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Sony PlayStation 2 (PS2) emulation

Emulators

PCSX2

An Open-Source Playstation 2 Emulator supporting over 98% of the original PS2 library

→ pcsx2.net (GitHub)

PCSX2 quickstart

• Download and install from a nightly build
  • AVX2 or SSE4 depend on your CPU
• Copy bios file
• Configure controller
• Configure rendering

PCSX2 help

• How Play PS2 Games In 4K On PC - PCSX2 Set Up Guide

PCSX2 shortcuts

• States: F1 to save, F3 to load

Disks

Original disks can be saved as iso files on hard drive disks, with free tools like BurnAware.

Memory cards

Making a back-up of game saves in memory cards is not intended but there are ways to do it.

One solution is to use a preinstalled Free Memory Card Boot (FMCB), available to buy online, that contain several tools like uLaunchELF (How to Transfer PS2 Save Game Files from Memory Card To USB Using Free McBoot 2021). Additional information from: FreeMcBoot installers (GitHub). You’ll only need a FAT32 USB drive (no format needed, just used to copy/paste).

Files copied with pcuCopy can then be transferred to a PCSX2 memory card with mymc (solution found from How to import PS2 Save Files for PCSX2 and AetherSX2 Emulators).

Games

Best-of

• Burnout 2: Point of impact
• Crash Nitro Kart
• God of War
• Godfather, The
• Pro Evolution Soccer 6
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
• Theme Park World

Fixes

For the Godfather, right click on the game in game list, Properties, Graphics, Rendering (check Manual Hardware Renderer Fixes), Hardware Fixes (Skipdraw Range: 1, 1) (wiki.pcsx2.net).

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