PCSX2 Playground is a modified version of original PCSX2. With emphasize on correct emulated environment or as close as the real PS2.

Playground powered by gigaherz, ramapcsx2, cottonvibes, drkIIRaziel, arcum42, Jake.Stine.

What’s the different? The Playground version features :

• Improved Frameskip/VU-skip
• Special Game Fixes Section
• Advanced Options Section for custom tweaking VU/FPU behavior.
• Rewritten Multithreaded GS (MTGS) mode, with as much as 15% speedup for HT machines (only 3-5% for Dual Core), and fixes many instabilities.
• Improved VU/FPU Flags and Clamping support (helps fix odd behaviors and SPS in some games)
• Improved EE/IOP synchronization (fixes many freeze-ups and vmhacks).
• Improved CDVD support.

Since pcsx2-playground tries to emulate as correct as possible sometimes it feels slower than the official build. For that reason playground provides various speedhacks to bypass some emulation feature.

Visit pcsx2-playground project page to dig the latest development.