PCSX2 Documentation
This page is an attempt to clearly document the workings of the PCSX2 code, to make life easier for those who wish to join the project. I beg any PCSX2 developers to please populate this guide as much as possible.
Introduction for Developers
PCSX2 Developer's Guide
- Code Formatting Guidelines
- Commenting Etiquette
- Contributing To-Do List
- Git Survival Guide
- How to Create Useful and Valid Issues
- WxWidgets Coding Strategies
Articles from the old SVN (To be sorted and updated)
- Passing Settings Between Threads
- Threading Basics
- Threading Advanced
- Supported Languages
- Reverb Engine
- Translation Guide
- Using Poedit
- Chroot and 64-bit Linux
Excerpts from the Developer's Blog
- Virtual Memory: Jul '06
- Nightmare on Floating-Point Street: Aug '06
- 64-bit Recompilation: Oct '06
- PCSX2 Optimization: Jan '07
- Graphics Synthesizer, GPUs and Dual Cores: Aug '07
- So maybe it's about time we explained VTLB: Feb '09
- Events o' Plenty: Jun '09
- Recompilers: All 'dems buzzwords?: Jun '09
- Measuring the Benefits of wxWidgets: Jul '09
- C++ exceptions can be an optimization: Aug '09
- What's clamping? And why do we need it?: Aug '09
- PS2 VU (Vector Unit) Documentation Part 1: Sep '09
- Thread Synchronization: Oct '09
- Thread Counting: Oct '09
- A new kind of fullscreen!: Jan '10
- Introduction to Dynamic Recompilation: Mar '10
- SPU2 is more than just sound!: Mar '10
- The return of the Commandline!: Jun '10
- Advanced memory management: Aug '10
- VirtualAlloc on Linux: Aug '10
- PS2's Programmable DMA: Aug '10
- MSVC 2008 optimizer fail: Sep '10
- Benchmarking Multithreaded PCSX2: Oct '10
- Threading VU1: Aug '11
- Path 3 Masking / Geometry Syncing: Sep '11
- MMU mini-series: Nov '14