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As a game console released in 2000, many classic game works have been released on the PlayStation 2 platform. The emulator for PS2 on PC (PCSX2) has long been perfected and can simulate almost 100% of PS2 games. AetherSX2 is an excellent PlayStation 2 game console emulator for Android platform, developed by Tahlreth using Java. It enables users to play PS2 games smoothly on Android devices.
AetherSX2 is neither the first nor the only PS2 emulator on the Android platform (there are others such as Play! and DamonPS2). But the ever best one DamonPS2 is becoming more and more disgusting (the final breaking point is to force users to authenticate all the way online and collect user personal data). The good performance of AetherSX2 when it was released, and the benign interaction with PCSX2, the king of PlayStation 2 emulators on PC, made this emulator have its own halo before it came out.
AetherSX2 is feature rich and powerful. It has excellent performance, can greatly improve the game running fluency (supports ultra-high frame rate), can effectively improve image quality (up to 5 times the native resolution), supports instant saving and loading, supports cheats, supports customization gamepad button configuration, supports touch screen and Bluetooth controller, allows each game to have independent settings, supports multi-threaded mode, is compatible with many PS2 games, provides widescreen patch, supports multiple rendering modes, supports multiple game ROM formats , and more. These give players hope for the future of PS2 emulation on Android.
Unfortunately, due to neverending impersonating, complaints, demands, and death threats, the development of AetherSX2 has been indefinitely suspended. Besides, it was originally free, open-source, and ad-free, but has since become closed-source and added ads. Anyway, AetherSX2 is still the single best solution for playing PlayStation 2 games on Android devices right now.
// Key Features //
- System simulation
- OpenGL, Vulkan and Software rendering
- Upscaling of games to 1080p and beyond
- Widescreen patches for games without native support
- Save states
- Touchscreen and bluetooth controller support
- Games can be loaded from iso/chd/cso disc images
- Per game settings
// Fan Made Demo Videos //
// System Requirements //
- Android 8.0+
- PS2 BIOS files
// Prompts //
- You need a high end device to achieve good performance. We recommend at least a Snapdragon 845-equivalent device.
- You will find that AetherSX2 is exactly the same as DuckStation, I guess they use the same template. Also, if you admit that DuckStation is the best PS1 emulator on Android, then you will definitely admit that AetherSX2 is the best PS2 emulator on Android.
- When you can’t emulate a PS2 game rom with PCSX2 on your computer, try using AetherSX2 on your mobile phone, and you will receive a huge surprise (especially when playing a certain game with PCSX2 is extremely laggy).
- AetherSX2 also supports the emulation of PS1 games, but you may need to adjust the default settings to get better emulation effects.
// Related Links //
// Download URLs //
| License | Version | Download | Size |
| Freeware (with ads) | Latest |  |
n/a |
| v1.5-4248 | |
19.9 MB |
(Homepage | Google Play)
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