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|license = GNU GPLv2
|compatibility = [https://rpcs3.net/compatibility Compatibility list]
|bios = [[Emulator_Files#PlayStation_3|Required]]
}}
'''RPCS3''' is a very promising open-source, multi-platform [[PlayStation 3 emulators|PlayStation 3 (PS3)]] emulator/debugger written in C++. RPCS3 can run over 1,000 900 commercial titles without major glitches (see the [https://rpcs3.net/compatibility compatibility list]). It also emulates the PSN versions of the [[PlayStation emulators|PlayStation Classics]]. The emulator is making huge progress, improving every month. (See the [https://rpcs3.net/blog/ progress reports])
==Download==
==Overview==
RPCS3 was started by programmers 'DH' and 'Hykem' (Who began beta-testing and coding for [[JPCSP]] in 2008) in on May 23, 2011. The developers initially hosted the project on Google Code and eventually moved it to GitHub later in its development. The emulator was first able to successfully boot and run simple homebrew projects and was then later publicly released in June of 2012. Then-[[Orbital]] founder, Alex Altea, even joined these two developers in the late summer of 2013, and worked on a number of aspects , and maintained the project up till early 2015. DH left the project in mid -2016 and started doing [https://github.com/RPCS4 PlayStation 4 related research]. Hykem was forced to leave the emulation scene in mid -2016 for a number of legitimate reasons.<ref>[http://www.emunewz.net/forum/showthread.php?tid=174735 [IMPORTANT] Hykem says goodbye] (August 18, 2016)</ref>
Three years into its development, it could load the intros to some games with sound,<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOcUcD9y51w Rpcs3 Update Quality Sound - Intro Video - The Guided Fate Paradox] (Mar 26, 2014)</ref> as well as play some portions of Disgaea 3 and The Guided Fate Paradox, but with heavy graphical glitches and no sprites.<ref name="Disgaea3 video">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQEv6B6fIgA RPCS3 WIP - Disgaea 3 - Ingame!] (Mar 22, 2014)</ref> Today RPCS3 is dubbed one of the most complex video game console emulators of all time with an endless goal to effectively emulate the Sony PlayStation 3 and all of its aspects. The goal of this project is for its programmers to experiment, research, and educate on the topic of PlayStation 3 emulation that can be performed on compatible devices and operating systems.<ref>[https://rpcs3.net/about RPCS3: About Us page]</ref>
Developer Nekotekina opened [https://www.patreon.com/Nekotekina a Patreon campaign] in 2017, with kd-11 joining not long after.
As of April 20202021, RPCS3 has been able to play over 5059.75% of the PS3 library from start to finish. The emulator is capable of running over 1,000 900 games at a playable speed with no major glitches<ref name="Compatibility Page">https://rpcs3.net/compatibility</ref>, though it requires very demanding hardware on most games. On In June 2018 after a few improvements and fixes, at least most [https://rpcs3.net/blog/2018/07/15/progress-report-june-2018/ PlayStation 1 Classic titles] became playable. Currently, only the PSN versions work (No PS1 discs are able to be loaded in-game yet).
Since the emulator started getting funded on Patreon, development has been progressing quickly, so more games are expected to be playable in the near future.
==Setting up==
===Installing the firmware===
RPCS3 does not work without firmware. This firmware contains libraries used to interface with the games in different ways, like Bluetooth, PlayStation Eye, and so on. For a long time, it was commonly thought that these libraries could only be extracted from a modded PS3, which would have greatly increased the barrier to entry, however one of the developers discovered all the libraries were actually bundled with each system update, and that [https://www.playstation.com/en-us/support/hardware/ps3/system-updates/ps3software/ Sony also supplies these updates through their website]. This is the preferred method of installing the firmware; download the latest update from Sony, then in RPCS3 go to File -> Install Firmware, and select the downloaded update file.
===Installing games and updates===
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