Play! 2020-06-11

Description

Play! is a PlayStation 2 console emulator still in preliminary stages. This won't run your favorite PlayStation 2 game perfectly at optimal speed: this only works with a few demos and games created by people involved in the non-professional PS2 coding scene.

System Requirements

OS: Windows XP/Vista/7
CPU: x86 CPU running @ 2.0GHz and + is recommended. Doesn't take advantage of multi-core CPUs yet.
RAM: 256MBs of RAM is recommended.
Video Card: Any DirectX9 class GPU should be enough.

Technical Features

EmotionEngine:

Near complete emulation of the base MIPSIV core.
Good COP0 (System Control Unit) / COP1 (Floating Point Unit) emulation.
Fair emulation of the MMI instruction subset.
CPU emulation done using an instruction caching/recompilation scheme.

ELF binaries loading support.
BIOS emulation done in high-level

GS/GIF:

Basic GIF transfers implemented.
Basic GS registers emulation.
Basic GS rendering supported (using OpenGL).

VU/VIF:

Micromode support for the VU0/VU1.
Macromode support for the VU0.
Basic VIF transfers implemented.
VU flags emulation not very well supported.

IPU:

MPEG-1/2 macroblock decoding supported.
All commands emulated.
Still very buggy, so it won't playback movies really well.

IOP/SIF:

High-level emulation of the IO processor done by intercepting SIF commands and routing them to native modules.
Common IOP modules emulated in high-level.
Can load and execute game specific IOP modules.