Hey, I’ve been trying to emulate some PS2 games recently, but even titles listed as compatible with Play! have pretty bad audio crackling. Earlier this year, LRPS2 was released for Libretro, and since it’s based on PCSX2 (which has much better compatibility), I was wondering if the team might consider switching over to that core instead.
It also looks like Play! hasn’t had an update since December 2024, so it might be worth giving some of the other cores a quick quality pass. Alternatively, it’d be awesome if we could have access to a full version of Libretro, so players could swap out or manage cores themselves for better performance and compatibility.
In my off time, I’m working on external emulator support (by a window capture system), so Tower could hook into any emulator that supports background input.
Through this method I was able to get Dolphin, XEMU, Xenia, and Supermodel working. Tower will launch the emulator when you select the file you want, and also manage closing the emulator while it runs in a background window.
As for LRPS2, I haven’t tried it recently but a couple months ago I tried it and it unfortunately was crashing Tower due to some weirdness in the low-level GPU access we use to hook into the core. I’ll try it again and bump this post when I’m able to.