I'm Roor, I hope someone remembers me... I made some emulators some time ago: AdriPSX, DuoS DSEmu, and some others that surely no one knows.
Anyway, since middle 2014 I begun refactoring my old PS2 Emu project; and now it runs games and plays with an acceptable degree of performance.
I was planning on renaming it, right now it is just generic "ps2emu" (tentatively "Connectix Ps2emu").
Features so far:
- Good compatibility, plays most (but not all) commercial games from ISOs.
- HLE Based. It doesn't require a BIOS.
- Doesn't use any plugin at all.
- Small footprint : it's only 1.2Mb in total.
- Requires CPU with SSE2 support.
- Requires DirectX 9 with shader 2.0 support.
- Supports MemoryCard files, but no SaveStates.
- Has SD (original res) and HD (high res) modes, for enhanced graphics.
- Runs fairly well on Intel I5, Windows 8, without external GPU which I use for tests.
I plan to do a limited release (for testers only) by next Monday.
Awesome!! I remember you. I'd be interested in trying the emulator out. Of course my hardware has changed quite a bit over the years. I do have a few questions though:
1. Are you going to opensource the project? In the future?
2. What's your development plans for the project?
GuitarFreaks & Drummania Masterpiece Silver on Connectix Beta (1st March)
Note that the game runs completely smooth with some minor graphical glitches.
Audio is noted to be more accurate and has less latency than PCSX2.
I remember you from DuoOS back when I still had a system that could not run desmume and I was trying to find a DS emulator that worked well since No$GBA was still forced to use No$Zoomer and the audio issues were a like nails on a chalkboard still. Hopefully you can make something good and decent with a PS2 emulator.
I just e-mailed the "private beta" to all the people who applied for testing the emulator (by email since last week).
Please email me comments, glitches, compatibility lists, and so.
Next Monday (March 9th) I'll send a new Beta to the ones who applied; several GS/GPU issues have been addressed and performance have been slightly improved.
If I make it in time (I can't make promises) I'll try to get Game-pad/Joystick support available during this weekend.
Hi. I ve been a bit busy, and I wanted to include some more improvements before releasing the second beta.
Sorry for the delay. I'll try to make it in time before this weekend.
Thanks for your patience.
I used to LOVE Connectix VGS too. ^^ At the time, I had a VERY bad PC with a integrated video card, so playing PSX games at full speed on my PC was only possible in VGS. ^^
Hey Roor, any chances to beta test it myself? got a new rig recently so i could test several games i have here. I sent you a mail a while ago but no Response so far.
VGS was cool. I actually had someone in the US get it for me at the time, as it wasn't for sale in Europe (unlike bleem!).
VGS' compatibility was awesome for the time. Sure, other emulators had the edge in graphics but they didn't quite run as much.
VGS was cool. I actually had someone in the US get it for me at the time, as it wasn't for sale in Europe (unlike bleem!).
VGS' compatibility was awesome for the time. Sure, other emulators had the edge in graphics but they didn't quite run as much.
CVGS was pretty cool. At the time I was developing my own PS1 emulator (AdriPSX) and they were able to run "high-end" games like Final Fantasy VII (yes, at that time, FF8 was considered a high end and AAA game...) even on a Penium MMX 166mhz with 4Mb of RAM... It was a great achievement.
I don't know if I will be able to... but the idea behind "Connectix" (in due time) is to be able to run games without the need of a "powerfull" PC.
I really admire PPSSPP, and it was my inspiration to continue developing a Ps2Emu. PPSSPP is one of the best current (?) generation emulators, well designed and HLE based... that's what I always wanted for any of my own emus.
Anyway, I haven't been able to prepare the beta for this weekend (I've been away from home since last Thursday).
Don't worry, everyone who already requested to "beta-test" by email, will receive copy of the next beta.
Thank you for your patience.
I've been quite busy with work during the week, and with family during the week end. Sorry for that.
I like the feeling of entitlement people have over the internet and how they do their "duty" to tell people what they should do with their projects and hobbies. Just saying....
My apologies, I was merely replying to Kaizen's flawed analogy.
It's not entitlement it's just that people have become anxious as the batman of ps2 emulation is nowhere to be seen and those obscure untranslated ps2 games are waiting to be played.
one advantage of being open source is that it could encourage other developers to port it to other platforms like Android (Ouya, Nvidia Shield, Mojo, ...).
Don't get me wrong but it doesn't matter what the advantages are. Fact is the emulator is a hobby project and as such Roor is fully entitled to his decisions whatever we like them or not. He can decide whatever to release the emulator to the public or not and the same applies to the source code.
Right now he is sending betas to people and he could as well simply stop the whole thing and that would be his desicion. For instance many here including me asked for a beta and he simply ignored the posts so i pretty much say "fuck it" and simply forgot about this thread until now. At the end is his decision so all you can do is respect it.
I've never released any of my projects as open source either and there are many out there who never did as well. Sure, open source has it's advantages but not everyone wants them. I for one don't like others touching and messing with my private/hobby projects.
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