PS2 emulation

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Sometimes I feel I overcomplicate things. I wanted to play Silent Hill 2 for the Playstation 2, because a remake is out and I just wanted to know something about the game itself. I did a simple search for SH2 on eBay, and the scalpers are out in full force. That's usually the best way to play these games: on the original hardware.

I don't even remember if the MiSTER FPGA system can play PS2 games, but I've never gotten Neo Geo or Saturn games to work with it, so I suspect something is off with my board. So I didn't look. The .iso is larger than what I can fit on a USB drive for the Free McBoot card on my real Playstation 2. So I thought, there's got to be a PS2 emulator for Windows, right?

There is. It's here: https://pcsx2.net/

It took me a couple of minutes, and that is it, to get PCSX2 working. I have BIOSes for all retro machines, so after installing PCSX2 and pointing it to a BIOS directory and picking a BIOS, I was all set. It recursively found all my PS2 games, and I was fiddling with settings for Silent Hill 2 afterwards.

Highly recommended! And it supports save states!

[RealNC]

Also keep in mind that there is a mod for the original PC version that adds some of the things from the PS2 version. Even though it's not an official version of the game, I believe many people consider it the "definitive" one.

https://enhanced.townofsilenthill.com/SH2/

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Thanks, RealNC! I downloaded it. I never got Silent Hill 2 for the PC, so I went to the Internet Archive to get it.

I have "warez" again for the first time in a long time.

I bought the remake today and I am enjoying it, and I will post about it soon.

[Jizaboz]

Ah cool! I'd be interested in your thoughts on the PC version vs playing it via the emulator. I beat a couple years ago for PC and can barely remember much about it. I just didn't find it as creepy as the first one for some reason.

I wasn't interested in this newest remake because it looked already so familiar..

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

The remake is good. I'm five hours into it. On section 2 of 12.

I will never finish it.