Note: This in no way condones piracy, for PS2 bios and Game ISOs, you can get them from your own games and PS2 system. Google it if you do not know how. The PCSX2 developers do not in anyway condone piracy, so do not ask them on their forums

http://pcsx2.net/

Probably old news for some of you, but the PCSX2 PS2 emulator has matured to the point where it runs most of the popular games at a good framerate and very stably. Later Generation PS2 games do not run as well (Metal Gear Solid 3, etc.) because they strained even the PS2. But the popular stuff such as FFX, FFXII, Kingdom Hearts I/II, various Star Wars games and other PS2 classics run well. You can either rip your games to hard disk or run them off your DVD drive. MAC OSX version is in the works too, but still has issues with the OpenGL rendering.

Recommended minimum for the best experience at 60fps NTSC framerate.

Intel C2D @ 3.0GHz or C2Q @ 2.66GHz | AMD Athlon X2 @ 3.2GHz or Phenom X4 @ 2.5GHz
2GB RAM
nVidia 9800GT/ATI Radeon 4850


Emulator has high specifications because the PS2 runtime engine is hard to emulate because the architecture differs greatly from a standard computer. For those inclined they explain more in the dev sections of their site.

Even after all these years FFX still looks good at high resolutions.

I've used it on occasion, but my machine can't handle it. Personally speaking I'll go spend 50 bucks for a PS2 and a couple'a games instead of 120 upgrading my PC. Still, it's an amazing feat they've accomplished.

My Korean friend does this on his laptop, but somehow he doesn't need any disks (I assumed this was illegal, but apparently not).

So long as he own the original discs he can make an image (ISO) of them to use.

Actually, this is useful for those of you who want to try out modding the PS2 version of BF2.

Oh, sweet. I remember back when I used to get all my games on emulators, and I wanted a PS2 one, but could never find one.

Sure is incentive to finish some of these games I never did.