RPCS3

RPCS3

RPCS3 0.0.0.4 running on Windows 7
Developer(s) RPCS3 Team
Stable release
0.0.0.9 / 16 April 2016 (2016-04-16)
Preview release
Development status Active
Written in C++, C
Operating system Windows, Linux, OS X
Platform x86-64 (with SSE4 preferred)
Size ~7 MB
Type Video game console emulator
License GNU GPLv2
Website rpcs3.net

RPCS3 is a free and open-source in-development emulator of the PlayStation 3 for Windows, OS X and Linux, allowing games to be played and debugged on a PC.[1] As of December 2015, the emulator is capable of playing a few commercial games.

Development

RPCS3 was created on May 23, 2011 by developers DH & Hykem,[2] initially on Google Code and moving to GitHub in 2013. It was first able to run simple homebrew projects in September 2011,[3] and the first named release, v0.0.0.2, was in June 2012,[4] followed by v0.0.0.4 in August 2013,[5] v0.0.0.5 in June 2014,[6] v0.0.0.6 in October 2015[7] and v0.0.0.9 in April 2016[8]

By early 2014, RPCS3 was capable of emulating Arkedo Series - 02 SWAP!, Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice, and some homebrew projects to varying degrees of playability,[1] with bugs and glitches present;[9] these games are notable in that they hardly use the SPU cores at all, making them easier to emulate and a good target for fixing PPU bugs.[10] A few more games have been brought to partial playability in 2015, including How to Train Your Dragon.[11] The emulation suffers from low framerate, in the single-digits even with 8-core PCs, but the developers have worked to reduce the bugs present and have enabled many more games to at least load the title screen and intro.[12]

Reception

In March 2014, Cinema Blend's William Usher wrote that "A lot of gamers originally thought that the complexity of the PlayStation 3's Cell architecture would have prevented it from being emulated", but development of RPCS3 shows that emulation is possible.[1]

Also in March 2014, Eurogamer's Elio Cossu wrote that the emulation, even at such an early stage, was "a remarkable achievement, considering the complexity of the hardware of the PS3."[9]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Usher, William (Mar 9, 2014). "PS3 Emulator Can Now Run Commercial Games". Cinema Blend. Retrieved Mar 9, 2014.
  2. ↑ DH (2011-05-23). "rpcs3 r1 on Google Code".
  3. ↑ DH (2011-05-23). "rpcs3 r28 on Google Code".
  4. ↑ DH (2012-06-01). "rpcs3 tag 0.0.0.2".
  5. ↑ DH (2013-08-27). "rpcs3 tag 0.0.0.4".
  6. ↑ DH (2014-06-27). "rpcs3 tag 0.0.0.5".
  7. ↑ "RPCS3/rpcs3". GitHub. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
  8. ↑ "RPCS3/rpcs3". GitHub. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
  9. 1 2 Cossu, Elio (Mar 7, 2014). "RPCS3, ecco l'emulatore PS3 per Windows". Eurogamer (in Italian). Retrieved Mar 9, 2014.
  10. ↑ DH (2014-04-29). "recompiler for rpcs3".
  11. ↑ Dante38490 (2015-04-29). "How to Train Your Dragon - [BLES00798]".
  12. ↑ Simons, Hadlee (March 7, 2014). "First PS3 game running on emulator". iAfrica.com. Primedia. Retrieved March 9, 2014.
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