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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chinsul:
I hope my Xperia Neo can playing PS2 emulator without overclocking. :D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] II GHOSTFACE II:
Anyone who likes playing games on their phones I honestly recommend getting a gameklip to fit your phone to your ps3 pad. Can get one specially for S3 or universal ones for different phones. Makes life so much easier.

Check it out:

http://buy.thegameklip.com/
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dodgebizkit:
How can we get it in uk?

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yapradica:
i thing it would be hard enough to make ps2 emu on android with good performance,,remembering some ps2's games on pc using pcsx2 emu didnt working fine although PC's specification is good enough..
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UrbanDesigns:
GameKlip can be delivered to the UK, I believe it costs extra but it's worth it.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] II GHOSTFACE II:
Yes another comment is correct it can be delivered over to UK and all in all will cost $25.00 which is approx £15.58. I was lucky and found one on eBay which i snatched so i didn't have to wait the shipping time whether its fast/long or whatever.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hentitan:
PlayStation Suite™ would cry if you guys make this happen:D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Erratic24:
What ever happened with that? I was hoping to be able to play some great sony games on my N7 but that doesn't seem to be happening. I really think sony missed the boat by not implementing android into all of their services/systems...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nanaki-seto:
topic is little inactive but just seen and this fits sooo

what i wonder is this why with android tablets having comparable performance to desk top computers in many respects other than ram why can't they run ps2 emulators? Take a game like final fantasy crisis core that play pretty dang good even on my old kindle fire hd 8.9 on the psp emulator. During the end scene and a couple other cut scenes i got some stutter but nothing that even began to hamper enjoyment of the game. That single game is like stupid high end graphics.

So lets say for arguments sake that ps2 and above emulation is a pipe dream that we won't be able to get for say another 2 or 3 years down the road. Is it possible to quote un quote patch a psp emulator to run some if not all ps2 games? I know i seen patches and plugins etc to make it play ps1 games. Or maybe some sort of patch for each game? Now granted that would be rewriting a good bit of the games very code and i doubt any one would expect them to be free. Which would obviously mean also that sony would have to be involved and give the developers aproval to do it. But i mean serious playing ps2 games on your tablet that would just rock. I have tons of fun with just ps1 and psp and below. I bought out the local junk store of their ps1 games (only the rpgs :p) a while back. just to play them on my tablet.

It just seems like there should be some way to do it. Now granted i am not a programmer. If it is gpu issues only then maybe taking the models for the games and lowering the poly count would make them playable on a high end android device. I my self can do poly reduction on 3d models in my sleep and still have them look good. So long as i have 3d max the needed plugins for import and export i could lend my help to trying to see if it can be done.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JBmorris:
There is not going to be an app for that feature. Because the phones wont be able to handle it. You are going to need Over 1GB of ram on the phones which you don't get on any phone at all. The only thing that could work is a remote connection (which the Play stations don't have any feature to do so). Besides, Playing directly on a play station is WAY better than Playing on an emulator.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shivam2004:
This is great if works
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] juan186:
The play station 2 have many graphics for a mobile phone
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheBasterd:
First, let Me quote you the problem :

This problem has been worked on for a long time and now, if you go onto the official website of the emulator PCSX2, you will find that more than 92% of the game are working.

But, x86 architecture is different from ARM. I am not saying that it is impossible, I myself would love to play some old classic games, but writing the same code that runs on x86 on a ARM is going to be very difficult.

Also, a Quad-Core ARM processor is still not as powerful as a Dual Core x86 processor. But, that is not the end of it. Multi-threading causes more problems than it solves. Synchronization is by far the most stubborn problem that comes to emulating a system. And therefore, if I was you, I would probably not hope for a PS2 emulator on Android for the time being. Maybe, and that is a big "maybe", it might be a chance that we could dream of it once Tegra K1 (Logan) arrives. But till then, we need to be satisfied with PPSSPP. Must say, once hell of an emulator. I hope its developer (Henrik) makes up his mind to work on it once he is done with PPSSPP.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sgmaroufhisense:
hope it will be out soon, the specs nowadays are amazing
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nanaki-seto:
Yeh the ppsspp emu is awesome and just got updated a couple days ago. Not sure what is new or different. But it is one of the few apps that i let auto update. I play allot of ps1 and psp on down games on my kindle it does a great job. Not a top performer as tablets go but more than enough for those systems.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] minimaster4734:
I don't think porting a PS2 emulator is possible or even viable... Drastic DS, got example, is a great emulator and it was made for arm devices, that's why it's so stable and quick. Other ports of DS emulators, like nds4droid or DSoid didn't go half where drastic is exactly because they were ported.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spykez0129:
Is there ANY working PS2 emulator, even if it's in the works that I can try out? I got an Amazon Fire TV which runs a quad core cpu and a mobile GPU. I'm not thinking it'll work but just for giggles I want to test it out.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] luther349:
no

ps2 emulation still takes a powerhouse of a pc to run decent. andorid got psp because the guy made that emulator for the open pandora then ported it over also its a much lower spec low rez system. be nice but your talking porting a x86 emulator to arm then of course wating a few years for androids to be strong enough to even run them. the main issue with ps2 is hacks like frame skipping etc simply don't work and if your running under 60fps the game slows to a crawl.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jornvdcb:
You can always go for good nintendo games ;)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AbiNpogi:
I hope it would be a reality
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nanaki-seto:
Oh trust me i do! and ps1 and psp as well. My kindle is like having a portable entertainment center in my hand lol. Got movies on it here and there games galore etc. Heck i even hacked out my self a live wall paper of nanaki from ff7 a jpg i found online and added a wave effect to with gimp. Hes in front of a fire scene (same image i use as my avatar here) So it has a heat devil looking effect subtle enough to not be distracting but just this side of noticeable. Im a game nut love the old games but hate most of the new stuff.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vishalbiswas:
Now, mobiles with 3 GB RAM, 2 GHz Octacore and HD display have become reality. I would really love to see a PS2 emulator. Looking for God of War on my android;)

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skeobird:
thats imposible at this point in time
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TiTAN-O-One:
Hah, someone please make a port PCSX2 for Android :D:p

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matslarson:
You were saying? It's still definitely a few years out, but available RAM is not what's holding it back at this point.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stuart Little:
Very cool bro

Sent from my beastly SM-T320
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nanaki-seto:
Well heres a question. What exactly is preventing ps2 emus on android? Things i know that are not. Ram as a ps2 emu can chug along happily on a multi core computer with as little as 2 gig ram. Cpu speed (raw mhz/ghz) to many tablets have speeds pushing 2 ghz an above. Core count many tablets are dual and quad core and dual core on computers is enough. Video card (gpu) This is where im thinking the issue really is. But it is not related to poly count it can't be God of war is not very high in poly count no higher for sure than say ff7 crisis core for psp that plays fine on my kindle.So it has to be some where else. CPU architecture also a major problem. The way the cpu works and runs and processes information.

So what are the specific issues that need to be addressed in these couple areas. What is it that is keeping a ps2 emu from running on android im not talking what keeps the current ps2 emus from running but what keeps it nearly impossible for any to be made?

Also do these same issues apply to ps3 and ps4 or have they changed enough and become closer to arm etc architecture that they might be more doable than a ps2?

Also what about a custom bios/rom to allow say the psp emulator to play ps2 games? Im thinking probably not possible but i know roms + custom plugin lets psp emus play ps1 games.

If a emu can not be made what about a non emu app that plays ps2 games? Bare with me here a minute. All a ps2 is for all its hardware is a platform to run software. In this case a game engine/engines to render the 3d etc files on the disk and accept input. I have done allot of beta testing. So i know a bit about game engines and how with mods to a games code it can be ported over to another engine etc. Some times a entire series of games from the same develop can be ported to another engine just by adding a interpreter between the games base code and the new egine that essentially translates its files to to make them usable on the new engine. Could something like this be done for ps2?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChronoReverse:
The 2GHz ARM CPU in a phone isn't the same as the 2GHz Core CPU. Even if they performed similar at a particular task (benchmarks, web browsing), that doesn't mean they'd perform the same at another task (emulation).

Current emulators are doing just that. We don't have the power to true emulate a PS2 in even desktop computers. That's why there are compatibility lists because it's not exact emulation.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChronoReverse:
Look I don't want to belittle you but let's just say that all that long blurb you wrote aren't new ideas. There's a good reason why the use of such idea are more limited when emulators are written by actual programmers

For example, one reason why emulators invariably move towards emulating the hardware is because of the compatibility issues. Emulation tends to move from high-level emulation towards low-level as hardware becomes increasingly faster. You can start to skip the short-cuts that give a working-but-inaccurate result.

In any case, games written for the PS2 take too much into account of the underlying hardware for wholesale high level emulation to be possible.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] retroben:
I would love to play Simpsons Hit & Run,Sonic Adventure 1/2 and Sonic Heroes on Android via a PS2 emulator.

Reicast causes rebooting on Qualcomm chipsets with both Sonic Adventure games. (Qualcomm/Adreno sucks!)

Dolphin Emulator refuses to run anything because Qualcomm sucks!

Freedreno needs OpenGL ES 3.0 support.

I wish that PCSX2 or any other PS2 emulator like an epsx2e creation would arrive on Android.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nanaki-seto:
I don't think porting is the answer here. I still stick by my guns and say a new engine that can read ps2 games and run them is a better alternative yeh it would cost money to get it done. Really emulating the hardware is messy even as a non programmer i know that much. That is for any game console. It works sure and it is quite cool how it is all done. But you have a bunch of hardware running software that emulates hardware that then runs software. It is no wonder that it takes such a powerful computer to emulate ps2. The ps2 was a beast of a console in its day and it is still a very capable one that never did get fully utilized and never will. Hell ive seen mods made for ff7 ps1 running on emulation that are mind boggling. That was a ps1 using a model that was a higher res model than cloud in his solo finale fight with sepheroth. What i wonder is for example just how much different is a ps2 game under the hood than a ps1 game?

I do know that both systems use the same file formats for 3d models textures music sound fx etc in many cases. Mostly in a ps2 game the model is higher res (More polys and higher quality textures larger size texture etc) and larger on screen. Im wondering if any one has ever looked at the 2 systems to see just what is different with their games. Maybe it would be possible to make a hmm forward compatible ps1 emulator?

Come at it from a entirely different direction and maybe some one can come up with something that would work.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dlads:
You're right in a sense but don't make the mistake of thinking a quad core snap dragon chip will rival any Intel or AMD quad core chip, nor will the 3 or even 4GB of RAM that you get in phones rival PC speed. Its just not that quick. Ps2 emulation needs a lot of grunt, even my PC would struggle with some situations and mines top of the line from less than 2 months ago.

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You've kind of just said what an emulator is, porting is different but it has to be written for the said architecture, not something that will happen overnight. There is probably as much chance of the Xbox 360 being emulated on PC then the ps2 on android.

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Chaps, we've been down this road before, as much as I'd love Tekken tag over Bluetooth with a friend I'm afraid the reality is that emulation needs serious skill just to get it to boot, having it running anything near playable on a PC is difficult, on android is near impossible with current hardware. Sorry but that's the reality check many of you seem to be missing. We'd all love it to happen, but it just isn't anywhere near close. I'm sorry.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] retroben:
PS2 would not be friendly if simply ported.

You would need to rework the emulator to optimize it for Android's ARM architecture to get decent speeds.

If someone could do what the amazing developers did with DraStic and Reicast,PS2 emulation could me better than identical to a PC version.

I can actually fast-forward PS1 games on my Fire TV using the right emu.

Maybe the devs of either one of Reicast or DraStic could actually make PCSX2reme (extreme) happen!

PPSSPP Android runs quite well,especially since the emulation uses more than the PS2 clock rate.

I wished that there could be an emulator called PPSS22 by the same developers.

If not PCSX2,then why not PS2Emu or some other emulator that I can't remember the name of?

The other thing defending probability of PS2 emulation is the GTA San Andreas for Android and some other PS2 games that made it onto Android.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jelliol:
As usual for me, touch control ruins nearly everything.

With a controller everything is perfect.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iSiddharth:
Download Here

If you want you can get a PS2 Emulator for Android Device from here

http://ps2forandroid.blogspot.in/
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dlads:
Certainly.

AS Rock Extreme 4

i5670k @4.4Ghz xigma stealth cooled

8GB DDR3 RAM @ 2133Mhz

Sapphire R9 290 Oc'd

GS800 PSU

4TB hard drive.

3 x 27 inch Asus 144hz Monitors

Antec 900 modified Case.

The point i'm making is that emulation isn't near perfect at all, certain games work flawlessly and will do on old hardware but there are quite a few which struggle, there was a boxing game I was attempting to play and could only get around 22fps, it was nasty.

Bare in mind I can max out any game, crysis 3 ultra no problem, watch dogs, no problem, skyrim no problem.

Emulation is never going to be perfect, due to a few factors, mostly emulating the hardware and the problems that it introduces.

If we're to see these types of games on mobile devices, having them ported would be a much more reliable option, unfortunately that means relying on the dev's themselves.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shahid_Rahman:
That'd be awesome and yes they're are phones with more than 1 gb of ram such as the nexus 5, lg g3, note 3 and others as well. They did a pretty good job on bringing San Andreas, Vice City, and GTA3 to Mobile gaming i don't see why it would be hard to bring other games but seeing as it is an emulator you are talking about makes it seem somewhat impossible.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trevbreak:
Completely agree with this... comparing different emulators (even two emulating the same console) is still comparing apples to oranges.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dlads:
On current hardware I believe it is. The emulation side of things is far too heavy and far from optimized, thus leaving the developers a mountain to climb with very little horsepower to use.

Maybe one day we'll see it happen, for the foreseeable future though, i'd rely on epsxe and the psp emulator.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EdVel:
Hope there is a PS2 emulator right now, but I guess smartphones are not enough powerful to run emulated PS2 games.. Maybe in 1-3 years, the only stable emulator is ePSX, which runs smooth and well with all the games in a medium or high end smartphone.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akhilleus_:
Are any phones advanced enough to handle ANY game emulation? I play a lot of NES via OpenEmu but never even thought about trying to access it on a phone. Seems like it can't handle PS2, but can it handle something simpler like NES or lower-bit emulated games? My curiosity is a bit piqued now...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dakunclear:
Yes it can and ps1 emu as well

On a side note I wander how the Nvidia tablet will handle it
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] C.Beery:
Even if it runs smooth, PS2 has like 12 buttons on a controller. How do you plan to fit those onscreen without obscuring the view?

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Oh yeah higher end phones like my GS4 can play FF7: Crisis Core on PPSSPP at full speed. If you're interested in anything else like SNES or GBA, you should also take a look at Retroarch. (I'd give links but apparently I can't do that until I make 10 posts. Just search for them on the Google Play store and they'll come up though.)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ruthlessptizzle:
Fpse is the best psx emulator....ppsspp is great psp
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Woblebox:
OK guys I am not so sure about android running ps2 but it sure can run gamecube. Now that tegra k1 is out gamecube is almost 100% there, just a couple more months. Now let's just leave the android University and turn to pc tablets. Surface pro 3 can play every thing up to wii in HD . you t can even upscale the graphics so it looks even better than on the original consol. Only thing is...... It's pretty expensive. But that is one way to do it. Now back to android, technology is evolving like crazy so just wait a year or two and we'll be there.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nanaki-seto:
simple most games do not use all the buttons. So only ones you need to show have to be shown. So a controller profile for each game could be made by the user.

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I prefer epsxe my self.

Ppsspp is simply put the end all be all of psp emu. Nothing better.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] C.Beery:
That would be a bit annoying to do but I guess it would work. You would just need to remember to switch between profiles every time you switch games.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nanaki-seto:
not really. Lets say that the emu already existed. It will have a save state set up just like most every other emu out there. It should not be to hard for a programmer to have the app save controller lay out in the save state (or at same time as you save state) The reverse would also be doable. On loading a state it would also load the controller lay out. So once set up it would always be there and be swapped seamlessly for each game you have a lay out set up for.

Now the real problem is a emulator for ps2 for android. And also the mentioned custom game profiles for controller lay outs might be a good new feature for other emulators out there. Value added feature that may get some one to pay for a emulator that is already a paid app but has few users because it is a paid app. Shoot i would favor a paid emu over a free one with similar features but missing a profile system for games controller lay out. I move stuff around on my various emus i use depending on the game i am playing. Ones where a walk through is a must i tend to move controls around so i can work them with one hand while scrolling through a walk through for the game. Being that i mostly favor rpgs i tend to have allot of guides etc for them heh
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] akhilleus_:
Hmm awesome. Had no idea people were doing this stuff for the phone, but I guess it makes sense. I'm partial to having a controller in my hand and playing stuff on a bigger screen, but I guess it's better to play a little Megaman than app games I'm not that interested in.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lcosta2:
Great ;)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] carlbreen:
PS2 doesn't even fully emulate on my good PC. I wish to replay Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance, but no. Some PS1 emulator with Syphon Filter would be nice though.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dakunclear:
God I miss that game hmmmm now I'm going to have to steal a ps2 from my buddy and hunt down that game
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HzMeister:
I prefer xbox but since this is about ps what would really be cool is a ps2/ps3 emulator with a ps3 wireless controller. throw in a pocket projector and baaamm gaming system anywhere.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Woblebox:
Guys, i figured it out!! what if we make a petition and send it to sony. why bother making an emulator when we could just make sony port the whole console over to android right? If enough people want it then i think they just might do it.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dakunclear:
I would be okay with that
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheKindleMCPEGuy:
Yasssssss yasss I would do that petition... Only just the thing about the games! OK this would normally would be how you play PS2 on PC/other devices that have one in their app store:

Download emulator -> Download ROMs off of a PS2 roms site -> Import the rom into emulator -> Play the game.

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] minimaster4734:
Sony would never do it. They even discontinued their Xperia Play series because they don't want more rivals to their PS Vita.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TiTAN-O-One:
Yep, agree with the above. We'd just have to wait for a dev to port PS2 emu here. Would give him a beer for that ;) :beer:

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MidnightXS:
I know nothing xD

Now, I'm not surprised that it isn't possible right now. I am surprised, however, that development hasn't been started yet.