RPI 3 and PS2 Emulator

VahnXDean

@spruce_m00se Hey spruce, i've just build my new PC during the black friday, a i5-8600k with a GTX 1080 and i will try some emulators on it. Did you have any problem with the configuration of your pc? Or the only problem was with the emulator itself?

PokeEngineer

@herb_fargus

I wouldn't even know... I have never tried before because I know it would be an useless endeavour.

drake999

I would love to see PS2 emulation on the Pi3 but I really don't think its possible on the hardware at playable speeds for the majority of games. If I recall correctly the PS2 CPU could do 6.2 GFLOPS worth of floating point calculations. The Pi3 CPU can't even come close to 1 GFLOP as far as I know. That metric alone is telling, though I understand it is more complicated than that. I'm sure it is possible technically to emulate PS2 on the Pi3, but not in any playable form.

matchaman

Impossible. Even a mid-end PC struggles with PS2 emulation. You'll need a modern gaming PC for that.

meg

I think some ps2 can run on Retropie, but only in 2d games. Wait till the next RPI 4 and stack it with PI3. I wish Saturn games would run properly.

fabio78

@meg no, it can’t. The PS2 architecture is complex and very costy hardware-wise to emulate, and only works properly in x86 architecture by brute force. The Pi is based on ARM architecture. Not even the Pi8 in 2025 will run it. Same with Saturn. Seriously, forget it.

PokeEngineer

@meg

If you really want to play games for those platforms, why don't you try to buy the actual systems.

zerojay

PCSX2 is the most advanced PS2 emulator out there today, however it is written for 32-bit x68 and does not have an ARM port. But even if it did, it wouldn't run at any usable speed. Play! is a newer PS2 emulator that is still in early days and has a better chance of running on an ARM processor but even still, there's not enough power to make it useful on a Pi 3 at all.

nitrogen_widget

I ran Gauntlet seven sorrows I think on PCSX2 well over a yr ago on a second gen i5 with a radeon hd 7770 video card just fine.
you just gotta play with the system settings.

however I just bought a working ps2 off ebay plus some light guns for some time crisis fun on a big CRT. :)

spud11

I've got PSX2 up and running on my Windows 7 PC. Using powerline adapters, I stream Metal Slug Anthology from my PC to my Arcade Table (Retropie RPi 3) using Moonlight. It was a bit of a challenge to set up but it works well with my arcade style joysticks. Search the forum and there is a thread which has a guide.

meg

@pokeengineer I've got 2 phat ps2 and 2 slims. I'm just saying cause the specs are somewhat similar to Dreamcast.

turnerl

Now that GameCube and PS2 are added to RetroPIe (x86 ONLY) I decided to install Ubuntu and RetroPie on my PC. i7 3770k and GTX 690 (not new hardware). It runs PS2 and GameCube perfectly with 10x internal resolution on GC and 3x Internal resolution on PS2. I highly recommend trying this out if you haven't already.

madmodder123

@spruce_m00se Soft modding your PS2 is badass, I put around 200 games on mine :)