I was playing around with Moonlight on the Miyoo Mini Plus and if your WiFi connection is strong enough, it may let you play through a decent portion of the PS2 library.
If you need help setting up Moonlight and Sunshine, I have a handy guide here: https://duckyobrien.com/2024/02/28/streaming-pc-games-to-your-miyoo-mini-plus-w-moonlight-sunshine/
In my honest opinion, the Miyoo Mini Plus is not the ideal way to play PS2 games. The screen is a bit on the small side and the lack of dual analog sticks will make some games a Sisyphean task. The WiFi connection is also very weak depending on your handheld or router.
I would choose to play PS2 games any other way but if the Miyoo Mini Plus is the only handheld you have, it’s entirely possible to finish some games, mostly the ones that don’t require using both analog sticks.
To do this, I ran Sunshine on my desktop and used the standalone PCSX2 app. I rebound the PCSX2 controls to match the default Miyoo Mini Moonlight settings. I also changed the PCSX2 keybind for the menu from Escape to ~. This is because the Menu button on the Miyoo Mini Plus is set to Escape and you will bring up the PCSX2 menu every time you press the Miyoo Menu button.
I bound the PCSX2 controls as shown below:
L2 = Q
L1 = E
R2 = P
R1 = T
D-Pad/Left Analog = Arrow Keys
Right Analog = Escape+Arrow Keys (Situational)
Select = M
Start = Enter
Triangle = X
Square = Y
Circle = Space
X = Back Space
L3/R3 = M/Enter (Situational)
A couple of things to note, I sometimes swapped the D-Pad keybindings with the left analog stick. Some games don’t use the D-Pad so this will be necessary.
For some games that require the right analog stick but don’t use the face buttons as much, like Katamari Damacy, I rebound the right analog stick to the same keybinds as the face buttons. You can also bind an analog stick to Escape and the arrow keys for games where you don’t need to use both sticks at the same time.
In my experience, it didn’t work properly but it may work for you.
Some games may require pressing R3 and L3. I bound those buttons to start and select.
As for the experience, it depends on how much the PS2 game relies on the analog sticks. For example, older JRPGs like Disgaea 1 is playable on the Miyoo Mini Plus. Persona 3 worked for the most part as well.
Action games like God of War worked as well until you reached the section where you have to navigate thin wood beams. I found this section to be unplayable. It may work if you can lower the sensitivity of the D-Pad presses but I haven’t fiddled around with it enough.
Games like Katamari Damacy rely heavily on the analog sticks but I managed to make it playable by binding the PS2 left analog stick to the Miyoo D-pad and the PS2 right analog stick to the Miyoo face buttons. This is very uncomfortable to play like this but you can make some progress in the game.
A game like God Hand uses the right analog stick to dodge. Now I tried binding Escape and the arrow keys to be the right analog stick so whenever I hold Menu on the Miyoo and then press the D-Pad it would dodge in game. For some reason the keybinds were reversed so I would have to hold Menu and the D-Pad to move and then just press the D-Pad by itself to dodge. This was very annoying.
I couldn’t figure out why it was behaving this way so I just opted to never dodge. The beginning levels are easy enough to play without dodging but I can’t speak for the later levels. There is an easy mode for the game as well.
The overall experience is not ideal and definitely requires constantly tweaking settings and keybinds to make games playable. It’s more of a novelty but it is indeed a very neat thing to be able to play PS2 games on the Miyoo Mini Plus by streaming to it.
Ducky Obrien 