wraggster
May 21st, 2019, 20:01
Without a doubt, a console that many people dream of emulating on their portable devices is the PlayStation 2.
As it stands, emulating it requires a fair deal of power but that didn’t stop GBATemp user ‘uyjulian (https://gbatemp.net/members/uyjulian.318529/)‘ from attempting to run Play!, a PS2 emulator, on his Nintendo Switch (https://gbatemp.net/threads/play-ps2-emulator-is-running-on-the-nintendo-switch.538600/). Unfortunately, the results weren’t exactly great as it’s been noted that
Xenosaga Episode 1 runs at around 10FPS but he says that future speed-ups might increase the framerate to 30FPS (https://gbatemp.net/threads/play-ps2-emulator-is-running-on-the-nintendo-switch.538600/#post-8637876)
It’s important to note that the game runs at 20FPS on a PC (of unspecified specifications) so it may be Play!’s fault.
Another GBATemp user noted that Devil May Cry 3 ran at 10-20FPS which was said to be a somewhat playable experience
The above results were obtained with aarch64 JIT enabled which means that the emulator needs a lot of optimisations for any PS2 games to ever run well on the Switch
Apparently, the joycons don’t work and you need to overclock your Switch to the maximum frequency to get anything more than a slideshow which may not be safe to do in the long-term
As a result, it’s safe to say that full-speed PlayStation 2 emulation won’t be a thing on the Switch anytime soon but maybe, just maybe, some less-demanding games will be somewhat playable if Play! sees a lot of progress and speed-ups in the coming years!
On the other hand, an L4T (Linux 4 Tegra) version of the Lakka Linux distribution,which is aimed to be used with RetroArch emulation, has been released. This release, which shares numerous similarities with the recently-released L4T Ubuntu, has the following improvements over previous Lakka Switch releases:
Audio works through the headphones and internal speakers
The GPU driver now supports Vulkan
RAM is locked at full-speed which is 1600MHz as opposed to 800MHz before
Numerous stability improvements and the addition of Yaba Sanshiro (Saturn), Reicast (Dreamcast), mupen64plus-next and others.
The Dolphin core got Vulkan support which means that some titles, like Rayman 3, are now playable at full speed!
To grab L4T Lakka Switch, check out this link (https://gbatemp.net/threads/l4t-lakka-switch-now-with-audio-and-vulkan.538619/).
http://wololo.net/2019/05/16/news-round-up-play-ps2-emulator-forced-to-run-on-the-switch-and-l4t-lakka-released-reddit-user-creates-cool-psvita-bootscreen-alongside-elevenmpv-1-2-0-being-released-and-first-1tb-microsd-card-ava/
As it stands, emulating it requires a fair deal of power but that didn’t stop GBATemp user ‘uyjulian (https://gbatemp.net/members/uyjulian.318529/)‘ from attempting to run Play!, a PS2 emulator, on his Nintendo Switch (https://gbatemp.net/threads/play-ps2-emulator-is-running-on-the-nintendo-switch.538600/). Unfortunately, the results weren’t exactly great as it’s been noted that
Xenosaga Episode 1 runs at around 10FPS but he says that future speed-ups might increase the framerate to 30FPS (https://gbatemp.net/threads/play-ps2-emulator-is-running-on-the-nintendo-switch.538600/#post-8637876)
It’s important to note that the game runs at 20FPS on a PC (of unspecified specifications) so it may be Play!’s fault.
Another GBATemp user noted that Devil May Cry 3 ran at 10-20FPS which was said to be a somewhat playable experience
The above results were obtained with aarch64 JIT enabled which means that the emulator needs a lot of optimisations for any PS2 games to ever run well on the Switch
Apparently, the joycons don’t work and you need to overclock your Switch to the maximum frequency to get anything more than a slideshow which may not be safe to do in the long-term
As a result, it’s safe to say that full-speed PlayStation 2 emulation won’t be a thing on the Switch anytime soon but maybe, just maybe, some less-demanding games will be somewhat playable if Play! sees a lot of progress and speed-ups in the coming years!
On the other hand, an L4T (Linux 4 Tegra) version of the Lakka Linux distribution,which is aimed to be used with RetroArch emulation, has been released. This release, which shares numerous similarities with the recently-released L4T Ubuntu, has the following improvements over previous Lakka Switch releases:
Audio works through the headphones and internal speakers
The GPU driver now supports Vulkan
RAM is locked at full-speed which is 1600MHz as opposed to 800MHz before
Numerous stability improvements and the addition of Yaba Sanshiro (Saturn), Reicast (Dreamcast), mupen64plus-next and others.
The Dolphin core got Vulkan support which means that some titles, like Rayman 3, are now playable at full speed!
To grab L4T Lakka Switch, check out this link (https://gbatemp.net/threads/l4t-lakka-switch-now-with-audio-and-vulkan.538619/).
http://wololo.net/2019/05/16/news-round-up-play-ps2-emulator-forced-to-run-on-the-switch-and-l4t-lakka-released-reddit-user-creates-cool-psvita-bootscreen-alongside-elevenmpv-1-2-0-being-released-and-first-1tb-microsd-card-ava/