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Is there a PS2 emulator for Mac?

· PowerPC · 5 posts · Jun 1, 2005 — Jul 9, 2005 View original thread ↗

#1 Wed, 1 Jun 2005 - 23:58

Is there a PS2 emulator for Mac?

If not, which Windows one is the best?

if they all suck then does anyone know where i can get a mod-chip to make my PS2 (slim) play copied game disks?

#2 Thu, 2 Jun 2005 - 03:44

1. No

2. They all suck (I assume)

3. Piracy.

-Owl

#3 Thu, 2 Jun 2005 - 13:32

1. crap

2. crap again (not surprised)

3. not piracy... innocent backups

#4 Fri, 3 Jun 2005 - 12:51

PCSX2 ( http://www.pcsx2.net/ ) will likely be the best but I don't think it hasn't been ported to the Mac yet. Someone recently ported PCSX1 though so maybe one day. I don't know why some developers automatically miss Mac out. Mac has a bigger market than Linux I'm sure. Anyway, it's on Windows.

I don't know about playing copied discs. I read there was a way to copy discs so that you wouldn't have to mod your PS2. I just use originals anyway. When I owned a chipped PS1, I used to rent games and copy them so I got the games for about £3. Nowadays with PS2 games on DVD it just isn't worth it to copy them since I can buy them second hand pretty cheap and I don't have to mess about buying DVDs. Concerning backups, I have bought games that have been used loads of times from the second hand store and I've never had a bad game. Oddly, PS2 games seem to be more resilient than DVD movies. I've had tons of bad DVD movies from the rental store. Maybe I was just luckier with the games.

As for emulators not being good, well that's true in a lot of cases but the ones that aren't good tend to die pretty quick. Older console emulators like SNES, gameboy even N64 work very well.

#5 Sat, 9 Jul 2005 - 04:59

Quote:

Originally Posted by osxrules

It has a ton to do with the fact that what emulation does is emulate a Chip, the processor the system uses.

And when emulating a chip, you tell another chip how to cun that chip's instruction set.

So, you work hard making lots of calls to another specific processor to do it, and to do it fast.

This is why you see windows emulators with Linux ports, they both run on x86.

Soon Macs will run on x86 too, so you will see the emulator scene on the mac get a bit more colorful in terms of bleeding edge emulation at that point.

And to make a bet about that, I am betting that by the time the transistion from PPC to x86 is 'over' we will see XBox emulators on the PC (already some in early early stages) and thus we will see it hopefuly hop over to the x86 mac 'quickly'.

-Owl