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PCSX2 - Excellent PS2 emulation, support improving all the time!
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OK, so been trying this for the first time tonight. I fired up Dragon Quest VIII and Final Fantasy XII - both of which I ripped to ISOs on my internal platter HDD (as opposed to my internal SSD).
Both of them look great, I actually think DQVIII might be the more impressive of the two just because of the art style. Wow!!! I'm running everything with the internal resolution set at my monitor's 1920x1200 native resolution, and fullscreening them widescreen. Nice that PCSX2 realizes the aspect ratio difference and adds the black bars. I also tried Jak2 since the compatibility list says it worked, but I got a ton of graphical glitches with it.
I am having some issues with FFXII's sound though, and I was wondering if anyone had any advice (or knows if these are just known issues). For some reason, rather frequently FFXII will just freeze for a split second, almost like it's loading something from the ISO, not sure what it's doing, but I haven't been able to get it to stop, has anyone seen this?
Also, the sound on FFXII sounds a bit . . . tinny? Almost like there isn't enough reverb or bass. DQ8 is fine, but obviously its score is pre-recorded orchestral stuff so it's not the console-generated music. Also, in both games the sound will sometimes go wacko when the game loads something like a menu, or like, in FFXII, when in the intro they enter that first gate in the tutorial before the Tonberry flying machine. It will get all garbled.
I'm using the SPU2-X plug-in, but maybe I need to look for newer versions of these plug-ins than are included with the PCSX2 download? Anyone know where to find those?
Both of them look great, I actually think DQVIII might be the more impressive of the two just because of the art style. Wow!!! I'm running everything with the internal resolution set at my monitor's 1920x1200 native resolution, and fullscreening them widescreen. Nice that PCSX2 realizes the aspect ratio difference and adds the black bars. I also tried Jak2 since the compatibility list says it worked, but I got a ton of graphical glitches with it.
I am having some issues with FFXII's sound though, and I was wondering if anyone had any advice (or knows if these are just known issues). For some reason, rather frequently FFXII will just freeze for a split second, almost like it's loading something from the ISO, not sure what it's doing, but I haven't been able to get it to stop, has anyone seen this?
Also, the sound on FFXII sounds a bit . . . tinny? Almost like there isn't enough reverb or bass. DQ8 is fine, but obviously its score is pre-recorded orchestral stuff so it's not the console-generated music. Also, in both games the sound will sometimes go wacko when the game loads something like a menu, or like, in FFXII, when in the intro they enter that first gate in the tutorial before the Tonberry flying machine. It will get all garbled.
I'm using the SPU2-X plug-in, but maybe I need to look for newer versions of these plug-ins than are included with the PCSX2 download? Anyone know where to find those?
MrMephistoX
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Anyone else have issues with saving controller configs? I got everything working on the emulator for the first time but after mapping button inputs and saving it seems the controller doesn't work in game and loading a saved controller config after the fact does nothing. Using the Motionjoy DS3 driver.
flanker37 said:I finally restarted Dragon Quest 8 again after a long break, and figured I would continue it by emulator. I like how it looks here much more than how I remember it looking on my PS2.
thanks for inspiring me. i spent 2-3 hours setting everything up, running it at 3x native resolution output to my 1080p.
lord hot damn. this looks equal if not better then current gen games.
cel shading really upscales amazingly well. must because all the colors are beautiful and it uses alot of easy to see lines for the cel-shading making it really easy to upscale (just a guess?)
anyways, this game is freakin gorgeous. i have it running on my TV right now and it's just, wowww. can't wait to try other games, but the difference never looked that huge to me from screenshots ive seen, but the diff in DQ8 is huge.
The Antitype
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Can somebody do me a HUGE favor and pick a game (any game), and post 2 comparison pics? One using PCSX2 and the other using the PS3's emulation (after the most recent hardware update, in the case of software emulation on the 80gb model)?
I just want to see first hand how big the difference is. Thanks!
I just want to see first hand how big the difference is. Thanks!
BrokenEchelon
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Mr_Brit said:First is PS3 emulation, the second is rendered at 1080p on the emulator.
So crisp. I really need to test out God of War 2, it must look beautiful.
Android18a
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What's the story on a mac PS2 emulator? Is there one? I'm not good at terminal stuff, and the only one I've found is pretty bare-bones. I'd love to run my PS2 games through my 27" mac screen.
Failing that, is there a good PS1 one I can play stuff like my BOF4 disc on?
Failing that, is there a good PS1 one I can play stuff like my BOF4 disc on?
So I decided to at least try out a ps1 emulator since I figured I couldn't run this Ps2 one.
I thought it would be easy! Nope.
After running the ps1 emulator it tells me I'm missing some sort of dll file. So I go on google and find this damn file on some forum. Cool. But oh wait! Now it tells me I need a ps1 bios! What, it wasn't with the program already? Fine, so I go find this file now hoping I don't get some virus. Got it. Yay now I can play! ....But then what... set up video configuration? Hmm..all the options are blank. Try to run game..black screen :lol
and I'm done.....
I thought it would be easy! Nope.
After running the ps1 emulator it tells me I'm missing some sort of dll file. So I go on google and find this damn file on some forum. Cool. But oh wait! Now it tells me I need a ps1 bios! What, it wasn't with the program already? Fine, so I go find this file now hoping I don't get some virus. Got it. Yay now I can play! ....But then what... set up video configuration? Hmm..all the options are blank. Try to run game..black screen :lol
and I'm done.....
MrMephistoX
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Boot Camp it's what I'm using.Android18a said:
Sickboy007
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jmdajr said:
Did you download the plugins?
Chesskid1 said:
Happy to hear you liked it and were able to get everything working. I too also played DQ8 at 3x native resolution and thought it looked incredible and at full speed.
I love this emulator, and have finished Persona 3 & 4, DQ8, and just recently Shadow Hearts 3 on it. Seeing these games in such great quality and higher resolutions really helped me get back into and finally finish some of my ps2 games I had on hold.
throwawayname
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Hmm is my pc with 4 x 2,66 ghz + 9800gt fast enough to run most games with acceptable speed? my ps2 broke months ago and i want to play my old games
flanker37 said:Happy to hear you liked it and were able to get everything working. I too also played DQ8 at 3x native resolution and thought it looked incredible and at full speed.
I love this emulator, and have finished Persona 3 & 4, DQ8, and just recently Shadow Hearts 3 on it. Seeing these games in such great quality and higher resolutions really helped me get back into and finally finish some of my ps2 games I had on hold.
hey, sorry to bug you with questions, but they are pretty minor questions with no answers in the pcsx2 forum.
hows it running for you? on 3x native, it's mostly full speed. sometimes i'll get a bit of slowdown in a town with a bunch of NPCs or is there a ton of monsters in a fight. really not bad, i'm on a 4870 + 3.0 Phenom II Quad.
is the text when you talk to people a bit garbled? it's still pretty easy to read, just some artifacts around the text, could just be a bystander of upscaling.
either way the game looks amazing, just thought i would share a few questions. i'm using the latest beta (should I?) and since when i last "tried" to use it on my old computer, it was alot more complicated, very cool of them to simplify it down.
darkpaladinmfc
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You'll be able to play most games well, but with some slowdowns. You would fare a lot better with an overclock.PNstyle said:Hmm is my pc with 4 x 2,66 ghz + 9800gt fast enough to run most games with acceptable speed? my ps2 broke months ago and i want to play my old games
demosthenes
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So I'm new to all of this but I have a fairly new computer.
How does this work? I pop a PS2 game in my DVD drive and it plays? Or do you need to rip an ISO first?
Kind of interested to see how some of my PS2 games look
Just upgraded to a i5750 OC'ed to 3.8ghz and a 1 gig GTX460 card w/ 4 gigs of ram.
edit: Are the instructions to get a PS3 controller to work on the site in the OP?
How does this work? I pop a PS2 game in my DVD drive and it plays? Or do you need to rip an ISO first?
Kind of interested to see how some of my PS2 games look
Just upgraded to a i5750 OC'ed to 3.8ghz and a 1 gig GTX460 card w/ 4 gigs of ram.
edit: Are the instructions to get a PS3 controller to work on the site in the OP?
Demigod Mac
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Android18a said:
Your best bet is Boot Camp.
There are some alternatives, albeit complex/buggy ones:
http://pcsx2mac.net/
http://forum.portingteam.com/viewtopic.php?f=132&t=1053
For PS1 emulation:
http://speedofmac.com/pcsx_latest.html
demosthenes said:So I'm new to all of this but I have a fairly new computer.
How does this work? I pop a PS2 game in my DVD drive and it plays? Or do you need to rip an ISO first?
Kind of interested to see how some of my PS2 games look
Just upgraded to a i5750 OC'ed to 3.8ghz and a 1 gig GTX460 card w/ 4 gigs of ram.
edit: Are the instructions to get a PS3 controller to work on the site in the OP?
i just set it up so i can help you out
ps3 controller on PC: http://www.motioninjoy.com/ click download and grab the signature. there's a nice tutorial setup around the site somewhere.
go to pcsx2 forums for the latest beta build /w all the plugins. you need to obtain your own ps3 bios. there is a guide on the front page of the mainpage for all the settings to configured pcsx2. lookin through the pcsx2 menu it can play through a DVD (haven't tried it yet) and an ISO.
demosthenes
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Chesskid1 said:
Thanks
Guy above just posted about PS1 emulation. Is there a good PS1 emulator out there as well? Would love to do another play through on FFIX.
MrMephistoX
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If you're willing to put the work into compiling the Mac version ( not user friendly) why not just go with boot camp? It's much easier than you'd think.demosthenes said:Thanks
Guy above just posted about PS1 emulation. Is there a good PS1 emulator out there as well? Would love to do another play through on FFIX.
Demigod Mac
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jmdajr said:the one I tried did me no favors
It was called ePSXe
http://epsxe.com/
http://www.pbernert.com/index.htm
use Pete's OpenGL2 Plugin.
demosthenes
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MrMephistoX said:
I don't run MAC, was just drawing to how he asked about PS1 emulation
demosthenes
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Chesskid1 said:
Ohhh PS3 bios to use a DS3...ok.
I'll try it tonight hopefully and see if I have any questions.
Free iso creator anyone?
Chesskid1 said:
Sure, I'd be happy to answer them. I used the latest beta and had almost no slowdowns (just a couple during battles where the enemy counts were high like 7+).
I played at 3x native on my GTX 260 core 216, so I think your card should have no problems with that internal res.
However, I played the game with an X3 Phenom II overclocked to 3.6 GHz. I would guess any extra slowdowns can be attributed to that. So if you can overclock to around 3.5 or 3.6, I would try that first.
And lastly, I had the text garbling as well (that's why none of my screen caps had dialogue text
). And I am pretty sure its due to scaling as well, b/c it looked fine when I tried the game at 1x or Native resolution.Hope that answers everything and helps you out. Good luck.
And here are few shots I took towards the end of the game. Unfortunately I think the jpeg compression messed them up a little, but still gives the basic idea.
well motioninjoy does use some ads in the actual program i think, but i've never gotten pop ups. it's the only way to get a ps3 controller working on a pc afaik, so you're stuck i think (could be wrong?)
here's a link to the motioninjoy thread on here for there isn't a bunch of blah blah motioninjoy.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=410974
edit: thanks for the response maybe pcsx2 will support quads one day.
edit #2: I can full screen this to my HDTV and someone else can still play solitaire on the computer monitor. brilliant.
here's a link to the motioninjoy thread on here for there isn't a bunch of blah blah motioninjoy.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=410974
edit: thanks for the response
maybe pcsx2 will support quads one day.edit #2: I can full screen this to my HDTV and someone else can still play solitaire on the computer monitor. brilliant.
I should be doing hw
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Do you have any comparison shots of the GoW Collection and an emulator?Mr_Brit said:
MrMephistoX
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Finally got motion joy running as administrator in Win 7. One question though, in FFX and most RPGs the gameplay is perfect but the battle transitions are slow as molases: is this due to my hardware or might I be overlooking a pluton setting? Also running directly from legit discs not ISOs.
MrMephistoX
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Cool I will try it. The transitions speed up eventually but really chug initially and I hear a lot of Disc access so perhaps that's the problem.jediyoshi said:
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