Your discs
An .iso, or a compressed .chd, .cso or .isz. A CD game's .cue sheet with its .bin tracks, a lone .bin, or a bare .elf. Point the app at your folder and it plays them where they are, without copying them.
One thing to bring
No BIOS
The core, Play!, emulates the console's operating system instead of running it. There is no BIOS image to dump from a console, and nothing to pick in Settings before your first game.
What it does
- Save states, and an automatic save when you leave a game
- A memory card for every game
- Local Wi-Fi netplay with rollback, for two players
- RetroAchievements and leaderboards
- Up to eight times the console's resolution
- Vulkan or OpenGL ES, with Mesa's Turnip driver built in for Adreno GPUs
- CRT, Scale2x, sharp and bicubic filters
- CodeBreaker codes and PCSX2 pnach patches
- Box art for your library
- Touch controls with both analog sticks, and gamepads with analog triggers
- Fast forward and frame skip for slower phones
- Fixes for individual games, built in
What it runs on
A 64-bit phone
Android 7.0 or newer on a 64-bit processor. The console's processors are recompiled to 64-bit ARM code as the game runs, and a PlayStation 2 is out of reach of a 32-bit phone.
Vulkan or OpenGL ES 3
The picture is drawn with Vulkan, or with OpenGL ES 3 where Vulkan does not start. On Snapdragon phones it can use Mesa's Turnip driver, which the app carries, in place of the phone's own.
Speed varies by game
A PlayStation 2 game asks far more of a phone than a PlayStation one did. How fast it runs depends on the game and on the phone; fixes for individual games are added as they are tested.
It keeps to itself
No accounts, no ads, no analytics. Your games, saves and memory cards never leave your phone unless you connect to RetroAchievements or start a netplay game.
Read the privacy policyBuilt on open source
Disc2wake stands on Play!, Jean-Philip Desjardins's PlayStation 2 emulator, and on libraries written by other people. Every one of them is credited, with its licence.
See the credits