RPCS3 Is A New PS3 Emulator, Still In Early Stage, Boots Commercial Game
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Sorcerer Supreme
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Yeah lets just abandon emulation while we're at it.
This is one of the most aggressively off-topic console warrior posts in a PC thread I've seen in a while. And that says a lot.
GalacticAE
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This feels like a really far off realization. Even current state Saturn or DC emulation still doesn't match hardware performance. I know they're not necessarily related, but it shows just how tricky and complex emulation can be.
Lightning Count
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I'm not a console warrior, I own a gaming PC in fact in some cases I totally abandoned console versions in favour of PC.
Examples
Fallout 3
Fallout NV
Oblivion
Deadly Premonition (took many tweaks and some mods to get it to run right and optimise the graphics but well worth it.)
Alan Wake
Bioshock trilogy.
I owned all of these of console first, but since then I only play them on PC due to my rig running them much better. This is only a small fraction of games which have fitted this pattern for me.
Sega saturn dude.Still no OG Xbox emulator though.
I wanna play Otogi 1-2
This.
All I can say is that I hope they can round up as many talented postgrads as possible and crack into it.
That said, the fact it's 60fps is pretty promising I think. The biggest hurdle in my mind was making an emulation that's not bottlenecked by the sheer fact that 14nm/10nm CPUs just aren't powerful enuff to emulate the Cell's twisted and arcane architecture, especially since Intel's hitting the wall and not providing us with much in the way of real CPU speed increases for full scale systems because zero consumer demand.
This screen proves that it's a technically possible feat, hardware wise it's POSSIBLE, it's just a question of confronting the infinite technical software challenges in highly inventive ways.
So is that one on android! Well its a nice start. Not sure how compatible it is with the games.
Not that I know of, it's Windows only and it's highly compatible and accurate if you get the latest build. I would say it's surpassed N64 emulation at this point. Saturn emulation has really matured a lot, in that it doesn't really make sense complaining about a lack of it anymore.
That's the nature of emulation, early on everything has 'issues' even those 'stress free' emulators, but the fact progress is being made this early for stuff like Wii U, PS3, 3DS and 360 emulation bodes well for the future.
TheFNEffecT
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Takes time, yo.
I have 100 bison bucks on your PS3 dying in the next decade versus having a competent emulator in the same timeframe.
ss_lemonade
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So? Your post was non-sense. No shit it's going to take quite a bit of time have games completely playable. Do you think we don't know that already? LOL. You trying to keep "the hype in check" makes no damn sense because exactly zero people think this thing is going to be perfect tomorrow.
And then the "DRM" and "shoddy optimization"... come the hell on.
You definitely should. Emulation isn't flawless this early, hell, even the PS2 still has problems with some games.
But we'll get there one year, and the games will finally be able to be preserved.
Get em
amazing !
Getting really close now to something that is release -able for general use .
dragonbane
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Wow this is pretty insane, even if it's early 3D titles/HD ports.
Emulating the bad version?
Regardless, that's pretty cool.
Maybe in a few years.
Many originally PC emulators have ports to Android, if that answers your question. The hardest part of developing an emulator is clearly reverse engineering the emulated platform.
This is what amazes me about this whole project. One truly exotic console architecture reverse engineered and emulated so many more people can play on PC.
chronic_archaic
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I'm not a developer so I don't know if it's easy or not, but with things like RetroArch all being based on the same codebase and being ported to everything including ARM based devices (Wii, GC, 360) Cell (PS3) X86 (Xbox) and MIPS (PSP) they certainly don't need to be dumped for another emulator.
EDT: PowerPC, not ARM. Was thinking of 3DS.
It largely depends on how it is developed. An emulator can be designed around a specific platform and would be a major pain to port or it can be designed to be multi-platform from the get go.
Do you think that's what happened with the PS2 emulator on ps3, where it was so specialized they needed to start again per-se?
Ingueferroque
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Has SSF been in development still? Though years ago it was already great.
Maybe I'm wrong, but from what I gather, they originally had a hardware level emulation of the PS2. The newer versions of the PS3 didn't have those parts anymore, so that was out the window. Writing a software emulator is completely different matter, really. Would take more time, clearly, if the hardware of the PS3 even allowed for it. (performance wise, I mean)
Holy shit, this is amazing.
You need an i5 and a decent GPU to emulate Wii games at 1080p and that is with Dolphin being pretty much the best emulator (at least of 3D capable consoles) on the market right now.
You'll need a much better rig to emulate PS3 games.
Thx
Dolphin is a good example of a professionally made emulator and it became so good after all these years but it was only in recent time they improved performance in a serious way.
Now if you look at Cemu, its current state and that wiiu is way more powerful than the Wii, it seems there are faster ways to emulate.
Dolphin might not be a perfect example or representative of console emulator performance.
Either way, devs should focus on making a good and compatible emulator, performance issues will solve over time.
The Abominable Snowman
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I know hacked PS3s aren't really popular, but custom PS3 firmware allows for ps2 game BC, although granted some games (Like roughly 5-10%) had some issues aside speed related issues. CFW PS3s had BC with any version PS3 (As well as Remote Play enabled for all PS2 and PS3 titles)
That might have been true a few years ago, but Haswell, as well as other iterations of Intel's CPU architecture, has really lowered that bar. Even the Pentium G4400 (stock) demonstratively runs Dolphin fullspeed, turned up, with no sweat. This spreadsheet gives a pretty good indicator of what is needed, even if it is outdated (last updated 3/2014 it looks like, G4400 would top this list)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UNPnVo-EN72vAuEgOMTZzMUnslgkL1ic5p-tAL8idYs/edit#gid=0
Even Atom x7 is hitting between 50% and 70% speed in-game, depending on the game.
edit: just looked and realized most of these are mobile processors. Of course desktop cpus are gonna be much, much faster. whoops.
TLZ
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You mean CFW?
The Abominable Snowman
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