AetherSX2 emulator walkthrough

AetherSX2 is a new PS Two emulator for Android smartphones and tablets. The free and open-source emulator is quite promising and the initial tests by primary developers show that the emulator works flawlessly on MediaTek, Exynos, and Qualcomm processors. Luckily PC gamers have enjoyed the great PCSX2 emulator for years now but the same couldn’t be said about Android gamers, if everything goes well, the AetherSX2 emulator can completely resolve the aforementioned problem.

One of the noteworthy features of the emulator is the ability to effectively “underclock” the PS Two emulation. This means gamers with low-end or mid-range chips won’t face any performance issues.

In this guide app about the AetherSX2 simulator you will find all the things you need to know about the emulator, features and requirements, how to install and setup the app, FAQ and tips, to help you enjoy playing your favorite childhood games on the go.

Disclaimers:

AetherSX2 should only be used to play games you own and have dumped from disc yourself. To dump your games, you can use a tool such as ImgBurn to create a .iso for the disc, and then copy across it to your device over USB.

The AetherSX2 app is free, contains no ads, and is provided under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives International License

This app is not affiliated in any way with Sony Interactive Entertainment.AetherSX2 is a emulator of the PS Two console for the Android platform. You can play games which you have dumped from disc on your portable device.

A BIOS image **is required** to play games and is not optional. This image should be dumped from your own console, using a homebrew application.

You need a high end device to achieve good performance. We recommend at least a Snapdragon 845-equivalent device. This means 4 large cores (Cortex-A75 level, 500 or more single core Geekbench 5). If you only have two big cores (e.g. Snapdragon 700 series SoCs), you should not enable multi-threaded VU, and performance will suffer as a result.

Devices with Mali or PowerVR GPUs will run the app, but performance will be much lower than Adreno GPUs.

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

The AetherSX2 app is free, contains no ads, and is provided under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives International License (BY-NC-ND 4.0,

This app is not affiliated in any way with Sony Interactive Entertainment.