

If not, we will likely have two cores, one being the upstream-friendly core and this being the hard-forked one. So either of two things can happen when that happens, if this is more closely aligned to upstream core is better in every way including performance, this will be replaced. Govanify is going through many (necessary) refactors in PCSX2 upstream to make the code more portable, and he has also expressed his interest in an upstreamable libretro core somewhere down the line when the final refactoring of the GUI is complete. We might just make resolution switching require a restart since this tends to be too unstable for now.

We have not been able to figure out how to fix that yet as the PCSX2 codebase is a definite case of ‘here be dragons’, but for now when this happens, you can just bring up the Task Manager and close it manually.

PCSX2, unlike Play!, will not work without a real BIOS.

You need a working BIOS inside /pcsx2/bios. You can put all the asset files there from your regular PCSX2 install. It’s available for Windows only right now, but the same core has been tested to work on Xbox One/Series systems as well.Ĭreate the following directory in your system directory – “pcsx2”. Today we’re releasing an alpha version of the PCSX2 libretro core on the buildbot.
