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PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 reaches a new milestone: 75% of all PS3 games are now playable on PC
(www.gamingonlinux.com)
Maybe I don't need to bother fixing my PS3.
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I only have one because I always wanted to have all 7th gen consoles back in the day but could only have one.
The fat PS3 was a great deal because it could run Linux and natively play PS2 games as well. I haven't been into consoles since the fat PS3, they have all gotten worse and worse IMO. I did buy a Steam Deck and really like it, if that counts as a console.
The power supply on my fat PS3 recently quit on me. It feels like the old YLOD but happens the moment the power supply kicks in instead of taking 10 seconds or so. Fingers crossed I can find a doner supply, it'll be a while before I get to it though.
Fingers crossed I can find a doner supply 🥙😋
Oh my Lord... I think you just predicted dinner!
Unfortunately not all the fats could run PS2 games, only the CECHAxx and CECHBxx (NTSC) had the hardware to run PS2 games. The early PAL models (CECHCxx and CECHExx) had software emulation apparently, dunno if it was any good. I hunted down a fat model specifically because I wanted the backwards compatibility, can't remember which model I ended up buying, but it was not a backwards compatible one. Very disappointed at the time, but I was still sad when it died.
Also the possiblity to dualboot Linux was patched out pretty quickly if I remember correctly, people were pretty peeved about it.
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I’d like to think the Steam Deck is a PC that is changing the rules as to what form factor a “personal computer” can take - of course with a heavy focus on gaming and so it takes a lot of design inspiration from what console gaming got right.
Console used to mean “specialized hardware to be able to push pixels needed for an incredible gaming experience” but now it means “locked down PC with walled garden ecosystem and advertising built in, including tracking”
I do have to give Sony credit for trying to improve audio in games with the PS5’s audio system - but has it worked? Have any games blown anyone away with their immersive sound design?
The only other “killer” feature of the PS5 was direct texture loading onto VRAM (bypassing CPU), and I think PCs can do that now with DirectStorage. So what is the point of a console anymore?
Sony knows this and they’re out of ideas. This is why they are locking down their ecosystem. I mean, it probably won’t work well for them, least not in the long term.
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Do it anyway for the skillgain, the e-waste prevention, and bragging rights. 🤙
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That's impressive.
At my work, we had these cell processor-based blade servers for a while. Basically the same chips as in a PS3 except they could handle double-precision floats. We wanted to use them for scientific modelling, but gave up eventually. They were such a bitch to program! I can only imagine emulating them must've been a nightmare.
Whoa what do you do? That sounds super fascinating!
It's a small company that does mineral surveying, but we've done a lot of R&D in the past that ranged from designing our own survey instrumentation to writing geophysical modelling software. The Cell thing was for the latter.
IIRC the Cell processor was built around an IBM PowerPC, but that wasn't meant to do all the heavy lifting. Rather, it was supposed to be farmed out to these other processing nodes (I forget what they were called), almost like using a GPU for general computation. Now, the IBM consultant sold us on the Cell, saying they had an OpenCL library that would make all this much easier and hide the hardware details. LOL!
First of all, it was a 32-bit library. Maybe fine for a 32-bit console like the PS3, but our blades had 16 GB of RAM and it wasn't going to cut it. So I had to dig into the guts of the architecture to get anything usable and, long story short, a summer went by and I had little to show for my efforts.
Years later, we eventually got the program running on Threadrippers and that worked out much better!
Cool, thank you satisfying my curiosity! Wouldn't have thought of mineral surveying crossed with tech, though not surprising eh, not something I come across personally I guess.
Since we're already drifting off topic - all big tech companies make a lot of money by selling hardware, compute, or some other service to the oil and gas industry, they just don't go out bragging about it. Before the AI boom the oil and gas industry was among the biggest customers of the tech industry, just a quick search gives:
https://www.amd.com/en/solutions/energy.html
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/energy-resources/oil-gas
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/industries/energy/oil-gas-operations/
https://cloud.google.com/solutions/energy/oil-gas
Yeah, the prospecting industry includes mining and oil/gas. I'm in the former. In the past, if you went to a trade convention, the oil/gas side would take up at least 2/3 of the floor space, but that's kind of flipping around now. The electrification of the economy is bringing metals to the fore.
Well I'm in Canada, and almost everything is tied in with natural resources at some level. Lol
Yeah, I suspect most game developers felt the same way about it.
Most PS3 ports were rubbish compared to the Xbox 360 versions, despite the PS3 theoretically being better hardware.
Only the fancier PS3 exclusives really made the most of it.
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Unfortunately the InFamous games are still just "in-game".
They're both beatable, only issue is poor performance and glitchy graphics on Cole's face at high resolutions.
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I wish Infamous 2 didn't require a NASA computer to run well.
That franchise was really ahead of its time... Graphics, mechanics, everything...
And PoP!
Finished infamous 2 again earlier this year: it really is a gem!
I should build an emulation machine out of spare parts...
Might want to get into this. Would this emulator allow me to play off disks in my Blu-ray drive? Or will I need to find/make disk images?
Would this emulator allow me to play off disks in my Blu-ray drive?
Signs point to no, at least due to DRM (?) many PC blu-ray drives aren't capable of reading PS3 discs. Technically possible if you buy a specific drive (or maybe altering a drive?), otherwise you probably would need a PS3 with custom firmware to rip your own games.
EDIT, More directly:
In its current state, RPCS3 does not support reading game data directly from PlayStation 3 format discs.
You'll need to rip and decrypt.
But is Demons Souls one of them?
Yes, it is listed as playable !
Hopefully the Bluepoint remaster can be made playable on PC someday, too. I'll never forgive Sony for killing it and closing the studio down.
Yep, just played It last week.
Yep like the other said it works. I played it about a year ago on RPCS3 on both Mac and Windows 10. Got up to the Old King Alliant boss fight and got stuck again... then started playing Bloodborne on my PC instead with ShadPS4
...I was not aware Bloodborne had been emulated. I've never gotten to play it as I refuse to buy a console for just one game.
Awesome!
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Yep! Not only that but there is working multiplayer too!
glad to see Tokyo Jungle on there! hopefully someday I can find a rip
Oh I loved Tokyo Jungle! What a fun and delightful game. Iirc you started off as a Pomeranian and worked your way up to bigger and badder animals right?
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