any good ps2 emulators

[Thetankerboss]

i am looking for a good ps2 emoulator so i can play need for speed underground 2 and mindnight club pls help

[elpiop]

pcsx2

[ARikozuM]

We can't help with emulators as it's against CS.

[Techicolors]

the only one is pcsx2. also midnight club is a pain to run so you know 

[Zando_]

Best option is to pick up a PS2. They're pretty cheap. It'll save you from having to go to fishy pirating sites to get a BIOS as well. 

[KenjiUmino]

2 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

Best option is to pick up a PS2. They're pretty cheap. It'll save you from having to go to fishy pirating sites to get a BIOS as well. 

as far as i know, using a PS2 emulator is only legal IF you own a real PS2 to begin with. and the games of course.

 

not sure if you are also expected to pull the bios from your own console. 

[Zando_]

2 minutes ago, KenjiUmino said:

as far as i know, using a PS2 emulator is only legal IF you own a real PS2 to begin with. and the games of course.

 

not sure if you are also expected to pull the bios from your own console. 

Yeah. If you have an actual PS2, then you can pull the BIOS from it or try and find one to download. But then you have one anyways, and it's not like the emulator lets you run it at a higher res or something, so it's really just for tinkering. 

[KenjiUmino]

Just now, Zando Bob said:

and it's not like the emulator lets you run it at a higher res or something

it actually IS 

 

i can 2x, 3x, 4x the rendering resolution in PCSX2 and other emulators for PS1 and gamecube and so on.

 

but it really is only upping the resolution - it helps with the jagged polygon edges but it doesn't help with the crappy low res textures and can sometimes cause artifacts

 

i have to agree that it is only for tinkerers though ... there is no such thing as "the one set-and-forget emulator configuration to play them all" ... a setting that makes one game work better (or work at all) can totaly make another game work shittier (or not work at all) 

[AshleyAshes]

31 minutes ago, Thetankerboss said:

i am looking for a good ps2 emoulator so i can play need for speed underground 2

I would think that the PC port of NFS:U2 would probably be superior to any emulation. >_>

Ya know, assuming the game runs on Win7 or higher.  It could be one of those game that broke after some version of Windows and no one patched it.

[KenjiUmino]

Just now, AshleyAshes said:

I would think that the PC port of NFS:U2 would probably be superior to any emulation. >_>

deffinately superior.

 

if you can get the PC version (and get it to run on modern systems) then that is the way i recommend to go

[AshleyAshes]

1 minute ago, KenjiUmino said:

deffinately superior.

 

if you can get the PC version (and get it to run on modern systems) then that is the way i recommend to go

Getting it working is the big fat asterix of course.  It's really sad how some older PC games are up on Steam, GoG or elsewhere and patched to run on a current PC where as others are abandoned and had their compatibility die with Windows ME or Windows XP.

[Zando_]

18 minutes ago, KenjiUmino said:

it actually IS 

 

i can 2x, 3x, 4x the rendering resolution in PCSX2 and other emulators for PS1 and gamecube and so on.

 

but it really is only upping the resolution - it helps with the jagged polygon edges but it doesn't help with the crappy low res textures and can sometimes cause artifacts

Ooooooooo. Nice. Except like you said, it doesn't upgrade the textures, so it's probs not any clearer. 

[Zodiark1593]

17 hours ago, KenjiUmino said:

it actually IS 

 

i can 2x, 3x, 4x the rendering resolution in PCSX2 and other emulators for PS1 and gamecube and so on.

 

but it really is only upping the resolution - it helps with the jagged polygon edges but it doesn't help with the crappy low res textures and can sometimes cause artifacts

 

i have to agree that it is only for tinkerers though ... there is no such thing as "the one set-and-forget emulator configuration to play them all" ... a setting that makes one game work better (or work at all) can totaly make another game work shittier (or not work at all) 

PCSX2 really needs to allow the user to save presets, that way I'm not digging through options whenever I want to change up the games. 

 

17 hours ago, AshleyAshes said:

Getting it working is the big fat asterix of course.  It's really sad how some older PC games are up on Steam, GoG or elsewhere and patched to run on a current PC where as others are abandoned and had their compatibility die with Windows ME or Windows XP.

Games running on DirectDraw is a particular thorn in my side. 

[KenjiUmino]

1 minute ago, Zodiark1593 said:

PCSX2 really needs to allow the user to save presets

... and allow to have a certain preset associated with a certain game so that you only need to start the game and all the settings are applied automatically 

 

17 hours ago, AshleyAshes said:

Getting it working is the big fat asterix of course.

the big fat guy was obelix ... asterix is the short smart guy

 

 

16 hours ago, Zando Bob said:

Ooooooooo. Nice. Except like you said, it doesn't upgrade the textures, so it's probs not any clearer. 

it's pretty much the same problem that most "HD" rereleases today have.

 

sometimes you can see that they REALLY rolled up their sleves, dug out their old source material or even create new textures/backgrounds and put effort in it to make it look as good as possible on the current hardware (resident evil remake and zero is a good example) 

 

but most of the times they simply took the game as it was released on previous gen hardware (say, PS2) bumped up the rendering resolution, slapped the "HD" sticker on it and rereleased it for xbox 360/one or PS3/4 and steam complete with blurry FMVs / backgrounds and everything

[Guest]

On 7/11/2017 at 7:06 PM, ARikozuM said:

We can't help with emulators as it's against CS.

I actually made a thread about this, and it's not. The only thing against CS is talk of obtaining IP, and pirating. Emulation is not against the rules, or else talking about VMs and WINE would be against the CS as well. 

[ARikozuM]

1 hour ago, fpo said:

I actually made a thread about this, and it's not. The only thing against CS is talk of obtaining IP, and pirating. Emulation is not against the rules, or else talking about VMs and WINE would be against the CS as well. 

The mods should have added that to the CS. Good to know.

[Guest]

7 hours ago, ARikozuM said:

The mods should have added that to the CS. Good to know.

They kept it general; like "no piracy." It covers stealing of ROMs you don't own. 

[Sika]

HI, this is an old post I hope I will get an answer from someone. I download Tekken 4 and I install the PS2 Emulator named PCSX2 but I can't found the sound. When I start the game it has the sound but after starting the battle there is no sound, why is that. I download the game and the emulators from the same website.