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Popular PlayStation 2 emulator PCSX2 has gotten a long-requested feature: texture dumping and replacing. Coming courtesy of Stenzek, who recently brought a Vulkan renderer to the emulator as well, it was officially posted as development build v1.7.2389 on February 24 after being put up as a pull request on GitHub the previous weekend. The new tool will allow users to dump textures from a game so that they can be edited or enhanced. It also lets users replace the dumped textures with custom ones from their system. Answering a question on the GitHub page, Stenzek notes that "high res packs will work as expected," meaning simple fan remasters of PS2 games are now possible by upscaling or redrawing textures.

Stenzek posted an example image, replacing the textures on crates in a Ratchet & Clank game.

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[k7ra]

Now we need auto translate function to play JPNs VNs *,*

 

[Zense]

This is a game changer.

Hopefully it'll get game companies to speed up their remasters or rereleases from that era. Likely not, though.

 

[SMNFXCN]

wow, i've been waiting for this for so long. finally.
it's good to have in the mainline build. hopefully more emulators will get this feature.

 

[micp]

This is a game changer.

Hopefully it'll get game companies to speed up their remasters or rereleases from that era. Likely not, though.

We all can hope!

 

[such]

We all can hope!

More likely they'll up their C&D game, honestly.

 

[64bitmodels]

glad they're doing this, but the emulator still kind of sucks

 

[FLRIZDARKK]

Finally, blurry 2D sprites are no more!

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

I like how the image has version 1.6.0 but talks about version 1.7.2389

 

[Sheimi]

glad they're doing this, but the emulator still kind of sucks

Curious, what do you mean?

 

[rantex92]

thts effing nice now is time for my a.i to shine

 

[Zense]

Finally, blurry 2D sprites are no more!

Finally a true HD version of Dragon Quest VIII is a possibility!

 

[danny19901]

I've already gotten to work with 3 projects so far The Warriors, Midnight Club 3 Remix & Resident Evil Outbreak

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[RedoLane]

UNLEASH
THE REPAINTED
MODS

 

[LoggerMan]

DIY nude code for Tomb Raider.

 

[FLRIZDARKK]

Finally a true HD version of Dragon Quest VIII is a possibility!

And Persona 3 FES HD

 

[64bitmodels]

Curious, what do you mean?

UI is kind of shit for a PS2 emulator, it's not as accurate as i'd like it to be (especially for being in development 10+ years) and overall it's very slow

 

[relauby]

And Persona 3 FES HD

On the GitHub page people had questions about the textures coming out semi-transparent or something, and used P3FES as an example. Sten then used it as the example to explain how to do it correctly. So someone else already thought of this and was at least looking into getting it to work

 

[Zeze]

UI is kind of shit for a PS2 emulator, it's not as accurate as i'd like it to be (especially for being in development 10+ years) and overall it's very slow

UI is getting replaced. Old UI is on lockdown and is waiting for new one to be finished before getting ripped out.

Pics are attached. (not mine)

(Yes, per game settings is a thing now)

Accuracy is slowly improving (with some speed optimizations). Sadly, PS2 is the hipster of video game consoles so emulating it on modern pc's doesn't make that work go any faster with performance in mind. Even for Sony this isn't easy work considering the PS2 software emulators for the PS4 aren't really an alternative to PCSX2.

There's a good reason Stenzek didn't went on creating his own PS2 emu and instead is helping out PCSX2.

20 years now, btw. Lots of code debt adding up in the first 10 years from a lack of proper project management that had to be sorted out. That has changed in around the last 5-6 years with even some complaining that they have become too harsh about added code, but ymmv.

 

[mj9977]

Exciting times, looking forward to checking this out