Dear Maintainer,

The PCSX2 bundled Noto Color Emoji font seems to have been removed and replaced with the system Noto Color Emoji package, which doesn't work.

PCSX2 uses Noto Color Emoji for rendering emoji in its big picture UI using imgui, which does not have the ability to render most emoji fonts.  If you want to replace PCSX2's font with a system font, you need to make sure it's either COLRv0 or SVGinOT.

The emoji font is used by some RA achievements, for displaying emoji in user paths, and for a few icons in the interface.

You can check that your emoji font works by going to settings in big picture mode and scrolling down to the "Reset All Settings" button, which should have a fire emoji as its icon.

(BTW, PCSX2 2.8.x will be replacing the SVGinOT Noto Color Emoji with a COLRv0 build of Twemoji and disabling SVGinOT imgui support.  If you want to use a SVGinOT replacement, you'll need to modify the build to re-enable SVGinOT support for imgui starting with 2.8.x.)

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
pcsx2, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1135027@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Sébastien Noel <twolife@debian.org> (supplier of updated pcsx2 package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:19:00 +0200
Source: pcsx2
Architecture: source
Version: 2.8.2+dfsg-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Games Team <pkg-games-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Sébastien Noel <twolife@debian.org>
Closes: 1135027
Changes:
 pcsx2 (2.8.2+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * New upstream release
   * Do not removed included Emoji font (Closes: #1135027)
   * Use fmtlib v12 code copy, Debian only has v10
   * Use system rapidyaml
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