PCSX2 latest news and updates

[Alastor]

PCSX2 is an open source Playstation 2 emulator. It's purpose is to mimic the the PS2 hardware, using a combination MIPS CPU Interpreters, Recompilers and a Virtual Machine which manages hardware states and PS2 system memory.

http://pcsx2.net/

It's been some time since the last news post so this will help bring everyone up to date with what we've been up to.

-For those of you who haven't heard, the latest SVN builds of PCSX2 have a new speed hack thanks to cottonvibes, named MTVU (multi threaded VU) which enables PCSX2 to use 3 threads now! (4 if you count the minor GUI thread). The speed hack has very high compatibility and provides a big speed boost in most games, especially for triple and quad core CPUs (but even on dual cores).

-We have a new page on our site, which you can view by clicking SVN at the top menu. You will find the 20 latest SVN builds there, courtesy of Orphis' build bot so you will be always up to date with the bleeding edge changes in PCSX2! Do keep in mind that these builds might be a bit buggier than the official releases since they are all work in progress.


-The configuration guide has been updated for the 0.9.8 release (a bit late ) and a new quick start guide has been created by avih aiming to be much more compact and easy to read. As always you can apply for translating in this thread. Check them both out!

-A new input plugin named Nuvee and developed by Shalma came to our attention, which is the first to support Lightguns and USB Mice! It seems it already works with almost all games supporting Lightguns so be sure to check it out HERE.


-Our youtube channel already has over 150,000 video views and almost 2,000 subscribers! You can visit it by clicking HERE.

Check out a small sample of our videos there (select 1080p for max quality):

http://www.youtube.com/v/Kxv_yFjcRy4

http://www.youtube.com/v/jKRnP59ejkQ

http://www.youtube.com/v/g0bFuj9DIW4

http://www.youtube.com/v/8KfRBXp6Yv4

That's all for now

[ventusrocks]

Wow, this goes MUCH faster with the new settings! There was a time when I couldn't get Star Wars Battlefront II to go faster than 30 fps (even with graphic resolution at the lowest, setting the AI to 0, and the graphic destroying frame skip, and without those, it was going less than 20 fps), and now I can get it to go 55-65 fps! Thanks very much PCSX2! I need to start saving the lens on my real console and use the emulator