play ps2 games on PC?

[lovesranch]

Hey all,
Happy thanksgiving! Does anyone know if you can play PS2 games on a PC?

[fdjc4]

sort of...

ps2 emualtion is on its way up, compatability is ok but not many games run well. to get full advantage you need a dual cpu system as one runs the emulator and the second runs the equilivent of the ps2 graphics processor.

www.pcsx2.net

i think thats their website.

[lovesranch]

thanks fd,
I downloaded the emulator but not sure how to use it. When I put a ps2 disk in, open the emulator and click "execute" a pop-up says something about "unable to load 'bios\' " I close that, then a browse window opens, but i don't know what i am supposed to browse for. If I close that, a CDVDiso pop-up says"error loading " if i close that, one more pop-up says "error opening CDVD plugin"am I supposed to download another plug-in ?:confused:

[fdjc4]

thanks fd,
I downloaded the emulator but not sure how to use it. When I put a ps2 disk in, open the emulator and click "execute" a pop-up says something about "unable to load 'bios\' " I close that, then a browse window opens, but i don't know what i am supposed to browse for. If I close that, a CDVDiso pop-up says"error loading " if i close that, one more pop-up says "error opening CDVD plugin"am I supposed to download another plug-in ?:confused:

Yeah its illegal to ship the emu with a bios so you have to dump your own from your p2, sorry to ask where to get a bios is against the rules of this forum but with some searching its easier than you may think. . .

[lovesranch]

o.k.
guess its not worth it then, just thought i could play my daughters games on my pc ha ha! don't wanna break any rules though. thanks anyway!

[fdjc4]

no point yet really unles you are a developer and want to contribute to the pcsx team. I would gueestimate that about 10% of the ps2 games are playable but to play at decent framrates then you need one hell of a pc, intell core 2 duo conroe chips and probably a dual or quad graphcs card setup, should only set you back a few thousand lol.

[Random]

o.k.
guess its not worth it then, just thought i could play my daughters games on my pc ha ha! don't wanna break any rules though. thanks anyway!

Searching for ceartain things on a certain search engine, will find you what you need.

As far as I understand, its not illegal to download a PS2 bios, as long as you actaully have a PS2 yourself.

Plus only certian bios versions work on PCSX2.