Serious warnings 2 confirmed warnings. Checked: 400 reviews, the Android app’s code, the store listing and the privacy label.
From our automated analysis, 31 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 6.3.2 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-31 .
The store currently lists version 6.3.2, updated 2025-11-23.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
The fastest PS2 emulator in global. The only PS2 emulator on Android. Just like using PPSSPP emulator to run PSP games on the smartphone, you can also use the DamonPS2 emulator to run PS2 video games. The DamonPS2 emulator can smoothly run PS2 video games on Snapdragon 835\845 smartphones (such as Samsung Galaxy S9\S8\Note8) and is compatible with more than 90% of PS2 games (with a few graphics bugs).
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Compatibility :
In the 13965 PS2 games, DamonPS2 emulator can run more than 90% of PS2 games (with few graphics bugs). And, DamonPS2 emulator is perfectly compatible with more than 20% of PS2 games.…
From the developer’s store description.
For developers and the curious
The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Findings that met the published evidence standard.
The store privacy disclosure (5 entries) names no tracking or advertising use, but the package ships 3 advertising/tracking SDKs: Firebase Analytics, Google Mobile Ads (AdMob / Ad Manager), Meta (Facebook) SDK
Tracking or advertising SDKs are present in the package that the store's own privacy disclosure does not account for.
Aggressive ad load: raised by 13 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 31 reviews we read)
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
Facts that add context without being a charge.
Requests 4 sensitive permissions (ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION, ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION, READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, READ_PHONE_STATE); the median for 697 scanned apps in Action is 0
The package requests substantially more of the device's sensitive permissions than the typical app in its category. This is a measurement, not an accusation: a permission is granted because a feature needs it, and a wide request list is a reason to look rather than a finding on its own.
Package artefact
Appworthy
sha256:df900630858fbd8b6bc7f883d57c891e9934e3a0bc14459bef93a51191f53ba4Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
Sells a subscription in-app but ships no cancel or manage-subscription text of its own, leaving the store's settings as the only exit
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
Package artefact
sha256:df900630858fbd8b6bc7f883d57c891e9934e3a0bc14459bef93a51191f53ba4Sells a randomised reward ("4 free coins (after watch free AD video)") and states no drop rates or odds anywhere in the app's own text
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app sells randomised rewards — crates, chests, packs, pulls — and states no drop rates or odds anywhere in its own text, so what the money buys is unknowable before paying.
Package artefact
sha256:df900630858fbd8b6bc7f883d57c891e9934e3a0bc14459bef93a51191f53ba4The app's own text says: "After the submission is successful, the average score calculated by the server will be displayed."
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.
Package artefact
sha256:df900630858fbd8b6bc7f883d57c891e9934e3a0bc14459bef93a51191f53ba4The app's own text says: "Enabling GamePad is a paid feature. Please pay to unlock this feature."
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
Package artefact
sha256:df900630858fbd8b6bc7f883d57c891e9934e3a0bc14459bef93a51191f53ba4The app's own text says: "Continue as guest"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
Package artefact
sha256:df900630858fbd8b6bc7f883d57c891e9934e3a0bc14459bef93a51191f53ba4The app's own text says: "Download completed"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own copy describes working without a connection — offline mode, downloading for offline use, or content saved for later. Shown because readers filter on it; it is a feature, not a fairness property, and never counts for or against an app.
Package artefact
sha256:df900630858fbd8b6bc7f883d57c891e9934e3a0bc14459bef93a51191f53ba4400 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
i put u 5 stars at the beginning as encouraging but after i purchase premium version from the free original version i can't login now with my email and I lost my purchase and can't get my money back, it seems more a scam like an emulator…
took me 30 minutes of figuring out, had to learn what a bios was, and whenever I thought it was over and had everything together I finally went to play the game, to my surprise you have to watch an ad every single time you load a game…
Best ps2 em out there wish the free version wasn't so restricted though :( edit: holy! I wrote this review 7yrs ago. anyway this emulator is full of ads and a lot of stuff is locked behind a paywalll. I would not recommend it over free…
A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.
“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.
Android package 6.3.2, scanned 31 Oct 2026. These describe that package, not the current store version.
Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
This analysis describes version 6.3.2 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-31 .
The store currently lists version 6.3.2, updated 2025-11-23.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
No release notes were provided for this version.
ps2-emulator-damonps2-ppssppAssessed 2026-10-31 from 400 user reviews, the app's package, the store listing and its privacy label.
What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.
This assessment is produced automatically. Six independent signals are read — user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text, the app manifest, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.
No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every recurring plan the store lists is named as weekly, the term read from the purchase names, with a list cut off at the store’s 10-item maximum not assessed; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.
There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.
Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.
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