PS2 simlation software.

HI
I want to play PS2 games (final fantasy 10) and would like to play it on my desktop.
I wonder if there is any PS2 simulation software so that I can play it?
If possible, can you direct me to the link? thank you.

 

you may have some luck with pcsx2.

 

PCSX2 is the only thing available.

Emulation is a subject that is fine to discuss about but is on the border of piracy.

You must own the game and the system to legally use the emulator.

I own two PS2 consoles and dumped their BIOS's to use with PCSX2.

I have tested FFX and Kingdom Hearts series on the emulator... plays pretty good as long as your system specs can handle it.

 

Speak of the devil i just beat FFX 10 minutes ago

 

And note that there are only around ~40 games what will run on acceptable fps, the rest of them randomly freeze or just show you blank screen.

The games look glitchy aswell, there may occur some random effects or some missing details. (IE faces or backround).
It would be easier and cheaper to get a PS2 and Adaptec Gamebridge - then you can play all PS2 games without lag/glitches and everything else works fine too.

 

You need a beefy CPU and probably an 8800m GTX equivalent GPU to run emulated PSX2 games at reasonable framerates as well.

 

yeah i have Pcsx2, though it did work fine on my 2.4dual core if you decide to get FF12 then you will need a beefy CPU, good job i have a Q6600 works perfect i havent encountered any glitches or anything on mine but im using the latest version of Pcsx2 9.0.5 but i believe that a new version is getting released or has just been released. it also helps if you use the latest drivers for it, took me some time to get the best config ready and done for it

any idea how Pcsx2 will work on a 3870x or even a 4870x2 ???

 

The games what are playable will have stable fps or minimal amount of freezes. It's just that most of the games cannot be emulated and fighting / driving games are simply unplayable under 30 fps.

 

yeah i only use Pcsx2 for Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy XII
i had a try with a few other games and they just simply were unplayable for either poor framerates or freezes

 

I wanna say epsxe also can do PS2 emulation but not so sure on that.

I have a pretty killer rig now so I can look into it more, as last time my system had no hope of playing those games. However I think that a lot of the emulation limitation is just that, a limitation in the programing and not just lack of hardware power.

It took quite a bit for them to get the FF games on PSX working, it took special fixes and things for each game, it was not just clean cut like older emulation where it "just worked"

Id say for the sake of things that getting a used PS2 on ebay and a used copy of the game (wich you already have) will be the cheaper/better route to go unless you already have a computer up to par and do not mind messing with the emulation stuff and dealing with the few drawbacks it has.

 

no i have that as well for a couple of my PS1 games, it only does PS1 games as far as im aware

i havent encountered any errors or anything so im happy, i will get another PS2 at some point but at the moment its just not practical as i dont have a TV to use it on so i would have to buy that as wel land then a TV License as well so its cheaper this way, but when i get a place of my own and everything then i will be getting one coz i miss the old classics

 

The PCS2X guys actually just released a big update. Runs reasonably well on my 9600m GT. Give it a shot:

http://forums.pcsx2.net/thread-4262-page-1.html

 

The 0.9.6 release of PCSX2 is leaps and bounds above the old one. You may have to OC a couple hundred MHz out of your Q6600 to stabilize some games (PCSX2 runs on only 2 cores, and clock speed is more important than anything else), but your rig should be able to handle it very well. They have excellent forums for support as well, you'll probably see me over there.

 

I agree with the others with this. Emulation of newer consoles are very limited and its a lot of programming work which has to be applied to a lot of the original games. PSX2 have done a lot and come very far but their emulation still is no where near half complete hence some of the games will run very poor, graphic glitches and freezes or just not work period. I had some ps2 games which i ran on the emulator some of the games worked ok, others did not work at all. But luckily now i have a ps3 so i use this now to play older games..

 

That thing is a ghost. You cannot find it anywhere and when you do find it it is prohibitively expensive.

 

So how can anyone get the BIOS?
Is if from the game or from the console?

 

I don't know. Last year when I wanted it, I found it on eBay for 19.99 + shipping.
Right now it's 59.99, so it's not that expensive. ;]

And yeah, to get BIOS you must dump it from PS2 or "get it" from the net.

 

The only legal way to obtain a PS2 BIOS is to dump it from your own console. I believe the PCSX2 guys have a utility on their site to do just that.

There are "other" ways out there, but I doubt we can talk about that here.

 

I got mine on ebay for $10 ^^ but its only SD so I doubt many people would be happy using it to play games on a regular basis. It works as a on the go tool, but I used it only for video capture really.

Now there are new devices out that are much better.

The best one by far IMO (and I have done very extensive research on this) is the HAVA, the HAVA is well known, and can stream to any computer on your network or even over the internet. Its also the only view/capture device I know of that can record in HD.

There is a new player called the blitzbox that works but it wont record in HD and is over priced.

Also you can always go with a TV tunercard but those are hit & miss.

 

pcsx2 but ul need to get the bios from ur ps2 and ull probably need a good computer to run it... the minimum for proper frame rates is like a core 2 duo at about 3.0GHZ

 

You have to remember the PS2 is one of the most complicated consoles ever made as far as the hardware setup goes. It's not very clean cut as far as individual components go. Emotion Engine and it's various co-processors handle different types of tasks that on other consoles are regulated to a particular component of the system. You got the main CPU core, then the floating point unit, Vector Unit 0 and Vector Unit 1 which handle things from geometry setup to physics. There is no ordinary 3D hardware as the Vector Units (in particular 0 if I remember right) on the Emotion Engine handle all 3D work, and the Graphics Synthesizer handles all 2D work. It doesn't support multi-texturing, so multiple passes must be made to do multiple texture layers. Also remember that it is equiped with a 4 MB eDRAM setup and only 32 MB of actual RAM to work with. It's not just about emulating a simple GPU/CPU/RAM set up, it's just one ******-up mess to emulate

 

You must have the original genuine cd or dvd and a bios!
cheers

 

I agree on PCSX2. It's a wonderful PS2 emulator.
I played FFX in my desktop. (c2d E6300 @2.4 GHz, 7600 GT). It ran pretty well. Although there were some glitches (messed up screen, some artifacts), but overall, it was playable.
Why don't you try it on your machine, and don't forget to use the latest plugin.
You can find it at www.pcsx2.net

 

PCSX2 is in its stride right now. They are releasing a new beta every week with fixes and optimizations. I've been able to make a handful of great games like Final Fantasy X, Kingdom Hearts, Fatal Frame, and Persona 4 work pretty well, with only minor graphical glitches at times. Pretty good considering my 2.64GHz overclock is still a little on the weak side for PCSX2.