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| − | * [[RPCS3]] is at its very early stages, and it shows a lot of promise. It can boot quite a few commercial games right now, (albeit most of them run at <1FPS, have heavy glitches, and crash pretty early on) and even more games can boot their splash screens | + | * [[RPCS3]] is at its very early stages, and it shows a lot of promise. It can boot quite a few commercial games right now, (albeit most of them run at <1FPS, have heavy glitches, and crash pretty early on) and even more games can boot their splash screens. |
* Short Waves was made by an unknown developer. It's not known whether the emulator is active or not. | * Short Waves was made by an unknown developer. It's not known whether the emulator is active or not. | ||
Revision as of 20:33, 28 July 2014
The PlayStation 3 (known shorthand as PS3) is a console by Sony, released in 2006/2007. This console is notorious for being difficult to work with, due to the newly-introduced Cell Broadband Engine architecture that no game developer outside of Sony has worked with prior to launch.
Emulators
| Name | Operating System(s) | Latest Version | Active | Recommended |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RPCS3 | Windows, Linux | SVN | ✓ | ✗ |
| Short Waves | Windows | 0.0.2 | ? | ✗ |
Comparisons
- RPCS3 is at its very early stages, and it shows a lot of promise. It can boot quite a few commercial games right now, (albeit most of them run at <1FPS, have heavy glitches, and crash pretty early on) and even more games can boot their splash screens.
- Short Waves was made by an unknown developer. It's not known whether the emulator is active or not.
Emulation issues
Due to the complexity of the Cell processor architecture, plus the fact that it would take a LOT of resources to get such games emulated (as an example, see specifications in Dolphin and PCSX2 for their respective consoles), there is no usable emulator for PS3.
