Mainline has a major issue where a hack written for WipeOut causes slowdowns in many games. The PGXP fork adds texture perspective correction, reduced polygon culling, and reduced polygon jitter (more so than mainline PCSX-Reloaded's GTE hack). It is also less accurate than Mednafen or XEBRA, which were previously recommended over it for 2D games, so the only advantage of PCSX-Reloaded now is its speed on older systems that only support OpenGL.

However, increased internal resolution and PGXP are now available in DuckStation and the RetroArch fork of Mednafen. PCSX-Reloaded was once the best choice to play 3D games at higher resolutions and with other enhancements, using the configuration at Recommended PS1 Plugins. Coder linuzappz from Argentina worked on both PCSX & PCSX2 and co-founded at least the latter one with another team member named Shadow from Greece. Official development ceased on September 17, 2003, and development shifted to the new PlayStation 2 emulator, PCSX2. The initial base of the current emulator, PCSX, was first released for the PC on August 31, 2000. It has a completely reworked and modernized GTK2/Glade GUI, integrated plugins, an improved system for classic PSEmu plugins, better configuration tools, support for translation, easy installation, and support for AMD64.

The old PCSX-df branch is a fork of the PCSX PlayStation emulator designed specifically for GNU/Linux (and probably other similar systems). It was based on PCSX-df 1.9, with, in its early times, support for Windows, GNU/Linux and Mac OS X (at the time) as well as many bugfixes and improvements. PCSX-Reloaded is a plugin-based PlayStation emulator created in mid-2009.

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