PS2 MAME EMULATOR guide here

i dont know if there is one, i suppose you'd have to try them all and see which ones work

it's a big job, i guess nobody has got round to that!

 

i made this combo that works

1942
280ZZZAP
ARKANOI2
ASTINVAD
ATETRIS
ATHENA
AVALNCHE
BADDUDES
BAGMAN
BANKP
BIGPROWR
BOMBJACK
BOULDASH
BRKTHRU
BUBLBOBL
CARNIVAL
CCASTLES
CENTIPED
CHAMPBAS
CHEEKYMS
CIRCUSC
COMMANDO
CRASH
CSHIFT
DESTDERB
DIAMOND
DIGDUG
DIGDUG2
DKONG3
DKONGJR
DOCASTLE
DOGFIGHT
DOWILD
DRMARIO
DUCKHUNT
ELEVATOR
FROGGER
GALAGA
GALAXIAN
GGHOST
GORF
HYPERSPT
JACKAL
JRKING
KINGOFB
LWINGS
MARIO
MARKHAM
MEGATACK
METEOR
MIKIE
MISSILE
MPATROL
MSPACMAN
NATODEF
NAUGHTYB
NEMESIS
PANG
PHOENIX
PUNCHOUT
RAIDRS5T
RALLYX
RENEGADE
RETOFINV
SLAPBTUK
SLAPFIGH
SSI
TAPPER
TERRACRE
THEPIT
THIEF
TIMBER
TIMEPLT
TNZS2
TOKISENS
TP84
TRACKFLD
VANGRD2
VSYARD
WANTED
YIEAR
ZAXXON
ZODIACK

 

You are sure all those work?

 

Is not that I dont trust you or anything but I wasted 10 cd's doing this I haven't got a single game to work.

 

hi, I'm new

I loaded the elf file and it stucked in the WWW.PS2NEWZ.COM LOGO and that's it.
What should I do?

 

In case anybody stumbles upon this again.....
A lot of game tools, especially emulation, aren't made by pirates.
That is to say, unlike swap-magic related stuff, and other PS2 utilities, a lot of tools for emulation aren't made with the intent of letting people play games or for security-breaking purposes.

Quite a few of the guys who make releases with security-breaking measures make money in some sort of way, or at the very least, get some kind of reward in security-related communities. For instance, the guys running the Swap Magic utilities aren't doing it as a free release, they do it to satisfy the needs of people who have swap magic, to keep them from switching away from their system.

With that said, I can now say that the guys at MAME are incredibly strict about how their program is used. Their main purpose isn't to allow people to play games, it's to correctly and completely emulate arcade hardware. The ability to play games comes as a byproduct and a benchmark. They're simply not interested in making games run fast, or implementing a lot of hacks (like they used to), or doing ANYTHING that would get them in trouble in the legal sector (for instance, I had to code up my own support for Tetris The Grandmaster 2 in MAME in order to play it, seeing as how Arika threatened them when they did it). In other words, just because they have capabilities to do things, it doesn't mean they're going to do it.

XMAME is a linux port of MAME. Linux has a distribution that works on the PS2, therefore, if you can run linux on your PS2, then you can run Xmame. However, there are a lot of things on the PS2 which make it hard to emulate...

I guess a lot of people don't really understand how computers work, or the fact that a lot of consoles don't use commonly available hardware. Computer engineering is not something you just pick up in a weekend, and it's not even like you can really get educated on really specific things. The best you can do is learn the basics, learn common stuff, and then move on to really specific platforms. For instance, the PS1 ran on a MIPS processor, which is incredibly common, but look how long it took to get the emulation mostly correct on it. This was mostly because of some of its unusual hardware, and lack of documentation on it. The Gameboy Advance runs on an ARM processor, which is also common, and look how laggy and buggy the emus for it run.... it's not because people don't know how they work, it's just that emulator authors don't generally have documentation specific enough to correctly emulate something. The best they can do is reverse-engineer and then try to port it over to PC.

So, it's always been in game companies' interest to NOT give out documentation, or even try to give people a chance to figure out what they're running. I'm sure there's thousands of things about the PS2 nobody knows except the guys that designed it, and maybe a few seasoned developers (Like EA, they make some amazing looking games on PS2), and this causes a problem when trying to develop for it WITHOUT help from Sony, WITHOUT technical documentation, and without any kind of direction or support whatsoever.

It's not just Sony, it's everyone. That's why emulators are at the state they're at : emu developers don't get paid to do what they do. And trust me, it's very easy to say "fusk it" when not only can you not figure out how to make your damn emulator work, but when you get some annoying fanboy asking "When's it gonna work, I wanna play xxx game!!!111." On more than one occasion, the developers at MAME have stopped working on things because of this.

Basically, all I'm saying is that the MAME is incredibly difficult to make run, least of all, on a PS2 which is incredibly hard to develop for. In other works, if it doesn't work and the developers don't plan on working on it anymore, then it's NEVER going to work, unless you yourself decide to make it work.

I'm not flaming or anything... just, if enough people read this, less people will get frustrated with things not working right, and developers will get less crap for doing work for free.

 

Thank you so much so i can play mame on my ps2 with XMAME and use a dvd disk

by the way im sure there is a gba emu for ps2

 

can you use the swap magic 3.6 cd method rather than modifying your ps2 for this ps2mame emulator to work?

 

I did follow all of your guides dudes,when i tried to change and edit system.cnf and i click the image button it seems some conflict on the LBA. Whats suppose to be the problem? Any help?

 

i'm having an error with making the bin file.
After I do all this, I press on IMG, and:
"Error in LBA in subtable 22 y 7"
"In file PS2MAME.ELF LBA's 28967 30842"
"it collides with file MK3.ZIP LBA's 18890 28967"

Here's a list of roms, if than helps:
KINST
KINST2
MK
MK2
MK3
MK4
SOULCLBR
SOULEDGE
TEKKEN
TEKKEN2
TEKKEN3
TEKTAGT
UMK3
VF
VF2
VF3
VFKIDS
VFREMIX

Is it possible because the program is glitched or is is Vista's fault. Last time I did that with SNES Station on Windows XP, everything worked fine. Now I have CDGENPS2 from a Spanish PS2 utilities pack I picked up from eMule.
Without LBA fix it seems to make the image only I don't want to burn it or I'll screw up the disk.

 

To those getting the black screen with blue borders, have you figured out how to fix this problem? At first I thought it was because I forgot to put the gamelist in caps, but I'm still getting the same problem. I've wasted 3 cd's so far and I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

 

has anyone gotten this to work......? is so what games did u use, modchip or swap magic, dvd-r or cd-r?

 

Ok. So I got it working, but now after a rom loads the final thing it asks me to do is to type OK. How am I supposed to do that on a PS2 controller? I'd understand if this was still on my PC, but it's not. Did I do something wrong? Maybe wrong version of the PS2 MAME emulator?

 

if this mame is like the others you should be able to load the game by pressing the control pad letf then right, or it may be right then left, or you can type ok. but that only works on mame for the pc...... but im quite sure it will work on the ps2 as well. let me knoe it that works as i have yet to get mine onto a dvd-r. im still waiting for someone to do it with success.

 

Hi,

Someone already asked the question, but no one answered...

Will this MAME EMULATOR method work if I'm using Swap Magic?

Thanks
Kim

 

It's been a while, but I'm still hoping to get an answer...

Will this MAME EMULATOR method work with Swap Magic?

Thanks!

Kim

 

Please remember, guys... the MAME port for PS2 is a proof-of-concept demo. Most games are unplayably slow, and quite a lot more simply don't work...

Also, note the fact that there was only ONE release of this, and it has not been worked on since... So, it's pretty much dead as it stands.

So, while the instructions are certainly not flawed (indeed, this is how you would load something up like this) if the games don't load, there's really not all that much you can do about it.

And yes, this should work for Swap Magic. Not so sure if it'll work for 2.0, but it should work with Swap Magic 3 and up.

 

I have made exactly 8 coasters trying to burn a ps2 mame dvd. Over and over again, black screen blue borders. Followed instructions to the t, can anyone help, or am I just out of luck. Im a old skool playa and would really like to get a good ps2 mame dvd playing.

 

awsome right up even if its a bit old heh .Finally found why i couldnt add roms to the iso of this i found lol.Didnt know only 30 roms would fit i was trying to load all 1600 that i had then figured well if i make it a dvd thattl work heh again no. LOL
So my question is has anyone since then found a ps2 emu that can fit more then 30 roms on it id hate to have to make 53 discs just to get all my games LMAO.

 

Hi evy1,
I followed the destructions and have a disk with the appropriate files on them, but my ps2 will not recognise the disk. ps2 is chipped. Does this mean that my laser is stuffed? It is one of the older style ps2's.