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Hello all, I made the jump. Its been hard and I am here for some help (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by Squizzy@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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Hey! So I have always wanted to make the jump to linux and pc gaming and figured I would do them both together. I would not consider myself techy, just aout tech literate in that I am aware of how much I dont know.

I have linux mint, on a mid to late i5 w/16gb memory. I wanted initially to make a home server but I have jusy been poking around and ended up trying to play all the games I have in attic through emulators and the like.

So I got loads of emulators, I use Cartridge which is a Lutris fork. It just seemed cleaner and worked when I tried it out. In that I had been booting into PCSX2 and finally playing MK Deception again. After three evenings poking and gaming PCSX2 shuts down every time I try to boot a game.

I have uninstalled, reinstalled and changed from 1.7.xx to 2.2 to the nightly 2.3 (I think). I cannot get it to work.

I have so many questions but if I could get back to Konquest I would be so happy, and bother you all later.

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Hmm, has been a while since I last tried PCSX2, but isn't there a module for it in Retroarch these days? Usually that works better.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 points 1 day ago

Seconded. I went down the dark path of trying to hook up each emulator and it was pain. RetroArch made it so much simpler. (OP it's not just for Arch, I learned that too late)

[–] SolarPunker@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 days ago

There are emulators that works better as standalone, and sadly - as I love RetroArch - this is true for PS2 emulation since LRPS2 or Play! are not as good as PCSX2.