DigitalDevilSummoner
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RPCS3 Is A New PS3 Emulator, Still In Early Stage, Boots Commercial Game
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KojiKnight
Member
UltraHLE could play a lot more than those 2 games (though undoubtedly that's what it was used most for).
Games like Mario Kart worked (albeit without the framebuffer effects, so no driving cam on the big screen), Snow Board Kids (personal favorite games of mine on the N64), etc. Nemu64 was the first "serious" one though it was a veritable mess to try and configure if a game didn't already have "default" settings.
The fact that the emu ran OoT at higher resolution than the N64 just months after it's release was biiiiiig news back in the day that's for sure.
Hesemonni
Banned
Ok, I lol'd.
I don't think it was ever a question of "if" but more on of "when" . ( atleast for me it was )
That being said ,considering the processor power required to get a PS2 game to run decently, let alone at high resolutions the requirements to get that same type of performance could be quite high indeed .
I spat out my drink.
Poetic.Injustice
Member
Disgaea 3:
Disgaea 3:
Horrible frame rate , as expected .
Oh god, I can grind forever! (At 4FPS)
Still, interesting progress. As soon as Tales of Vesperia's fan translation is able to run on it at a decent framerate it's over for custom firmware on the actual system?
dragonbane
Member
Will take years before it will run anything properly, but this is still huge. It might actually be a possibility now and I would really like to try some games on it.
Impressive it's even running.
I think this is going to move along at a much faster rate now that we know it CAN run games.
Poetic.Injustice
Member
Yeah, I think we'll see a lot more games in the intro scene state soon.
The year 2020 can't come soon enough.
And I had just stopped being bitter about never getting to play Vesperia.
And I had just stopped being bitter about never getting to play Vesperia.
dragonbane
Member
This is incredible. 2D and very limited, but whatever. Amazing progress.
Never say never .
I imagine they also said that for PS2 games that it was impossible at one point .
It's running on an Interpreter. Go turn Interpreter instead of the JIT Recompiler on Dolphin and see how that runs.
The author of the emulator is working on a PPU recompiler from what I read. Any framerate readings are pretty much useless for now, it's a matter of seeing if stuff can even load/render.
Unless PS3 has some dedicated 2D Hardware (which I don't think it does), I don't see why 3D should be much different than what's being rendered right now. They're polygons after all.
lightchris
Member
Kudos to everyone who work on this project. The big job is still ahead of them [making RDR to work flawlessly
You would go for the inferior PS3 version? Better wait for a 360 emulator.
Bluekaveli
Member
A new trailer?
There is a bunch of documentation on it so people can actually build runable engines.
The hard part is implement all that hardware logic with software and synchronizing it to behave like the hardware. Need a really fast CPU just to enable such calculation to be on par with PS3 runtimes.
TC McQueen
Member
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if it was really simple for the Xbone and slightly more complex for the PS4.
Anyway, glad to see that PS3 emulation is getting off the ground, since it's the only way tons of Japanese games will ever have longevity due to their disregard for the PC.
Amazing, I assumed the emulation scene would have died a generation ago due to the increasing complexity of the systems and emulation being very much a non-profit hobby scene by a very small talented few.
I dread to imagine the amount of work it took just to get a PS3 game to boot to the title screen. As emulation will play an ever increasingly important role in the preservation of our hobbies history - kudos to these guys for keeping it going!
I dread to imagine the amount of work it took just to get a PS3 game to boot to the title screen. As emulation will play an ever increasingly important role in the preservation of our hobbies history - kudos to these guys for keeping it going!
KojiKnight
Member
You can't improve the framerate of PS2/GCN/Wii Emulation, I wouldn't hold out hope for doing so with PS3 games either.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
I already have one but I want to see the fan translation scene pick up with this and see Yakuza 1&2 HD, Kenzan, and 5 make it over here for everyone to play.
You can with codes in PCSX2 for specific games. KH2 has a 60 FPS code you can enable.
Will a PS3 let you play every game at 4k with zero slowdowns? Nope, which is why emulation is a godsend
. Many last gen games run at sub-HD res and have horrible slowdown to boot. Emulation fixes all that.I hope this emu keeps the momentum and turns into something as amazing as PCSX2. I would absolutely love to play all those PS3 exclusives in high res/no slowdowns and also it would open up the translation scene for a lot of JP only games. Tales of Vesperia PS3 being an obvious one, as so many people have already said.
anexanhume
Member
This is why we needs aliens to invade us with their superior technology.
Will a PS3 let you play every game at 4k with zero slowdowns? Nope, which is why emulation is a godsend
I hope this emu keeps the momentum and turns into something as amazing as PCSX2. I would absolutely love to play all those PS3 exclusives in high res/no slowdowns and also it would open up the translation scene for a lot of JP only games. Tales of Vesperia PS3 being an obvious one, as so many people have already said.
:/ That's a bit of a stretch. Do you honestly think this emulator will allow that any time soon.
Obviously not, but the possibility is there. I do it all the time via PCSX2 and Dolphin.
Well, not *every* game but a good portion of them.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Not anytime soon but it's better than my PS3 never doing it.
If scientists and inventors thought like you, we would still live in stone age....
You have absolutely no idea just how significant this is.
Paracelsus
Member
I hope they pull a Project64
The only reason I'd care about this otherwise is if it was so light that you could force some nice filtering over games plagued by poor IQ like Valkyria Chronicles, Yakuza, take away the horrible fuzziness in ToV PS3 and so on.
Focus on the console exclusives people want the most and half-ass the rest
The only reason I'd care about this otherwise is if it was so light that you could force some nice filtering over games plagued by poor IQ like Valkyria Chronicles, Yakuza, take away the horrible fuzziness in ToV PS3 and so on.
They're not going to manufacture them forever.
Poetic.Injustice
Member
Not to mention the online will be shut down sooner or later.
KojiKnight
Member
If that code is the one I'm thinking of, it actually halves the game speed and then you have to run the emu at double speed which causes all sorts of other issues.