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

[uyjulian]

Let me save you some time posting.
ITT:
>『Overclock will reduce battery life!』
>『I want native Horizon port!』
>『I don't like Linux!』
>『Switch is not designed for overclock!』
>『I don't see any joycons!』
>『It's too slow! It will never run full speed!』
>『This is not PCSX2! PCSX2 is faster!』
>『This is not DamonPS2! DamonPS2 is faster!』
>『Where is the download?』
>『How do I compile?』

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To build and run Play! PS2 emulator on L4T Switch, run this in the terminal:

sudo apt install git cmake ffmpeg libavcodec-dev libevdev-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev libsfml-dev libminiupnpc-dev libmbedtls-dev curl libhidapi-dev libwxbase3.0-dev libwxgtk3.0-dev libpangocairo-1.0-0 libgtk2.0-dev libbluetooth-dev qt5-default qtbase5-private-dev libudev-dev libxi-dev;git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/jpd002/Play-.git;cd Play-;mkdir build;cd build;cmake ..;cmake --build .;./Source/ui_qt/Play

A libretro core is available, and Play! is also available on Lakka Switch.
More details about Play! PS2 emulator are located here: http://purei.org/

HELP WANTED on various PS2 projects: https://www.psx-place.com/threads/various-ps2-projects.20977/

 

[natinusala]

yikes

 

[arjunpatel]

yikes

yikes is right but he isnt wrong you know lol

 

[Sethtimus Prime]

How many fps?

 

[uyjulian]

How many fps?

10

 

[Sethtimus Prime]

10

That's actually more than I expected.

 

[uyjulian]

That's actually more than I expected.

Hopefully future speedups will get that to 30

It also runs about 20fps on PC, so some optimizations are needed

 

[davidgf]

Let me save you some time posting.

Kudos for the creative posting
Can you explain with a bit more detail how it is working? JIT? Any features that are not enabled vs PC version? Thanks man!

 

[tomi1578]

it can run a ps2 emulator but there's no good ps2 emulator for arm

 

[uyjulian]

Kudos for the creative posting
Can you explain with a bit more detail how it is working? JIT? Any features that are not enabled vs PC version? Thanks man!

aarch64 JIT is working. Features are same as PC version. OpenGLES is currently being used because Qt on ARM is forced to OpenGLES.

it can run a ps2 emulator

OK...

but there's no good ps2 emulator for arm

Play! is a good PS2 emulator, and it's running on an ARM based platform?

 

[natinusala]

Wait does this thing actually have an aarch64 dynarec? I refuse to believe it seeing how poorly it runs

 

[I_am_the_ruler_of_zelda]

i cant wait when u fix this and it runs 100% speed

 

[smileyhead]

>『Overclock will reduce battery life!』
>『I want native Horizon port!』
>『I don't like Linux!』
>『Switch is not designed for overclock!』
>『I don't see any joycons!』
>『It's too slow! It will never run full speed!』
>『This is not PCSX2! PCSX2 is faster!』
>『This is not DamonPS2! DamonPS2 is faster!』
>『Where is the download?』
>『How do I compile?』

Please don't use a dark text colour like that, it's really uncomfortable to read in the dark theme.

 

[masagrator]

It has issues with audio in almost all games on PC. And are you trying to say it will work better on ARM?

 

[The Real Jdbye]

IIRC Play! is slow even on high end Android devices. I didn't realize it was open source though, I guess that's cool. But it's going to need some serious optimizations to run full speed even on high end Android devices, nevermind the Switch. Maybe in a few years when the Switch is at the end of its life spawn it'll run at playable speeds.

I guess considering it's a brand new emulator, it's a good effort, and there's probably much that can be improved on to get it to a playable state.

 

[specht]

Has anyone done a PR for this yet? I have some changes that I planned on submitting tonight but if it's already done that saves me some time. More or less just adding an aarch64 Unix target to the makefiles and OpenGlDef.h along with the changes I mentioned in the GitHub issue.

I found Devil May Cry 3 to be more impressive and actually kinda playable at like 10-20 fps.

 

[Techjunky90]

At least it's outputting video now. I have no doubts about the switch being able to eventually emulate ps2 at playable speeds.

 

[specht]

At least it's outputting video now. I have no doubts about the switch being able to eventually emulate ps2 at playable speeds.

Video was working a few minutes after I made the post I think you're referencing. Just didn't realise gles compatibility had to be added as a makefile add_definition.

But yeah it'd be cool if this brought more attention to Play, even if it's slow right now. Sadly I've seen people confuse it with that Android PS2 emulator that stole PCSX2 code.

 

[uyjulian]

Has anyone done a PR for this yet? I have some changes that I planned on submitting tonight but if it's already done that saves me some time. More or less just adding an aarch64 Unix target to the makefiles and OpenGlDef.h along with the changes I mentioned in the GitHub issue.

I found Devil May Cry 3 to be more impressive and actually kinda playable at like 10-20 fps.

Nope. My changes are pretty invasive, so I haven't done a PR yet.

It would be nice if it was possible to detect if Qt was compiled against OpenGL or OpenGLES.

Wait does this thing actually have an aarch64 dynarec? I refuse to believe it seeing how poorly it runs

Yes, it does. Check out "Jitter::CreateCodeGen"

It has issues with audio in almost all games on PC. And are you trying to say it will work better on ARM?

It will work better on all platforms once more optimizations are added.
Issues with audio are probably because of low FPS. If you use the standalone PsfPlayer it works great.

Please don't use a dark text colour like that, it's really uncomfortable to read in the dark theme.

I might have fixed that issue.

 

[uyjulian]

There is a PR that will allow you to build this: https://github.com/jpd002/Play-/pull/754