PS2 emulator for PC?

Not sure if this goes here but there's a hardware Q as well. I have a PS2. Perfectly fine, but the TV in my room has no remote, and for some reason I cannot get anything but static while the PS2 is turned on (shares single co-ax input with the cable). I wish the PS2 to remain in my room despite the tiny-ass TV.

Anyway...I was wondering if there are any [free?] PS2 emulators for PC, how much space they eat, system reqs, ect, and if the DVD/CD reader/burner in my laptop can read PS2 and PS1(Hydroooo-Thunderrrr!) disks?

http://www.emulator-zone.com/doc.php/ps2/

try this site

I'm going to tell you right now that you need a high-end computer to run a PS2 emulator.

So a Dell Studio isn't up to snuff?

http://pcsx2.net/

And yes, you need a bitchin' awesome computer to run it at low settings at an acceptable framerate. Even then, you'll be lucky if it is even compatible with the game that you want to play.

Yeah, you're gonna need some crazy Alienware shit for it to work good.

immah playing with PCSX2 Final Fantasy X-2; working very well keeping 80-100% most of the time ^__^

Spoiler:

Processor: AMD Phenom X4 9950 Black Edition 2,6 Mhz
Memory: 2x 2GB 800Mhz DDR2
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB

comp built by urself sounds cheaper than Alienware; thou i haven't rly looked what kind of comps Alienware has, just heard they are quite expensive =o

Alienware is the "Macs of the PC"
Works good, looks good, and costs an arm and a leg.

Just build your own and learn something in the process for a lot cheaper.

To give you an idea:

Going to bump this topic with some screenshots.

Persona 4


Final Fantasy X


Tales of the Abyss


Don't give up if you are only getting 20 FPS in games, I was getting the same, but after tweaking my config a lot I finally got games at playable levels.

Under my current config I run almost all games @ 60fps fmv / 60fps menus / 50-60fps in-game.

Tales of the Abyss ran slightly slower than the rest, but I haven't tried tweaking config to get my FPS back up there for it, although even thought he FPS is lower, it's still incredibly playable as is.

I think we should make a huge list of playable games under pcsx2 and under what setups they best run for (insert gpu here).

Pics or it didn't- never mind.


Is that really necessary? Most of the info is just going to be pretty much copy-paste kind of stuff from the PCSX2 and NGEMU forums ...

Perhaps a list with the playable games and the tweaks that make them run best?
That would make the list slightly different than most, at least.

That's exactly what I said 0.o a list of games we found playable, on what systems they were playable, and under what exact config we've found them most playable, pcsx2 doesn't have that to my knowledge.


Kind of like a comparison list for people trying to play games, so they can get max fps without spending 6 hours trying out different plugins/configs

There might also come up some problems like in FFX-2 (US) i had to put up patch and use different grapich plugin to get pass one FMV movie (since it crashed always on it) and on FFX (PAL) which works perfectly fine for me, but had in Kilika after automatical scenes it went black screen and i had to continue with different saving since i didn't find any conclusion for it anywhere nor a patch.

But yeah i like the idea ^^. But as i said, could mention the patches that are needed and when if something like that is needed in few points of the game.

Yea that would be a good addition to it, I think I'll write one up for Persona 4 once I finish my first play through, I'm about 7 hours in.