play! progress report (01/12/2025)
This last month I've lost some data due to upgrading to a newer OS (yes, I was still using Windows 7 for almost the entire time doing the tests, sue me). For some weird reason, even simple notepad text files got corrupted while being loaded into Windows 11, but I was lucky enough to be able to recover some of it during the transition. What I had planned previously still worked with verifying most games that I had already tested in the past, so not a lot of time was lost at least.
All results from checking/re-checking games [11/2025]:
Girl Zone: previously untested, verified as fully playable
Shifters: previously hanging at the press start screen, now reaches in-game
Furry Tales: previously hanging after the first intro screen, now reaches in-game
Frogger: The Great Quest: previously hanging at the first intro screen, now reaches in-game
B-Boy: previously hanging at the first intro screen, now reaches in-game
Hot Shots Golf Fore!: previously hanging before the main menu, now reaches in-game
The Getaway: previously hanging while trying to start a new game, now reaches in-game
Scaler: previously hanging before the main menu, now reaches in-game
Heatseeker: previously hanging at the intro screens, now reaches in-game
Intros and loadables numbers got slightly better, but only a few of those that got promoted to in-game are potentially playable (due to either rendering or performance issues), mainly Frogger and Scaler. Last month of the year I'll focus mostly on games that were never tested, so we can get a better feel for how much % of the actual PS2 library is already playable/broken with the emulator at this point, then I'll make lists of common issues to make sure any change made covers the highest amount of games, so wish me luck and see you all next month /o/
PS: since I had that issue with my older Google account I wasn't able to update the arcade compatibility site, so I'll try to move a copy of the older files to a new host and update that asap
Useful Links
play! site: https://purei.org/
play! NAMCO System 246/256 compatibility list: List
play! repository: https://github.com/jpd002/Play-
play! patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jpd002
