News LRPS2 - new ps2 core retroarch

[bloodywing]

This went totally under the radar for me:

LRPS2 – the new PlayStation2 core with a brand new Vulkan LLE renderer – Libretro

So from what I understand, RA had a libretropcsx2 core, which is a fork of an older PCSX2
lrps2 is a fork of pcsx2 too, but heavy modified with better compatibility than libretropcsx2

the old core had a weird way to handle memory cards, and there was no folder memory card support like upstream pcsx2 has it, I haven't tested the new core yet ^^'.

 

[RageBurner]

I don't use RA, but this looks to be a very important advancement, thanks for sharing!

 

[Stingy Perry]

Sounds tempting but maybe I will ‘til it’s thoroughly tested before I jump in.

 

[bloodywing]

I don't use RA, but this looks to be a very important advancement, thanks for sharing!

It is, there was also a lot of confusion before because many expected librepcsx2 to be on par with pcsx2.
New cores like this make atomic systems like batocera or Lakka a much more streamlined experience.

 

[DunkeyKong]

Oh I thought this was a pretty well known emulation news, especially for RetroArch status

But yeah it does have some decent improvements like what you said, the PCSX2 also have many updates for the pre-release or nightly

 

[Cheela]

i am always open for new emulators. competition on this space has been good for the most part.

 

[Leifang]

I hope it can run SoulCalibur 3 and Gran Turismo 4 smooth, both of these games had huge issues on emulation and don't even run properly on hardware PS3, which runs all other PS2 games fine (but in native resolution)... Especially since we have huge fan mods for both.

 

[bloodywing]

I hope it can run SoulCalibur 3 and Gran Turismo 4 smooth, both of these games had huge issues on emulation and don't even run properly on hardware PS3, which runs all other PS2 games fine (but in native resolution)... Especially since we have huge fan mods for both.

GT4 works pretty well with a decent hardware. But I get under 60fps on my mini pc, which has a Radeon Vega 10

 

[Waffles]

Nice! Thanks for letting us know!