



If you don’t have a PlayStation 2 BIOS dump, the application won’t even run. The program requires a first time configuration where users can select the default language for the application, as well as to configure plugins, drivers, memory cards, and BIOS. The application supports over 2,000 PS2 game titles, including the highly acclaimed Final Fantasy X, Devil May Cry 3, 25 to Life, Aeon Flux, Age of Empires II (The Age of Kings), Alone in the Dark, Madden NFL, Mega Man X, Baldur's Gate, and Final Fight (Streetwise).Īmong other supported PlayStation 2 titles, we can mention the Half-Life, Naruto, NASCAR, NHL, Onimusha, Virtua Fighter, Legend of Spyro, Lord of the Rings, Pinball Hall of Fame, and Harry Potter series.īeing designed by the same team that brought us the PCSX Sony PlayStation One emulator software, PCSX2 combines a virtual machine with MIPS CPU interpreters and recompilers in order to manage PlayStation 2’s system memory and hardware states. Be aware that in order to use the PCSX2 PlayStation 2 emulator software, you will need to extract the BIOS file from a legitimately owned PlayStation 2 console. It has been created by reverse engineering PlayStation 2 demo games. It has been designed to mimic the hardware components of the Sony PlayStation 2 (PS2) gaming console. PCSX2 is an open source software that provides users with one of the world’s first and most used PlayStation 2 emulator for Linux-based operating systems.

Its main purpose is aiding in game hacking, translation patches for example list of Keyboard shortcuts for the debugger functions can be found at docs/debugger.txt
