TheronGuard [he/him] @ TheronGuard @hexbear.net

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Yeah, you can play the game upscaled to any resolution you want and in widescreen, and it looks very nice (apart from the widescreen patch occasionally displaying stuff that was not intended to be seen):

The reason for the fan server only working with the Japanese versions of the games is because the JPN region servers were what the team behind the fan server managed to reverse engineer. The US and European server were killed in 2007 while Capcom kept the Japanese servers going on for 4 more years. There's actually a video about the creation of the fan server on Youtube.

I guess I don't need to sleep if its a weekend

It is, actually. The wiki at obsrv.org has instructions on how to set things up on a real PS2 and in fact recommends it as the most stable option. Not sure if there would be load time shenanigans between a PS2's DVD read speed and emulators running on all sorts of different devices.

http://wiki.obsrv.org/index.php?n=Main.HomePage

It looks like you can also play on a PS3! Neat.

Note that you will need a way to run the patched Japanese isos at the very least, unless you have the original Japanese discs on hand and the region locking isn't an issue.

Remember that you don't need to hard mod your PS2 in this day and age with things like FreeMCBoot.

PCSX2 has a Linux version so you should be good to go. (Steam Deck users can play the games online too, in case any are reading this)

I think I saw someone mention somewhere that the Xbox port of PCSX2 works with online games including the Outbreak fan server, so maybe the Android version does too? 🤔

Edit: Looked into it and netplay was never implemented. It does indeed work on XBSX2 though, according to this post