Want to Play SWBFII Online on the PlayStation 2? Start Here!
Posted on Feb 13th 2025 19:41:02 in PlayStation 2, Guides, Articles
Star Wars: Battlefront II is one of the best games ever made, as such its natural to want to play it the way it was originally intended. If you have a PlayStation 2 sitting in your closet (better yet already hooked up and ready to go) or have a PC capable of running PCSX2 decently enough, it is simple enough to get setup and playing Star Wars: Battlefront II online with other superfans.
To start, if you are playing on original PlayStation 2 hardware (which I personally recommend) you can follow this simple guide to get your PlayStation 2 setup for online play on the SWBFSpy servers.
If you are going to be using the PCSX2 emulator to play you can follow this guide to get setup.
If you are using PCSX2 you will already be using a backup copy (also called an .iso) of the game. I do very much recommend that on a PlayStation 2 you use some method to boot OpenPS2Loader to play a backup copy of the game so that you can use the Unofficial DLC Mod which adds the Xbox DLC content to the PlayStation 2 version of the game. You can follow this guide to learn to how to modify your personal backup copy of the game to add the mod. Note that the mod retains full compatibility with the original version of the game.
Once you do get online I recommend you join the Star Wars Battlefront PS2 Discord server in order to keep apprised on when game nights will be hosted to ensure that you can play with as many people as possible.
I host a permanent server for Star Wars: Battlefront II on the PlayStation 2 through NFO Servers. The server is named SWBFII.COM Official [PS2] and can be found on GameTracker for seeing if players are online. Occasionally this server will use the Xbox DLC maps but by default it only uses stock maps.
The community that still persists around this game is always looking for new players, and while there is also a community for the PlayStation 4 and 5 version of the Classic Collection that you can find on our Discord page the PlayStation 2 version of the game will always be my favorite.
If you are interested in playing please join the Discord server above. If you have any questions you can leave a comment below or make a post in our forums.