PCSX2

Name: PCSX2
Author: PCSX2 Team

by PCSX2 Team · GPLv3

A free and open-source PlayStation 2 (PS2) emulator.

Record

These URLs are the ones PCSX2 Team declares in its own manifest. We do not proxy or shorten them, and we do not host a copy.

innogithub.com · publisher domain

Run this against the file on disk. If the output does not match the hash below, the file is not what PCSX2 Team published. Delete it.

Windows · PowerShell

Get-FileHash "PCSX2-v2.6.3-windows-x64-installer.exe" -Algorithm SHA256

macOS · Linux

shasum -a 256 "PCSX2-v2.6.3-windows-x64-installer.exe"

Expected output

1f022c5fd36fcf968edbf311eb4b87f84988f526d8fe3babda8e07a3dce38171

Version on Homebrew: 2.6.3
Download URL: https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/releases/download/v2.6.3/pcsx2-v2.6.3-macos-Qt.tar.xz
SHA-256: cb7b9e6330f1abf0cf92c94065f7eb983d0fa8affcfe6b0ccb9c2a4ebf067f1a
Install with Homebrew: brew install --cask pcsx2

Signal	Finding	Points
SHA-256 hash published	1 of 1 installers ship a SHA-256 hashWithout a published hash there is no way to prove the file you downloaded is the file the publisher built.	30 / 30
Binary provenance	1 on the publisher's own domainThe strongest signal against a repackaged installer: the file should come from the publisher, not from a mirror nobody vouches for.	35 / 35
Served over HTTPS	1 of 1 over HTTPSAn installer fetched over plain HTTP can be modified in transit.	15 / 15
Release recency	last release about 6 months agoSoftware that has not shipped in years accumulates unpatched vulnerabilities.	11 / 15
Licence declared	GPLv3A declared licence tells you what you are actually allowed to do with the software.	5 / 5

Extensions PCSX2 registers itself to handle.

Every version with a published manifest, newest first. Useful when you need an older build for compatibility.

Windows manifest: github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifests/p/PCSX2Team/PCSX2/2.6.3
macOS cask: formulae.brew.sh/cask/pcsx2