PCSX2 Emulator Operations

Identify the build and requested operation: command construction, ELF/disc boot, debugging, capture, patches, textures, or source build.

Read [commands and data paths][ref-1] before constructing launches. Use single-hyphen options and positional disc images. -disc selects a physical drive. Pair -statefile with a boot target in the examined parser.

The command builder prints POSIX shell text without launching. Construct state-file-plus-image and ELF-plus-image combinations directly.

Use -datapath with a disposable directory and copied fixtures. Do not combine it with -portable, which overrides it. Check copied settings for paths to ordinary saves.