PlayStation 2 Emulation with TellowKrinkle

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🗓️ 13 November 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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PCSX2 is an open-source PlayStation 2 emulator that allows users to play PS2 games on modern hardware. The emulator is remarkable for simulating the complex architecture of the PS2, which includes the Emotion Engine CPU, Graphics Synthesizer, and specialized subsystems. The emulator just hit a major milestone with the release of PCSX2 version 2.0. The

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0:00.0	PCSX2 is an open-source PlayStation 2 emulator that allows users to play PS2 games on modern hardware.
0:07.0	The emulator is remarkable for simulating the complex architecture of the PS2, which includes the Emotion Engine CPU, Graphic Synthesizer, and specialized subsystems.
0:17.0	The emulator just hit a major milestone with the release of PCSX2 version 2.0.
0:23.0	The release brings many changes including a QT-based interface, big picture mode, auto selection
0:28.3	of graphics, APIs, and native support for macOS. Talo Crinkle is a developer for PCSX2
0:34.9	who ported the emulator to MacOS, among other contributions. In addition to his
0:39.6	work on PS2 emulation, he has also worked on Dolphin, which emulates the Nintendo GameCube and
0:45.1	Wii. Telo joins the podcast with Joe Nash to talk about how he got started in emulation,
0:50.7	the PS2 architecture, the challenges of rendering PS2 games on modern GPUs, and more.
0:57.1	Joe Nash is a developer, educator, and award-winning community builder, who has worked at
1:02.0	companies including GitHub, Twilio, Unity, and PayPal.
1:06.5	Joe got a start in software development by creating mods and running servers for Gary's
1:10.6	mod, and game development remains his favorite way to experience and explore new technology Got us start in software development by creating mods and running servers for Gary's Mod.
1:11.3	And game development remains his favorite way to experience and explore new technologies and concepts.
1:30.9	Welcome, Tello. How you doing today?
1:33.0	Pretty good. I'm happy to be here.
1:36.9	Wonderful. So I want to start off by asking you, we've spoken to folks on the emulator scene before, and it seems people come in to this whole thing from many different
1:41.7	varied paths. How did you get started building emulators? Yeah, I think
1:45.3	my path is probably maybe one of the weird ones. Well, to start, I guess I kind of, I looked up a lot to
1:51.5	emulators and emulator development when I was younger. And so for a long time, I kind of wanted to
1:56.2	try to work on the dolphin emulator. And I never ended up getting around to it for a long time.
2:02.2	But then I guess after graduating college, I took a part-time job for a while and I had some
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