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    Why are there never BIOS's in the ISOs for PS2 games? The emulators need them, so I can't play them on my computer without them. In particular I've been trying to emulate Justice League: Heroes. I've downloaded several ISOs, including two from here, but they never have the BIOS files in them, am I missing something?

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    You should only need three bios'
    I don't emulate this stuff but you may need a PAL, NTSC-U and NTSC-J bios (depending on what region games you're going to use).

    Honestly, expecting uploaders to include a bios is probably the same as expecting them to include an emulator.
    Not all uploaders (and members for that matter) use emulators anyway, some of us prefer real hardware.

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    An iso is a dump of a game not the bios and a bios is not needed to play on a console as the console has a bios built into it

    the reason a bios image is not included with an emulator though is because it is illegal to do so in most countries and coders don't want to be arrested or there software taken down because of legal issues

    a lil site called emuparadise.org has the bios image though

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    Where can I find these BIOS's? And do they include the right ones?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jamezilla View Post
    Where can I find these BIOS's? And do they include the right ones?
    They should be on the main site Zorlon mentioned that.

    But if you want a filehost link, there's one in this thread that you probably should have read before posting in here

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    http://www.emuparadise.me/biosfiles/bios.html

    P.S. yes reading the Read Before Posting thread would of helped thats why it's a read before posting thread

    You only need one PS2 bios image

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    Thank you both, didn't see that read this first thread, btw.

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