As everyone knows the PlayStation game console which is produced by Sony and they are PlayStation 1, 2, 3, and the newest 4. But am going to be talking about the second one which is the PlayStation 2. There are so many games meant to be played specifically with the PlayStation 2 console, such as god of war, Vietnam, Tekken, The god father, the bully etc. There are thousands of games which can be played or meant to be played specifically on the PlayStation 2 console and that's the limitation cause you cant play it on your PC, and i know there are so many reasons why you would want to play your PlayStation 2 console games on your PC... Some reasons i gathered
are:
REASON: It may be because you don't have enough money or don't have money at all to use in the purchase of the game console and you have a PC, and again you would like or want to play a PlayStation console game on your PC just for fun etc.
OR
You already have a play station 2 console and maybe you're not always around to use or play your game and you have a PC which you carry around, yes that's one reason you would need or want to play your heart-desired PlayStation game on your PC. How do you play a play PlayStation games on your PC? Do you think it is possible? Of course it is,and what makes it possible, it is just a software called PCSX2.
PCSX2 is a playstation2 game emulator (an emulator is any app or software).
(1). First procedure, you will need an internet connection and a browser such as Mozilla-Firefox because, you will browse and also download the software, get it from this
link. And mind you PCSX2 comes in three (3) sets, Full installer, Web installer and Binary.
Full installer has the Direct X web installer bundled, web installer
optionally downloads it from the internet, and binary is only the
program with the plugins. Download the one you prefer or if you don't
know which, go for the full installer. Install immediately after download.
(2). After Installation you launch it and the first screen, you will be prompted to select your language.
In the second screen you will be able to choose which plugins you want
to use. The default plugins are the ones with the higher compatibility
and usually fastest too, so before changing them make sure you know what
you're doing. Here you can also specify a different folder for your plugins if you
want, by unchecking the use default setting check-box and selecting a
folder of your choice by clicking Browse. Open In Explorer simply opens a
file explorer window in the folder you have specified.
In the third screen, you will be prompted to select your BIOS image, you will need a PlayStation 2 because it is copyrighted by Sony so
getting it from anywhere but your own PlayStation
2 is
illegal.
You will have to own an actual PlayStation 2 console to dump the BIOS from before
you can start playing PlayStation 2 games on the emulator. There is no region
locking so if you have a PAL BIOS on your PlayStation2 you can still play NTSC
games, and vice versa section of this guide.
Click Finish to end the First Time Configuration Wizard.
This is the main GUI(Graphical User Interface) of PCSX2. From here, you
can change the settings or plugins used by PCSX2 as you see fit.
We will start with configuring our plugins then we will move onto Core settings configuration.
Go to Config =>Plugin/BIOS selector to select and configure the plugins PCSX2 will use.
Plugins tab of the Plugins/BIOS Selector:
First off, you can uncheck the use default setting checkbox at the
bottom and select a folder of your choice by clicking Browse. This is
the folder from which PCSX2 loads its plugins.
At the left you see which component each plugin emulates (GS, PAD, SPU2
etc), in the middle you have the plugin selection drop down, and at the
right there is the Configure button which will open the configuration
dialog for the respective plugin you have selected.
Keep in mind that whenever you change the selected plugin, you will have
to press the "Apply" button for the emulator to load the new plugin and
make the Configure button available for it.
Graphics:
First, you will want to check what version of pixel shaders and Direct X
(on Windows) your graphic card supports. You can do that
here.
For the time being you will be able to use 3 GS plugins: GSdx v0.1.16, ZeroGS v0.97.1 and Gs-null driver v0.1.0.
GSdx v0.1.16 is a Direct X 9 and Direct X 10/11 plugin by Ga-best which
recently got greatly improved in both speed and image quality. It
requires pixel shaders 2 and SSE2 to work and Vista/Windows 7/8 with a Direct X 10 compliant graphics card for the DirectX10/11 mode.
ZeroGS is a very old plugin which has not been developed in years. A
very small number of games works better with this plugin than with GSdx,
you can try it as a last resort.
GSnull is, as the name suggests, a null graphics plugin which will not
output any kind of video. It is used for debugging purposes.
Select GSdx v0.1.16 and press the Configure button.
- First of all GSdx comes in 5 versions,SSE2,SSSE3, SSE4.1, AVX and AVX2.Only IF
your processor supports these instruction sets use highest version you
can since it will be faster for you in this order from slowest to
fastest: SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.1, AVX and AVX2. The new AVX and AVX2
instructions give a minor speed up only with the software renderers of GSdx and not the hardware ones.
Note: AMD users do NOT mistake SSE3 with SSSE3 (1 extra S) and SSE4A
with SSE4.1, they are totally different and are NOT supported. In this
case use the SSE2 flavor.
SSE2 supporting CPUs: Check here
SSSE3 supporting CPUs: Check here
SSE4.1 supporting CPUs: Intel Core 2 Duo Penryn series (E7xxx,E8xxx and
Q9xxx models), Intel Corei3, Intel Corei5, Intel Corei7, AMD
Bulldozer/Bobcat
AVX supporting CPUs: Check here
AVX2 supporting CPUs: Check here
- To use the DirectX10/11 mode, you will have to be running Windows Vista or Windows 7/8 with a DirectX10/11 compliant graphics card (check previous link)
- DirectX10 and DirectX11 modes of GSdx for the time being are exactly the same
in both terms of speed and compatibility. The only difference is that
you will only see the first if your graphics card supports up to
DirectX10 and only the second if your graphics card supports up to
DirectX11
- Adapter: Here you can select which graphics adapter GSdx will use.
Very useful for computers which have a dedicated graphics card and an on-board graphics chip, so the user can select the much faster dedicated
graphics card explicitly.
- Renderer: Here you can choose how the graphics will be rendered.
By selecting "Direct3D9 (Hardware)", GSdx will use the Direct3D
capabilities of your graphics card, boosting the emulation speed
significantly.
By selecting "Direct3D10/11 (Hardware)" (only select-able in Vista/Windows 7 with DX10/11 graphics card),
GSdx will use its Direct3D10/11 mode which is usually the fastest mode
and sometimes even more compatible as well. Highly recommended if your
system supports it.
By selecting "Direct3D9/10/11 (software)", GSdx will use its built-in
software renderer, which will not use your graphics card at all, but
your processor instead. This way the emulation speed is greatly reduced
but you get maximum compatibility. Recommended if you encounter graphics
bugs with the Direct3D (Hardware) renderer.
By selecting "OpenGL (hardware)", GSdx will use the OpenGL back-end,
which at this time is a slower equivalent of the Direct X renderers, with
the same or worse compatibility. It's the best option for Linux users.
By selecting "OpenGL (software)", GSdx will use the OpenGL back-end in
software mode, with the same characteristics as described above.
By selecting "Direct3D9 (null)", Direct3D10/11 (null)", "Null
(software)" or "Null (null)" the plugin will simply not render anything,
thus not giving any output on screen. Use it only if you want to e.g.
Hear some music since with this mode you get a dramatic speed increase.
- Interlacing: Here you are able to choose between None, Auto and 6
other interlacing techniques, which are used to remove the "shaking" of
the display. We recommend leaving this to Auto for most games
In parentheses, you can see what kind of effect and maybe disadvantage
(e.g. like the half FPS note in blend) each one of these modes have.
You can cycle through them when running a game by pressing the F5 key.
Scaling Subsection:
Only available if a Hardware Renderer
has been selected above. Here you can tweak various settings to improve
the visual quality of your games by increasing the resolution the
textures are rendered at or applying filtering. Do keep in mind that
changing the native resolution of games can cause various glitches (from
the usual very minor glitches to more serious ones in rare cases).
- D3D internal resolution: Here you can specify the exact resolution you want resources to be rendered at!
This way, if your PC is powerful enough (mainly your graphics card), you
can play your favorite ps2 games in much higher resolutions making the
graphics crisp and more detailed.
Note that the higher the resolution, the more resources the plugin will have to use, thus making emulation much slower.
- Original PS2 Resolution - Native: If you check this box, the plugin
will render in the native resolution of the ps2 (that is why Custom
Resolution and Scaling get grayed out)
- Scaling: Set it to Custom to use whatever you set in the setting
below (Custom Resolution). Setting it to 2x-6x will multiply the game's
internal resolution by that value and render it. So if a game's native
resolution is 640x320, setting this to 3x will render it at 1920x960
(triple of the native resolution). This way some up-scaling bugs are
prevented which would be present if you set a Custom Resolution in the
boxes below.
At this time most games and graphic cards can do x2 or x3 scaling fine but get a sharp speed drop at higher settings.
- Custom Resolution: When Scaling is set to custom, you can input here whatever resolution you want the game to be rendered at.
Enable Shade Boost:
By checking this a new set of options will
become available to you via the settings button at the right. Click
settings to adjust saturation, brightness and contrast to your liking
for the video output of GSdx. You can click the reset button on the
lower left to set the sliders to their initial positions.
Enable FXAA:
By enabling this GSdx will apply the FXAA
anti-aliasing algorithm to improve the visual quality of your games with
a usually minor speed hit. You can toggle FXAA on and off by pressing
the Page Up key.
Enable FX Shader:
Since version 1.2.0, PCSX2 is able to use
external shader programs to add various effects and visual improvements.
By default, PCSX2 comes with 4 simple scan-line shaders (which you can
cycle through while running a game by pressing F7). For a huge set of
shader effects which include UHQ FXAA, Bi-linear FS Filtering, Bi-cubic FS
Filtering, Gaussian FS Filtering, High Quality Blended Bloom,
Per-Channel Gamma Correction, Scene Tone Mapping, RGB Color Correction,
S-Curve Contrast Enhancement, Texture Sharpening, Pixel Vibrance,
Post-Complement Colour Grading, Cel Shading, Scanline Emulation,
Vignette and Subpixel Dithering you can download Asmodean's shader file
from our forum HERE.
Open the zip file and extract the GSdx_FX_Settings.txt and shader.fx
files in the same directory with pcsx2-r5875.exe. You can change the
settings of the shader by opening the GSdx_FX_Settings.txt and following
the included instructions and finally saving the file with your
changes. Use with caution as setting huge values here can have an
enormous impact on speed. Note that you can use external shaders even with a GSdx (software) renderer,
which is the best way to get higher visual quality with this rendering
mode. You can toggle the use of external shaders on and off by pressing
the Home button while running a game.
Hardware mode Subsection:
Only available if a Hardware Renderer
has been selected above. Here you can change some settings for extra
performance or video quality.
- Texture filtering: This tickbox has 3 states. Checked, grayed and unchecked.
When checked, everything on screen both 2D and 3D will be bi-linearly filtered.
When grayed, filtering will be done as on a PS2. This is the preferred setting.
When off, bilinear filtering is disabled completely. Lowers video quality but may help some slower graphic cards.
- Logarithmic Z: This setting may help when some of the games graphics
are "see through". Can be toggled only with graphics cards that do NOT
support a 32bit Z-buffer.
- Allow 8-bit textures: Uses more efficient "palletized textures" for
all rendering which reduces the graphic card RAM requirements. On the
other hand it increases the processing load and can cause visual bugs.
Recommended to try both and see which gives you the most performance.
- Alpha Correction (FBA): (DX9 mode only) Keep this enabled as it
fixes some blending problems that the DX9 mode has. Can also cause some
issues.
Hacks Subsection:
Check Enable HW hacks to enable the options described below. Click configure to select which you want to enable.
These
settings are ONLY for advanced users that know what they are doing.
These settings can and WILL cause serious glitches if used in games that
don't need them! (only affect hardware modes).
- MSAA: Adds Anti-Aliasing of the selected level to every surface
rendered. This is highly video card memory demanding and might crash
PCSX2 if there's not enough RAM. For more information, read the
description at the right panel of the box.
- Skip draw: Skips drawing some surfaces altogether, based on how
likely they are to cause issues. Specify how many surfaces should get
skipped after the first problematic one is found. Try lower values first
like 1-3 then use higher ones (the highest the number the higher the
chance of broken/missing graphics and effects). This hack may cause
random speedups as well!
- Alpha: Try this if your game has issues with fog like effects or
shadows. In general, try it if you get graphics glitches in case it
fixes them.
- Half-pixel Offset: This hack adds an offset to all surfaces so that
some common upscaling issues get reduced. Use this when blur or halo
effects seem to appear shifted up-left of where they should be.
- Sprite: Read the description at the right panel of the box for more information.
- WildArmsOffset: Known to help with lots of games. Read the description at the right panel of the box for more information.
- Aggressive - CRC: Read the description at the right panel of the box for more information.
- Alpha Stencil: Read the description at the right panel of the box for more information.
- Nvidia Hack: Try this hack if you own an Nvidia graphics card and experience strange stretching on and off when using scaling.
- Disable CRCs: Will disable all the GSdx hacks for specific games.
You will usually get more bugs than without having this on, but for
certain games like Shadow of the Colossus, you might prefer the output
with this on.
- TC Offset X/Y: As the description explains, these settings can help
fix some misaligment issues when using scaling. You can see some example
values which are known to help Persona 3, Haunting Ground and Xenosaga.
You can try using the same values for your game in case it fixes it, or
try your own.
Select ZeroGS v0.97.1 and press the Configure button.
- ZeroGS is a Direct X 9 plugin developed by Zero-frog and is aimed for
graphics cards which support pixel shaders 2.0 or higher. As noted
before if your card does not meet that requirement you will get an
"Error opening gs plugin" message and pcsx2 will terminate.
- Interlace Enable: When this is checked some interlacing issues will
be resolved(screen "shaking") although some games look better with this
disabled. You can toggle it while running a game by using the "F5" key.
- Bilinear Filtering: When this is checked the plugin will filter the
display, smoothing out edges. This will generally drop your FPS
dramatically except if you own a very powerful graphics card. You can
toggle it while running a game by pressing and holding "shift" then
press "F5". There are 2 types of bilinear filtering modes: normal bf and forced bf.
Sometimes games will tell the GS to render textures with point
sampling, not linear sampling. In normal bf mode, ZeroGS will listen to
the games. In forced bf mode, it will render all textures with bilinear
filtering. Forced bf can introduce unwanted artifacts at the edges of
textures in some games, so be careful. However, it most cases, forced bf
produces smoother looking scenes.
- Anti-aliasing: Here you can choose the level of anti-aliasing you
want the plugin to use, to make edges smoother. You can toggle this
while running a game by using the "F6" key. Note that this might reduce
speed.
None: Will not use any level of anti-aliasing
2x: Will use 2X anti-aliasing
4x: Will use 4X anti-aliasing
8x: Will use 8X anti-aliasing
16x: Will use 16X anti-aliasing
- Wireframe rendering: When checked the plugin will only render in
wireframe, so you'll just see some polygon lines here and there.
You can toggle it while running a game by pressing "F7".
- Capture AVI: You can capture a video of your game-play just like the
GSdx plugin. Press "F12" and a window will appear for codec selection.
For the time being you will only be able to use XviD encoding since the
rest of the codecs will crash the plugin. After you select it, you can
configure the codec by pressing the configure button. Press OK and the
recording process will start. Press "F12" again to stop it. The video
will be saved in the PCSX2 root directory as "zerogs.avi".
- Save snapshots as BMPs (default is JPG): What it says, with this
enabled snapshots you take with "F8" will be saved as BMP files and not
as JPGs files which is the default. The snapshots you take with "F8" are
located in the /snaps folder of your pcsx2 directory.
- Full screen: Pretty simple, if you have this checked the plugin will
show the output full screen instead of windowed. If you have it disabled
and already running a game you can press and hold "alt" then press
"enter" to go full screen.
- Widescreen: Some games support wide screen mode. By checking this, ZeroGS will automatically scale the window to 16:9.
- Default Window Size: You can check the window size ZeroGS will have
when you run it by default. Options are various screen resolutions that
your window will be resized to. Choose what you like best and note it
will not affect speed.
- You can press and hold the "shift" key and then press the "F7" key
to toggle on and off the Frames Per Second display in ZeroGS's window.
ZeroGS Advanced Options
- ZeroGS exposes a couple of extra options to tweak its various
settings. Sometimes games use the Graphics Synthesizer in many
unexpected ways, and sometimes it is impossible for ZeroGS to predict
how exactly it should emulate the GS. Some options can convert a game
from a garbage screen going at 2 frames per second to exactly what the
game would look like on the ps2 going at 60 frames a second.
- If a particular set of options works very well for a particular
game, then these options can saved in the game's patch file so that they
are always applied every time the game is loaded. This is useful when
you want these options to be enabled only for that particular game and
not to affect other games.
- Each set of options in ZeroGS has a unique id. To query this id, go
into the ZeroGS configuration dialog box, set the particular options,
and click on the Compute OR of IDS
button. Take the number generated and open the game's corresponding
pnach file (usually the game's CRC.pnach). Then add in a new line zerogs=xxxxxxxx where the x's are the id.
GSnull v0.1.0 plugin
- As explained at the start of this section this is a Null plugin thus
it will not render anything on screen. Press Configure to get a menu
with a check box where you can check/uncheck "Enable Logging" which will
enable/disable GS logging. It should be used for debugging and
developers.
Sound:
SPU2-X
The latest and best sound plugin at the time of writing this. It was
first based on Gigaherz's SPU2 and later modified by Jake Stine (Air) of
the PCSX2 team.
This is the only SPU2 plugin that supports effects processing (like
reverb) and Dolby Pro Logic (II) (if your sound card is able to decode
it).
It's also the most advanced in emulating the chip correctly. Many games only work with SPU2-X!
- Interpolation: Here you can select 1 out of 5 options:
1)Nearest: As the description says, no interpolation is done in this mode and is the fastest one.
2)Linear: Does linear interpolation on sound, fast.
3)Cubic: This is another type of interpolation. Slower, with good highs.
4)Hermite: This is the recommended option. Closest to what the PS2 would
produce, thus the most accurate, but a bit slower than the above.
5)Cat mull-Rom: This is another type of interpolation. Slow, higher quality.
- Disable effects processing: Checking this will disable any emulation
of effects like reverb, lowering sound quality but increasing speed.
- Use the DE-alias filter: As described, gives more emphasis to the highs.
- Enable debug options: Checking this will make the Configure Debug
Options button available. When clicked it will present you with various
logging options which can be enabled for debugging purposes. Should only
be used by developers.
- Module: Here you can select 1 out of 5 settings, which are different ways of outputting sound in your system:
1)No sound: Will not produce any sound (mute) resulting in best speed.
2)X Audio 2: Works better under Vista so XP users might want to try the
third option. If you have problems with Port-audio, use this method.
3)Direct Sound: Should be slightly worse than X Audio 2,use it if it works better for you.
4)Wave out: Not recommended, option 2 or 3 should always work better.
5)Port audio: This is the recommended method. Uses a cross platform
library called Port audio. This is the only option aside from no sound in
Linux.
- Host API: This is the API Port audio will use to produce sound, if
Windows WASAPI has issues, try setting this to Windows Direct Sound.
- Device name: Here you can select the specific audio device you want
to output sound on. If you get no sound while this is at 'Default
Device', choose your device from the drop down menu.
- WASAPI Exclusive mode: Check this if you want SPU2-X to work in
exclusive mode, blocking all other applications from using your output
device.
- Output Latency: The lower the latency value the smaller audio delay
you will have. You can leave this to 'Use smallest possible' to let the
plugin decide what's best for you, or set a custom value below. Note
that setting latency too low WILL cause cracks and pops in sound, so
change the values until you find the lowest one that works with your
game without causing cracks.
- Synchronizing mode:
- Time Stretch: The default and recommended setting. This keeps audio
and video in sync, and also helps eliminate cracks and other sound
problems. Note that if your speed is low, your sound will also be as
slow as your video with this setting.
- A sync Mix: Makes the audio out of sync with the video, so you will
get normal sound speed even if your frame rate is not optimal. Can cause games to hang or crash so use with caution!
- None: Audio will skip if you set this mode and you don't get max speed with the game you're running. Small FPS boost.
- Advanced: Here you can fine tune how your selected time stretcher
will work. As described in the GUI, larger values are better if you are
not getting good speeds while the opposite is true if you're running
your game above full speed. Pressing Reset to Defaults will set all
values here back in their initial setting.
- Audio Expansion mode: Here you can choose if you want the audio
produced from the plugin to be expanded to your whole speaker
configuration and not just in 2 channels (stereo). Only usable with the XAudio2 module.
- Stereo: Default setting, no audio expansion when this is selected.
- Quadrafonic: Will expand audio to 4 speakers
- Surround 5.1: Will expand audio to 5.1 surround speakers
- Surround 7.1: Will expand audio to 7.1 surround speakers
- Use a Winamp DSP plugin: If you don't know what this is, leave it be. (Not available in Linux at the moment.)
ZeroSPU2
This is an SPU2 plugin developed by zerofrog. ZeroSPU2 has the following features:
- ZeroSPU2 has a time-scaling feature just like SPU2-X. To enable this
option, go into the ZeroSPU2 configuration dialog and check the correct
box. The time-scaling feature works best under Windows, but is also
implemented in Linux.
- Real time mode is a tighter time stretching mode for games that need additional accuracy and lower latency.
- Audio/video recording: Check the Recording box to record sound during each of your game plays in a file called zerospu2.wav.
- Mute: Will mute sound, giving a bit of extra speed.
PAD:
Here you will be able to use 3 plugins, Lilypad v0.11.0, Pokopom 2.1.0 and SSSPSX Pad v1.7.1.
Select Lily-pad v0.11.0 and press the Configure button.
Lilypad is a very advanced input plugin supporting keyboards, mouse,
game pads and XBOX 360 pads. Also it includes some very handy hacks for
use with PCSX2 like the ESC hack or the Disable Screensaver option.
- Pokopom is a new input plugin developed by KrossX with some unique
features like pressure sensitivity support, rumble with a custom curve
and more.
- For a very detailed description about what each setting does and how
to properly configure it, visit the official thread of the plugin HERE and check the Wiki for it HERE.
Select SSSPSX Pad v1.7.1 and press the Configure button.
You'll see a window like this (click to enlarge):
Now hit Configure to start configuring SSSPSX Pad:
- Here, you simply press on each button's name and input the key you
want to assign to it. If you want to clear a key from being assigned
somewhere you can click on the respective button and wait until the
"Timeout: " timer reaches 0. Then the selected key will be assigned to
NONE again.
- Click on the PAD1/PAD2 tabs on the upper left corner to switch from configuring controller 1 to controller 2.
- SSSPSX Pad supports analog controllers. You can assign your analog
axis in the "LX,LY,RX,RY" buttons. LX is for Left analog X-Axis,LY is
for Left analog Y-Axis,RX is for Right analog X-Axis,RY is for Right
analog Y-Axis
- The R3 and L3 buttons are the buttons on the analog stick of the ps2 controller, R for right and L for left as usual.
Cdvdrom:
In most circumstances, you will be able to use the built in ISO loader
in PCSX2 by choosing ISO in the CDVD menu, and then, under ISO Selector,
either choosing an image from the list or choosing browse to add one.
However, if you want to use a plugin to do things such as playing a game
from the actual DVD disc or creating a dump of an ISO file, choose
"Plugin" in the CDVD menu, and then select a CDVD plugin.
By default, PCSX2 includes Gigaherz's CDVD v0.8.0, Linuz Iso CDVD v0.9.0 and CDVDnull v0.6.0.
Select Gigaherz's CDVD v0.8.0 and press configure.
- Pretty simple really, just select the drive letter from which the
plugin will read the disc from. It will then directly run your PS2 game
from the CD/DVD you have inserted in your drive
- This is the only plugin that at least partially supports disc
changing. If you have troubles changing a disc that is required by a
game try this plugin!
Select Linuz Iso CDVD v0.9.0 and hit configure.
- This plugin has the extra ability of compressing your images to save
you disk space apart from running your images for the emulator.
- Click Select Iso to select the game image you want to run/compress.
Once you've selected an image you can either close the config window so
you can run it or press "Compress Iso" to compress it. If you selected
an already compressed image you can also select "Decompress Iso" to
decompress it.
- Under "Compression Method" you can select either ".Z - compress
faster", which will compress your image faster but make it larger or
".BZ - compress better", which will compress your image slowly but make
it smaller.
- Under Options you can check/uncheck "Enable Block Dump=>'ISO
name.dump'". When checked, this option will create a "ISO name".dump
file in the PCSX2 root folder(where pcsx2-r4600.exe is located) from the
game you ran. This file is like a small iso, which is mainly used for
debugging. It will store the sectors read during the execution of the
game you ran, so afterwards you will be able to load the file(using
"select iso" of Linuz Iso CDVD) and run it without any image/cd/dvd.
Note that if the game will try to read any other sectors from the ones
not included in the dump file, it will obviously stop responding.
- Press ok to save your changes.
CDVDnull v0.6.0
- This is a Null plugin just like GSnull, meaning it simply does
nothing. It doesn't have a configuration screen for obvious reasons.
Dev9:
Here are the plugins that handle the HDD(hard disk drive) and ethernet
emulation. There is only Dev9null v0.5.0 included in the 1.0.0 package,
yet another Null plugin which is exactly like all the other ones.
There is a newer Dev9 plugin in development by Luigi__, the MegaDev9
plugin which is still in early stages but very promising. For the time
being, it partially emulates the ps2 HDD. You can get it
here.
Finally, there is an experimental netplay plugin from gigaherz and
drkIIRaziel named DEV9giga-razi. Although most of the Sony game servers
are down, you can give it a try. It can be downloaded from
here (make sure you first follow the how to play online guide)
Usb:
Here are the plugins that handle USB (Universal Serial Bus) emulation.
The release package includes USB Null v0.7.0 which is yet another Null
plugin. Nothing to configure for the above reason. There is a new USB
plugin that supports USB mice, keyboards and Lightguns by
Shalma called Nuvee. You can get it from our website
here.
Additionally, there is a new plugin developed for steering wheels by
jackun,
which is a modification of an old USB plugin named Qemu. Apparently, it
fully supports various steering wheels so if you own one be sure to
check it out! For more information visit the plugin's dedicated thread
on our forum
here. You can download it from our website
here.
Firewire:
Here are the plugins that handle the Firewire port of the PS2. Only the
FWnull v0.7.0 is included in the release package. There are no other
Firewire plugins available or in development.
Nothing to configure for the above reason.
BIOS
In this list you will find your bios image, if you have one and have put
it in the selected bios folder. Note that the only LEGAL way of
obtaining a bios is dumping it from your OWN PlayStation 2 console.
DO NOT
ask where to get the bios in the PCSX2 forum, because it's against the
rules. That's because the ps2 BIOS is a copyrighted material of Sony and
that makes its distribution illegal, meaning we could get in trouble if
it was found out that we were supplying people illegally with bios
files. If your BIOS image does not even appear on list even after you
have selected your right bios directory, it is an invalid image.
Attention: It is recommended
that you have all files for BIOS newer than the SCPH-10000.bin. You will
probably be able to run the bios or games without having them but there
may be a chance that these affect compatibility somehow. This includes
rom1.bin,rom2.bin,erom.bin and a SCPH-XXXXX.nvm file where XXXXX is the
version of your bios(eg SCPH-34004.nvm).This last file can be also
created from PCSX2 after you configure your bios(set time zone, language
etc) but it's better if you have this file directly ripped from your PlayStation 2. Once more
DO NOT ASK where to get these files, since they are part of the BIOS too.
This is the the end and you set to go, thanks...
Tim-mid
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