Pcsx2 Guide For Mac
How to play Playstation 2 games on your PC using the PCSX2 emulator for Windows, Mac, & Linux. This tutorial and guide shows you step-by-step instructions for BIOS, ISOs, Emulator,.
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Join us at Android Emulator accuracy tests:. Are you an emulator developer? If you'd like a user flair reflecting that. I'm really glad that after lots of research and late nights, I can bring you a guide to running PS2 emulation successfully on your mac! If you have questions, please reply at the bottom, but if you follow the guide exactly, you should be set! FIRST: You should note my system setup so that this is as easy as possible for both of us.
I currently have: MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) 2.9 GHz Intel Core i7 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB Also make sure that you have hidden folders enabled so that you can view some content This can be done by running 'defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles true' in terminal. And then running 'killall Finder' to restart finder. RUNNING: Sierra 10.12.6 if you are not on Sierra, I can't guarantee that this will work for you, please feel free to message me for support.
SECOND: Let's get started. If you already have wine set up and DON'T have directx9 installed (the full directx9 package, that is), then skip to step 2. If you installed the full directx9 in the past, you should start with a new prefix. If you don't have wine at all, you'll need the combined wine package from. Please use the Stable version.
Drag both wine and winebottler into applications. Next you'll need a prefix that has the full C drive, e.g. Program files, users, and windows folders.
If you don't have that, you can create a new prefix from the wine menuchange prefix. Open wine, you should see an icon up top by your bluetooth options. Choose 'Winetricks'. You'll have to scroll to find these, but they should work. You'll want to do the following in exact order, and one at a time. They are check boxes so each time you run a winetrick, go back and uncheck any that were successful. choose 'win7', and apply.
Wait for 'winetricks successfully applied', then uncheck and continue. choose 'msxml3', and apply. Uncheck an continue. choose 'd3dx936.dll', and apply. Same as above.
choose 'vcrun2015', and apply. install 'sound=coreaudio', and apply. Again, uncheck and be patient. Now you'll need the files to make your PCSx2 work.
I'm sure you're thinking, 'but, how in goodness name will i get those??' Well I'll provide a link. Presumptuous person! THIRD: Now you are going to use the files provided to make your PCSx2 function properly. I wasn't able to provide you with bios files as they violate the rules on piracy, so please make sure to get your own bios files. Once you have bios files, place them in the empty folder called 'bios'. Unzip the file provided, and copy or move the folder 'pcsx2-v1.5.0-dev-512-g7f3f6e9-windows-x86' to the location of your 'drivec/Program Files' folder.
This is usually in homeWine Files, but if it's not, you'll have to track down your prefix. I had to do this by using the file explorer option in the wine menu from the status bar. Keep an 'alias' handy to find it quicker next time, yah dingus. (right click, make alias, move alias to desktop).
Assuming you've followed along with no relative issues, here's where it shall get interesting. You'll need to open that folder within finder, not the wine explorer, and double click 'pcsx2.exe'. Once you do, select 'Run directly in: applicable prefix you installed win7 to'. Hit go. You'll be executing the installer, so move carefully and make sure you install all the options of PCSx2.
You'll need to have a bios ready to continue. Restart your mac after you've finished running the installer. Now use your alias to open the folder, and execute 'PCSx2.exe' again. You'll choose the same options as before, just running it in the prefix that applies. It will fail immediately if you choose the wrong prefix. You should have a working version of PCSx2 open at this point.
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Make sure you select the bios. You'll find my settings below. Once you have ROMs, you can add them to the machine under 'CDVDIso Selector'. Don't forget to add my settings below for what seems to be the fastest and most useful play. I'll get into mapping in a minute.
FOURTH: Now is the time for settings. Oh god how many settings there are. Good luck, and don't turn off your targeting computer. You can find the settings for advanced changes (which is what we're doing) under 'ConfigPlugin/BIOS Selector'. GS - Should end in AVX, newest version.
AdapterDefault Hardware Device. RendererDirect3D9 (Software) InterlacingAuto Edge OFF Rendering Threads4 Mipmapping ON Shader should not be altered pls. PAD - Should be 0.11.0 LilyPad. Keyboard APIDirectInput Game Device APIsSelect ALL Disable Mouse API. If you're ready for mapping, it's under the Pad 1 tab. Skip to Mapping below. SPU - Only one option, 2.0.0.
Interpolation0 - Nearest Uncheck Disable Effects Processing, Uncheck Use the De-Alias. Module2 - DirectSound Latency175 ms Synchronizing ModeTimeStretch.
USB - Only one option, 0.7.0. FW - One option again. 0.7.0. DEV9 - USE 0.5.0, DEV9Null. BIOS - Left side, bios. Select from your folder. Try out different ones there's usually options for USA, Europe, and Japan.
Always try to use NTSC when possible, so USA is usually best. Now we're going to go into 'ConfigEmulator Settings'. Leave EE/IOP and VUs alone.
UNCHECK PRESET AT THE BOTTOM. Go to GS tab. GS - Uncheck Disable Framelimiting. Here I've chosen to speed up the system manually, as mine said it was running at about 75%. So I set mine to Base Framerate to 125, and it worked!. Under Frame Skipping, choose constant, and set the values both to 2.
GS Window Tab - Do whatever fits your screen or needs. Speedhacks Tab - Enable Speedhacks CHECKED. EECyclerate at 0 VU Cycle Stealing at left 0. All boxes on this page checked. Nothing to do in game fixes tab.
Mapping: There's a few ways to do this one. If you have an Xbox One S controller, congrats! You won the damn lottery with this, and most other emulators. Just open bluetooth and pair the controller, then choose mapping from ConfigControllersPlugin Settings. Then map to your hearts content. You will NOT be able to map the triggers, but everything else should work. If you DON'T have that controller, you'll need to google your controller + driver for your setup.
I know for a fact that with X360 controllers, you'll need the usb cable and a driver from GitHub. That driver is. It will show up in your preferences pane, and you can go from there. As for other controllers, you'll need to sort it out yourself. I got you this far! Final Thoughts: Now seeing as how there are probably maybe going to be questions, just post them as a reply and I'll do my best to answer quickly. It should be noted that this setup was primarily tested with Destroy All Humans for PS2, so obviously some speed/audio/video/controller settings will need to be adjusted to suit what you're playing.
I really hope this helps someone, as I've been trying to solve this for weeks and have only found old and outdated articles that supported Mavericks or El Capitan. This should work for those OSs as well. This seems to be WAY more stable than trying to package with WineBottler. If anyone wants to beat me at my own game, bottle it up and host the file! All that being said, I'm sorry for such a long post. Edit: Words Edit 2: Removed ROM info Edit 3: Look, if you have another way to do it that you think is better, please write your own guide, and link it in your reply. This is the way I've made it work on my laptop and it's not having any performance issues.
Run your setup however you want! Edit 4: zip link updated. I think tons of people are interested in PS2 emulation.
PCSX2's forums are always way busier than Dolphin's forums, so I'd like to say that they probably have more users in general. Developers have to make choices at various stages of development, and the choices they made were based on their situation (64-bit may not be as important for PCSX2 as Dolphin) and if you don't have many macOS users, why would you spend a ton of dev time maintaining it. Dolphin's macOS version is a pain in the ass to maintain despite several devs being on macOS. It's lack of features, stupid behaviors, shitty bluetooth bullshit, and crap drivers make it painful to do things.
Install Dependencies Now for the fun part! PCSX2-CE needs some other Windows programs in order to run properly, and these can't be included in the download above (sorry!). Luckily, the process is pretty easy. Let's get to it: 4.1. Install msxml3, vcrun2010, and d3dx936 What is all that stuff? It makes the PCSX2 plugins work, so we definitely need them.
Here's how to get them installed:. Double-click the Wineskin.app shortcut in the PCSX2-CE bundle from Step 1. In the Wineskin window that pops up, click 'Advanced'. In the Wineskin Advanced window, click the 'Tools' tab, then click 'Winetricks'. In the Winetricks window, for each command below, enter it into the search bar, expand the 'dlls' category, then click 'Run' to install it:. msxml3. vcrun2010.
d3dx936. Follow each set of installation instructions, then you're done! Install the Nvidia Cg Toolkit (Optional). Download the Nvidia Cg Toolkit from the. If it isn't already open, open the Winetricks application from the PCSX2-CE folder just like you did in Step 4.4.1. From either the main window or the advanced window, click 'Install Software'.
In the 'Installer' window, click 'Choose Setup Executable'. Select the Cg Toolkit you downloaded above.
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Follow the installation instructions. In the 'Select Components' section of the installer, you can uncheck everything except for the first option. We don't need that other stuff. Once that's installed, we're ready to game! Double-click PCSX2-CE.app, and away you go! Here's an action shot of what you have to look forward to.