How to play on ps2.zooshan.com

Open ps2.zooshan.com/keys. Under 24-hour day pass, enter your name and email address, tick the box, and press Generate 24-hour key.

• The key is shown once. Copy it and keep it somewhere safe; the server stores only a hash and cannot show it again.
• Validity is 24 hours from the moment you generate it, not from first use.
• Your email is not verified and is not a login; it just has to match when you unlock hosting.
• Day passes are currently free. No payment details are asked for.

Go to ps2.zooshan.com. In the Make room for a rematch card, enter the email you used and your hosting key, then press Unlock hosting.

You can also unlock from the Hosting keys page with Activate & open rooms; it does the same thing.

After unlocking, the card changes to Create a room. Give the room a name and press the button. The room page opens with the console on standby.

• This server runs one PS2 room at a time, because PCSX2 needs most of it. The home page shows whether the slot is free; if it is taken, wait for that room to end.
• Each room lasts up to two hours, or until the key that opened it expires.
• One active room per day pass.

In the 01 / The console panel, press Choose a game disc and pick your disc image, then Choose a PS2 BIOS and pick your BIOS dump. Uploading starts at once; the bar shows progress and the status line says when the console is ready.

• Limits: one disc up to 4.7 GB, at most 128 files inside a ZIP. Nested archives, links and unexpected file types are refused. Large discs take a while to upload; keep the tab open.
• Keep the tab open while the upload runs.
• Uploads are private. Without a library passphrase they are deleted when the room ends; with one, they stay in your library (next step). Nobody, including the other player, can download them.

The Your library panel under the upload panel keeps discs and BIOS files with your hosting key’s email, so the next room can use them without another upload.

• Press Keep my uploads and choose a library passphrase (at least 8 characters). Everything you upload from then on is kept.
• Next time, generate a day pass with the same email, open a room, enter the passphrase under Unlock library, and press Use beside the disc and the BIOS. Power on as usual.
• The passphrase is separate from the hosting key and cannot be recovered; without it a new key cannot open the library. The master key needs no passphrase.
• Each library holds up to 12 items and 8 GB. Files unused for 45 days are removed. Remove anything you no longer need with Delete.
• Library files are attached to your console read-only and are never downloadable, by you or anyone else.

Press Touch controls in the controller card. A full pad appears under the picture: shoulder buttons, D-pad, Select, Start, L3 and R3, and the four face buttons. The sticks are keyboard or gamepad only. Turn the phone sideways for a bigger picture, and use fullscreen.

Only you see your touch pad. It sends the same inputs as a physical controller.

In the 02 / The company panel, press Create player 2 invitation. A link appears; press Copy invitation and send it to your friend over any chat you like.

• The link expires after 15 minutes. Create a new one if it runs out; you can also revoke it.
• The first person to open it gets the Player 2 controller. Anyone after that watches, up to the viewer limit you allow.
• The link is private to your room. Only share it with people you want in the room.

When your friend joins, their name appears as Player 2. In the game, choose its own local two-player or VS mode: Player 1 is controller port 1, Player 2 is port 2, exactly as on the real console.

If you want to give the seat to someone else, press Release player 2 seat; the controller goes to the next eligible person in the queue.

The server keeps no game progress after the room ends (only library files), so use the 03 / Pick up later panel. Download save state saves a PCSX2 .p2s file to your device. Next time, start the same disc, power on, then use Restore a save to pick that file.

• A save state belongs to the disc it came from; restoring it on a different game or after an emulator update may not work.
• In-game memory-card saves live inside the emulator state, so download a state after saving in the game.

The host can press Record gameplay in the Save the moment panel. Everyone in the room sees a recording notice. Clips are silent, 320 × 240 at up to 15 frames per second, and stop after 15 minutes.

• Find your clips at Your recordings. They expire 24 hours after they were made, so download what you want to keep.
• A clip is private until you create a share link, which lasts up to one hour.
• Only one recording runs on the server at a time, and it stops itself if the server is under strain.