The latest subversion of PCSX2 is PCSX2 Playground rev 626.

Note on this release:

Today is a great day for ps2 emulation, Tri-Ace games now work with Playground! :D
That means that Star Ocean 3, Valkyrie Profile 2, and Radiata Stories all get in-game and might even be playable from start-to-finish (more testing needs to be done to find out if they're fully playable).

For those that don't know, Tri-Ace games use an encryption algorithm that requires bit-accurate results to boot successfully; so they're some of the pickiest games to emulate.

Credit goes to Nneeve who coded special add/sub routines for VU opcodes that make the PS2's VUs more accurate.

Since these routines are SLOW, Rama and I decided to make this a gamefix. Rama also isolated the code so it only runs the slow-routines in the functions that need them to boot the Tri-Ace games (without this, the games would run 40% slower :p).

The gamefix is called "VU Add / Sub Hack", so turn it on and have fun playing/testing tri-ace games on pcsx2-playground! :p


Note: After Krakatos does some more testing, he'll add a public beta for this revision on our forums (sometime within 24hours probably).

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