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fobeson Inline Assembly Dangers

Hi, op here. Is there any sort of error message or status code? I use CloudFlare so it's quite strange if it simply didn't connect for you.

fobeson Detecting a PS2 Emulator: When 1*X does not equal X

The IOP (PS1 processor used for I/O), SPU2 (sound processor), IPU (mpeg decoding), EE (main CPU), VU0, VU1, DMA controller and finally the GS (GPU) run asynchronously. It's naive for others to think perfect cycle accuracy for this machine might be possible with any hardware that exists today. PCSX2 is lucky to have VU1 on it's own thread. It still doesn't work perfectly IIRC, VU0 -> VU1 access is a little sketchy with it enabled.

fobeson Detecting a PS2 Emulator: When 1*X does not equal X

Fixing this bug would be part of fixing a bunch of other floating point bugs, more specifically rounding and clamping.

Yes, software floating point would be slower, but the general solution would probably follow the PS4s PS2 emulator. Where each game can have whitelisted sections of code for the software floating point path.