After more than 7 months of hard work, I'm finally releasing Iris for anyone to try out! It's been a pretty long time and since Iris can now actually run games, I decided it was time to make a release.
Warning
Please bear in mind that Iris is currently VERY early in development and even though it can boot and play games, they will ALWAYS run at very low framerates. The PlayStation 2 is a very complex and demanding console so until I write a JIT and hardware renderer, full speed won't be possible.
Funnily enough, it was only very recently that I fixed a DMAC bug that was keeping a lot of games from booting, and now this opens up a ton of potential to further debug and fix other issues, which may lead to even more games to boot. There's still a lot of work to be done, especially in the optimization department. I'm really looking forward to continue working on this project and advancing PlayStation 2 emulation!