~*~ PS2ME's HomePage ~*~ :: J2ME on the PlayStation 2 !!!

Welcome!!!

Hi and welcome to my homepage!!! PS2ME is a little project that lets you run those old-school J2ME cellphone games (you know, the ones from your Nokia and Sony Ericsson) right on your PlayStation 2 console. It's built on top of the open-source phoneME Feature virtual machine and the PS2 SDK. Cool huh?? Look around and grab the download below! :-)

Getting started

Download PS2ME-vX.Y.Z.zip from the Releases page — it has everything you need (the standalone .elf is only for updating an existing install and has no menu music).

Extract the ZIP onto a FAT32 USB drive so you end up with this layout:

mass:/PS2ME/PS2ME-vX.Y.Z.elf
mass:/PS2ME/bgm.adpcm        (menu music)
mass:/PS2ME/games/*.jar      (drop your MIDlets here)

Launch the ELF from a homebrew loader (uLaunchELF / wLaunchELF), or open it in PCSX2.
Pick a game and press ✕. Have fun!!!

Launcher controls: D-pad move · ✕ launch · ○ back · △ favorite · □ sort · L1/R1 tabs · L2/R2 page · Select options.

Features

Native launcher — a full-screen 640×448 dashboard with a 4×5 grid of game icons decoded straight from each JAR, plus tabs, an alphabet sidebar, sorting, favorites, and recents.
Landscape, portrait & multi-screen — per-game orientation and resolution overrides, with 11 screen-size presets, so MIDlets built for any phone display correctly with their aspect ratio preserved.
Audio — menu music on a hardware SPU2 voice, the Nokia Sound API, and MMAPI MIDI through an offline-built wavetable synth.
Memory-card saves — MIDlet RecordStore data is saved per game and appears in the console's OSD browser with its own icon and title.
Quality of life — a friendly loading screen, a debug split view, and an opt-in in-game FPS counter.
Open source — built on phoneME Feature and the PS2 SDK, released under the GPL‑2.0 license.

Screenshots

PS2ME launcher: a 4x5 grid of game icons with a details panel — The launcher — a 4×5 grid with icons decoded from each JAR

Friendly loading screen with a progress bar — A friendly loading screen while a game installs

An isometric action game running full-screen — Landscape games use the full screen

A top-down shooter running full-screen — Full-screen top-down action (landscape)

A portrait game title screen, aspect-preserved — Portrait games, aspect-preserved

A run-and-gun game running in portrait — Run-and-gun MIDlet in portrait

The Settings tab with toggles — Settings — recents, favorites, sort, Debug mode, FPS counter

Debug split view: the game on the left, the app log on the right — Debug mode — the game on the left, the full app log on the right

Screenshots captured in the PCSX2 emulator.

Downloads

Get the .zip — it's the complete drop-in package (the ELF, the bgm.adpcm menu music, and a games/ folder). The standalone .elf is just the executable, meant for updating an existing install — on its own it runs but plays no menu music.

Loading releases from GitHub… please wait!

Debug mode

Flip Debug mode on in Settings to turn the launcher into a diagnostics tool — handy on real hardware, where the EE console is not visible:

Split view while a game runs — the game is scaled on the left and the full application log streams on the right.
Storage diagnostics — when no games are found, the empty screen lists the device probes and resolved paths.
FPS counter — an opt-in overlay to check a game’s frame rate.

All of these are off by default, so the everyday experience stays clean.

Build from source

The build runs entirely in Docker (a JDK-8 host image that romizes the class library, plus a PS2 EE cross image that links the ELF). The phoneME source tree and PS2 SDK are external and are not vendored, so builds are produced locally.

docker run --rm -v "$(pwd)":/work -v phoneme_build:/build \
  phoneme-cross bash /work/docker/phoneme-cross/build-release-ps2.sh

See the README for details.