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The PS2 is the best-selling video game console of all time, having sold over 155 million units worldwide, as confirmed by Sony. A sixth-generation console, it competed with Sega's Dreamcast, Nintendo's GameCube, and Microsoft's original Xbox.Īnnounced in 1999, the PS2 offered backward-compatibility for its predecessor's DualShock controller, as well as its games. It was first released in Japan on March 4, 2000, in North America on October 26, 2000, and in Europe and Australia on November 24, 2000, and is the successor to the original PlayStation, as well as the second installment in the PlayStation console line-up. Want some more emulators for your Mac? We’ve covered SNES, Wii & Gamecube, N64, Nintendo DS, and PS2 before, so check them out.The PlayStation 2 (officially branded as PS2) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. Nearly any game is just a Google search away, and they’re all relatively tiny file sizes (Super Mario World is 45kb!). The legality of game ROM’s are often blurry at best, so you’ll have to find these ROM files on your own. If you already own the games for a physical NES, there’s an argument that you’re entitled to have the ROM because they function as a backup. NES game files are known as ROM’s, and despite being old titles some of the copyrights are still maintained which can put ROM’s into a legal grey area.

You can download Nestopia directly from the developer. Nestopia is a free download and requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later, and I’m running it perfectly in Mac OS X 10.6.6. Playing games is easy, either select them from the file browser in Nestopia, or you can drag them into the app, or once the filetype is associated (.nes ROM), just double click on a ROM file to play it.

It’s called Nestopia, (get it, NEStopia?), and it has all the features you’ve come to expect from a good emulator: stability, freeze states, customizable keyboard controls, adjustable frame rates, and various display tweaks that can even emulate the funky NTSC connection.