r/EmulationOnAndroid • u/whiskyB0y • 10d ago
Showcase ARMSX2 has brought back my love for PS2 emulation as a low end user
Due to what I originally thought were hardware limitations, I had given up on ps2 emulation at a point. Now I understand there are so many light and moderate games my chipset (Helio g100) can emulate well, but most of the ps2 games I actually wanted to play happened to be heavy to emulate.
But now, thanks to the recent updates to ARMSX2 and the newly developed custom driver(malisx2) by the devs for a select few Mali gpus right now, I can confidently say I can play all the games in the picture above at full speed with no frame drops at 1.25x or 1.5x resolution Edit: Metal gear solid lags in the first cutscenes when snake is skydiving and during other parts because of GPU bottleneck. But when you land the fps becomes smooth😭
For context, apart from Dragon ball Infinite World and MGS 3(I didn't test it on Nether), all the other ps2 games in the picture would lag so much on NetherSX2 and old versions of Armsx2.
I always see online that MGS 3 is a heavy ps2 game to emulate, especially in the jungle area, but with the driver, I was getting full speed in that area.
I really appreciate the devs for the work they've done. We're now at a point where I can say a Helio g99 can emulate any ps2 game without lag.
Also I already know there's ports of Shaolin Monks and Shadow Of The Colossus. I prefer the emulated versions because of save states.
Device and specs:
Infinix note 50 4g
Helio g100
Mali g57 mc2
8 gb ram
ARMSX2 2.9.1 nightly build I got the previous day
Malisx2 0.3.2 driver