CLUSTER PLAYSTATION-EMULATOR-GAMES · 5 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2022-03-01
PS2 emulation and launchers
This cluster comprises tools for playing PlayStation 2 games through emulation or external launchers: a cross-platform emulator, a library that integrates an external emulator on macOS/Windows, and a native emulator for jailbroken PS4 consoles. The dated history is too thin to read a shape from—only one pre-index entry exists, so the cluster's timeline predates the index or its members are undated. Among traction leaders, EmuCoreR leads with 18 stars, followed by PS4SX2 with 16 stars, and ps2-emu with 0 stars.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 4 unlabelled
Operator · 2 hobby · 1 indie · 2 open source
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 5 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01PS4SX227★9 days—hobbyEmulator that plays PlayStation 2 games natively on jailbroken PlayStation 4 consoles.
- 02EmuCoreR18★17 daysliveindieAndroid app that emulates PlayStation 1 games and provides a library with release updates.
- 03ps2-emu0★1 molivehobbyCross-platform game library that organizes and launches PlayStation 2 games by integrating an external emulator on macOS and Windows.
- 04Play!0★7 mostaleliveopen sourceEmulator that plays PlayStation 2 games across Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS and web platforms.
- 05PCSX20★1 molivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop application that emulates PlayStation 2 hardware so users can play PlayStation 2 games on a computer.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.