pcsxr VS Play-

Even pre-Duckstation, PCSXR-PGXP was a way better choice than ePSXE.

Wrote their own

Yeah, Duckstation (standalone) is at this point pretty much a full-on proper desktop "successor" to PCSXR-PGXP, I'd say. All the functionality you'd want (including PGXP) is there, and works well.

If they're talking about iCatButler's fork of PCSXR-PGXP, it's really not bad at all. Before DuckStation was viable, I was building it from source in Visual Studio 2019 and it always worked very well for me.

PCSXR-PGXP is definitely objectively better than ePSXE, since it's effectively the same thing at the end of the day, but with a more up-to-date codebase and added PGXP support.

I’m trying to enable JIT in Play! emulator using Azula to patch the .ipa with TrollStoreJitEnabler, but it gives an error: “couldn’t copy dylib to workspace”. Azula is a mobile clone of Azule that should work on jailed devices (but it doesn’t atm), can someone jailbroken or with a Mac please try to patch it with Azule instead?

You can read the progress report and see the commit history on GitHub

there's an interesting project called "Play! emulator" tho https://purei.org/ Using HLE emulation (no bios and mimicking hardware, much better) and even modern rendering with vulkan... but... it's not ready yet for the average user yet (As of today only 37.34% of the compatibility list is labeled as "Playable", so those game run with minor issues or smoothly)

Consider also starting usingPlay! , it's not on par with the compatibility as Aether but hey it's ad-free at least for now, I hope and will get proper updates.

The biggest problem of Play! is that it is impossible to Google it. The website's domain purei.org doesn't connect to Play! very well... Maybe the project needs a more unique name...

Try "Play!". https://purei.org/

Did some searching and apparently apple doesn't allow emulators on the app store. Now, for PS2 emulators, Play! is the only one I know of that is developing for iOS.