It has been 2 years since our last stable release and today we (finally) bring you the newest stable release: 0.9.8! Smile
There has been a massive amount of extensive changes to the emulator as a whole, so let's go over some of the biggest ones!
Note: Norton Antivirus is reporting 0.9.8 as a virus! This is a false positive, you are totally safe!
We have a
completely new GUI made with wxWidgets to make the whole user experience
simpler and more user friendly, whilst providing us with a platform in
which we can easily add new features. For this we have to give our
thanks to Air (Jake Stine) who recently left the team, who worked on
this for many months (in what was pretty much a solo effort) to make it
the best GUI we have ever had.
The entire team is eternally grateful for all of his efforts and we wish him best of luck with his new tasks!
This new GUI
brings with it a much improved Linux support, as this is a completely
cross platform user interface. Code changes will effect Windows and
Linux in the same way, making maintenance for us much easier and finally
giving Linux users a nice and consistent frontend.
Complementing
the new GUI is a new Memory Card manager, providing the flexibility to
use customly named or downloaded cards with sizes of 8 to 64 megabytes.
Now you can fit even more saves on one card!
Host file system and ELF loading support has been improved too.
Now you Homebrewers can work with a more feature complete virtual PS2 to test your tools!
Patches and compatibility hacks are now automatically applied by default.
With this you
don't have to sit there for ages playing around to find that 1 option
that fixes your game; If we know about it, we've already set it!
Aside from the
shiny parts of the emulator which you guys see and use, we have many
internal changes to improve our overall compatibility, the most notable
ones being a new VU recompiler called microVU, which is an effort to
bring higher compatibility over the older SuperVU recompiler.
Windows
Full Installer
Web Installer
Binaries
(NOTE: Full
installer includes Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables, which is ideal
for offline installs of PCSX2. Web installer optionally fetches the
Redists from Microsoft.com, if your computer doesn't already have them
installed.)
Linux
Binaries
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