Author Topic: First new version of PCSX2 emulator released in two years (Read 2252 times)

Stoney Mason · « **on:** May 01, 2011, 04:26:23 PM »

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It has been 2 years since our last stable release and today we (finally) bring you the newest stable release: 0.9.8!
There has been a massive amount of extensive changes to the emulator as a whole, so let's go over some of the biggest ones!

We have a completely new GUI made with wxWidgets to make the whole user experience simpler and more user friendly, whilst providing us with a platform in which we can easily add new features. For this we have to give our thanks to Air (Jake Stine) who recently left the team, who worked on this for many months (in what was pretty much a solo effort) to make it the best GUI we have ever had.
The entire team is eternally grateful for all of his efforts and we wish him best of luck with his new tasks!

This new GUI brings with it a much improved Linux support, as this is a completely cross platform user interface. Code changes will effect Windows and Linux in the same way, making maintenance for us much easier and finally giving Linux users a nice and consistent frontend.

Complementing the new GUI is a new Memory Card manager, providing the flexibility to use customly named or downloaded cards with sizes of 8 to 64 megabytes. Now you can fit even more saves on one card!

Host file system and ELF loading support has been improved too.
Now you Homebrewers can work with a more feature complete virtual PS2 to test your tools!

Patches and compatibility hacks are now automatically applied by default.
With this you don't have to sit there for ages playing around to find that 1 option that fixes your game; If we know about it, we've already set it!

Aside from the shiny parts of the emulator which you guys see and use, we have many internal changes to improve our overall compatibility, the most notable ones being a new VU recompiler called microVU, which is an effort to bring higher compatibility over the older SuperVU recompiler.

We also have a new VIF Unpack recompiler which is more accurate and safer than the previous asm implementation.

The other big change is within the SPU2-X sound plugin, which has been worked on thoroughly to improve the sound generation, provide different audio output options and filtering, but also internal changes to improve the compatibility with games such as Burnout 3 which had never booted on any previous version of PCSX2!

In all we now have around 65% of all tested games marked as playable, and at least 85% get "ingame".
This means that over 1500 of the tested games are fully playable!

I could be here rattling off the new changes all day, but i know you guys are waiting to get going!! Here is a summary rundown of the most notable changes within the emulator, we hope you enjoy using it as much as we did making it!

GUI: •New, threaded GUI using wxWidgets.
•New menus, for improved usability and faster configuration.
•Convenient Memory Card editor.
•On the fly pause and resume, perfectly stable, safe and fast.
•On the fly setting switching and even plugin switching.
•Powerful new configuration that is more user friendly with its first time wizard, reset to default buttons and a global presets system.
•A plethora of new options that make playing games more fun!
•All options have tooltips explaining what each of them do.
•Comes translated, with many languages to select from.
•Compatible with Aero Glass and Windows eye candy.
•Looks and works great on Linux, too!

Core: •Entire emulation core has been overhauled. Many components are rewritten.
•Countless code generation and runtime execution bugs fixed.
•Added microVU, an improved VU0/VU1/COP2 recompiler.
•New VIF recompiler
•Multi-threaded GS rewrite: Faster and more stable than in 0.9.6.
•Better BIOS splash screen skip method, better ELF support, host fs support.
•New Game database detects the game you run, displays compatibility info, and auto applies special game fixes/patches if needed.

Plugins: •GSdx is faster, more stable and has more configuration options than ever before.
•SPU2-X is the preferred SPU2 plugin now.
It has matured into almost completely emulating all the SPU2 quirks, making many more games work!
(And it sounds nice, too )

http://pcsx2.net/downloads.php

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #1 on:** May 02, 2011, 02:23:20 PM »

Holy shit. This thing seriously cooks.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #2 on:** May 02, 2011, 02:38:05 PM »

Still is a bit too much for my processor. $:-\$

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #3 on:** May 02, 2011, 03:01:01 PM »

Is there anyway to play this using my real PS2 discs?

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #4 on:** May 02, 2011, 03:03:56 PM »

Yes but disc images are faster I believe.

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #5 on:** May 02, 2011, 03:04:48 PM »

damn okay then thanks guess I gotta track down some ps2 isos

demi · « **Reply #6 on:** May 02, 2011, 03:05:40 PM »

Um.. rip the discs?

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #7 on:** May 02, 2011, 03:05:57 PM »

demi · « **Reply #8 on:** May 02, 2011, 03:07:33 PM »

Google it? If you spent the time you did making shit posts here on your own research...

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #9 on:** May 02, 2011, 03:31:02 PM »

wow how rude

SantaC · « **Reply #10 on:** May 02, 2011, 03:45:07 PM »

lol this is nothing new if you kept up with the latest revisions, so not it is not really the first "new" version of PCSX2 in 2 years. Not thread worthy?

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #11 on:** May 02, 2011, 04:56:40 PM »

lol SantaC still hurting.

Himu · « **Reply #12 on:** May 02, 2011, 05:27:57 PM »

play FF12 International, stoney

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #13 on:** May 02, 2011, 05:38:47 PM »

Maybe after I beat Persona 3.

MCD · « **Reply #14 on:** May 02, 2011, 06:58:20 PM »

I wanna try Persona 4.

Playing it on my PS3 made my eyes bleed.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #15 on:** May 02, 2011, 07:58:36 PM »

Might give this a try now. PS2 games with a 360 controller

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #16 on:** May 02, 2011, 08:27:16 PM »

Quote from: pilonv1 on May 02, 2011, 07:58:36 PM

Might give this a try now. PS2 games with a 360 controller

terrible for the games I want to play (frequency + amplitude)

cool breeze · « **Reply #17 on:** May 02, 2011, 09:00:51 PM »

this seems a lot better than the last version I tried (from october of last year, latest plugins and all)

did this always have a turbo feature, btw? speeding past boring grinds could be considerably less maddening.

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #18 on:** May 02, 2011, 09:03:18 PM »

I'm holding about 60fps. Stuff looks REAL nice when you make the internal rendering resolution at 4X.

cool breeze · « **Reply #19 on:** May 02, 2011, 09:07:10 PM »

It defaults to a locked frame rate. At 6x resolution, Quantum of Solace was running at like ~110 fps without the limit. F4 toggles it and holding Tab enters TURBO MODE. Default speed for turbo mode is 200% game speed but that can be adjusted in the menu.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Quantum of Solace PS2 is actually a fun game!

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pilonv1 · « **Reply #20 on:** May 02, 2011, 10:23:18 PM »

Now I need to choose a game to play...

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #21 on:** May 03, 2011, 12:00:51 PM »

Rumble roses

dat ass

demi · « **Reply #22 on:** May 03, 2011, 01:13:42 PM »

Quote from: pilonv1 on May 02, 2011, 10:23:18 PM

Now I need to choose a game to play...

*tumbleweed*

dicklaurent · « **Reply #23 on:** May 03, 2011, 04:46:47 PM »

Quote from: The Worst Poster Ever on May 02, 2011, 03:05:57 PM

how?

try imgburn. or alcohol

Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich · « **Reply #24 on:** May 03, 2011, 04:51:13 PM »

I know there's minimum requirements, but what's the "REAL TALK" minimum processor required to get this running decently? I have a dual-core AMD 7750 paired with a GTX460 and I would imagine the processor would be the bottleneck here...

dicklaurent · « **Reply #25 on:** May 03, 2011, 04:58:35 PM »

if you want to scale stuff up you probably need quad core yeah

(other than that I have no idea. both my computers are quad, q6600 and i7 950)

Vizzys · « **Reply #26 on:** May 03, 2011, 05:19:23 PM »

be sure to enable speedhacks if you try with an older cpu

or anyway

pilonv1 · « **Reply #27 on:** May 03, 2011, 07:57:24 PM »

Quote from: Sho Nuff on May 03, 2011, 12:00:51 PM

Rumble roses

dat ass

but I've already played the Superior 360 version

...

Might try Mad Maestro or Mister Mosquito or something

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #28 on:** May 03, 2011, 08:43:53 PM »

Quote from: Viz on May 03, 2011, 05:19:23 PM

be sure to enable speedhacks if you try with an older cpu

or anyway

Enabling speedhacks seemed to do the trick for me. Is there anything else I can do to get a bit better performance?

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