Kingdom Hearts won't run on nethersx2

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I hate asking for help for stuff like this because I know it's probably because I'm inexperienced but I can't find anyone else with this same issue and reddit was no help. Whenever I try to play kh on my Chromebook it crashes right after I start it. It's not that the game is too big because I have much bigger ps2 games on my Chromebook with zero issues (plus kh works fine on my phone). I tried changing the bios and changing the GPU renderer but no dice. Anyone else have this issue? Or know what's wrong?
 
I hate asking for help for stuff like this because I know it's probably because I'm inexperienced but I can't find anyone else with this same issue and reddit was no help. Whenever I try to play kh on my Chromebook it crashes right after I start it. It's not that the game is too big because I have much bigger ps2 games on my Chromebook with zero issues (plus kh works fine on my phone). I tried changing the bios and changing the GPU renderer but no dice. Anyone else have this issue? Or know what's wrong?
Are you using pcsx2 nightly builds? It works perfectly fine playing Kingdom Hearts. Do you have system logs after the program crash?
 
only use netherSX2 if you're on Android.
If you're on windows use PCSX2 as others have said.
 
I hate asking for help for stuff like this because I know it's probably because I'm inexperienced but I can't find anyone else with this same issue and reddit was no help. Whenever I try to play kh on my Chromebook it crashes right after I start it. It's not that the game is too big because I have much bigger ps2 games on my Chromebook with zero issues (plus kh works fine on my phone). I tried changing the bios and changing the GPU renderer but no dice. Anyone else have this issue? Or know what's wrong?
Try AetherSX2, it's a fork of PCSX2. May work better for it. I don't know. Don't emulate on a Chromebook. And most of the user base here uses the PCSX2 emulator
 
I know you can use RetroArch on Chromebooks install via Flatpak

 
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See I didn't know that as I don't use RetroArch. I find it overly convoluted and a real pain in the ass to get working the way I want.
I know exactly what you mean, since it can be a pain in the ass to get the emulator core, setup bios, it takes patience. But I'm used to stand-alone emulators since its a lot easier to setup.
 
I know exactly what you mean, since it can be a pain in the ass to get the emulator core, setup bios, it takes patience. But I'm used to stand-alone emulators since its a lot easier to setup.
Right got ya. I use Batocera on an external drive, so it's not as much of a hassle.
Aside from getting the BIOS files you need if you're lacking them I mean.
 
Thank you for all the suggestions, I'll try to download pcsx2 and if that doesn't work I'll see if redownloading nethersx2 does
Good luck and Hope it works. I was going to suggest that if you had a spare external SSD, you could install Batocera on it. But since you are using the aforementioned Chromebook, you would have to essentially jailbreak it so it would boot from the drive, as Batocera is an operating system in itself, like RetroArch without the suck
 
All I have is a chromebook (I have a very old laptop that would probably catch on fire if I tried to run ps2 games on it). Pcsx2 works but it crashes whenever I try to add a file directory for my games. I'm still trying to figure out the issue
 
All I have is a chromebook (I have a very old laptop that would probably catch on fire if I tried to run ps2 games on it). Pcsx2 works but it crashes whenever I try to add a file directory for my games. I'm still trying to figure out the issue
Well, if the old laptop isn't housing any important files on it and you can do whatever you like freely to it, maybe toss Linux on it and try emulating PS2 on that.
Linux runs PS2 games pretty damn well, even on lower-spec hardware.
Obviously, I don't know the specs, so I'm assuming it will run it fine.
 
Well, if the old laptop isn't housing any important files on it and you can do whatever you like freely to it, maybe toss Linux on it and try emulating PS2 on that.
Linux runs PS2 games pretty damn well, even on lower-spec hardware.
Obviously, I don't know the specs, so I'm assuming it will run it fine.
If I could I would but it can barely run google docs without crashing, I don't think it would be able to run a ps2 game
 
If I could I would but it can barely run google docs without crashing, I don't think it would be able to run a ps2 game
Care to toss the specs up? i can tell you one way or another
it maybe the OS is borked
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*Edit* i have a laptop here running a Pentium T4300, with 2 GB of ddr2 running linux and a ps1 emulator at full speed. so yours might be fine
 
Care to toss the specs up? i can tell you one way or another
it maybe the OS is borked
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*Edit* i have a laptop here running a Pentium T4300, with 2 GB of ddr2 running linux and a ps1 emulator at full speed. so yours might be fine
I don't know what it is exactly but it's an HP laptop. There's not much hope in it, it's probably almost 10 years old at this point
 
I don't know what it is exactly but it's an HP laptop. There's not much hope in it, it's probably almost 10 years old at this point
"The Dell Inspiron 1440 was released in March 2009"
That's what I'm running Linux and a PS1 on (solely to see if I could)
Just the brand and model number would be fine (like the Dell I spoke of, Dell Inspiron 1440)
 

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