I’ve spent the past week experimenting, tweaking, cursing and crashing in my attempts to run a solid PlayStation 2 emulator on the PC. I come to you after my brutal journey with the fruits of my labor, hopefully making your imminent adventure far more enjoyable and infinitely less frustrating.
Why would anyone want to emulate PlayStation 2 games on the PC?
Simple: PS2 games look better than they have ever looked. They look better than the original PlayStation 2 and they look better than the PlayStation 3’s built-in emulator, available only earlier models. Why do PS2 games look better with PC emulation? Because you can use the power of your video card to render games at super-high resolutions. For instance, I’m currently playing Final Fantasy XII at 1920 x 1080 with x2 Anti-Alias at a steady 60-frames-per-second! It looks freaking sweet.
Here is a little proof. The first image shows Final Fantasy XII as it looks running at its native resolution while the second image is enhanced emulation. Note the crispness of the emulation shots, while the standard PS2 version is full of jaggies and pixelation.
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Native Resolution
Emulation
