start to finish with no crashes on this new update are the True Crime games, they barely even load up lmao. Everything else is smooth as silk and you can upscale it fine.

@chris_player2995 3 ай бұрын

i just hope the emulator wont slow down when I use OBS to record because even with the Nightly Dev up to date it was annoying

@Frapskillar 5 ай бұрын

Glad that the stable folk can now experience the changes, that were implented from the nightly builds. The DuckStation Developer is for some time maintaining PCSX2

@laserfights 5 ай бұрын

Do you have a lot of experience with the nightly builds? Do you know if they ever have stability or regression issues? Recommending nightly was easy when 1.6 was so old, but now I'm not sure.

@Frapskillar 5 ай бұрын

@@laserfights i had a better time with the nightly builds than 1.6 i have to admit. The UI change to Qt helped me figure stuff out easier

@Zanarkand_0 5 ай бұрын

seeing the 1.6.0 layout has become nostalgic for me. I kind of miss it to be honest.

@laserfights 5 ай бұрын

I’m definitely nostalgic for the colors and graphics, the dark mode-ification of everything is a little boring. I say that, but I haven’t messed with themes at all yet.

@ripoutyourprejudice 3 ай бұрын

The black burnout skybox could be fixed in PCSX 1.6 by just switching to software at a menu, waiting the game to load into a race while in software mode, and once the race started you could switch to hardware and the sky stayed fixed just like in software. And it stayed fixed until you closed the game, you didn't have to do it for every race. Same trick worked with Black.

@laserfights 3 ай бұрын

oh thats pretty cool i didnt know that

@ripoutyourprejudice 3 ай бұрын

@@laserfights I happen to stumble upon the fix by accident while playing in PCSX 1.6. But don't just believe me try it out yourself.

@querecuto 5 ай бұрын

10:28 - 12:13 Why does it move slowly without the character walking? 👀

@laserfights 5 ай бұрын

👻

@NSHG 5 ай бұрын

I just tried the Qt version with Ford Racing 2 and 3, two games that I knew had graphical corruption in the wxWidget era. Apart from FR2 having white shadows, I'd be absolutely lying if I said they didn't nail the PS2 experience to the smallest detail. And a "for fun" experiment - booted Abe's Exoddus for the PSX on it. It worked... somewhat. It got as far as the first screen where Abe spawns, all looking like an acid trip, then crashed when I tried changing the screen by moving Abe. 🤣

@lukabrasi001 4 ай бұрын

how did you boot PSX games on it?

@ajflink 5 ай бұрын

The best version is the early access one. 1.6 kinda sucked by comparison. Eventually, on the website itself, they recommended not using the stable one and use the beta/early access one instead. I have noticed when playing Ratchet and Clank 1 via disc on PCSX2 that it runs a lot smoother and maintains the 60 fps during gameplay with very minor and brief instances where it dips to around 42 or 45 fps at the worst, almost exclusively occurs sometimes during transitions between levels. I was even able to bump up the internal resolution to 720p without it seeming to effect framerate at all on my mid-end laptop. The PS2 Ratchet and Clank games are a bit infamous to get running on anything aside from genuine PS2 hardware due to how the games are coded and optimized to all them to run at 60 fps. This is why there are some oddities with the PS3 Ratchet and Clank collection or playing a PS2 disc of one of the games on a backwards compatible PS3. Correct me if I am wrong. I think 2.0 is a lot more optimized and memory efficient than 1.6 ever was.

@laserfights 5 ай бұрын

i haven’t even thought of playing PCSX2 on disc in probably years. That’s really interesting, I’ll have to mess around with that. Do you know of any other games that act like that?

@ajflink 5 ай бұрын

@@laserfights Not that I am aware of.

@ajflink 5 ай бұрын

@Krypto121 I noticed that running those two games does result in some frequent framerate dropping or fluctuating on settings that are fine for Ratchet and Clank 1. Does doing what you suggest cause them to run smoothly more consistently? Keep in mind that I am running off actual discs of the games. So, I am not sure if that affects anything.

@carlosvaca299 5 ай бұрын

Please, i don't want to watch the whole video, so answer me this question. Does the Burnout bug that turned the sky black have been solved?

@laserfights 5 ай бұрын

haha that’s alright, burnout should be good now

@carlosvaca299 5 ай бұрын

@@laserfights yes!! Thxs for the confirmation. I'll watch the whole video later man

@FanaxLt 5 ай бұрын

Can some point a PS2-like controller on Aliexpress? To work with Windows 10 and PCSX2 without any hassle?

@thermaltake77 5 ай бұрын

just get a ps4 or ps5 controller it works perfect

@laserfights 5 ай бұрын

ps4 and ps5 controllers work pretty well. I haven’t touched mine in awhile but i think a ps3 controller can be set up without too much fuss if you have one laying around. If those aren’t good for you for whatever reason, I can look into alternatives. Is there anything specific about the ps2 controller you’re looking for?

@iEatAnimalz 5 ай бұрын

8bitdo pro 2 with hall effect sticks is less expensive and you wont have to worry about stick drift. It's simply better for emulation overall

@305VERSATILE 5 ай бұрын

You can get a wired logitech for cheap. Guaranteed precision D pad. But any bootleg Ds4 or 5 will feel ripped off. I git mad controllers n rip off's always feel as such.

@amy-295 5 ай бұрын

x360 controller work well for me 😂

@denzal689 5 ай бұрын

I tried PCSX2 a while ago and the graphical bugs in the few games I noticed really turned me off. Now, I might try it again.

@laserfights 5 ай бұрын

I honestly wasn't a huge fan of it for a long time, but I think it's come a long way

@falsegod7309 5 ай бұрын

I don't know how long you've tried it, but it really has come a long way. The requirements have come down a lot too

@denzal689 5 ай бұрын

@@falsegod7309 I first used it in 2020 just before 1.6 came out.

@etherus819 5 ай бұрын

The extreme amount of graphical issues had practically kept me from enjoying emulation.

@laserfights 5 ай бұрын

That's exactly what I was thinking whenever I showed off Jak and Daxter, I think my longest playthrough of it on the emulator was with some weird glitch that made the eyes not render out correctly. But that seems to be fine now. Lots of things work fine now!

@StickyStickx 5 ай бұрын

Im always put off emulators due to their latency, has this changed at all?

@laserfights 5 ай бұрын

I've actually never done any testing with it, so I'm not sure how it compares to a PS2. I'll look deeper into it for you. In the mean time, I'd say check it out for yourself if it isn't too much a hassle to set up. I played a few hours of Mercenaries 1 recently on PCSX2 and I didn't notice anything annoying with latency.

@laserfights 5 ай бұрын

I used mouse inject for Medal Of Honor Frontline on Dolphin (Gamecube) and that felt very responsive.

@StickyStickx 5 ай бұрын

@@laserfights Just set it all up again and enabled "Optimal Frame Pacing". Playing Def Jam - Fight for New York right now and it seems like my issue is solved? I'll have to test more games but the lag used to be horrible and unplayable for me. But yeah as of right now I have absolutely zero input delay 🥳

@MetalJody1990 5 ай бұрын

PCSX2 with G-Sync @ 120Hz = responsive af. The GC & Wii emulator Dolphin can be nearly as responsive, but at the cost of smooth frame pacing. Some emulators (aka cores) in RetroArch include a feature called Run-Ahead Frames that can reduce latency to levels lower than that of original hardware, but it's sort of experimental, so try it on a per-game basis. I've gotten great results with the Metal Slug games 1 thru 5. Super responsive compared to the Arcade / Neo Geo.

@tybittz 5 ай бұрын

Can someone please tell me how to get the widescreen patch working on mac? The image still looks stretched when enabled. I'm using the nightly build. Should I switch to the stable build?

@laserfights 5 ай бұрын

just want to double check, for which game?

@tybittz 5 ай бұрын

@@laserfights Grand theft auto san andreas, silent hill 2, burnout revenge, and tekken 5. Do you know what I might be doing wrong?

@tybittz 5 ай бұрын

@@laserfights Also one guide says to access the config menu. Why don't I see that?

@Mohg_Lord 5 ай бұрын

you can now play Jak 3 with good PC very well but anyhow the open goal version is the way to go

@jlyn8228 5 ай бұрын

word

@laserfights 5 ай бұрын

it looked really good but i haven’t actually checked it out yet

@retro_alex 5 ай бұрын

per game settings were already a thing bruh

@laserfights 5 ай бұрын

pcsx2.net/blog/2024/pcsx2-2-release " *Goodbye Goldfish Brain, Hello Per-Game Settings* A long-standing issue from wxWidgets was the burden of changing your settings every time you switched games. Even though automated game fixes have mostly solved this problem on their own, there remain any personal touches you might make. Say you want to run different games at different resolutions; that's still something you have to change every time you switch games, right? Not any longer! PCSX2 now includes per-game settings which are detached from your global settings. The per-game settings will always default to inherit from your global settings, but they allow you to explicitly set a value for one game in particular. Now if you want to run a game at a higher resolution than the rest or use specific memory cards for different games, you can set it once in your per-game settings and forget about it."

@retro_alex 5 ай бұрын

@@laserfights you're getting to specific. I never had trouble saving per game settings on nightly

@waxwezzel4991 5 ай бұрын

still wheel works best on 1.7.3999............ time they gave this some attention..........

@anthonyestrada2479 5 ай бұрын

haha WOW "Very Cool" is what I said watching this video.

@ryler7 5 ай бұрын

For renderers, Vulcan is the way to go.

@SaabEJ 5 ай бұрын

the 1.7 nightly build already had the burnout black sky issue fixed

@MetalJody1990 5 ай бұрын

I love this emulator in its current state. One of the coolest features of PCSX2 is its EE Cycle Rate setting. You can use it to eliminate frame drops that actually happen on original PS2 hardware. Set it to 180% for Mercenaries and you should have a much smoother game, depending on your PC specs, of course. It's essential for games with double fps patches, such as Black.

@asrafiqbal8094 3 ай бұрын

In Pcsx2 2.0 my controller Don't work but in 1.6.0 it works that's why I'm forced to use 1.6.0 😅

@CropDudia480p 27 күн бұрын

strange.. what controller do you have?

@asrafiqbal8094 27 күн бұрын

@CropDudia480p rapoo vpro v600 (wired)

@CropDudia480p 27 күн бұрын

@@asrafiqbal8094 ive never heard of that before.. does it use Xinput? maybe it has its own drivers you need to download

@asrafiqbal8094 27 күн бұрын

@@CropDudia480p well i can switch inputs in that controller 💀 I have x,a,d inputs💀

@failingnovelist6443 5 ай бұрын

PCSX2 just needs a per game controller mapping option, and then it would be perfect

@laserfights 5 ай бұрын

that sounds like it would be cool. Do you like changing settings for the same controller based on the game or are you more so talking about swapping between something like a racing wheel or fight stick?

@IncognitaEX 5 ай бұрын

I think you can... Look the game properties, Input Profile. It's "shared" by default but I think you can create per-game profiles.

@damasake 5 ай бұрын

Im using the same laptop from 9 years ago. 1.4.0 - 1.7.0, cannot run MGS2 even if I minimize the cycle rate, graphics, and etc., I can't play it at all. Now at 2.0, I now can even if it slows down when there's too many people on screen and freezes very often on 'explanation cutscenes'. Definitely a huge improvement but I still can't play Valkyrie Profile 2 though.