How To Play PS2 games in RetroArch using PCSX2 

I gotta say thank you bro. This step by step guide made the entire process a breeze. I've spent years trying to emulate ps2 but to no avail. This video had me done within one hour. I thank you again and just hit the subscribe button. Much love ✌🏽

I've tried about 3 different guides and this was the only one that worked for me, thank you so much!!

Hey man, I have seen a lot of people do guides on this process and this is by far the easiest to follow. No BS, to the point, clean, clear, good job!

Tks man, your video really helped, straight forward and easy to follow, keep up the good content 👍👍

Thanks man! Followed all your steps, proud and happy owner of the ROG Ally!

Very helpful and concise. Thank you, homie. Got me up and running in no time. Cheers!

Nice vid, good pace and straight to the point.

THANK YOU so much! I was so worried I downloaded or did something wrong but I just needed this as well 💜🙏🏻

Awesome video, man. Your tutorials got me up and running Retroarch with everything from NES roms to now PS2. Love your content, liked and subbed, thanks for the great work! 🏆🏆🏆

Beautifully done, Straight to the point and no crap or time wasting. Im gonna play me some ps2 like the good old days thanks to you

Great video, straight to the point and no nonsense!

Well done! Worked like a charm.

Thank you! Worked out well. found the bios at a reddit post

This is freakin awesome! Thanks bro!

Nice useful guide thanks, btw I have retroarches installed across my Cabs etc and I only like the `Ugly Grey` interface ha ha ha, have found it much easier to mentally navigate when I have been configuring all sorts of stuff in the past and because I use frontend menu systems then I don`t see it unless I need to tinker with something, cheers

this worked a treat, thankyou very much sir

Thank you!!! Liked and subbed.

very amazing guide, thank u ur the best

Very helpful, thank you! 👍

Fixed my problem. Thanks man

So the ps2 core in retroarch is not there anymore. I tried to find it on the app on the google play store. Not there. What do I do.

So everything works until its time to play the game. I tried burnout revengyand tenchu. Both games loaded and worked great but when you take control of the character, the game started stuttering... Help...

Hello i tried this on iOS but nothing happens, I see the PS2 files, I added all files inside, even bio but when I want to install cord I don’t see any Ps2 emulator (play! As PSXC2, both ain’t appearing)

I hope I can get some sort of response, but I did everything correctly, but when I load my game, its plays and I hear audio but my screen is black. And when I press F1 to open quick menu its shows a small portion of it on the bottom left hand side lol I'm not sure what the issue is and I cant figure this out. I don't know if EmuVR has anything to do with it because I do use that sometimes too, I didn't think it would matter since I'm not running retroarch thru EmuVR, but the PS2 games work perfectly fine on EmuVR so I honestly do not know what's causing this black screen. All I want to do is play my games without launching EmuVR lol 😅

I have a strange problem, when i try to run a game it plays normaly, but when i want to play a second game it doesn't run it, it only shows a black screen. I leave retroarch, enter it(retroarch) again and try to play the second game that didn't play and it worked, it was playing normaly. I then select the first game and it didn't work only with the black screen again. So tl;dr it went vise versa. I don't have such problem with my gamecube,wii and ps1 games so its something with the ps2 core and i did everything in the video

I appreciate the video, brother. It works, but unfortunately my pc can't run Tekken 4 well. Is there a setting to make things smoother? Sometimes you can click Vulcan or GL or some other setting.

you are the man. thank you sir. 100 percent working

no stable option available on website it says coming soon

Helped me a lot!!

nice tutorial man very good video

Thanks mate you're a blessing

Thanks I got it working, Great job thank you.

Great vid man!! One question tho, where do i download the games i want to play?

Great video! I'm experiencing sound crackling, and video stuttering, missing pixels, etc. My pc is Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7800X CPU @ 3.50GHz, 64GB RAM, GPU 1080ti. What settings should I change to get these games running smooth? Thanks!

Really useful ❤️👍

thank you would you be able to show us how to use cheats for retro arch? i was using the pelican codebreaker iso for the regular pcsx2 emulator but some games like the sims does not run properly unless i bump the video down to native ps2 instead of 1080

Dope worked perfectly

It says "failed to load content"

Is it true you cannot copy data from retro arch gaming on a windows laptop to retro arch installed on a Chromebook or tablet? Is it also true you can play retro arch emulator offline as long as you saved the data while online? Same for multiplaying? Can it handle major games like Minecraft and GTA? Also install mods on some games?

Thanks a ton! Fixed my PCSX2 install that would crash and freeze or just say "Could not load content" on all my games.

Thank you for posting this

I have 2 questions: 1) What website did you download the ROMS for your PS2 emulator? 2) When I try to load the ROMS, it keeps saying "Failed to load". Why does this keep happening?

idk what i did it was working just fine earlier, now i just get "Failed to load content" anyone else

i already have pcsx2 and i just want to add it to retroarch on steam. how would i do that?

i tried to update my pcsx2 to version 1.7.0 the latest nightly one by coping pasting pcsx2 newest folder into the old one i had into the retroarch system folder! Im using launchbox as a front end , and in launchbox under pcsx2 emulator i updated the path of retroarch/system/pcsx2-qt.exe the new nightly version as the default ps2 emulator , but when i oppened any ps2 game with launchbox it just openes with the old pcsx2 emulator via retroarch and not the nightly , i can tell because when i open burnout 3 takedown there is still black sky , while in the lates nightly pcsx2 build black sky has been fixed !! how can i make retroarch and launcbox use the new nightly version of pcsx2 pls help

Thank you, All went very well but it seems like the game studers and not running smooth sound same thing when loading? any sug. thanks very much.

when I go to add games from the desktop does not give me any folder gives me as if there was nothing on the desktop

I'm trying hard since yesterday, doing and re-doing the whole process, but nothing... It won't work on my RetroArch (could it be because I have RA on my Fire TV Stick instead of my PC?)

Friend The instructions bios, configuration of retroarch Is The same in android to play Playstation 2.? Answer me please

Thanks it worked for me.

I've tried RetroArch in the past and always had issues with setting up and playing on devices. I tried again watching your video and remembered the issues that I once encountered. Great video, have you thought about doing a tutorial for batocera? I know nothing for this as far as setting up.

Unfortunately it appears you cannot save state on portable. It also seems like there is a lot of video lag and glitches in some of the video games.

Hey. idk if you will help but I followed your tutorial and I keep getting a screen that says please insert a playstation 2 format disk

Thank you, I had the core but it was just renamed to lrcxp2 or whatever instead of pcsx2

It worked thank u bro

it works man! you are amazing!

Everytime I access MGBA the emulator always crashes everytime I access the settings every time I apply is there a way to fix it.

Very well and understandably explained. However, I have the problem that as soon as I start a PS2 game that the game lags and stutters. So unfortunately no playable. If I load the game directly with PCSX2, everything works fine. How can I solve the problem?

could you show a tutorial how you can do this via launchbox?

At 4:29 I'm having an issue. Trying to download the core gives me the error message "Failed to install core."

Hi I put bios in system folder..and still not loading content..can u help

thank you for an updated tutorial. It took me about 3 hours to figure out the Core Dowloader file has been renamed. Everyone else says "yOu mUst SeE a PCSX2 oPtIoN oN CorE uPdAteR oThErwIsE u DuMb"

Did exactly what you said and it worked

Amazing!

I'm not trying to put it in retro arch I'm just trying to open it but These are my issues please help. The only option i get for windows is v.1.7.5421. x64 the file is called pcsx2-qt there is nothing after qt. I use 7zip to extract but i get These prompts i get The code execution can not proceed VCRUNTIME140_1.dll was not found and MSVCP140_2.dll was not found. It says reinstall but that doesn't do anything.

can you make a video on how to use taodung? for ryujinx like the old video i forgot how to use it. Thanks. The how to get safe games

Dear publisher. I put pcsx2 file as u did and put it inside system , but didn't show after update downloads ,I guess u must put file in core file if not mistaken .. wait ur answer and assist

Followed this guide but the games open with a black screen. I can hear music and sounds but I see nothing.

works great ... thanks

Writes failed to open the libretro kernel, how to solve this problem? Thank you

which also has graphic bugs with the game GTA SA with pcsx2???

You don't need to download and run pcsx2 emulator in zip file... just core and bios only need in system folder of retroarch.

bro youre the champion of the people!

its said Failed to load contents how do i fix it? when i want to launch ps2 games

THANK YOU SIR!!!

When I do it the way you did. It says to insert a ps2 disk

Best Tutorial channel of all time

Will this work on retroarch for android (nvidia shield)??

does this method not work on the steam version of retroarch?

I did everything step by step but every ps2 game i try flickers. Any ideas??

bro thank you so much i could kiss u, i have been trying to figure this shit out for AT LEAST 3 HOURS! you are the goat thank you

Are there any benefits to having it in retroarch vs using it as a standalone?

Thansk my man

Does this work on an Intel Mac circa 2020?

Retroarch ver doesn't have save/load states. that's huge downside to me. so I stick with OG PCSX2

I don't get it. The official site page says lrps2 works independently from pcsx2. You DON'T need pcsx2 at all. They are a separate team; separate emulators. The only same thing is their folder structure. And you only need the bios folder.

Is this possible with latest nightly version?

It wont even let me open the core by itself or with a game

Thanks for making these videos

thank you 👍

THANK YOU

Anyone tried to download this core on Retroarch on Android, Cant find the LRPS2?

It didn’t create a folder when I extracted files

I was looking something like this Maybe it works on rog ally?

damn i did everything step by step and the games just crash on me kinda stuck at the moment

would the retroarch on steam work?

Where do you download the game from?

Do you know if this will work on iOS 17.4 I already have RetroArch but I’m not sure if rpcsx2 is available

Corr Downloader is missing

It keeps saying failed to load libretro core