RPCS3 PlayStation 3 emulation on the PC is seriously impressive | MVG
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- RPCS3 is a PlayStation 3 emulator for Windows, Linux and soon on the Mac. In this episode we take a look at the advancements this emulator has seen in the past year with some seriously impressive results.
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It does sadden me that these people have made so much progress in 2-3 years while Sony is basically ignoring backwards compatibility for anything that isn't the PS4.
Who cares, at the end of the day PC is the superior platform.
Consoles have been edging towards obsolete for many years now. The only reason why anybody would still consider purchasing one in 2022 is because of the market aberrations on the GPU market.
Consoles are pieces of anti consumer crap filled with DRM. No need to play on them when you can just fucking dump the ISO and play it on the PC like a normal person.
Edit: Abberations to aberrations
That's because there's no money in it for them, and Sony likes money above all else.
I have come to the sad conclusion that even though eventually...All game libraries past and present will be available for digital purchase. It will take years if not decades to sort out the copyrights. Which is a huge, painfully slow, legal nightmare.
That is why I've decided to jailbreak and mod my retro systems. Download whatever older titles I want and store'em on a harddrive.
PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan logic: Why would anybody play that old games?
That’s why you keep your older consoles
I have massive respect for the people that work on this in their free time. It must take a stagering amount of knowledge and research.
For real! I know it was hell trying to get this thing to run.. Congratulations 👏🏿
You mean time…
They do have a patreon and get enough to justify putting some hours into it ;)
I just recently got into emulating PS2 games for my wife. Now that I've got RPCS3 running Katamari Forever, I'm going to get extra brownie points!
@Pilisa Ela Shut up, bot
I remember when people said PS3 emulation would be impossible. Amazing to see how far it's come in such a short time.
who were those people? i think you need to hang out with smarter people
@@nil0bject No he doesn't. There where actually dumbasses who claimed that because Cell architecture emulation wouldn't be possible for decades 😂
I mean... that was being said ir circa 2007-2008, so it did took about 15 years. Not that it's a bad thing, but it was the matter of finding developers who could handle it.
@@jothain It took longer than a decade, so they were right.
The PS3 was crazy powerful for it's time, and multiple core threading was barely a thing. I don't blame them for thinking it would take forever to emulate.
This team never ceases to amaze. The progress has been insane, especially for possibly the most obtuse console architecture of all time. I figurede it'd be years before we got anywhere close to this.
Agreed. "Obtuse" Is an euphemysm compared to the mess the PS3 was in tech architecture
It has been 16 years since the PS3 launched. It has been years.
@@tigerhead85 True but as stated and incredibly overcomplex and messy architecture, that makes this emulator harder to develop than a current console like the Nintendo Switch.
In fact I’m quite sure is harder than PS4, Xbox One, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series, that doesn’t mean we’ll have soon PS5 emulators nor will require less power although the PS3 emulator needs stronger CPUs that what you need for an eventual PS4 and Xbox One emulators, the CPUs on those consoles were like two cores of current CPUs, is funny to see that the recommended CPUs for PS3 emulation are 8 Cores Zen 2, that’s what we’ve got in PS5 and Xbox Series.
The PS4 could never under any circumstances no matter how optimized and source material would use to make it, run a playable PS3 emulator, unlike the Xbox One who was capable of running Xbox 360.
If Sony wants full retrocompatibility with PS5 they can do it, they have no excuses, but unfortunately I don’t think will happen, although I would love to be wrong there
@@Zontar82 i just said today the ps3 is 16 years old and the most powerful cpus still struggled to run it
@@Pro720HyperMaster720 You do realize that emulators can't use any original Sony code etc and have to take the long way around. If Sony engineers wanted to make a software emulator they can make it easier and with less power demands because they know the PS3 code etc and they are free to use it while making an emulator.
It still absolutely blows my mind as to what insane code wizardry needs to be pulled off, for a hacky and originally difficult-to-program piece of hardware to be emulated so well on a completely different hardware stack... Insane!
I've been wanting a PS3 or 360 emulator for such a long time for one specific reason, The Darkness 1. That game seriously needs a PC port. I have so many friends I want to play it but with no PS3/360, they can't.
It’s a crime how The Darkness 2 got a PC release but the first game (which is better IMO) is stuck on PS3/360.
To me, another reason : Red Dead Redemption 1
Xenia 360 emulator may run The Darkness 1 full speed. It runs other 360 games at 60 FPS.
Runs full speed for me on rpcs3. Have never played it but am going to for the first time rn.
@@satan2k RDR1 is getting the remaster treatment if you believe the rumors, unfortunately after the turd that was the GTA remaster release I'm not holding my breath.
RPCS3 has come a long way, hats off to the people involved with the emulator.
RPCS3 dev team are awesome
I thought it was a whole virus and was touted as fake as hell
@@cine-ish well there is no Pirated games. You have to dump it
@@robloxhighlights1004 there are plenty of sources for piracy with PS3 games, idk what you're on about
@@cine-ish RPCS3 has a disclaimer when you boot which says do not get pirated roms Dump them from your Blu-Ray Drive on your Computer if you have one
There are so many gems that let's face it will never get a modern port that's why i'm glad RPCS3 is allowing us to play them!
Wish red dead 1 had a PC port.
@@ihavetubes The only way to really play it now is Xbox one x, it has 60 fps support and 4k if I remember correctly.
God of war trilogy, Jak and daxter trilogy to name a couple
As a PS3 owner, it scares me how many games on the system have yet to receive proper remasters/ports on newer consoles like the Ratchet and Clank future games and MGS4. Emulation is the only way we're going to preserve these exclusive games.
They don't need to be remastered or ported. Sony needs to take backwards compatibility just as seriously as they used to. No reason we should be buying these games over and over again. It's made these developers/publisher incredibly lazy
we got 60% titles playable and the rest is "in game". Great progress if you ask me! Also mgs4 is playable 100% but it requires a special fork of the emulator and you need to manually copy and paste from the game to the emulated storage.
@@fillerbunnyninjashark271 I hate how hobos like you call your self a gamer. really!
@@OkBoomer360 gamer tag is not something to be proud of these days, since its been so burn by companies
@@OkBoomer360 That's ironic you would say that when backwards compatibility and remasters have only really been a thing since the PS2 era.
Now that it boots XMB I wonder if OtherOS would boot with an old firmware.
Considering the web browser doesn't work, I would assume the XMB is mostly a facade?
I'm not sure.
You're wondering whether x86 Linux can run an emulated PPC version of Linux?
@@TechRyze Yes.
@@TechRyze could it run rpcs3 within the ppc Linux version you run inside of other os in that instance of rpcs3?
@@TechRyze might as well use qemu's ppc emulation to run powerpc linux, no point in using a ps3 emulator
It's astounding to think that if the emulator is fully functional and performant for the average computer in four years from now, it will have taken 20 years of development
Its been so long, hasnt it... How do i unread this?
my pc is low-end and was able to play drakengard 3 no problem. GTX970, 16GB DDR3 RAM, i7 Processor
@@igeljaeger that isnt low end just old.
@@igeljaeger yeah that's not even close to low end xD
@@igeljaeger Seriously? You consider that "low end"? Try a 2012 Mac
Thanks!
Just saying, Rock Band 2 runs great on RPCS3 and there's now a Deluxe mod that you can use with RPCS3 very easily that allows for custom songs and such. It even has a setting that turns off the venues during gameplay to increase performance on lower end systems. If you have any guitar hero/rockband instruments laying about (and adapters if necessary), Or want to sing with any mic you have laying around/built into your computer, give it a shot
I've been using RPCS3 for two years now, i was always very curious about this. How is the latency for you?
the only reason to use emulation to play any rock band games at this point is for the character creation and singing. if all you want is drums/bass/guitar/keys gameplay, then go play clone hero! it even has online multiplayer. it's a fantastic way to play.
I've been getting back into those games so I'll have to give it a shot. Thanks for the tip!
@@pietr036it It's great. Using an Xbox 360 Rock Band strat, it's identical to the feel on console. Using a PS2 SG with a cheap no brand adapter, latency isn't perfect, but manageable, and not the emulation's fault
You should try clone hero
I'm a patreon of RPCS3 now for multiple years and I think it was and is money well spent. These guys are extremely talented and could make much more money working in the industry, than that little they get on patreon. Hopefully they get a few more bucks more after this video.
How do we download games
@@kidneystones8449 totally not vimms lair
I first tried out RPCS3 around the time they had just updated it in October, and I honestly didn’t have high expectations (mostly because I’ve been out of the loop of emulators for a few years). Boy I was so excited when I booted up Skate and saw how smooth it ran. Tried a few others and I was just amazed. Love the team behind this for chipping away at this as much as they have!
What specs are you running?
@@Avvoider at the time I was running an I9-9900 with no OC, 16GB or ram at 3666Mhz, and a 3060 12GB also no OC. I was also running the emu off of an NVMe drive
@dream im pretty sure you can check the status of which games are fully supported or not on their site. I think MGS4 is only partially supported which is why it runs badly. I guess you would just have to wait until they fully get that game working :P
I've been able to get away with emulating PS3 on my machine. All it has is a 9600k i5 processor (6 core/6 threads) and a 1060 6GB model and it runs everything wonderfully. I even played Demon's Souls this way before. :)
Edit: 9600k
Nice! I have a Ryzen 1600x, a GTX 1060 6gbs, and 16 gbs of RAM and could finish Demon's Souls from beginning to end with no issues.
You mean 9600k? Not 9900k that's an i9
And i have a 5.1 ghz pentium d on an x99 motherboard and a GeForce gt 69420
@@acwbit2368 yeah that, I always forget since I am so used to seeing 9900k lol. But yeah, ir's the 9600k.
@Wuumi when you compare it to youtuber's systems usually, my machine is basically scrap metal next to theirs. I built it back in 2018 and even then my machine was considered mid to low-mid in many aspects. So 😅😅😅
rpcs3 for me is very optimised even for rather low end hardware, im currently on an i5 4570 and a GT 1030 and games like skate 3 runs at 60fps 900p
I made the jump from an Intel 4670k to a Ryzen 5800x and the jump was pretty noticeable. I know not everyone can upgrade their PC’s so easily due to tight budgets, but if you ever have the opportunity to acquire a decently priced 8-core processor down the road, it’ll make a big difference in the more demanding titles. God of War 3, Uncharted Drake’s Fortune, and Metal Gear Solid 4 run at playable framerates now for me even though there are still random crashes here and there, and software like them used to run in the single digit framerates before the upgrade.
It runs pretty well for me on Ryzen 2600 (~60fps 1080p) but I can't get rid of sound clipping issues :(
4570 is considered as low end? ;(
@@superchiaki too some ppl yeah, works for me tho
@@superchiaki
I was able to get by on some less demanding titles with my 4670k, but if you want to play the more demanding titles like the Uncharted series, God of War 3, or The Last of Us, you practically need a CPU with 8 cores. On the bright side, waiting for a CPU upgrade will allow you to pick up a processor with all of the latest and greatest features, so you should see a huge leap in performance if you ever decide to make the leap.
RPCS3 is simply magic. I was able to play nearly full-FPS Azura's Wrath with a an FX-8350 and a RX480, and this is OLD tech. FX-8350 is from 2012, and RX480 is from 2016.
my motherboard supported EVERY other FX cpu except for the 8350 so it would fucking clock down to 2 ghz, not really related but I just wanted to share my frustrations
2012 was literally still during PS3 life cycle.
@@thegiantrat8779 It probably had a weak VRM and had to protect itself from going POP crackle flame.
@@Aetohatir Ikr, it's absurd how well RPCS3 is optimized.
It makes me sad to see my precious RX480 called old :'(
I love that it can also run XMB. For me I really like when emulators get the full console experience, which includes running the system software.
I honestly didnt know you could until watching this. Its so cool lol
For me, running xmb was not a good experience. It kept hanging on menu movements, like browsing save data and game data, as well as browsing the theme selection. I never figured out why, and every time I shut the emulation off, it would need to "rebuild the filesystem" or something like that (I forget the exact wording) before launching into xmb.
@@HeyItsJonny you closed it wrong. You have to actually turn if off in the menu then close it with the x after
@@ActNasty5 next time I try xmb I'll do that
Man, the team working on RPCS3 is absolutely killing it. It seems like every few months it improves by leaps and bounds. Thanks for keeping us up to date on this, man. Now to convince them to tackle CD-i emulation next lol
I recently just acquired a backwards compatible ps3 so I can play all the games I have. This is something that is awesome to hear so that these games can be preserved even after the consoles are gone. Thanks for the video.
I still hold on to my 80gb launch PS3. Never let go of it. Its the only ps1/ps2/ps3 all in one : P
Me too! 👌🏼
Ps3's are always in local shops of mine don't think they'll be gone anytime soon :)
I just got a PS3. Unfortunately, I can't get a backwards compatible one.
@@crazisaturn2274 You can mod your PS3 to play PS2 games though.
It’s great to see the progress they’ve made, I know my back-compat PS3s day are numbered and having solid emulation is great when it finally dies.
Some guy spending over 1.5k for a gaming pc that runs PS3 games full speed VS me goes to eBay and buys a PS3 for 20 bucks
The fact the PS3 emulator works as well as it does is a miracle. I don't think any machine will be able to resist emulation ever if they could pull this off. This is the peak.
RPCS3 has really blossomed into a amazing emulator that makes it as good as original hardware
My god technology advances at such a rapid speed. I remember when I was 14 and PS2 Emulation seemed impossible. N64 Emulation was only limited. Banjo Tooie didn't work back then you had to constantly change Video Plugins.
do you really think this is rapid? i think your base scale is a bit off
@@nil0bject yes I think so since you always need to have 3 times the hardware strength of the base platform to emulate games properly
@@nukeboynez3648 It's actually 10x the hardware strength
Finally an emulator with the same layout as Dolphin!
Much easier than the other PS1, PS2, etc. emulators out there!
RetroArch is all well and good, but for people who just want to get started, a layout like this is perfect!
Load the firmware, add your Romz and go!
EVERY emulator should be built and look like this!!
This is why pc gaming is king.... everything can be done on it😂
It sure is an im new to it.if they had ps5s available i wouldve never gotten into pc gaming so soon
@@pickleeggs3340 all consoles and their games *eventually* end up running on PCs.
@@AdmiralBison yeah, in like end of the life, PS4 emulation is underdeveloped and only works with 2d games but not games like Bloodborne you guys been wishing for.
@@frozenturbo8623 "underdeveloped"
that's not the same as "in development" because that's what PS4 emulation is in, as well as the majority of all other emulators today.
It doesn't mean the PS4 emulators will not eventually be able to run the big AAA games.
"end of life"
that doesn't mean it has to be that long, we can just look at the Switch.
That console is no where near it's end of life, however there are multiple emulators for it already and their development is incredibly far ahead where many big games are playable at great performance.
PS4 emulation has only been relatively recent, but already it has multiple emulators. - Spine, GPCS4, Orbital (are all today active) and I recon their development will be quicker, unlike the PS3 because it had a fairly "exotic" and very complex architecture.
On my GPD Win Max, RPCS3 can run Persona 5 at 40-60 fps in 720p. The Win 3 and Aya Neo also seemingly give great results, so PS3 is currently playable natively in a hanheld. Nekotekina and KD-11 are geniuses; I've actively supported them on Patreon, when I could.
I played Demon's Souls year ago and was already very good back then, the main problem with it was low compatibility but that improved a lot.
Runs really well on non high end hardware now. Even has online working.
@@n333k333 how “non high end” we talking?
@@prodjoshkta i5-6600 + RTX 2060 here
Ive played demon souls too in 2021, very nice emulation, and thank god for the 60fps patch
@@n333k333 I got demon souls running at native speed, 30fps and original resolution on a GT640. Pretty good tbh.
I started to use RPCS3 a couple of months ago.
It's freaking awesome despite not fully compatible with my game library yet which I painfully copied off each BD via my PlayStation 3's 10/100MBit NIC.
Something is off with my dumps for Uncharted 1 and 2 but other than that, I love being able to play Motorstrom Pacific Rift in high resolutions.
All PS3 models have had a gigabit NIC since day 1.
@@glassvial Then it felt incredibly slow to copy over files via ftp though.
@@MegaManNeo I guess the blue ray read speed or the destination hard drive write speed is probably the bottle neck, not the NIC.
This is awesome news. My PS3 got the YLOD years ago and I miss these games.
I absolutely love the less bloated XMB os we had on the ps3 compared to what we have on the ps4 and ps5
Ps5 has so little bloat it feels lonely
9:35 Sony might once RPCS3 reaches just over 80% playable, since they'll use the source code for themselves.
PS3 games with trophy support on the PS5 would be crazy.
Lets hope it happens soon. The hardware is there.
Probably not, because they would have to honour the GPL.
@@richardhunter9779 that hasn't been an issue for Nintendo, who would enforce the license anyway
@@delamovies Nintendo doesn't use any community-developed emulators, they develop them all themselves. If they used any GPL-licensed emulators, then they would have to credit the emulator developers somewhere in their software, and also publish the emulator source code with any modifications they've done to it themselves.
I recently installed the emulator and I was really impressed with the quality of the work and how simple it was to configure it for use on my pc.
I have a compatible pc and went after the games I had/have on ps3. Mainly the ones I know will be stuck on that console basically forever. The emulation quality is really impressive.
It is an incredible piece of software indeed.
Hopefully one day I'll be able to play Infamous 1/2 at 4k 60fps.
I'll be happy enough if I can play most of the PS3 games at 1080p 60fps. So far, even with the latest processors, we're still only seeing 30fps in many games.
a Dream for me, and btw, the 4K upscaling is actually available, not sure about the 60fps but I have seen people play it on 60fps through the emulator
My 2nd PS3 crapped out on me, this was my all time favorite system...while I hope to get them fixed at least there's emulation.
Have been using this with my Launchbox installation for a couple of years now. I can certainly confirm that it has come on leaps and bounds since the early days. Great work!
Just writing to thank the developers for such an amazing and continuously impressive work, honestly I wasn't a PS3 fan back in the day, but RPCX3 turned me into one. Thanks a million!
Last of Us? Holy shit. I remember when everyone thought emulating that game was impossible.
With a 3090 and 5950x the experience is still not really playable without some degree of inconvenience.
@@BradB111 Probably best to just play on PSNow…. Or buy a PS3
@@Pub2k4That would also be my recommendation at this stage. I do own a ps3 but trying to use a controller after almost 10 years of m/kb I may as well forget it and hope it comes to pc natively haha.
@@BradB111 But it has to be said, I agree with MVG. The current state of emulation is the best it’s ever been, and it’s getting better every day, it seems.
@@Pub2k4 For sure, I do like to see progress with projects such as this.
These people are doing what sony didn't do! They deserve all respect and support!
The PS3 hardware was so ahead of its time, games consoles went back to traditional architectures but the new M1 macs and most smartphones use an almost identical architecture.
ps3 isn't using arm, it has the IBM Cell which is a PowerPC core and 7 spe cores
Check RPCS3 on an M1 Mac. My Mac mini manages to run games @ 1080 - 60fps with very little CPU usage and very low temps (30-35ºC)
I’ve recently been using this ever since i got my gaming pc for the holidays and it runs like a dream
I do really like the RPCS3 emulator. Improvements will be on active development as of now.
PS3 was around the time i dropped out of the console market. I would love to dig into some the gems that i missed.
High recomendation for Crack in Time
This thing runs on my Ryzen 3500 laptop and is actually playable with the title I dumped thus far. I am honestly amazed as I am maybe a few tiers ahead of minimum requirements. Some very intelligent minds behind the programming of this one and it makes the prospect of dusting off my old PS3 library pretty exciting. On a friggin' laptop!
What's even crazier is that these and lots of other games on this emulator are running half way decently on my steam deck. I can literally take damn near every generation of games with me on the go. On top of my current steam library! Absolutely insane!
stean deck is a fucking beast when it comes to emulation
We need a emulator for every console
We need, yes. But is making emulator for every console possible right now?
I don't think so, to be honest.
Most consoles have one, minus PS4 and Xbox One. I'm sure they will have one within the next 5 years. Even Switch has an excellent emulator that plays Switch games better than the Switch itself.
I didn't think that was really necessary for xbox one
@@EmergencyChannel I mean, a PS4 emulator (spine) is already in development and runs/boots a few games
@@KajuTheRudeMonke It is possible, but it's a pain in the ass.
You literally have to guess how the hardware works so you can emulate it with software.
And no developer will touch any console leaked code to see how it works, so you end up having to guess how x thing works on any console.
It's a bunch of trial and error, that's why even having a game boot is a huge deal, let alone getting in-game.
Just recently got my 80g backwards compatible ps3 fixed after trying for 3 months, It's really a pain in the *** to get it done becuase sometime I don't even know what the problem is, I love twisted metal on the ps3 but I don't want to waste my money buy another one, happy to know that the emulation is going well.
Sony still hasn't fixed CBOMB on the PS3, so this is incredibly important. Really glad to see good progress being made.
Every MVG video : It was a 'Homebrew Beast', but 'mistakes were made', so 'prepare for disappointment' as no 'impossible ports' were made, it was so 'hard to develop for' and is 'so hard to emulate that platform'
I'd been following your channel for some years. Definitely great content, I always enjoy the more technical details.
Not sure if you're aware, however, I guess the creator (known as Near) of Higan/BSNES had passed away back in June. I found the circumstances to be rather saddening. Only learned this today myself, as I haven't touched the SNES for emulation.
Thank you for all that you do, MVG.
It is pretty cool to see this PS3 emulator getting some major improvements and some of the games are benefit from it unless you have a beefy gaming pc rig
Finally! Better preservation of the PS3!
8:00 Very amazing indeed! Something I'd love to see in the performance chart is how utilized the most busy CPU core is, to check for single-threaded bottlenecks ; but the performance sure already seems very impressive!!!
Will be amazing to play any ps3 game at 60fps, on a pc in future.
Amazing job they have done, and all credit to those who do these things, and there dedication.
Having original xbox, ps3, and then xbox 360 emulated on pc, would be amazing, and its slowly coming. Todays pcs should be able to do these, and its amazing, especially to see how far ps3 emulation has come.
Roll on when they can play the ps3 library in 60fps, on a pc.
RPCS3 is just awesome, it's the only way I've been able to play Persona 5 without having to spend 200+ dollars just for one game and also run it at 60fps, something that not even PS5 does nowadays!
I loved Puppeteer back in the day. Very underappreciated game.
RCPS3 community is awesome! Lets support these folks on Patreon!
There is a very much work in progress PS4 emulator also called Spine (presently manly 2D but quite a few games working) which is Linux only
Simply insane when you think about it. I remember MGS4 producer said that it would be impossible (or near impossible) to remaster MGS4 for modern consoles because they used many tricks that leveraged the ps3 hardware to it's full potential and since the game engine for MGS4 was build from the ground up for the ps3 itself. Now we can emulated it, and run it better than a real ps3. I just wish Xenia would get the same support.
I see such statements as missing a crucial word- it would be impossible to make it (and be profitable).
After all, if they WERE to re-release MGS4, they would have to create an emulator like this one, which has taken a whole community years upon years to refine, and then make sure it works absolutely perfect, and then hope that the gaming audience would actually be willing to buy an old MGS game. As we can see here it's perfectly DOABLE... but this emulator is, again, mady by fans over nearly a decade of development time, for free, just because they can. When a project needs to make a profit, priorities look very different.
I dunno. To me that sounds like that the producer was just milking Sony with that comment and that he doesn't know much about coding. I don't see any reason why it would be "impossible" to make port into another system. Just re-create engine and use ready made assets.
@@jothain so you clearly dont understand how complicated it is to code for ps3
@@ikubeberlin Jothain is right though, in Japan Konami released an arcade conversion of MGO2 that was based on regular PC hardware. They could've always just made a regular PC port, they just didn't.
I think the reason Xenia has less support is that there's way less demand for it. 360's and it's games are dirt cheap (Xbox collecting is super cheap) and over a quarter of the library works on Xbox One (and most of the big titles are on that list).
Meanwhile NO PS3 games actually run on PS4 and the only ones you can experience are the few that got ported over. And the big PS3 games that haven't been ported a quite expensive on the used market.
How Sony has treated the PS3 is really sad. There is zero backwards compatibility with its games which effectively means that thousands of games are permanently stuck on the PS3.
PS Now is not an adequate solution because it’s available in limited regions with a limited list of titles and not locally on your machine. RPCS3 is an impressive piece of software that couldn’t have come at a better time!
My guess is that the PS4 isn't powerful enough to emulate PS3, and it doesn't have the extra hardware to run PS3 games natively
I mean the Wii had GameCube hardware built in for GameCube backwards compatibility, the DS had GBA hardware for backwards compatibility, PS2s had PS1 hardware for PS1 backwards compatibility, and I think early PS3s had PS2 hardware for backwards compatibility, so it's not unreasonable to assume the PS4 would need the same to run PS3 games
@@mynamehasspacesinit8687 the Wi was practically an overclocked gamecube
all i've tested runs incredibly perfect in 4K and antialiasing all GFX improvements possible on Vulkan RTX 3080 / 10700K@4.8 ... awesome stable fixed 60 fps
I don’t use emulators, because I own all original hardware. However, I made an exception for the first time in so many years to play Demons Souls. Had a very great experience playing it 4k 60fps on my acer nitro 5 laptop.
apparently ps3 emulation benefits from Avx 512 instructions a lot. So on alder lake if you disable the e cores in the bios you should be able to turn on avx 512 in the bios. People are reporting huge performance gains. Have you tried this MVG?
i thought intel axed that
@@fran117 its not officially supported since only the p cores support the instruction set. Disable e cores and you can enable avx 512 in bios. There was a rumor that a new bios update would disable the ability to enable avx512 at the same time greatly improving ddr5 memory compatibility. So it kind of would be a poison pill as most people would prefer greater memory compatibility over a relatively niche instruction set. Hasn’t happened yet though AFAIK
@@Jsteeeez Is not officially supported and also is available only in some specific mobos. Intel also warned about damage and warranty void, but those usually are just to scare.
@@Jsteeeez yeah i remember reading an article on tpu just last week about intel disabling avx512 on new bioses.
@@Jsteeeez BIOSes with it disabled have already been released. Obviously you don't have to update, but eventually boards are going to start shipping with these BIOSes by default as new stock filters through. People have also had success injecting the old microcode into the new BIOS in order to re-enable AVX-512, though Intel could stop that if they wanted to in the future. There's also the likelihood that Intel will push the same microcode update via Windows Update, meaning it'll be disabled regardless if you update Windows.
It's a mess really. Zen 4 is strongly rumoured to have AVX-512 support, which will likely lead to Intel enabling it properly in Raptor Lake. I'd wait for one of those if you really want AVX-512 and don't already own Alder Lake, rather than jumping through hoops.
Nice upgrade on the lighting and camera on your studio. Lighting looks next gen now.
While I focus on modding OG hardware in my channel, I am a MASSIVE advocate of PC based emulation, especially with hardware being hard to find. This is very exciting. I am a little less worried if my OG fat ps3 kicks the bucket one day
This makes me hope that one day Sony will finally put PS3 backwards compatibility on PS5, seriously, backwards compatibility is the only reason I prefer an Xbox Series X to Playstation 5.
The idea of being able to put in an original Xbox disc and being able to play it perfectly with Xbox Series X upgrades is simply incredible.
For me it's that and gamepass. Xbox got me playing more the ps5 is a great console too but I'm more impressed with the controller than the console
Never gonna happen. I wish it would, but this reason together with blocking DS4 use on PS5 games means I'm just gonna skip PS5, I hate controller vibrations so the haptic feedback is useless, I don't want adaptive triggers (especially with how many are snapping) and don't need a microphone listening to me shouting at digital footballers, just let me use my old controller to play a game of fifa against a friend ffs Sony!
@@talibong9518 have to admit your right it's not like how it was when the ps4 came out
It's more likely this gets ported to the XSX dev mode so you can play PS3 games on Xbox
I JUST got into this emulator 4-5 days ago.
GTX 1080ti
I7-9700k - Coffee Lake
32GB RAM
no issue whatsoever on any games
thanks for keeping us informed on rpcs3 progress
been a rpcs3 user for a good while now, incredible to see how far they came... i hope more ppl support these guys so they can go even farther, even faster
Completed Uncharted 1 with this, sadly the second game freezes all the time for me even on a high-end CPU like 5950X
At this rate give it a month or two and it will be playable
I have repaired my ps3 many times, but it still fails . Thanks to the emulation now I can play my games with no problems . Great job
I’ve been using this emulator for a long time and I’m hype to see it get a video!
The dedication is insane. I’m always shocked how far emulation is coming
I'm amazed at how far this has come. I remember being excited when the compatibility list was under 20%, and now it's almost 2/3 of all games!
I wish Blu-Ray drive compatibility wasn't such a problem. I love being able to pop my PS2/PS1 discs into my PC's disc drive and emulate from them, but with so few BD drives able to read PS3 discs, I doubt the RPCS3 devs will care to make emulation from discs a thing. Having to dump games to be able to play them and the hassles and risks involved in that, has kept me from actually trying RPCS3 out D:
Risks?
LOL.
Just download games dude.... Jesus...
😂
Great video, very informative and absolutely professional!
This is really awesome, been playing the PS3 for over 14 years, love that console.
The fact that this emulator has come this far Sony no longer has any excuse as to why they haven't been able to emulate or bring forward PlayStation 3 game's if a smallish dev team can do it then PlayStation a billion dollar company absolutely has no excuse other than them being greedy and lazy.
It took this dev team 15 years and requires hardware that did not exist until now. Years of work and millions of dollars investment if Sony tried to do it with a paid team of developers, and wouldn't be practical until PS5 hardware was available. Lazy? No. Greedy? Well if there was demand for it, and they really believed PS3 games being sold in 2022 would be profitable, they would have done it as motivated by greed.
Why would they spend money to let you play your old games when they can make money selling HD ports (AKA "remasters")
Mircrosoft has once released how many ppl playing old games on the new consoles. It's not worth it. I didn't understand why i should play old games on a brand new console.
1. I know them
2. They're old
3. only playable in edited versions.
I'm glad how it work nowadays.
Remakes and Remastered are the way it should be.
They are not all done very good but i prefer to play a GTA Definitive Edition instead the original wich make me get super eye cancer.
That is super impressive. PS3 was the least enjoyable to develop on.
I always love when you cover new updates. They've made so much progress in such a short time!
The FSR Upscaling in the GPU settings is a game changer, makes all these games look infra crisp far beyond what the ps3 can do, it’s like you are playing a modern ps5 remaster of these games , Outrun 2 arcade looks incredible at 4k upscaled 60fps with FSR enabled
With Rpcs3 these days, you can get away with less. You can do much better, but I have many games running smooth on an old Optiplex with an i7 4790 and a Quadro k2200 gpu. The I5's of old or under just wont cut it.
Untrue there are really good i5s that run rpcs3 well
@@ripjawfang20 Yea, you're right. When I mentioned old, I meant 3rd gen I5s and below old. I've tried a i5 3570k, and it ran well under the fps to be enjoyable, even for a game like Disgaea 3 on minimum settings. I recently saw a video of an i5-4690K running rpcs3 pretty decent though. Rpcs3 has really come along way!
This is typically one of those things I will tinker with until, after lots of hours, I get it to run the way I want it to. To then never look at it again for at least a few years... I can only really game on the real hardware, I have no idea why that is. Still I am really happy that people are doing this kind of work for the rest of the world to enjoy.
I’m the same way :/
Playing old games online is so cool especially if you want to get trophies like I do which is my current struggle with SFV:CE.
i love this channel, everytime MVG just blows my mind, thank you sir your doing gods work
This is some awesome news.
Now I have to build a new dedicated emulation station. I’m glad I have parts left over from previous upgrade builds.
This is probably the most impressive emulator I've ever seen for any console - and such a fiendishly complex one at that - period. Even though it fully emulates only about 2/3 of the PS3 library... It's easy to use and rock-solid stable, providing quite a granular control over hardware resources (often pushing beyond what the original console could do), and my experience with the few games in my personal collection which lie in the "playable" category is nothing short of stellar so far. For instance, both God of War collections (Volume I being PS2 remasters and Volume II being PSP remasters, duly noted) play beautifully at 60 fps on my 9900K + RTX 2080 Ti machine, with no glitches at all. I'll have next a try on Demon's Souls and Soulcalibur IV and V...
RPCS3 also shows the power of open-source software. Kudos to the developers!
The people who really deserve our money are the devs of projects like this, not the AAA studios. Change my mind
absolutely, imagine giving money to the same company who would sue their own fans because they made mods that made their game better - take two - or imagine giving money to the same company that forcees you to download denuvo or other shitty DRMS that just make the performance of the game much worse
@@therealhussein Glad to know there's other people on the same page
Playing MGS HD Collection in 4K 60fps with minor dips was a complete game changer
I just started playing with this the other day. Now that there is some consumer grade POWER hardware in the wild, I wound if it would be hard to port this over to, say, POWER 8 or POWER9 hardware since they are all based around the PPC architecture and POWER can run in LE or BE mode. I wish I had money for one of the Raptor Computing systems.
Comparing PowerPC in macs to POWER 8 or 9 - they have very little to nothing in common.
@@godslayer1415 The base ISA is still the same. POWER has physical and opcode differences yes, but the technology is fundamentally the same. Eitherway, going from ppc to ppcle is much easier than going from ppc to x86_64
i remember seeing a lot of comments in sections of both rpcs3 and random benchmark videos that went something like "haha pc players waiting 12 years to finally play a ps3 game"
1. show me a ps3 that will run any game in 4k and locked 60fps, and 2. my pc can run ps3 games, but can ps4 or ps5 do that? the answer is "only some, and only if you pay for it", oh and 3. i have possibility to play ps3 games on pc, and i still refuse to do that
Thanks for the Video. Downloaded the emulator and it works great. Now i can finaly play Dantes Inferno on my PC....
Thanks to the RPCS3 Team!! Great Job!!
I'm glad that this sort of thing is out there in the wild now. I was pretty happy when you introduced me to DuckStation for just the OG PS (PSX) and look forward to keeping an eye on this one, but don't have a modern rig thanks to the prices these days to match up to the (most compatible) specs. Thanks again for another great video though, always enjoy 'em :)
Hey Sony!
Take the SourceCode of this Emulator, port it to the PS5, optimize it and use it as compatiblity Layer to make the PS5 compatible with all existing Playstation Games.
this is the way. right now the only reason i want a ps5 is gran turismo 7. but if this happens, im buying one off ebay today lol
That's going to be the only way we ever get a chance to upscale some of those PS3 games to 4K.
Thanks for showing Lollipop chainsaw gameplay, you naughty boy! 😏
I wish to have a remaster sometime for PS4/PS5.
Man this is truly wizardry.
I'm barely able to comprehend how the PS3s architecture works and there's a emulator for it, blows my mind.
We need people like this cause without them, so many games would be lost in history due to the eventual gradual decline of working systems and games. People on this team are literally creating video game history by allowing this games to almost exist indefinitely since PC is not going anywhere anytime soon. Please support these people if you care about the history and legacy of PlayStation 3
The fact that I am playing Metal Gear Online 2 again... it's crazy