I finally got a ps3 controller so i could test ffxii for a bit in-game. I’ve also updated to latest pcsx2 playground svn so hoped it would be a bit faster. Well, it did get a bit faster but ffxii is still pretty intensive so i got around 20fps. As in it sometimes got up to 50fps and sometimes dropped to 10fps
Here’s some video - mind you, the video makes it around 2 times slower so the speeds aren’t really representative.

tweaked some more and some promising results - ffxii + aa4x + 800×600