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April 15th, 2009, 20:13 Posted By: wraggster
News via emurussia
New beta version of Sony Playstation 2 emulator for Windows has been released.
Changes:
- Started major scale work on the emitter to simplify it and support the the x86 instruction set correctly. Changelog too long, read the svn commits if you want to know more.
- Added a check to to clear QWC register if the upper 16bits are set. This fixes most of the broken backgrounds in movies (This fixes Tri-ace movies and GUST games split-screen problem)
- Implemented another block lookup method.
- various vif changes and fixes, a few of them slightly experimental.
- VU - fixed 1-cycle branch delays.
- VU -fixed an issue with FDIV instructions whose operands are vf00.
- EE - fixed recompilation of SRA and SRL when shift amount is 0.
- EE - fixed conditional recompilation #defines a bit.
- A few vtlb optimizations.
- fixed a small ipu typo.
- Usual assorted code cleanups and optimizations.
Also, updated the plugins.
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April 14th, 2009, 01:08 Posted By: wraggster
News/release from pedroduarte0
For the many of you who have an Amiga gaming past, you may remember a classic named Cannon Fodder and, of course, its intro tune.
JammerPS2 is an example for the cosMix sound engine I cooked, and it works like a sound sample trigger, using the Dualshock controller buttons to fire up sounds.
I decided to pack it with samples from the Cannon Fodder intro song for you to have something ready to play with, but you can supply your own samples, as long they are mono or stereo WAV files rated at 48000Hz (you may use any other sample rate, like the more usual 44100Hz but the sounds pitch will be higher than normal).
Keep in mind the PS2 is not a computer with virtual memory (only if running linux), so the total space taken by the samples must be at most 32MB (a little less than this actually).
As feedback, I really would like to know from your creations. If you made any sound packs for JammerPS2, let me know and drop some links for downloading your packs.
Get the binaries here (source archive is included), unpack to a USB pen and run with uLaunchELF:
http://code.google.com/p/cosmix/downloads/list
The source repository for cosMix and JammerPS2 is located at GoogleCode (I began to drop Assembla service, at last):
http://code.google.com/p/cosmix/
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April 9th, 2009, 22:44 Posted By: wraggster
EP has released another beta of Launchelf for the PS2, heres whats new:
LaunchELF v4.39z beta (2009.04.09)
-Fixed a bug from previous beta v4.39y preventing access to MC folders having a 'hidden' attribute bit set.
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April 8th, 2009, 14:27 Posted By: wraggster
Sony Computer Entertainment America continues to fuel the PlayStation 2 with new games, even if they are PSP ports. Things are different in Japan where SCEJ hasn’t released a PS2 game since 2007. Even third party publishers like Nippon Ichi and Gust moved on to the PS3, making this year’s PS2 line up heavy on visual novels.
One game from SystemSoft Alpha, creators of the Daisenryaku series, stands out. Tir Na Nog, slated for April 29, could be the last PS2 RPG. Looks like this PC port doesn’t have a high budget either. The shifty character sprites are reminiscent of Populous. At least the setting is offbeat. Tir Na Nog infuses Irish mythology and fantasy elements to craft the story. A PSP version is scheduled to come out the same day as the PS2 release.
There is still a healthy selection of PS2 JRPGs such as Devil Summoner 2, Mana Khemia 2, and later Sakura Taisen for us to enjoy this year, but the well is almost dry. Tir Na Nog might be at the bottom.
http://www.siliconera.com/2009/04/07...ced-for-japan/
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April 7th, 2009, 13:44 Posted By: wraggster
News from the PCSX2 Team:
As many people that actively check our SVN know, we are in the process of a completely new cross-platform GUI for PCSX2.
But it would be quite dull to have a new GUI without a new logo, so we decided a fun thing to do would be to have a logo designing contest where people can show us their skills, and make the next official logo for PCSX2!
The contest rules are simple:
- Due by June 5th, 2009, but users can submit entries early in the "PCSX2 Logo Design Entries" thread.
- The contest is free for anyone to enter, including people affiliated with the project.
- You may enter as many entries as you like (though only one entry will be chosen.)
- Winner will get their logo in our next release, and will be credited for their logo in our "about dialog."
- Winner will be decided by PCSX2 team (in the event that the PCSX2 team likes our current logo better than the entries, we will have no winner)
Logo restrictions:
- Logo must contain the word 'PCSX2' (font/format/color is up to the designer)
- Logo should be of reasonable size (our current logo is 380x180px, so size should be roughly similar)
- Logo entry can be a modification of our current logo.
- Logo should be submitted as a .png file.
- You may submit an optional 64x64px Icon with your logo to be used as PCSX2's new icon (also should be a .png file).
- All entries will be released under a Creative Commons license.
- No copyrighted images may be used in the entries.
So good luck! You can post your application in this thread HERE
On other news,the PCSX2 guide has been fully updated for 0.9.6. So now it's the best time if someone wants to translate it to another language. You can submit your application in this thread HERE if the spot for that language is still open
http://www.pcsx2.net/
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April 5th, 2009, 16:03 Posted By: plikita
A video report of the last live visuals performance from Pikilipita in mid March 2009.
It took place during the BLOC festival (Butlins, UK).
Music is performed by Skream & Benga, headlines of dubstep music.
All visuals are mixed on the PS2 homebrew "PS24VJ". No computer is involved during the performance 
The video on Vimeo:
More infos on PS24VJ: http://www.pikilipita.com
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April 1st, 2009, 20:41 Posted By: wraggster
News via emurussia
New beta version of Sony Playstation 2 emulator for Windows has been released.
Changes:
- Various fixes to MMI and more changes to opcodes to mimic ps2 behavior, thanks to Nneeve.
- Brought back a gamefix for Persona games. They still have missing geometry without it (VU clip flag problem).
- Included Nneeve's recent fixes to DIV / DIVU instructions, regarding MIPS
specific behavior in div by 0and div by -1 scenarios.
- Nneeve fixed the Tri-Ace gamefix so Gradius5 doesn't crash with it enabled
anymore.
- Set Flush to Zero for FPU and VU back to on. Let's see how long it lasts this time.
- Removed the FFX hack from pcsx2! It's still toggled in the GS plugins, the
correct behaviour is having it always on.
- usual code cleanups and optimizations.
Also new versions of plugins.
Particularly, lilypad introduces a new, experimental multitap support and improve the savestates handling, while gsdx solves a few very old and annoying bugs (like the ones in persona...).
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April 1st, 2009, 11:37 Posted By: wraggster
Analyst Jesse Divnich of EEDAR believes that the PS2 price drop to a Franklin will boost US sales of the console by 30 percent. Divnich's report also estimates that PS2 software will maintain an 18 percent market share, rather than drop down to 16 percent had there not been a cut.
Gamasutra also spoke with analyst Matt Matthews, who points out that any consumer waiting for the PS2 to reach $100 is "cost-conscious" enough to buy games from the used bin at GameStop, meaning those consumers aren't likely to help new software sales. Apparently, Sony's Jack Tretton agreed with this notion last summer in an Edge interview, when he asked, "If that $30 was the difference between buying a console and not buying a console, how many games are you going to sell to that person?"
At the time, he questioned how strategically important that consumer really is. Apparently, nine months and a fiscal crisis at the company is enough to change some minds.
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/03/31/an...op-others-que/
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April 1st, 2009, 11:06 Posted By: wraggster
The numbers behind the PS2 and PSOne’s price drops to $99 are radically different — and show how the machine’s 10-year-cycles have been nothing alike.
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The PSOne was released in Japan in December 1994 and in North America in September 1995 (for $299).
Less than four years later in the U.S.…
The PSOne dropped to $99 on August 16, 1999
By that point, Sony had shipped more than 58.4 million consoles and more than 462 million games worldwide.*
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The PS2 launched in Japan in March 2000 and in North America in October 2000 (for $299).
More than eight years later in the U.S.…
The PS2 will drop to $99 in April 2009.
By that point, Sony claims the system will have sold more than 138.7 million consoles and almost 1.5 billion games worldwide. *
So it took the PS2 twice as long to get down to $99 as did the PSOne, in which time the PS2 sold more than twice as many consoles and three times as many games.
Imagine what the PS2 sales could have been had the system dropped to $99 four years ago. Then again, Sony didn’t have to do that. In the PSOne era, the Nintendo 64 was a solid competitor for a few years. In the PS2 era, the Xbox and GameCube put up a meeker fight.
Note that the PSOne sold more units after the $99 price drop than it did before, as the system now has sold more than 100 million units.
One other conclusion that’s too obvious to ignore: Sony dropped the PSOne to $99 before the PS2 was released. The PS2 has dropped to $99 more than two years after the launch of its successor.
Two consoles. Two alleged 10-year-cycles. Big differences.
http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/...ple-the-games/
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March 31st, 2009, 22:49 Posted By: Shrygue
via Joystiq
We've received word from a SCEE representative that the PS2 price drop, which was announced today for the US, will also take place in Europe. On the mainland, the PS2 will drop from around €130 to €99, while remaining frozen at around £90 in the UK.
There's no word on when this price cut will take place or why the UK remains immune, but we suggest you keep an eye on your local retailer for more information.
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March 30th, 2009, 21:46 Posted By: wraggster
We've nothing to go on but a good man's word, but we're hearing that the permanent retail price of Sony's aged PlayStation 2 console will soon fall below the magical $100 mark. And really, it'd be about time. If you'll recall, Sony last adjusted the price of the PS2 in (surprise!) April of 2006, and if this here tip proves true, the company will select April of 2009 to push the MSRP down to $99.99. The image above comes from a generally trustworthy Kmart pricing system, and while we're certain you'd all love a PS3 price drop to follow suit, we've no reason to believe that one is close enough to touch.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/29/s...9-99-in-april/
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March 23rd, 2009, 19:00 Posted By: wraggster
New beta version of Sony Playstation 2 emulator for Windows has been released.
Changes:
- Major overhaul of the savestate system! SHould now work better, be faster, have fewer problems, and use less hard disk space for the savestates
- The new PCR/TIMR code is now called correctly in recMFC0. This fixes Fatal Frame, maybe other recently introduced problems too
- Improved CDVD seek timing; should speed up some games that had abnormally long load times -- hopefully without breaking other games. (testing needed)
- Fixed a condition in the INTC hack that could cause it to hang in rare
occasions.
- Fixed a bug in the vtlb constprop support (stores weren't using the right macro)
- More work on fpu (thanks Nneeve)
- Emitter: encode negative 8 bit immediates for some instructions and EAX forms for MOV
- Implemented more correct support for the IOP's "isc bit" (bit 16 on the COP0 status register), which in turn allowed me to simpify some of the IOP's memory access and paging logic.
- Removed unnecessary rs flushes for loads and stores
- Save a few bytes on const flushing using 5 byte eax movs for 0 and -1 instead of 10 byte immediate movs.
- Usual code cleanups and optimizations
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March 18th, 2009, 22:12 Posted By: Shrygue
via Eurogamer
A report on the Hockey Downloads forum has indicated that NHL 10 will never make it to PS2 or PC, saying that economic pressures are behind the decision.
Veteran user 'Drezz', who has apparently been in touch with Ryan Nicholas at EA, writes in his post that: "I regret to inform all of you that I was notified on Monday that NHL10 will NOT be produced for the PC/PS2.
"As of now, the division in charge of putting out hockey games for those platforms have been reassigned to work on the console versions (Xbox 360 and PS3). Due to economic concerns, the separate PC version wasn't worth putting manpower into - I don't blame them, since the revenue from PC sales wasn't high enough to create a significant profit for the company."
Not perhaps the most biting aspect of the credit crunch, but one that is likely to see literally dozens of people go "oh".
EA was not available for comment at time of writing.
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March 17th, 2009, 22:15 Posted By: Shrygue
via Eurogamer
Suave automoton and Lombax companion Clank is seeing new horizons as Secret Agent Clank is ported onto the PS2 by Sanzaru Games.
Speaking on the PlayStation Blog, Sanzara president Glen Egan says that the port will be ready for buyers on 26th May.
There's been an obvious visual update, to take advantage of the extra grunt that the PS2 offers, as well as a switch back to the traditional lock-strafe camera mode seen in previous Ratchet and Clank titles on console.
Will that add anything to our 6/10 verdict on the original? We'll know in a couple of months.
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March 16th, 2009, 22:30 Posted By: Shrygue
via IGN
When it comes to new hardware and peripherals, the internet is always prone to speculate and start rumor fires over even the smallest indication that new tech is on the way. Over on the site Siliconera, rumors emerged regarding a wand-like peripheral that could be used in conjunction with the PS2. These images were apparently taken from a recent patent filed by Sony, though the wand isn't the only device pictured. Also included is an image where a user's hands have two small ring devices attached to the fingers, which can be used to track movement.
We contacted a Sony representative for comment and we were simply told that there are no peripheral announcements being made at this time. There's no way for us to verify if these images are actually from a real patent, or if they're even recent at all. We suspect that these are either old diagrams or complete fakes, but we'll keep you posted if official information is revealed.
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March 16th, 2009, 19:11 Posted By: wraggster
News via Emurussia
New beta version of Sony Playstation 2 emulator for Windows has been released.
Changes:
- new and improved software-emulated FPU accuracy ("Full" mode in Advanced Dialog).
- fixed the vu clip code, removed the corresponding gamefix.
- new gamefix for tales of destiny.
- Further work on the block manager, improves speed.
- Fixed a constprop bug (grandia 2).
- minor improvements to NTFS compression and memcards support.
- Improved PCR/TIMR support.
- temporary hackfix for the Final Fantasy games.
- MMI: Optimizations for some opcodes.
- Adjusted the backwards timing on GIF for intermediate transfers (SF:EX3).
- work on the PERF counters.
- Fixed a bug that caused pcsx2 to crash when loading/saving savestates using the "other..." menu option.
- bugfix in memcpy_fast. That bug caused memory corruption on blocks not aligned to 32-bits in length.
WARNING: This beta will break any old savestates you might have. Be sure to save your progress on memcards before using this.
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March 15th, 2009, 01:50 Posted By: wraggster
pedroduarte0 a day ago released a new version of the port of Doom for the PS2:
Minor update:
No more hicups on sound during screen melt/wipe effect at the start of a new game or at level ending.
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