PlayStation 3 emulators
The PlayStation 3 (known shorthand as PS3) is a console by Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., released in 2006/2007. This console is notorious for being difficult to work with, due to the newly-introduced Cell Broadband Engine achitecture that no game developer outside of Sony has worked with prior to launch.
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Emulators
Due to the complexity of the Cell processor achitecture, 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. RPCS3 is at its very early stages, and it shows a lot of promise. It can actually 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. The emulator is improving at a rapid pace – and if it keeps up, then pure end users could probably find use for it in about 4 years.
Name | Operating System(s) | Latest Version | Active | Recommended |
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RPCS3 | Windows, Linux | SVN | ✓ | ✗ |
Short Waves | Windows | 0.0.2 | ? | ✗ |
Short Waves was made by an unknown developer. It's not known whether the emulator is active or not.