Running commercial PS3 games on a PC: RPCS3 PS3 emulator achieves great milestone
We’ve mentioned some progress on PS3 emulation a few weeks ago, and it was pointed out to me that we forgot to mention one of the most promising PS3 emulators out there: RPCS3.
I’m now fixing this mistake, and today is a good opportunity to do so, since the devs behind the project were able to claim a significant milestone last week: the possibility to run a commercial game within the emulator. The “guinea pig” for this experiment is a PSN game named “Swap”, which I assume was chosen because of the limited amount of functionality it uses on the PS3 (making it an “easy” game to run on the emulator).
The video below does not do justice to the work of the devs, as since the video was posted, it seems a major graphical glitch (which you can obviously see on the video) has been fixed.
Since the scene is always full of drama, this emulator is no exception, and some people have been on a rampage to get the RCPS3 videos removed from youtube, on the ground that it looks and feels like spam. Many “fake” youtube videos pretend to be able to run commercial PS3 games such as GTA V at full speed on a PC, but this is not what this is about here. Long story short, a video that was showcasing the game running without the graphical glitch has been taken down by mistake by youtube (and if you’ve ever had one of your videos wrongly removed by youtube, you know it’s basically impossible to get it back up), so what I’m showing you is not the latest and greatest.
Of course, the emulator is far from running the game at full speed or without any issue, and most other commercial games will just fail to load at this point in RPCS3. But this is showing insane progress in this field, and gets us very excited to see what’s next.
Testing and running Arledo’s Swap in RPCS3 requires you to own a copy of the game, know how to rip it, and acquire a decrypted version of the game’s key.edat, which you can do with edat3tool, or PS3 Tools
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You can download the latest version of the RPCS3 PS3 emulator here
You can download edat3tool here
You can download PS3 Tools here
Disclaimer: although I have tested the emulator, I have not tested this specific game, which I don’t own
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Great work to everyone involved!
whoah maybe after 2 years it can run a ps3 game in full speed
more like after 10 years
whatever..
when the time release pc ddr4 all console like ps3 xbox360 or ps4 xbox one bec wat i read about ddr4 release have 8 core 12 or 16 core… if you read what spec of ps4 have 8 core ddr5 right… All i can say nothing impossible !!!
Nothing is impossible, but using numbers you clearly don’t know what they mean will not make your point any valid. By the time we can emulate PS3 and PS4 we’ll probably already have a colony in Mars.
Yeah, why don’t we bet on what of these 3 things will come first?
A) RPCS3
B) Colony in Mars
C) Days 8, 9 and 10 of Acid_Snake’s 10 Days of Hacking.
I thought the 3rd option was hilarious. You forgot to add:
4) Official FF-Type 0 release for North America
5) Gateway Team removing malicious code
6) Justin Bieber gets a Grammy and becomes the worlds best singer , beats beethoven’s record sales. 7) Lil Wayne learns to speak properly , let alone songs.
I know this is 8 months old and in terms of a random comment on a blog that’s an eternity but if http://finalfantasytype0.com is telling the truth then 4) and ironically enough, exactly a year after your comment was posted… which BTW almost coincides with my birthday (roughly 2 hours late)
Days 8, 9 and 10 are reserved for three hacks that are yet undisclosed, so it makes no sense to publish them right now.
ehmm ps4 will be easily emulated in 2-3 years cuz our PC´s mid and high end still have more power they only need a decrypted copy of the os for implement rudimentary drivers and a kind of a bios yes no emulator but since its normal pc hardware just use the os as dualboot ;D when we get first fresh dump we and my mates will go on it just cuz we can
emulating ps3 isnt impossible and should be done more or more in this year i know some guys which are on it, they say they dont emulate the chip itself they just translate the files from ps3 cpu commands to x64 commands, still in early stage cuz still have to use on the fly convert but later they hope to “pre translate” it but then the files are atm going to big
Acid, I think your exaggerating a bit too much. Something like that won’t occur in either of our life times most likely. But PS3 emulation? Ya that will DEF happen before we die.
I might or might not be exaggerating, a colony in Mars seems farfetched, but we really don’t know what the people at Nasa are doing and what different technologies are being developed, so I can’t compare them correctly, but you get the idea.
Actually we know exactly what the people at NASA are doing. They have press conferences quite frequently. Also Ever hear of Space X?
PS4 is x86 platform not need be emulated, I think it could be happen before PS3 full speed…
You forget one mayor thing: OS. Up until now emulating a console was simply emulating the hardware, as games ran on bare metal. Emulating the PS4 OS is a different thing. Emulating the PS4 OS would require precise knowledge of the OS itself, and if we have such information, we’re better of just hacking the PS4 itself.
Also, being x86 means nothing, as the PS4 most likely has proprietary chips and technologies that may or may not be easily emulated.
just want to let you know consoles do not have DDR5 no one has ddr5, consoles have GDDR5 somethings PC has had for years. And consoles might have more cores than most PC’s but each core is much slower than most PC’s cores
A Milestone is a Milestone.
As long as there are ppl that want to play ps3 games and want to make a ps3 independent emulator, there will be progress.
Look at dolphin, that project began the same way, now dolphin is a full scale nearly perfect gamecube/wii emulator that runs all kinds of commercial games even better and in higher res than the original.
Or another example jpcsp, java emulator for psp running 90% of the psp library or pcsx2 (best ps2 emulator out there).
So as long as ppl want to make something amazing like an emulator, they will continue to polish it and make it shine like a gem.
Come on man, I’ve been waiting for this. I might be the most happiest man alive, after reading this news.
When emu runs GOW3 at full speed then we called its done… Otherwise it still needs too much way to cross…
Man. Maaan. That’s so kick ***. Even if this spirals off like the old xbox emulator, a big congrats to them for such progress in so short a time. Crazy.
Great news! Props to the devs. I’m always very happy to hear of new emulators.
Here is a better video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YK1WFZF790&list=UUYg48j9WTYQuq-wiEtXAAZg
Or you could just play your games on a PS3 like a normal person.
or on ur even better pc while ur ps3 has a ylod(mine still does)
I’ve been following this for a while. I get an email for every update, keeps me up some nights x’3. There’s been an insane surge of activity recently ^-^.
Does anyone else NOT see the video and just see’s a big, white space?
I really want to play the last of us,for eleventh time.
omg someone pinch me!! this is great progress!!
Great work guys! What fw will this be based off? OFW (probz not), Rogero, Habib ect
oh my god the amount of stupidity here is immense. I enjoyed the article and love the work these people are doing as I know how insanely hard it is, but anyone expecting a full blown PS3 emulator in anything less than 10 years is stupid, it’s been 13 years since the PS2 was released and we don’t even have a full blown emulator for it, imagine a much more complex machine like the PS3 🙄
ehm there are good emu´s and that for a long time maybe use google next time?
and also nobody needs ps2 emu´s cuz ALL GOOD games which were ever puplished for ps2 are aviable for pc too
I know there are good emus, but they are all far from perfect, most games suffer from bugs and huge slowdowns even on more powerful PC. The PS2 is hard to emulate, anyone with very basic knowledge would know that. The PS3 is even harder.
Also, all good games? give me a break: Metal Gear Solid, Ratchet and Clank, God of War, Devil May Cry, Tekken, Grand Turismo, and a long etc.
But I guess you’re another PC gaming master race (aka casual gamer) who thinks CoD and generic shooters are the only good games in existence.
okay now we really know you have no idea what you are talking about…
Wololo plz help i think there may be a glitch or sony did something i was useing my ps vita with tn-v and updated to the latest one and used ftp and it said connection error and now the application wont start or any other, i dont know what to do im boned!!!!
when i try to run it it says openal32.dll is missing runing the x64bit version. then when i grab the dll it just says it failed to start afterwards?
what application etc is open al from? some opengl codec? thats what im guessing here…
No Linux version? It’s still amazing that there is a PS3 emulator with this amount of progress, but how much I care just decreased by about 65%.
I Have Play Gta v on this emulator
Very exciting indeed, these are the first baby steps, but I cant see us having any games running at between half and full speed for at least another 5/6 years, and even when that happens you’ll need a monster pc to take advantage of that.
why u all trust that sony propaganda sony was the first which said that emulating ps3 is so hard… now look psnow u really think they use a mass of ps3´s no they emulate it themself
Why would they do that when running a farm of PS3s would be far more cost effective in every way?
They can just build a server with PS3 hardware, has that not come into your mind before making the comment?
E impossivel pelo fato do PS3 ter o processador Cell
A arquitetura e totalmente diferente de um x32/x64…
O emulador nunca vai rodar em full speed
Finally someone with brains. Gratiam per tibi.
lol this is so fake
***. failed to load while wineskinning this app. need to find what is missing
An awesome publish, aand one that avid gamers just like me enjoy reding
day in & day out!