PCSX2
Screenshot of PCSX2 1.2.1 running on Windows 8.1
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| Original author(s) | Linuzappz, Shadow |
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| Developer(s) | PCSX2 Team |
| Initial release | March 23, 2002 |
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1.4.0 / January 8, 2016
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| Repository | github |
| Development status | Active |
| Written in | C++, C |
| Operating system | Windows, Linux, OS X |
| Platform | IA-32 (Notably, not AMD64 due to lack of performance-wise benefits) |
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| Available in | 22 languages |
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List of languages
Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
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| Type | Video game console emulator |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | pcsx2 |
PCSX2 is a free and open-source PlayStation 2 emulator for Windows, Linux and Mac OS.
PCSX2, like its predecessor project PCSX (a PlayStation emulator), is based on a PSEmu Pro spec plug-in architecture, separating several functions from the core emulator. These are the graphics, audio, input controls, CD/DVD drive, and USB and FireWire (i.LINK) ports. Different plug-ins may produce different results in both compatibility and performance. Additionally, PCSX2 requires a copy of the PS2 BIOS, which is not available for download from the developers, due to copyright-related legal issues. Since September 2016, PCSX2 is partially compatible with PlayStation 1 games.
The main bottleneck in PS2 emulation is emulating the multi-processor PS2 on the PC x86 architecture. Although each processor can be emulated well on its own, accurately synchronizing them is difficult, but not impossible.
Development of PCSX2 was begun in 2001 by programmers who go by the names Linuzappz and Shadow, who were programmers for the PlayStation emulator PCSX-Reloaded. Other programmers later joined the team, and they were eventually able to get some PS2 games to the loading screen. The team then started working on the difficult task of emulating the PlayStation 2's BIOS; they got it to run, although it was slow and graphically distorted. Version 0.9.1 was released in July 2006.
From 2007 to 2011, developers worked on Netplay and speed improvements. PCSX2 0.9.8 was released in May 2011 and featured an overhauled GUI written with wxWidgets that improved compatibility for Linux and newer Windows operating systems, the addition of a new VU recompiler that brought better compatibility, a memory card editor, an overhaul of the SPU2-X audio plug-in, and numerous other improvements.
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