How to get PlayStation 1 or PlayStation 2 BIOS without a console

If you want to emulate PS2 or PS1 games, you will need a BIOS. Here’s a quick and easy way to get one legally.


The PlayStation 2 is a nostalgic console for many people, but it can be hard to emulate. If you don’t tweak your console and flash the BIOS, you won’t be able to emulate games by the likes of AetherSX2. Now, it turns out that it’s possible to download and extract BIOS from official PS3 firmware with a little bit of work.


These steps are written for Windows, but they are quite similar for Linux as well. This is important because flashing the PS2’s BIOS requires something like FreeMcBoot, but dumping games can be done with most traditional disc readers on a PC.


what do you need

  • Internet connectionUnless you want to burn it from a PS3 disc, you will need the internet to download the PS3 emulator and PS3 firmware file.
  • RPCS3: RPCS3 is an open source PlayStation 3 emulator that allows you to pull PS2 BIOS files from the firmware.
  • PS3 firmware PUP file: You can Download this from Sony.
  • BIOS firmware prompt: You can download this from Internet Archive.

Step 1: Install RPCS3 and download the PS3 firmware

RPCS3

You will need to download and install RPCS3 to place the PlayStation 3 firmware, which contains the BIOS files needed to execute PS1 and PS2 games. The emulator will allow us to interact with that firmware and pull in those files.

  1. install RPCS3 and download your PS3 firmware.
  2. click file in the upper left and select Firmware installation.
  3. Go to PS3UPDAT. PUP file.
    BIOSClaim1

Step 2: Run the BIOS firmware prompt

This part will extract the actual BIOS files from your PS3 firmware.

  1. Close RPCS3 and extract the BIOS firmware prompt zip file.
  2. copy firmware_bios_claim.bat And firmware_bios_claim. ps1 to your RPCS3 folder.
  3. Being firmware_bios_claim.bat Then click Run anyway.
  4. On Linux, copy a file firmware_bios_claim.sh file instead and execute it in the folder.
  5. If it works, you should see the following.
    BIOSClaim2

Step 3: Copy the BIOS files to your device of choice

Your BIOS files should now be available in your RPCS3 folder.

BIOSClaim3

You can use PS1 BIOS for DuckStation and PS2 emu BIOS for emulator like AetherSX2. You may need to enable fast boot to run games, but this is a quick and easy way to get a working BIOS for your PlayStation 1 or PlayStation 2 for emulation.


source: EZOnTheEyes

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