PCSX2 on a mac

Zedr0n · July 6th, 2008

Well, I decided to give it at try. So far, I've managed to build the main app and plugins zeroGS, GSSoft, CDVDNull, FWNull, SPU2Null and USBLinuz.

I had to port most of the asm files to nasm as gas on mac is very picky, some more hacks too

I've tried gtk+ for mac os x first but it didn't work for me and anyway zeroGS uses glX so I had to use x11 anyway. Now, looks somewhat like this

I've tried to test zerogs but unfortunately it just gives me

Bios Version 2.0
GIF reset
NTSC
Framelimiter rate updated (UpdateVSyncRate): 60 fps
MTGS thread unlocked
Bus error

Well, I didn't hope that zeroGS would work straight away. Now I wanted to also test GSSoft, but I get the error: error loading GSsetBaseMem. According to other threads it means that GSsoft isn't compatible with new plugin specs. I wonder if one of the devs could update GSsoft a bit so I could test it.

And just generally to learn if anybody cares enough to help out with porting pcsx2 to mac/x11?

Last edited by Zedr0n; July 6th, 2008 at 17:32.

jonk1993 · July 7th, 2008

Yes! I use a mac and would love to have a ported pcsx2 on it. However, I know very little about ps2 emulation and how to port it. Though, I'd really like to help out in any way possible. PM me if your interested in a little help,

shuffle2 · July 7th, 2008

great work so far zedr0n. i was following your progress on irc...if you think the nasm code is stable/decent, you should contact refraction.

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Zedr0n · July 7th, 2008

some progress on zerogs through debugging

I'd very much like to know the sequence in which the callbacks are called. So far, I know that GSopen executes successfully but i'm not sure what happens next.

ok, historical moment, I managed to see bios on os x. Interpreter mode and debug/dev builds, mind you. Crashes right after Sony Computer Entertainment disappears, but still.

Antialiasing too

Last edited by Zedr0n; July 7th, 2008 at 13:55. Reason: Automerged Doublepost

YamatoHD · July 7th, 2008

wow dude! I really hope that thread wont be closed, really want to try out pcsx2 on OSX!!!
Keep up the good work!

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NexXxus · July 7th, 2008

nice progress, hope it can mess with the windows version someday.

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Zedr0n · July 7th, 2008

Doublebuffer mode fixed and enabled sse2

Here's a little smth - video of bios running in interpreter mode on debug build with sse2, AA4x and bilinear filtering
http://www.veoh.com/videos/v14840260KmsBgMc3

Last edited by Zedr0n; July 7th, 2008 at 17:45.

Shin_Gouki · July 7th, 2008

maybe they should add it to the offical releases?

why linux and win only

Its nice to see this come along for mac too

And that you could do it proves that its nice to have public svn

Kenny800 · July 7th, 2008

Would it work with windows on a mac using boot camp?

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Zedr0n · July 7th, 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kenny800

Would it work with windows on a mac using boot camp?

that's completely unrelated. The windows version works fine on mac using boot camp...

akigrr · July 8th, 2008

amazing work zedr0n....i never expected seeing pcsx2 outside bootcamp!!i reeeeeallly hope this gets to work

good luck!!!

Zedr0n · July 8th, 2008

Ok, MTGS/Dual Core mode now working. Now if only I could understand why XAutoRepeatOff would trigger KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE(i think we'll need a pure SDL pad plugin anyway, X on mac is a bit dodgy)

NexXxus · July 8th, 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zedr0n

Doublebuffer mode fixed and enabled sse2

Here's a little smth - video of bios running in interpreter mode on debug build with sse2, AA4x and bilinear filtering
PCSX2/OsX | Veoh Video Network

ooh nice video, good old times coming back, PCSX2 0.8 on my old athlon XP

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lord_muad_dib · July 8th, 2008

great work man! i'll help you on this duty!

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Zedr0n · July 8th, 2008

Latest update: pcsx2/mac is compatible with japan bios 1.0
thanks to lord_muad_dib for suggesting to check it out

Last edited by Zedr0n; July 8th, 2008 at 23:34. Reason: Automerged Doublepost

lord_muad_dib · July 8th, 2008

we made a blog to gather all we got so far, and stay tuned there for further improvements very soon!

pcsx2-mac.quant0r.com

thank you!

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Zedr0n · July 8th, 2008

Ok, breakthrough time. We are bringing you FFXII on pcsx2/mac

ready2rumbelX · July 8th, 2008

Wow...that's amazing. I'm quite proud of you guys. Keep up the sweet work!

I wonder what the authors of PCSX2 think...

r2rX

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Squall-Leonhart · July 10th, 2008

Nifty work, im sure i've got a few mac friends who'll be happy about this.

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bambam95 · July 10th, 2008

Done with a mac program called CROSSOVER GAMES

Still think it's real?

July 6th, 2008	#1 (permalink)
Zedr0n Registered User Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: UK/London Posts: 35	PCSX2 on a mac Well, I decided to give it at try. So far, I've managed to build the main app and plugins zeroGS, GSSoft, CDVDNull, FWNull, SPU2Null and USBLinuz. I had to port most of the asm files to nasm as gas on mac is very picky, some more hacks too I've tried gtk+ for mac os x first but it didn't work for me and anyway zeroGS uses glX so I had to use x11 anyway. Now, looks somewhat like this I've tried to test zerogs but unfortunately it just gives me Bios Version 2.0 GIF reset NTSC Framelimiter rate updated (UpdateVSyncRate): 60 fps MTGS thread unlocked Bus error Well, I didn't hope that zeroGS would work straight away. Now I wanted to also test GSSoft, but I get the error: error loading GSsetBaseMem. According to other threads it means that GSsoft isn't compatible with new plugin specs. I wonder if one of the devs could update GSsoft a bit so I could test it. And just generally to learn if anybody cares enough to help out with porting pcsx2 to mac/x11? Last edited by Zedr0n; July 6th, 2008 at 17:32.

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jonk1993 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: California Posts: 1	Yes! I use a mac and would love to have a ported pcsx2 on it. However, I know very little about ps2 emulation and how to port it. Though, I'd really like to help out in any way possible. PM me if your interested in a little help,

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shuffle2 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: ß Posts: 428	great work so far zedr0n. i was following your progress on irc...if you think the nasm code is stable/decent, you should contact refraction. __________________ AMD X2 5200+(65Watt)@3.2GHz \| GTX280 \| 4GB RAM \| Vista Ultimate x64

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Zedr0n Registered User Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: UK/London Posts: 35	some progress on zerogs through debugging I'd very much like to know the sequence in which the callbacks are called. So far, I know that GSopen executes successfully but i'm not sure what happens next. ok, historical moment, I managed to see bios on os x. Interpreter mode and debug/dev builds, mind you. Crashes right after Sony Computer Entertainment disappears, but still. Antialiasing too Last edited by Zedr0n; July 7th, 2008 at 13:55. Reason: Automerged Doublepost

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YamatoHD Registered User Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Uzhgorod Posts: 96	wow dude! I really hope that thread wont be closed, really want to try out pcsx2 on OSX!!! Keep up the good work! __________________ AMD Athlon x2 4000+, some MSI mb, radeon x1950 XTX, 4gb RAM(800MHz), Vista Ultimate x64 + Zephiroth's AMD Mac OSX(own a retail copy of leo)

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NexXxus it'se miku! Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Cologne, Germany Posts: 3,604	nice progress, hope it can mess with the windows version someday. __________________ My System: C2D E6700 @3.4ghz \| Asus P5W DH Deluxe \| 4GB DDR2 800 \| eVGA Geforce GTX 260 55nm SC-Edition Tutorial: Hardware Antialiasing in PCSX2 (DX9 only)

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Zedr0n Registered User Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: UK/London Posts: 35	Doublebuffer mode fixed and enabled sse2 Here's a little smth - video of bios running in interpreter mode on debug build with sse2, AA4x and bilinear filtering http://www.veoh.com/videos/v14840260KmsBgMc3 Last edited by Zedr0n; July 7th, 2008 at 17:45.

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Shin_Gouki Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Europe / Germany Posts: 838	maybe they should add it to the offical releases? why linux and win only Its nice to see this come along for mac too And that you could do it proves that its nice to have public svn

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Kenny800 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: England Posts: 19	Would it work with windows on a mac using boot camp? __________________ Core 2 Duo 2.4gHz, 2gb 800mHz RAM, NVidia 8600mgt

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akigrr Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Japan Posts: 12	amazing work zedr0n....i never expected seeing pcsx2 outside bootcamp!!i reeeeeallly hope this gets to work good luck!!!

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Zedr0n Registered User Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: UK/London Posts: 35	Ok, MTGS/Dual Core mode now working. Now if only I could understand why XAutoRepeatOff would trigger KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE(i think we'll need a pure SDL pad plugin anyway, X on mac is a bit dodgy)

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lord_muad_dib The FORCE is my ally Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: italy Posts: 177	great work man! i'll help you on this duty! __________________ CPU: AMD Athlon 64 4000+(939 SanDiego CORE)@2,6Ghrz MoBo: ABIT Fatal1ty AN8 SLi RAM: Corsair 2GB DDR Dual Channel GPU: Geforce 68000 Ultra PCIEX: 16X >> Monitors: LG Flatron F700B 17''CRT <> Hyundai ImageQuest L17T SPU: ABIT internal AudioMAX 7.1 + EAX >> Audio Out: My HiFi HDDs SATA: MAXTOR 200GB x2 HDDs IDE: MAXTOR 80GB DVDRW: Pioneer 108 Connection: ADSL Router Hamlet HDSL 740 @4Mbs/256Kbs OSes: WinXP Pro@SP2 <> GNU/Linux Gentoo <> APPLE Darwin 8.4 <> DOS 6.22

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Zedr0n Registered User Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: UK/London Posts: 35	Latest update: pcsx2/mac is compatible with japan bios 1.0 thanks to lord_muad_dib for suggesting to check it out Last edited by Zedr0n; July 8th, 2008 at 23:34. Reason: Automerged Doublepost

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lord_muad_dib The FORCE is my ally Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: italy Posts: 177	we made a blog to gather all we got so far, and stay tuned there for further improvements very soon! pcsx2-mac.quant0r.com thank you! __________________ CPU: AMD Athlon 64 4000+(939 SanDiego CORE)@2,6Ghrz MoBo: ABIT Fatal1ty AN8 SLi RAM: Corsair 2GB DDR Dual Channel GPU: Geforce 68000 Ultra PCIEX: 16X >> Monitors: LG Flatron F700B 17''CRT <> Hyundai ImageQuest L17T SPU: ABIT internal AudioMAX 7.1 + EAX >> Audio Out: My HiFi HDDs SATA: MAXTOR 200GB x2 HDDs IDE: MAXTOR 80GB DVDRW: Pioneer 108 Connection: ADSL Router Hamlet HDSL 740 @4Mbs/256Kbs OSes: WinXP Pro@SP2 <> GNU/Linux Gentoo <> APPLE Darwin 8.4 <> DOS 6.22

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Zedr0n Registered User Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: UK/London Posts: 35	Ok, breakthrough time. We are bringing you FFXII on pcsx2/mac

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Squall-Leonhart Behind ur girlfriend :D Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 18,446	Nifty work, im sure i've got a few mac friends who'll be happy about this. __________________ VBA-M \| Xtemu \| NGOHQ \| Post Impact Productions \| TNHW \| XBCD 0.2.6 \| Satanic666's Emulator Compiles Don't be a NOOB, READ THE NGEmu/EmuForums Rules of Conduct Need Help with ePSXe? This is your first stop!. If you don't post all the required information, you don't get help. Everytime someone posts a romsite, God kills a beautiful woman.