RPCS3 emulator can now run PS3 games on PC directly from a disc drive in landmark development — unlocks 20 years of physical titles on Windows, Linux, and macOS
https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/playstation/rpcs3-emulator-can-now-run-games-on-pc-directly-from-a-disc-drive-in-landmark-development-unlocks-20-years-of-physical-ps3-games-on-windows-linux-and-macos
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cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 12h
Can confirm, RPCS3 works great on my M2 Pro Mac mini, should work nearly as well on my M2 MacBook Air, though, because that doesn't have active cooling... I wouldn't chance it. It's a nice netbook for what it is.
All I played on it was Rockband 3 with the Rockband Deluxe mod, but it ran near flawlessly. I'm not sure how a 3D action game would run. I should try to see if I can get something like Fallout 3 running on it.
tehmics@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 5h
Been enjoying yarg and ghwt on PC, but RB3 was really my baby and I'd love to see what Deluxe is about. Is emulation really that good, latency/timing wise? I got a roll limitless for my 360 but I cba setting it back up
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 14h
Wow. Have SSD prices gotten so crazy that people are buying BluRay drives?
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 9 pts · 13h
No, PS3 games are on BluRay discs.
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 13h
They've always been though. Why this development now?
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 11 pts · 13h
Because you can now just insert a disc into a blue BluRay drive (which you'll have needed to rip them to disk anyway) on your PC to play them: just like on a real PS3.
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · -4 pts · 13h
Why did it take 20 years to happen? is the question
Edit: Previling philsophy of history: things just kind of happen.
otacon239@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 13h
If I had to guess, randomly accessing the storage on the disc takes a lot more overhead time compared to reading from an internal drive. Now the emulator is so fast that it can handle the seek time on top of emulating the console.
BurgerBaron@quokk.au · 3 pts · 6h
Fat PS3 was only capable of 1X - 2X Bluray read ~9MB/s while Slim and Super Slim were capable of 6X ~27MB/s (changes over the surface of the disc of course) so I don't think that's it. PS3 used a rather shitty BSD FAT32 driver for their 5400rpm laptop drives and SSD upgrades were better but still heavily bottlenecked by said driver.
I can load a decrypted ISO directly in RPSC3 over 1 Gigabit ethernet from a NAS with that inherent horrendous latency (compared to local storage drives, especially random access) and it'll still load faster than a game would on an actual PS3 on either or even combined storage mediums like many games partial installed to HDD and also used Bluray.