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PCSX2 is a really nice piece of software and often gets overshadowed by more popular emulators, it's really nice to see the devs getting some attention. The feats they've accomplished are substantial - I'd go so far to say that it's the best way to play many PS2 games.

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From reading this progress report (I'm not an active user of PCSX2), it seems this emulator uses per-game hacks frequently. On the other hand, Dolphin (which I'm a semi-active user and used to follow development) never performs per-game disk patches and only rarely uses per-game emulator-level hacks.

It's true but the PS2 is a much more convoluted system to emulate with more moving parts and undocumented behaviour in the timing and interaction between these parts as compared to the relatively simpler Gamecube. This also made the Gamecube easier to develop for IMO (I developed games on both systems)

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