cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49514337
Their compatibility list notes 75.33% are Playable, 22.93% can go in-game but not be finished and only 1.69% can’t get past the intro.
I should build an emulation machine out of spare parts…
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.
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.
Well I’m in Canada, and almost everything is tied in with natural resources at some level. Lol
This is really impressive, but it’s also a bit of a shame about the timing since so many great games from PS3 were already ported to PC, like Bloodborne, RDR, Last of Us or Uncharted
Only Uncharted 4 is available on PC, none of the PS3 era games are available, sadly. I haven’t tried on the most recent version of the emulator, but:
- Uncharted 1, 2: Completed all the way through
- Uncharted 3: Got to the final level, but couldn’t complete it. It also crashed a LOT, and there are several janky spots with crazy slow downs etc. like the ship graveyard. It’s also a bit annoying to get running in the first place. The recommended settings are actually required in my experience. Doesn’t work without them.
I love me some Uncharted! Emulator is going to be the best way to play them soon. It’s already superior imo because I was able to set up gyro aim
edit: I’m misremembering the games. It was 3 that I couldn’t complete due to the demon hallucination things causing a crash, not 2
Maybe I don’t need to bother fixing my PS3.
Do it anyway for the skillgain, the e-waste prevention, and bragging rights. 🤙
I only have one because I always wanted to have all 7th gen consoles back in the day but could only have one.
7th gen specifically? Any reason why?
What I grew up with. Nostalgia is a helluva drug.
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.
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.
They play PS2 games just fine, all PS3 models do. It’s something like 7% of games in the entire library that have issues with the software emulator but the vast majority of games will run and play without any problems.
The hardware backwards compatibility makes it slightly easier to use physical discs, that’s about it. It also doesn’t play every game perfectly like the original console, but it is slightly better than software.
They play PS2 games just fine, all PS3 models do.
Noooo… that’s not right at all. If we are talking unmodified hardware. The original models did have something like 99% compatibility, but as the generation moved on, the fat models removed more components to make it cheaper and made PS2 backward compatibility more software driven… until the slim models removed PS2 disc reading completely.
We used to look at the hard drive size to gauge. 20GB & 60GB was full hardware, 80GB was partial software, anything above was a slim and had no PS2 abilities.
PS1 muddies the water because all PS3s can play PS1 game discs.
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.
The PS5s audio system is nothing special, what are you talking about? You didn’t buy into all the “tempest is their secret sauce and can be used for extra graphics work” BS did you?
Newer traditional consoles are going that route anyways, too. Price aside, the Steam Machine is just a prebuilt PC masquerading as a console, and the next Xbox is rumored to be following that same approach.
Whatever Sony is doing, though…your guess is as good as mine. I don’t even know if Sony knows what Sony is doing at this point.
I got a slim
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!
I’m in a similar boat, though my current GPU (1050Ti) probably isn’t up to much beyond lighter/2D titles (due to overhead) and those files are a bit heavy/messy to manage.
I actually have 2 PS3s (my YLoD original w/drive donated to other, a slightly newer model that might have dry paste). Would be nice if I had someone to help with this (my OG has stuff on it*), then again I could do some of it myself I just am not bothering to do so. I did play through a few of my old games as-is on the newer PS3.
* including LBP1 water DLC that was discontinued and wasn’t included w/GotYE. Though due to storage constraints and lack of planning it’s very possible there’s media I purchased that I deleted at some point
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?
You’ll need to rip and decrypt.
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.
But is Demons Souls one of them?
Yep, just played It last week.
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.
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?
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!
