Small budget home theatre pc that can handle ps2 emulator

Hi I want to build a custom gaming rig small enough and efficient enough to run as a home theatre pc but run a ps2 emulator. do you have any advice I hope to use an amd processor and if I can find one a socket a mother board with pci-e slots (I love athlons so overclockable)

From my experience the PS2 is not yet emulatable properly and with a large enough games compatibily to warrant it on a serious scale, Unless something has seriously changed since i last tried PCSX2, which is largely considerd to be the most advanced PS2 Emulator.
Most computers these days will be more than capable of Emulating PS1, N64 and previous consoles definitly. I have not tried a Dreamcast emulator, but this will probably be emulatable on most computers too.

Ill try the latest PCSX2 (any excuse ^^) and report back later, see how it is these days.

what kind of emulators can I run with athlon xp OC'ed to 3.2 ghz somewhere around that, with 2gig or more of ram 7800gs graphics card. also if anyone knows it would be nice to know what kind of power suply going for under 400 watts hopping around 280 whats using a mcro atx mother board most likely

Thats nice Shrex, that game does look playable, Awesome! But ive tried a few games that are listed as playable on the website from my extensive PS2 collection (PAL) and not found one that comes close to playing it on the playstation yet.
Comprare that with emulating other systems, PS1, N64, SNES, Mega Drive etc etc, you really wouldnt know, in some cases games even get enhanced by emulators through the use of upscaling, texture filtering and anti-aliasing.

Smartkid95:

That computer should be able to emulate any system from the 20th Century
And all portables, maybe not the PSP and DS though. but Certainly the Game Boy Advance.

You might be able to emulate some PS2 games with your gaming rig, as the video posted in this thread would suggest.
However to get any where close the PS2, i would just buy one. Modchip it if you have to. .
That way you can build a lesser PC to handle other emulation and movies and whatever else you will want it to do. Like the one you mentioned.

Shrex, could you please enlighten me to these plugins, ive been using the recomended settings and plugins provided in the guide on the forums of PCSX2's website. Tekken Tag Tournament i could get to the game, but none of the characters loaded, or anything 3D for that matter. so the game was not playable. Tekken 5 causes the emulator to crash when reading the memory card.

Gran Turismo 3. yeah i could play it, but with graphical glitches, random lag and choppy sound, id rather play it on my PS2.

Timesplitters: PCSX2 froze on loading.

The Getaway: Probably not on their "Playable" list, ran at 6FPS. *** loads of DMA errors in the monitor.

Shrex i have to ask you, are you watching idealistic Youtube videos of PS2 emulation, or are you seriously experinecing diffrent results to me. Don't get me wrong, i REALLY want PS2 emulation to be a reality, there is so many good games on PS2, and being able to play them with the enchanced graphical tweaks and decreased loading times that emulators can bring would be fantastic. However at this moment in time, i could not replace my PS2 with an emulator, like you could with your PS1, N64, SNES, Gameboy etc etc etc.

The only games I'd play would be smackdown vs. raw and a few others that aren't yet ported