Comments on: How to play PS2 games on my PC?

Question: How to play PS2 games on my PC?

Mossy — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 11:08:31 -0800

Playing PS2 on PC? I'd like to be able to see my ps2 games on my swanky monitor. Would a tv card with s-video in do it? Also, if I pick up a tv card, what do people recommend as a good show recorder (I have a good pc)?

By: majick

majick — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 11:27:57 -0800

I'd actually go the other way around and get a VGA adaptor for the PS2. It's likely to give a better picture than encoding to NTSC and back would.

By: revgeorge

revgeorge — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 11:49:16 -0800

You need one of these VGA adapters to put your PS2 games on a VGA monitor. If you want to keep using your computer with the monitor you might want to invest in a VGA switch box too.

By: Danelope

Danelope — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 12:04:05 -0800

Keep in mind that the average TV's resolution is much lower than the average monitor and, as a result, PS2 games played on a monitor will look fairly awful (considering they are designed with that lower resolution in mind.) This is the same reason that trying to use a television as a computer monitor generally results in disappointment.

By: Keyser Soze

Keyser Soze — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 12:49:44 -0800

How fast is your computer?

By: Mossy

Mossy — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 14:09:12 -0800

AMD XP 3200+ with 2x512Mb RAM (nForce2 mobo) and about 80gb free on the hd. I have a DVD-R to keep space free on it.

I have a shuttle case so I actually hook it up to my telly every so often.. (I have a Radeon 9600 pro with svideo out).

I don't actually mind playing in a window (can you do that?) and it'll be PAL (I'm in the UK).

By: bob sarabia

bob sarabia — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 14:42:00 -0800

you need the redant vga ps2 adapter. I have it and it works great. The only problem is, as mentioned above, the res is waay high on a monitor and leaves something to be desired on certain games, usually only on psx games tho.

By: banished

banished — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 17:43:54 -0800

Get this one, I have it and it works great, and I believe it's the newer version of what bob has. (From the picture it looks that way anyway)

By: Keyser Soze

Keyser Soze — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 19:49:58 -0800

That machine you mentioned would emulate PS2 games nicely. Get a controller adapter (PS2-USB) for less than 25 bucks and you have instant backups and easy playability, not to mention you can turn AA and AF on in the games. I cannot find a link for it, maybe its worth asking another Askme question on where to get one.

By: bob sarabia

bob sarabia — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 20:22:08 -0800

that looks pretty nice, banished. but whats "New YPsPr mode (for PS2 only)". that's the only thing the old one doesn't have...i think, since i dont' know what it is and it says "new"

By: zsazsa

zsazsa — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 21:26:05 -0800

Re: Keyser's note: PS2 games aren't playble on emulators yet. They're still in a larval state. PS1 games, on the other hand, are well-emulated, but emulator settings can be screwy and need to be changed between games, and some still don't work at all.

By: bob sarabia

bob sarabia — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 22:14:37 -0800

i was going to ask another question about ps2 emulation, but perhaps zsazsa could expound on his statement a little?

By: zsazsa

zsazsa — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 07:07:06 -0800

Basically, the emulation isn't working for real games yet. A couple games do run, but are way too slow to be playable. A good site for PS2 emulation is NGEmu. If you look at the news, people are overjoyed just to be getting games to boot and play for a few seconds. The emulators are downloadable, so you can try them, but I couldn't get any of my games to boot in the emulators at all.

By: Mossy

Mossy — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 10:43:33 -0800

YPsPr is composite video - it gives better clarity than s-video etc as it uses more inputs.

PSX emulation works fine on my pc, my playstation has been gathering dust for a while.. I use a rather nice thrustmaster analog gamepad instead of the stock ps2 fare..

But I need Disgaea dammit..

So I take it nobody has tried using s-video in?