PS2 Emu on Pi3 possible?
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Is there a way to add a Playstation 2 emulation to retropie on a Pi3?
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not at all. have a look at the requirements for ps2 emulators...
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Well minimum requirement for pcsx2 is a 1.8Ghz Pentium 4 which is a rather old architecture ... and taking a look at the coremark values a pi3 is about 3500 while a P4(at 3.00 GHz) is around 5000 so maybe its enough to hit minimum requirements
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I don't know where core mark get their figures but I'd put it at way south of that. in any case, the GPU is nowhere near good enough, even if it hit the GL requirements which it probably doesn't!
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That's totally impossible for RPi3, the only hope for that happen in future is RPi4 get a GPU which support vulkan in case PCSX2 supports that API as well (which don't currently).
RPi3 turn's into a very slow snail in games\emulators that requires OpenGL, for example try to play the simple game called secret maryo chronicles on RPi3 and you will see ;)
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Well that's sad :( thx for your replies guys!
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Hold on there is still some hope, you can make a cluster, and with enough of them you can run a playstation 2 emulator.
A cluster of Pi 3's are just multiple pi 3's working as one.
I know it's not much to go on, but I just thought it would help. -
@QuantityofWars not exactly. you have to program the ps2 emu to utilise each node which is a monumental task in itself. would be cheaper just to get a high end pc.
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What about it?
https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Playstation-2
Did anybody manage to enable it in Pi3?
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@andrefgj sorry no. Please read the earlier posts. The RPI3 is not capable.
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@andrefgj said in PS2 Emu on Pi3 possible?:
What about it?
https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Playstation-2
Did anybody manage to enable it in Pi3?
Don't believe @BuZz on this one he's lying meanwhile he's playing PS2 games on his Raspberry! Just kidding, even the average PC will have a rough time running PS2 emulation. I have a gaming PC and I tried some PS2 roms, the emulator runs them but not perfect. Some games are laggy as a snail.
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How about the Asus Tinker Board? That one us supposedly 2 times stronger than RPi3.
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If it did, it wouldn't run it at full speed. The Asus Tinker Board has:
- CPU: Rockchip RK3288 - Quad core 1,8 GHz ARM Cortex-A17 (32-bit)
- GPU: Mali-T764 GPU
- RAM: 2GB two channel LPDDR3
The system requirements from the PCSX2 Website are:
Minimum (most games will be unplayable slow)
Windows/Linux OS
CPU: Any that supports SSE2 (Pentium 4 and up, Athlon64 and up)
GPU: Any that supports Pixel Shader model 2.0, except Nvidia FX series (broken SM2.0, too slow anyway)
512MB RAM (note Vista needs at least 2GB to run reliably)Recommended
Windows Vista / Windows 7 (32bit or 64bit) with the latest DirectX
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo @ 3.2 GHz or better OR i3/i5/i7 @ 2,8 GHz or better OR AMD Phenom II @ 3,2 GHz or better
GPU: 8800gt or better (for Direct3D10 support)
RAM: 1GB on Linux/Windows XP, 2GB or more on Vista / Windows 7Warning:Because of the nature of emulation, even if you meet the recommended requirements there will be games that will NOT run at full speed, due to emulation bugs or other limitations. -
@mediamogul
Yeah, i know the system reqs, but those are x86/x64 reqs, not ARM. Thats why i thought that the Asus board might be capable of running it far better than RPi3, since its specs are double that of RPi3. -
It'll run it just about as well as Toonces can drive a car; not very well. ;)
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pcsx2 doesn't run on ARM at all. look into the "play!" emulator http://purei.org/about.php
(i don't think it works anywhere near as well as pcsx2 yet but it "works" on ARM i guess)
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Looks like development has already slowed down as well. Not a good sign for a closed source project. Whenever it becomes a possibility, versatile PS2 emulation will be a huge boon. As far as home consoles go, that system arguably has the strongest library of games per total volume of anything before or even after.
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guess ps2 emulation will stay on my desktop for now, runs flawlessly there...
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It'll happen for mobile eventually. Of course by that time people will be more concerned about why they can't run PS4, but the wheel does keep turning.
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@mediamogul said in PS2 Emu on Pi3 possible?:
Looks like development has already slowed down as well. Not a good sign for a closed source project. Whenever it becomes a possibility, versatile PS2 emulation will be a huge boon. As far as home consoles go, that system arguably has the strongest library of games per total volume of anything before or even after.
Hey look at the bright side. It's further along than Xbox emulation.
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