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**''Enable Host Filesystem'': This item will enable or disable the file system extension the may be used by homebrew developers load the files from your machine. See some [http://code.google.com/p/pcsx2/issues/detail?id=1238 more information] if you're interested.
**''Enable Host Filesystem'': This item will enable or disable the file system extension the may be used by homebrew developers load the files from your machine. See some [http://code.google.com/p/pcsx2/issues/detail?id=1238 more information] if you're interested.
**''Shutdown'': This item will shut down the current game you are playing and reset PCSX2 (it will not close PCSX2 itself).
**''Shutdown'': This item will shut down the current game you are playing and reset PCSX2 (it will not close PCSX2 itself).
**''Exit'': This item will closes the emulator.
**''Exit'': This item will close the emulator.


*'''CDVD menu''' this menu contains options for PCSX2 internal ISO loader.
*'''CDVD menu''' this menu contains options for PCSX2 internal ISO loader.
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**''ISO'', ''Plugin'' and ''No Disc'' items: You can only select one of the three options. Choose ''ISO'' if you want an internal ISO loader to boot your ISO image (you cannot play off the real DVD disk this way), choose ''Plugin'' if you prefer to use a plugin for this task (remember that plugin needs to be configured before use, see [[#CDVD plugins|CDVD plugin]]). ''No Disc'' option will allow you to run only BIOS (as if you started PS2 console without inserting any DVD). You can configure your language in BIOS options before playing some games that may use BIOS to determine your language preferences.
**''ISO'', ''Plugin'' and ''No Disc'' items: You can only select one of the three options. Choose ''ISO'' if you want an internal ISO loader to boot your ISO image (you cannot play off the real DVD disk this way), choose ''Plugin'' if you prefer to use a plugin for this task (remember that plugin needs to be configured before use, see [[#CDVD plugins|CDVD plugin]]). ''No Disc'' option will allow you to run only BIOS (as if you started PS2 console without inserting any DVD). You can configure your language in BIOS options before playing some games that may use BIOS to determine your language preferences.


'''Config menu'''
'''Config menu''' this menu will allow you to access plugins' configurations and core emulation settings (all of these options were described above)
*''Emulation Settings'': Will open the Emulation Settings screen which we described in the [[#Core_configuration|Core Settings]] section of this guide.
*''Emulation Settings'': Please refer to [[#Emulation Settings (Core configuration)|Emulation Settings]].
[[image:MemcardManager.png|300px|thumb|left|The Memory Card manager]]
[[image:MemcardManager.png|300px|thumb|left|The Memory Card manager]]
*''Memory cards'': Will open the [[Memcard|memcard]] manager:
*''Memory cards'': Will open the [[Memcard|memcard]] manager able to manipulate your virtual memcards:
**By clicking browse you can specify a custom folder from which PCSX2 will try loading its memory cards.
**You can specify a custom folder for memory cards using ''browse'' button.
**Select any one memcard from the list to have the Duplicate,Rename,Delete and Eject buttons available. Duplicate creates a copy of the selected memcard, Rename changes its filename, delete deletes it and **Eject removes it from the assigned slot.
**''Open in Explorer'' will open the selected folder in Windows Explorer (to easily access its contents).
**Select any empty port to have the Create button enabled. By clicking it you will see the create new memcard dialog, where you can type the filename and select between 8, 16, 32 and 64mb for the memcard's size. As the notes say, the larger the memcard size the more chances there are of failing to work with various games so be aware that '''some games will NOT be able to save in large memcards'''. Check "Enable NTFS compression when creating this card" to use NTFS compression on the file, saving you some hard disk space. Highly recommended to have this checked.
**Selecting a memcard from the list will allow you to ''Duplicate'', ''Rename'' or ''Delete'' it.
**Select any memcard in the -Unused- list to enable the Insert button, which will bring out a dialog for you to choose in which port you want to insert the selected memcard.
**''Eject'' button is available when you select one of the two ''active'' memcards. ''Ejecting'' memcard will not delete its contents it will only make the card inactive disallow PS2 games to use it in any way. To ''insert'' card in one of two available virtual card slots, select a disabled card, press ''Insert'' button and choose a virtual port to insert your card (any memcard already in this part will be automatically ''ejected'' and disabled).
**Auto-Eject Memcards when loading save states: Description is in the GUI, recommended to be checked.
**To ''create'' a new card you can select '''<nowiki>[-- Unused cards --]</nowiki>''' slot and press ''Create'' button. You will need to specify your new card's name and size ('''8Mb''' is a recommended option because some older games will not be able to use large memory cards). ''Use NTFS file compression'' will create a file with NTFS ''compress'' flag (it will save some of your HDD space but considering the midget card size by today's standards it will not make any noticeable difference).
**''Auto-Eject Memcards when loading save states'' option will momentarily eject and reinsert both selected memcards every time you load savestate while playing. This will avoid such problems as memcard corruptions if the game tightly synchronizing some internal variables with memcard contents. Ejecting it will force the game to re-index the card contents avoiding possible desynchronization. Some games however (ex. [[Guitar Hero]]) do not like this technique. You'll have to uncheck this option in case you encounter savestates loading problems.
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*''Plugin/BIOS selector'': Please refer to [[#The Component Selector (Plugins, BIOS and folders configuration)|this part]] of the guide for more information on this menu item. It will allow you to configure all plugins in one dialog, but if you rather want to reconfigure a certain plugin you may prefer to use the next sub-menus -- ''Video (GS)'', ''Audio (SPU2)'', ''Controllers (PAD)'', ''Dev9'', ''USB'' or ''Firewire''. They will allow you to quickly select (or configure) for example PAD plugin or select [[#ZeroGS|ZeroGS]] instead of [[#GSdx|GSdx]] when game demands it.
*''Multitap 1'' and ''Multitap 2'': These items will allow you to use up to 8 controllers through the multitap support (up to 4 for one PAD port). Prior to enabling these options however you will have to configure multitap in the ''[[#LilyPad|Lilypad]]'' plugin. Multitap support does not work with all games yet, but most games should be fine.
*''Clear all Settings'': This item will delete all configured settings in all plugins, all core settings will be reset to their default values and the ''[[#Running PCSX2 for the first time|First Time Configuration Wizard]]'' will be open. Use this option as a last resort if your game started behaving abnormally and you are unable to find and reverse your misconfiguration. Otherwise '''stand clear''' of it because it may cost you a lot of time which you spent on PCSX2 configuration. Fortunately, it will show the confirmation dialog before proceeding.


*''Plugin/BIOS selector'': Will open the Plugin/BIOS selector screen where you can change plugins, BIOS used and folders which we described at the start of this guide.
The follwing entries will open the configuration screen for the selected plugin, respectively (Video/Audio/Pad/Dev9/USB/Firewire).
*''Video (GS)''
*''Audio (SPU2)''
*''Controllers (PAD)''
*''Dev9''
*''USB''
*''Firewire''
Multitap section:
*''Multitap 1'': Will enable Multitap 1. You also have to enable multitap in the Lilypad input plugin for it to work. Does not work with all games yet, but most should be fine.
*''Multitap 2'': Will enable Multitap 2. You also have to enable multitap in the Lilypad input plugin for it to work. Does not work with all games yet, but most should be fine.
*''Clear all Settings'': Will clear all saved settings restoring them to defaults and opens the First Time Configuration Wizard.


'''Misc menu'''
'''Misc menu'''
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