PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 reaches a new milestone: 75% of all PS3 games are now playable on PC

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• dan1101@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Maybe I don’t need to bother fixing my PS3.

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  • PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I only have one because I always wanted to have all 7th gen consoles back in the day but could only have one.

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    • dan1101@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The fat PS3 was a great deal because it could natively play PS2 games as well. I haven’t been into consoles since the fat PS3, they have all gotten worse and worse IMO.

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    • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      7th gen specifically? Any reason why?

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  • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Do it anyway for the skillgain, the e-waste prevention, and bragging rights. 🤙

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  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I was asking about my ps3 and its shitty performance at a retro games store and they had an electronics repair guy that said it probably just needed to be repasted/thermal pads replaced, and quoted $90 for doing it. Makes me want to get into that myself because I already had mine open to clean dust out and though it was kinda stressful, it was also fun and rewarding, and the stress generally comes from the uncertainty.

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    • Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’ve done this and once you know the procedure it’s easy money. You can even sell up for ‘premium’ thermal compound and full dust removal.

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  • insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m in a similar boat, though my current GPU (1050Ti) probably isn’t up to much beyond lighter/2D titles (due to overhead) and those files are a bit heavy/messy to manage.

    I actually have 2 PS3s (my YLoD original w/drive donated to other, a slightly newer model that might have dry paste). Would be nice if I had someone to help with this (my OG has stuff on it*), then again I could do some of it myself I just am not bothering to do so. I did play through a few of my old games as-is on the newer PS3.

    * including LBP1 water DLC that was discontinued and wasn’t included w/GotYE. Though due to storage constraints and lack of planning it’s very possible there’s media I purchased that I deleted at some point

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• tunetardis@piefed.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s impressive.

  At my work, we had these cell processor-based blade servers for a while. Basically the same chips as in a PS3 except they could handle double-precision floats. We wanted to use them for scientific modelling, but gave up eventually. They were such a bitch to program! I can only imagine emulating them must’ve been a nightmare.

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  • Aralakh@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Whoa what do you do? That sounds super fascinating!

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    • tunetardis@piefed.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s a small company that does mineral surveying, but we’ve done a lot of R&D in the past that ranged from designing our own survey instrumentation to writing geophysical modelling software. The Cell thing was for the latter.

      IIRC the Cell processor was built around an IBM PowerPC, but that wasn’t meant to do all the heavy lifting. Rather, it was supposed to be farmed out to these other processing nodes (I forget what they were called), almost like using a GPU for general computation. Now, the IBM consultant sold us on the Cell, saying they had an OpenCL library that would make all this much easier and hide the hardware details. LOL!

      First of all, it was a 32-bit library. Maybe fine for a 32-bit console like the PS3, but our blades had 16 GB of RAM and it wasn’t going to cut it. So I had to dig into the guts of the architecture to get anything usable and, long story short, a summer went by and I little to show for my efforts.

      Years later, we eventually got the program running on Threadrippers and that worked out much better!

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  • BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What was the justification to buy them in the first place?

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    • tunetardis@piefed.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I guess you could say the Cell was as an 8-core CPU (well, 9, if you include the PowerPC in the middle) at a time when such things were unheard of, at least in the consumer space. So the theoretical performance if you could max out all those cores was through the roof. I have no doubt that’s what drew Sony to them for their next gen console.

      But whereas all the cores of a modern 8-core chip can access the same RAM, in the Cell, only the PowerPC could access the main memory and each core had its own dedicated internal RAM, meaning you had to load both code and data into all the cores laboriously yourself using asynchronous DMA requests before executing the code, and then sync the results back using more DMA. It was a bit like GPU programming, I suppose, though within the cores, it felt more like a CPU in terms of the instruction set and what not, so kind of a hybrid approach I guess?

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• WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Unfortunately the InFamous games are still just “in-game”.

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  • tobz619@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They’re both beatable, only issue is poor performance and glitchy graphics on Cole’s face at high resolutions.

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• samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I wish Infamous 2 didn’t require a NASA computer to run well.

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  • JustDorky@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That franchise was really ahead of its time… Graphics, mechanics, everything…

    And PoP!

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    • tobz619@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Finished infamous 2 again earlier this year: it really is a gem!

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• Mac@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I should build an emulation machine out of spare parts…

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• invertedspear@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Might want to get into this. Would this emulator allow me to play off disks in my Blu-ray drive? Or will I need to find/make disk images?

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  • insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Would this emulator allow me to play off disks in my Blu-ray drive?

    Signs point to no, at least due to DRM most blu-ray drives aren’t capable of reading PS3 discs. Technically possible if you buy a specific drive (or maybe altering a drive?), otherwise you probably would need a PS3 with custom firmware to rip your own games.

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  • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You’ll need to rip and decrypt.

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• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  But is Demons Souls one of them?

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  • firepenny@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yep, just played It last week.

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  • Pops@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yes, it is listed as playable !

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    • zikzak025@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Hopefully the Bluepoint remaster can be made playable on PC someday, too. I’ll never forgive Sony for killing it and closing the studio down.

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  • boke@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yep! Not only that but there is working multiplayer too!

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  • RaoulDook@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yep like the other said it works. I played it about a year ago on RPCS3 on both Mac and Windows 10. Got up to the Old King Alliant boss fight and got stuck again… then started playing Bloodborne on my PC instead with ShadPS4

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    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      …I was not aware Bloodborne had been emulated. I’ve never gotten to play it as I refuse to buy a console for just one game.

      Awesome!

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• noxypaws@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  glad to see Tokyo Jungle on there! hopefully someday I can find a rip

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  • LikeableLime@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oh I loved Tokyo Jungle! What a fun and delightful game. Iirc you started off as a Pomeranian and worked your way up to bigger and badder animals right?

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    • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Pomeranian for the carnivores and a deer for the herbivores if I remember correctly

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• borovicka@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This is really impressive, but it’s also a bit of a shame about the timing since so many great games from PS3 were already ported to PC, like Bloodborne, RDR, Last of Us or Uncharted

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  • Kraiden@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Only Uncharted 4 is available on PC, none of the PS3 era games are available, sadly. I haven’t tried on the most recent version of the emulator, but:

    Uncharted 1: I’ve completed, it’s basically flawless Uncharted 2: I got right to the final level, but the demon hallucination things crash the game Uncharted 3: I’ve completed, but it crashed a LOT, and there are several janky spots with crazy slow downs etc. like the ship graveyard. It’s also a bit annoying to get running in the first place. The recommended settings are actually required in my experience. Doesn’t work without them.

    I love me some Uncharted! Emulator is going to be the best way to play them soon. It’s already superior imo because I was able to set up gyro aim

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  • Rawrosaurus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    When was Bloodborne ported to PC?

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    • SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Or on the PS3 for that matter?

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    • borovicka@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Oh shit, you’re right

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• mecen@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Just saying for most of these games emulation is probably pointless if game has PC port.

  They should focus on exclusives and games with lacking PC port.

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  • creamfresh@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They don’t work so you can play (pirated) games, they work because building a near-complete emulator is demanding and satisfying work.

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