Homebrew Discussion Play! PS2 Emulator is running on the Nintendo Switch!

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No, because Switch uses Nvidia GPU and ARM64 processor like the Jetson Nano and Shield TV.

When more optimizations of ARM64 recompiler and GS are added, all platforms will benefit. We're 1/6th of the way there
So your own Play fork on github will come soon?
 

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this is actually one of the harder games to run, and already 10 fps!

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of course it is, I kept telling people this months ago but they thought they were so much smarter than me (I even ended up blocking one fool that kept going on with stupid straw man arguments), and im a god damn developer. The switch is more powerful than a ps3, and its not a sort of its a simple fact. The switch cpu is actually probably better than other current consoles, its the gpu where it falls behind (other consoles use the gpu to make up for the cpu). Emulation is mostly cpu bound.
The PS3's GPU and memory are both inferior to the Switch, but as I said there are still some SPE-driven operations where the PS3 will outperform the Switch. These are mostly brute compute tasks and for all intents and purposes in games, the Switch is comfortably better.

The Switch certainly suffers from cpu bottlenecking though. Recently Nintendo added "boost mode" which briefly boosts clocks by 800MHz and Breath of the Wild's load times are slashed by about 10 seconds in some cases. While this doesn't necessarily indicate that the GPU is bound by the CPU, it does suggest the CPU is a pressing issue in other areas. And as you said, emulation is mostly CPU bound - it's not feasible to keep the Switch at 1.8GHz either due to its lack of passive cooling. So while it might be a much newer and more efficient chip than the PS3 CPU, the answer is not totally straightforward (though the notion that the Switch cpu is generally superior is correct).
 

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There's Yabasanshiro for Lakka. Are you talking about a saturn emulator for Horizon? That would be my dream. I love PS2 but I have a PS3 and a PS2 for those games (I know not portable, but still) I'd rather have a saturn emulator on my main switch screen.
Yes, I would prefer to just launch everything from horizon.
 
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There is an actually Vita Emulator but didn't play the games just yet. It is still being in development. Here:

https://vita3k.org

Thats why I said one that could "actually play some games :P" because nothing works on it currently lol. Im still amazed at how much faster yuzu has progressed with years less time to develop.
 
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Thats why I said one that could "actually play some games :P" because nothing works on it currently lol. Im still amazed at how much faster yuzu has progressed with years less time to develop.

Yeah! I wonder if Vita emulator team is one person or many people working on it just like Yuzu team ? Because Yuzu team are many people being work on it and that's why it has progressed faster with years less time to develop.
 
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Yeah! I wonder if Vita emulator team is one person or many people working on it just like Yuzu team ? Because Yuzu team are many people being work on it and that's why it has progressed faster with years less time to develop.

The Vita3k website I think only mentions 1 main developer, so you've probably hit the nail on the head.
 

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still didnt give up the hope that they will someday port pcsx2 to aarch64 , but until then we have to wait for Android or something else
If we get Android OS or (Android TV OS hopefully) we can get a bunch of games and emulators including Damon pro.
 
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well i think its a great start which needs people to back it up , maybe try to add a bounty ?
 

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I would say it's quite feasible to get PS2 games running faster than this on the Switch. A friend of mine got an early PCSX2 build running on the original Xbox at a little over 10FPS, using a special profile-optimised dynarec (for any developers: -fprofile-generate) and hardware acceleration just like on a PC. If - and this is a big "if" - Play! or a similar PS2 emulator gets GPU acceleration on Switch and, in the case of Play! or a less mature emulator, the program becomes faster/cleaner/more optimised, it would not be inconceivable to imagine some games reaching playable speeds on Switch.

As for walking proof of this -- while the PS3's PS2 software emulator is hardly perfect, it runs a lot of games very well, and while you can get into circular discussions about whether the PS3 or Switch is ultimately more "powerful" (the Switch is.. sort of, but that's a completely different discussion) you can't deny they are not out of each other's leagues and if it's possible on one machine, it should be possible on the other.
Ps3 has the more powerful cpu. Switch has the better gpu and ram. Ps3 cpu is more capable than current gen console cpus
 

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