However, what we’re attempting to do here is apply these automagically. Many no-interlacing patches have been written for PS2 games running in PCSX2. While this might have looked fine on a CRT TV, this can lead to bad image quality when running these games on a modern LCD or OLED display. Many PS2 games render in interlaced resolutions.

Many thanks to the members of the PCSX2 Forums for posting all these wonderful patches. We are going to try and keep this database updated as time goes along. The core now has an embedded widescreen patch database. Glib, X11 and Libpng have all been eliminated as are other things. We have since severely lessened our dependencies on external system libs. The core used to have many runtime library dependencies before and therefore be quite nonportable across Linux distributions. Instead, the core comes with nearly everything that the user would need to get started. This way, we once again do not require the user to have this game database file inside his/her system folder. This is converted at compilation time into a header file and baked into the core. The core now also uses an internal game database (see here). It used to be as big as 10MB but now clocks in as low as 7MB or less. The core should also be way smaller as a result. We have also spent a lot of time reducing WxWidgets UI dependencies, although we are not quite there yet all the way. Other under the hood changes: all the internal GS shaders are now embedded as strings into the GS renderer instead of being loaded in as resource files. Memory cards will continue getting written to /pcsx2/memcards if you used this folder in previous versions of the core, otherwise they will be written in /retroarch/saves/pcsx2. pnach files for games, but it’s optional and not necessary. You can still have a ‘cheats’ and _cheats_ws’ folder where you store custom. Now, the only configuration file that gets written to is the ever-trusty ‘core options config file’ from Libretro/RetroArch.įurthermore, the only files you need to have in your /pcsx2 folder are your BIOS files inside /pcsx2/bios. We have cut all this config file reading/writing. However, it also has many config files scattered about the place. The problem with the PCSX2 core up to this point was that it was too much of a straight port – PCSX2 by itself writes to dozens of files during startup and logging.

We’d like not to have the user to require to install several data files inside the System folder in order for an emulator core to work. Reducing file requirementsĪs a general baseline, Libretro strives to make sure that the cores we self-maintain are fairly portable. We’re very excited to share with you all the work we’ve been putting into the PCSX2 core as of late.

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