Ty
Software Engineer at PCSX2
Ontario, Canada
Summary
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RockstarTy is a software engineer based in Ontario, Canada with seven years of hands-on development experience and a steady appetite for code. He contributes to notable open-source projects like the PCSX2 PlayStation 2 emulator, where he improved CD/DVD emulation and low-level system call handling—work that underscores his comfort with systems-level and embedded-like challenges. Equally comfortable day and night as a "software developer by day, software developer by night," he brings pragmatic problem-solving to backend engineering tasks. His contributions demonstrate attention to edge-case behavior and emulator fidelity, suggesting a meticulous approach to reverse-engineering and protocol implementation.
7 years of coding experience
Github Skills (5)
system-calls10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
emulation10
assembly7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
PCSX2/pcsx2
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
PCSX2 - The Playstation 2 Emulator
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:381 reviews, 107 commits, 501 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Ty contributed to the PCSX2 PlayStation 2 emulator by implementing and refining core features related to the CDVD (CD and DVD drive) emulation. This included implementing a Mechacon command to read console temperature, which returned a fixed value, and implementing mechacon command 0xEF, which read console temperature. They also implemented features related to syscall handling for the IOP and enhanced the functionality of the IOP interpreter. The user’s work focused on improving the emulator's CDVD emulation, and PS2 system call handling.
playstation-2cppemulatorps2emulation
F0bes/biosdrain
Jul 2022 - Nov 2022
PS2 BIOS dumper
Contributions:2 releases, 3 reviews, 51 commits in 4 months
dumperps2bios
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