PCSX2

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

Record

Latest version: 2.6.3
Release date: 28 Jan 2026
Official page: https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2
Package identifier: PCSX2Team.PCSX2

Official downloads

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.

64-bit

innogithub.com · publisher domain

File name: PCSX2-v2.6.3-windows-x64-installer.exe

https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/releases/download/v2.6.3/PCSX2-v2.6.3-windows-x64-installer.exe

SHA-256: 1f022c5fd36fcf968edbf311eb4b87f84988f526d8fe3babda8e07a3dce38171

Verify the file you downloaded

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

Got a different hash, or one you cannot place? Paste it into the hash checker and it will tell you which program and version it belongs to, past releases included.

Download PCSX2 for Mac

The macOS build as Homebrew declares it, with the same treatment as the Windows side: the publisher's own URL and a hash to check it against.

Version on Homebrew: 2.6.3
File name: pcsx2-v2.6.3-macos-Qt.tar.xz
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

How we scored this 96 out of 100

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 7 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

Opens 17 file types

Extensions PCSX2 registers itself to handle.

Is PCSX2 safe to download?

Yes, in the sense we can actually verify: the installer downloads from github.com, which is a domain we have tied to PCSX2 Team.

The installer on this page comes with the SHA-256 PCSX2 Team declared, so you do not have to take our word for it: hash the file you downloaded and compare.

What this does not tell you is whether the software itself is any good, or whether you want what it does once installed. A publisher can ship something you would rather not run and the download is still authentic. We answer the question we can measure and leave the other one to you.

If Windows says “Windows protected your PC” when you run it, that is SmartScreen reporting reputation, not a malware verdict — it shows up on perfectly legitimate software from small publishers and on releases that are simply new. The reverse matters more: no warning does not mean the file was checked.

How the 96/100 score is calculated · why the source matters more than the reputation

Install PCSX2 with winget

Windows ships with a package manager, and this program is in it. The identifier below is the one Microsoft's repository uses, which is also where the download URL and hash on this page come from.

Install

winget install --id PCSX2Team.PCSX2 --exact

Upgrade later

winget upgrade --id PCSX2Team.PCSX2

Why --exact: without it winget matches on name as well as identifier, and a search that returns more than one package makes it stop and ask rather than install. Pinning the identifier is what makes the command safe to put in a script.

Not installing anything, or getting an error back? The commands that actually come up covers upgrading everything at once, what --include-unknown is for, and why winget can be missing from a machine that should have it.

Old versions of PCSX21 with hashes

The version history of PCSX2, each release with the download URL the publisher declared at the time and the SHA-256 to check it against. Useful when an update breaks something and you need to downgrade to a build that worked.

We do not host any of these files and never re-upload them, which is the difference between this and an old-version download site.

2.4.0

released 29 Jun 2025

PCSX2-v2.4.0-windows-x64-installer.exe64-bitofficial URL
24E35A64F0265080A36A77C76D87A22E7DBAA0447D26558AF106AEF63DC42CE6

Publishers take old builds offline without warning, so a link here can stop working even though the hash stays correct forever. If you already have the file, the hash is what matters: it tells you whether what you have is what they published.

Every version on record2

Every PCSX2 version with a published manifest, newest first. The most recent ones are listed above with their file names and hashes.

2.6.3
2.4.0

Similar programs we index

Matched on the categories PCSX2 Team and others declare in their own manifests, so the grouping is theirs rather than ours. Each one has its official URL and hash on the same terms as this page.

More programs we index

Not related to PCSX2 — just other entries, each with its own official URL and published hash.

Where our data comes from

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