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PlayStation 2 emulation is now so good you don’t really need original hardware to enjoy its classics, as new PCSX2 version 2 is released


The PCSX2 PlayStation 2 emulator and its new version is the new best friend of all retro gamers. Emulation has never had it so good.

Don’t get me wrong, I am old school and have my PlayStation 2 hooked up to my retro-gaming pride and joy, a 32-inch Sony Trinitron that weighs as much as a small ape but there is something that makes me smile about seeing my favorite games on a 4k monitor, upscaled to 4k perfectly. And with the addition of one of the many user-made texture replacement packs you can easily update the actual in-game graphics of your favorite games to look, well exception. And finally, for this page at least because there is so much more we could write about if we had time, but some classic games such as the Burnout series now run correctly, whereas before the skybox wasn’t working properly.

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