So you want to contribute to PCSX2? Great

As a first step, please review these links as they'll help you understand how the development of PCSX2 works.

Just Starting Out
Issue Reporting
Pull Request Guidelines
General Documentation And Coding Strategies
Tasks

Just Starting Out

If you're unfamilar with git, check out this brief introduction to Git
How to build PCSX2 for Windows
How to build PCSX2 for Linux

Issue Reporting

How to write a useful issue

Pull Request Guidelines

The following is a list of general style recommendations that will make reviewing and merging easier:

Commit Messages
- Please try to prefix your commit message, indicating what area of the project was modified.
  - For example gs: message....
  - Looking at the project's commit history will help with keeping prefixes consistent overtime, there is no strictly enforced list.
- Try to keep messages brief and informative
- Remove unnecessary commits and squash commits together when appropriate.
  - If you are not familiar with rebasing with git, check out the following resources:
    - CLI - https://thoughtbot.com/blog/git-interactive-rebase-squash-amend-rewriting-history
    - GUI (SourceTree) - https://www.atlassian.com/blog/sourcetree/interactive-rebase-sourcetree
Code Styling and Formatting
- Consult the style guide
- Run clang-format using the configuration file in the root of the repository
  - Visual Studio Setup - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/clangformat-support-in-visual-studio-2017-15-7-preview-1/
  - IMPORTANT - if you are running clang-format on unrelated changes (ie. formatting an entire file), please do so in a separate commit.
    - If you cannot scope your clang-format to just your changes and do not want to format unrelated code. Try your best to stick with the existing formatting already established in the file in question.

General Documentation And Coding Strategies

Tasks

Issues