[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mckimiaklopa:
the ps2 is much more powerful than the psp

By the way I very much understand how hard it will take to develop a ps2 emu for android.

I know that the ps2 is a very complex machine with psychotic architecture and because of that,it needs hardwarre 100x it's power in order to emulate it because of it's big difference compared to conventional 3d rendering.and i also understand that pcsx2 has millions of lines.(in my opinion,the reason no one has started it is because it is full of difficulty,time constraints,boredom,tediousness,the feeling of doing work in the underworld and such and i understand that)

Anyways,if someone or a group of people plan to make or port a ps2 emulator for android,I thin they should start now.

Why?

As far as I know,pcsx2 started it's development on a time where hardware was not that powerful.It took nearly a decade for it the emulator to have great results.

Making or porting a ps2 emu for android will take the same amount if not twice the amount time it took for pcsx2 to reach playability.

My point?

Why make tomorrow when we can make one now.(all we need for testing is an android phone)

I mean they could instead start writing a code now,and test it later when the powerful hardware has been born.(can be done maybe years 2014-2021)

Or maybe,they could start writing the code now and at the same time test it on a "weak hardware" and then improve it at while the phone manufacturers develop more advanced software(can be done maybe years 2014-2021).If the previous statements were followed,we could already have a well-developed ps2 emu by the time capable devices are born 7 years from now(meaning by 2021 when a 5656565ghz phone with a gpu of 45435454 gflops is born,we can also have an already-developed ps2 emu) instead of having a new but very buggy ps2 emu and capable devices 7 years from now plus the need need to wait 8+ years more to reach it's playability(meaning by 2021,the phones with 656565ghz cpus with a gpu of 45435454 gflops are born at the same time the ps2 emu is born and because of that,we won't be seeing it's to playability until 2029).

But that does not mean that the arm cpus do not deserve a ps2 emu.

Why?read the following.

I have a netbook with intel atom n450 clocked 1.6 ghz with intel gma 3150 and i also have an android with 1 ghz cortex a9 with power vr sgx 531.

Clearly,the netbook should perform faster.

Now ,i have ppsspp(psp emulator) Installed on both.With the same version

of ppsspp ,I played Kingdom hearts Birth by sleep and Tekken Dark ressurection on both(same sttings,multithreading is off)

Results?My android had higher framerates than my netbook.

Note that the only difference between the two is the dynarec( x86 and ARM) and the graphic processing used(Open GL ES 2.0 and directx 9,which is faster)

Coincidentally,pcsx2 is also installed on my netbook.kh2 goes 10-15 fps,20-30 fps when speedhacks are used.If we go by the same logic,imagine the framerate of a ps2 game on an android device(for me it is 5 fps).

Even though it'll be slow,at least it is better than nothing

AT LEAST arm cpus are capable of such emulators,although it may be slow.he ps2 is much more powerful than the psp.

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