# PCSX2/pcsx2

> PCSX2 is a free and open-source PlayStation 2 emulator that reproduces the console's hardware using MIPS CPU interpreters, recompilers and a virtual machine. It lets you play PS2 games on PC with enhancements, requiring a BIOS dump from a legitimately-owned console.

- Magnitude: 0.9 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 15,623 total · +2 stars on 2026-09-24 (UTC), ≈ 5 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Games & graphics · Language: C++ · License: GPL-3.0 · Created: 2013-12-22 · Last push: 2026-09-24
- GitHub: https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2 · Homepage: https://pcsx2.net · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/PCSX2/pcsx2

## Useful for

- Play PS2 games on PC without the original console, using a BIOS dump
- Check a specific game's compatibility via the list of over 2500 tested titles
- Build the emulator from source for Windows, Linux or macOS

## Why it’s here

- 2 stars so far today, about 5 expected by the end of the day.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 2,227
- Issues and pull requests: 14,395
- Watchers: 363
- Average over the last week: 8 per day
- Usual pace: 9 per day
- Latest release: v2.9.81 (2026-09-24)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-30 … 2026-10-29: None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None

## Magnitude by day, last 12 days

09-13 1.8, 09-14 1.5, 09-15 1.1, 09-16 1.3, 09-17 1.6, 09-18 1.7, 09-19 1.4, 09-20 1.6, 09-21 1.3, 09-22 1.3, 09-23 1.4, 09-24 1.0

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-09-24 10:53 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.