RPCS3 PS3 emulator just got updated... and its awesome! 

Chicken sandwich

Nice. I should be able to run it Ok (maybe like 30-60 FPS @810p+ with vsync off, medium settings or equivalent) on my Radeon Vega 16, i7 MacBook Pro in my Win 10 VM.

Yeah won’t be able to afford any of those parts any time soon for the next 5 years

@@aydenbeta1380 ong

@@aydenbeta1380 Not sure what you're running. But I'm on a 5800X and I've been poking around RPCS3 the past few days. Using the reommended settings for the following titles. Gran Turismo 5 - 50-60fps at 1440p. Car dealers and some other things will tank frames to low 30s in some places still. Gran Turismo 6 - 45-50fps at 1440p. Runs a lot worse for me than GT5. skate. and Skate 3 - 80 - 120fps at 4K. Ratchet and Clank Tools of Destruction - 4k, 50-60fps, some places will happily exceed 60fps. Ratchet and Clank A Crack in Time - much more unstable than Tools, some graphic effects can tank frames hard. Some areas will run close to 60+ at all times, but most locations will have drops to at least 30-40. MGS4 - 40-60fps usually. I have it uncapped so it can exceed but you're going to have some sections drop. Overall, rock solid for most of my time playing. Gran Turismo and Ratchet franchise have a lot of issues still, MGS4 obviously still has a ton of issues, it needs hacks/cheats to fix issues to get it running. You'll definitely need at least a 6 core CPU though as quad cores can get seriously bogged down. My old 3600X could still get a really solid 60fps on Skate 3. Enough to play through a good chunk of the goals. GPU isn't too important, especially if you don't use resolution scale. My 3080 is usually hovering around 50% at most in most of the games I've tried. Usually even lower.

Savestates are easy, you just dump memory and other state factors and load it back. Its same prinvplevhow PS4 hibernation work. but more complex hardware the more neucences to save is needed to not let game to glitch out on load.

they already were in rpcs3. just one at a time and if you load it you lose it

@@ShadowriverUB It's not the same as hibernation, as hibernate only saves RAM, not the full machine state. The only true implementation of save states on official consoles is Xbox quick resume

The save state feature is indeed surprising, as emulators for newer consoles don't usually have it, but then I guess dumping 256 MB of RAM isn't such a huge deal.

@@elimalinsky7069 There's still another 256MB of VRAM you'd have to dump. Either way it's not about size of RAM/speed of dump, the people who use savestates don't care if it's instant or takes 10 seconds. The real problem is saving and restoring the other parts of the machine gets very, very complex as consoles get newer.

amazing

I get random character models missing but once MGS4 is perfectly playable.... then RPCS3 will be perfect :D

So glad its improving, last I tried it (2020ish) it was struggling on rdr. Seems like a good time to go back to it 😎👉👉

What are your specs?

Tell us your specs, bro

it's awe inspiring what they've accomplished!

But somehow it would be "Too expensive" for Sony according to the guy in the video.

I've been using it for years now to run the Need For Speed Most Wanted beta builds. It's come a LONG way since then

The emulator is officially still in alpha iirc.

beta days? remind me what it says in the title bar of rpcs3 just after the version number?

Thank you for your service. 😂 Hopefully you donated to the project in those early days, too.

Sony are absolutely stupid for not doing backward compatibility

I know right. No specs to be seen

@@gerboogwouldnt a good CPU be more important in this case? Preferably one with AVX-512.

@@zombiebillcosby People forget what matters is CPU single threaded performance for emulation... and 8 cores when it comes to PS3 emulation specifically. GPU only comes into play when you want to use upscaling features.

​@@zombiebillcosby yeah RPCS3 is very heavy on the CPU. You don't really need all that beefy of a GPU to run games on it, but you definitely need a decent CPU.

I don't think you need 8 cores to emulate ps3, a ryzen 4 core should be able to handle it

Finshed that game abd finished my sanity

How "weak" was your laptop?

@@TheRibbonRed 1050 Ti and a 7700hq

@@bulutcagdas1071 That's surprising. I have an RTX2060 & i7-8750H. Thought I couldn't run anything on RPCS3 with it.

@@TheRibbonRed Demon's Souls is surprisingly easy to emulate. However not all games will be as easy to run. From what I understand, the emulator really likes high core counts with high frequencies.

not to mention that GT6 has a fairly decent online mode by itself which recently got revived and is fairly active

@@chickerinoradio6617 FOR REAL?! I just jailbroken my PS3 and been playing GT6 for a minute now, do you have more information about the online aspects revival?

Oh that's a shame. I was looking forward to eventually playing 7 for its career mode.

dont forget, GT7 has no leveling at all but instead car collection scores. This means, apart from drop feeding new content and SJW characters sending wall of text e.g. first car you buy monologue by a zoomer who is a car historian in her 20s, GT7 feels nice to drive but awful to navigate, you can not differentiate from player a vs b by looking at their level whether they are skilled drivers or noobs, to sort online lobbies easily.

@@haaxxx9 just google it. There are two or three teams doing their own stuff. PS3 uses some old standards from PS2 which means 1st party games use that for sure, so that depending on luck or bad luck, DNS routes are used to point the console to a community server like PS2 does and less like origina Xbox with it's Insignia Live which just points at one static direction to get all games routed.

It runs pretty well on my 6th gen i7 6700hq as well.

rpcs3 have avx-512 which is something that break the limit of traditional cpu, they can do paralleled like in gpu by having more than limited dozen register

@@BastyTHz so why is intel killing avx-512 off?

@@domingorodriguez3077 I believe AVX512 was killed off because the little cores don't have it, the big cores do. But windows scheduling was having issues with giving AVX tasks to little cores in testing and they couldn't resolve it for whatever reason. Also, AVX was a large thermal contributor to an already thermally limited design. I think that made their decision easier. I feel like we will see AVX 512 again in an intel CPU, but it may not be until they work with windows to ensure it's a smooth experience. In contrast, AMD supported AVX 512 for the first time in the 7xxx series CPUS, but it's a weird half AVX 512 where they combine two AVX 256 units in some black magic voodoo technique. But my understanding is that the performance isn't quite as robust as what we saw in the Intel 11 series Rocket Lake parts.

LOL 7th Gen Emus.. Especially RPCS3 will play less than half the titles. About 50% if not more will have severe lag and stuttering issues or other failures. EMU might be operational for 7th Gen consoles.. But fully functional is like 5 years away, at least

Is it the SRKade server? They have some fighting games there like Tekken

Wait, seriously? What's the name of it?

Do you need CFW to play on the custom servers?

There is someone that made a tutorial on yt but for some reasons i can't post the discord server link here

@@batzertyabc3339 yeah, youtube NUKES every link you can put (idk about youtube links though, those might work?).

Me with a 12600k 🙌 s tier

Post the link if you find it please! I've got a 3060Ti but with a 3900X.....3DS and DS emulators run great on it same with my laptop and its 6900HS and 6700S GPU

@@nateo200 3900X is in the B tier

3700x and old gtx 1060 6gb already runs games better than og hw

I am glad somebody is compiling that list, however, I own two of the CPUs in that list and they are both in the same tier - they do not perform the same. Whatever benchmark they are using is less multithreaded than Infamous 2.

I played through mgs4 a few months ago Some visual errors and wasn't butter smooth but it was playable

Ridge Racer 7

I played through Armored Core 4 and now I'm going through For Answer. They run at 60 fps most of the times despite my CPU (i5-8600k, which isn't optimal since it's not an 8 cores CPU). They rarely crash, so it's advised to save every couple of missions. I couldn't play V since either my CPU can't handle it or it still need work.

​@@snakeshepard9761when was the last time you tries AC V? I think there's been an update that improved performance for it

@@nisnast maybe 3 to 4 months ago. But I made peace with the fact that some games can't be emulated on my currest system. I hope I'll be able to upgrade my hardware not too far into the future.

🤔🤷🤦

why?

@@TheSpadis My steamdeck can run a good chunk of the rpcs3 library at a near stable 60fps. You should be alright assuming you don't crack everything up to 4k 120fps.

You must be poor to say that.

​​@@TheSpadis rpcs3 does not need a strong gpu, just a fast cpu. I have an i5-12490F and the las of us runs at 40fps or more most of the times

Where did u get the midnight club?

@@rolanfbaby I think I bought the PS3 copy of the game from Walmart back in the day. There are copies on Amazon for 15 bucks these days, though. I still have my collection of PS3 disks and I dump them to my computer with an LG WH16NS40 BD drive before loading them into RPCS3.

Man Midnight Club LA is one of the best games I ever played.

Isn't shadow of the colossus a ps2 game ?

@@leonbelmont4028yes but there’s a ps3 port/remaster, and ps4 remake.

Kinda of clickbait, you need top of the line hardwire, though I did play ps3 emulator with less hardware and it was fine.

no way

@@ninjaskillzyt if you look at its avatar, you can see its not from the smartest end of the quotient.

You comment, but have you tested?

Don't hold your breathe, the reason GT games are so hard to emulate, even the PS2 entries, are because of the level of hardware knowledge that Polyphony Digital would exploit to gain as much performance and visual fidelity for their games is insane.

@@levant5378 Yeah not for a while but I would say, eventually enough brute force w/ further optimisations, it should be able to get to a locked 1080p60, who knows when but one day, and if it gets better, it'll be a good time.

GT4 runs great on pcsx2. the problem i have with GT5 on rpcs3, is that it desyncs... otherwise runs great! It's the first GT game with behind the wheel cockpit view cant wait to emulate it without desync issues...

I have been battling with getting GTA IV to play on rpcs3. I can't find a guide for it. Been wanting to play without the console...

@@hardyjoe4278 perhaps try xbox 360 emulation, if no luck then id just wait, it will happen sooner or later

@@hardyjoe4278you know there’s a pc version right?

@@gozutheDJpc is just as bad. The pc version never got optimized and since it’s old you need a bunch of work to get it running properly

@@shain4636 xbox 360 and Ps3 had a ton of similar titles, minus the exclusives off course. The 360 emulation is miles ahead of the PS3.. Not knocking the devs hard work.. Just saying the emu is more complete. more that 75% of the games run flawlessly. Not the case with RPCS3 I tried 10 random games and all had major issues.. Not fun.. But one day, they will figure it out.

right but, with 86 some million consoles sold they really arnt hard to find

Well, it's a good thing he's not from London!

Use the predictive async shader thing under GPU settings. (Can't remember the official name) It'll cut down on stuttering by loading in dummy textures while the real textures load in.

​@@Patrick-bn5rp oh sweet, thanks for the advice

@@colonelvector did you try playing the 3ds version on emulator ?

@@Recals maybe at one point but the Ps3 version supports 60fps and higher resolution by default, which I couldn't guarantee with the 3ds version

The Xbox 360 version on Xenia Canary is much better. If you're in an area with water in it the game speed drops to 50% and in areas like Groznij Grad, the bike chase and later areas (The Boss fight included) the game runs very slowly too. And you need to tweak the controls a lot to circumvent the pressure sensitivity, I got a custom layout and I can play pretty well with it, but it's hard to retrain the muscle memory. I had 0 shader compilation stutters (I have an i5-8600k). On Xenia it runs flawlessly and the controls are better, since you don't have the pressure sensitivity things and they're more similar to the original. The only issues I couldn't fix were the cockpits of the Hind (they weren't see through), a couple of glitches during radio conversations and a cutscenes where Sokolov explains the Shagohod in Groznij and a flickering triangle in the skybox when you fight the Shagohod. And strangely, both RPCS3 and Xenia have a bugged cutscene: after you kill The Boss there's a cutscene that show the aircraft and only its inside is rendered. On PCSX2 the game runs very badly from The Fear onwards (and has the same controls issue of RPCS3, if not worse) and even after hours of tweaking it still looks a bit blurry. Let's hope that the Master Collection comes to PC too, I don't care about the remake. The only gripes I have is that the HD Edition doesn't have the nightmare sequence or the extra stuff (Snake vs. Monkey and secret theater).

What are your specs?

Ryzen 7 5800H RTX 3060 When I last tested it, I had 16gb of RAM, although some games ran the same on 8gb.

@@Treynath84 did you play mgs4 If so how did it run?

Settings are un-optimised, there's probably something I can do to fix performance. Haven't played much so I can't remember exactly, but I think it was 40-60fps, I could be wrong. I had to use a patch to get it to work, took a few minutes to figure out how it worked.

Yeah the biggest issue with the future series was and tools wasn't so much the gameplay, (which got worse as they went on), but rather the retconning of the original trilogy and the kiddyfication of the characters and story. Tools is still the best on PS3.

The best ones are Ratchet & Clank 1 and 2 (Going Commando) for the PS2, Deadlocked is interesting too. They can be easily emulated on PCSX2 with widescreen patches too, the HD version on PS3 had a lot of glitches. The other games were made targeting very young kids only I think. The first one is still enoyable nowadays (it targeted teenagers), the second has an amazing gameplay and it already targeted younger audiences but it was still tollerable. 3 (Up Your Arsenal) is for young kids, Deadlocked is like 2 (target wise) while Tools of Destruction, A Crack in Time and the Remake are for newborn babies unfortunately...

@@levant5378 I far prefer Into the Nexus and Crack in Time over Tools.

You comment, but have you tested?

A far cry from using NESticle version 3.4 (yes I’m that old and nerdy enough to remember the specific version and emulator that came out in like the fall of 1997 😂). That was the beginning of my emulation journey. Barely worked and couldnt even run Nintendo games smoothly on my pc. Now we’re doing this with emulation! Crazy

@chiarosuburekeni9325 Bro! I started emulation on Android. I remembered when I first emulated Pokemon Fire Red on my Galaxy Exhibit and was blown away of how it performed. Now, I'm emulationing PS2 games on my PC 😁

Considering how Yuzu (A switch emulator, that would probably preform similarly to RPCS3 on mobile) only runs on the highest end Snapdragon phones, I'd doubt RPCS3 would be any different.

We have ps2 and wii on android so give it like 6 years

​@@omegadaboi PS3 games are harder to run than switch games, and considering switch games already run poorly on phones, its gonna be a bad experience

Maybe in 10 years

I still remember one of the dev hack PS3 back in 2014. So he knew how Cell CPU works and how to emulate it. In 2016, this emulator can play GoW 3 as long as you have 8 core AVX2 back then. Compare that to Pcsx2, it need 4 years Just to make it running FF10 and Even that, you need to use speedhack to make it playable

Yeah... But no! Sony wants to sell remakes. Look how The Last of Us part I got one remaster for the PS4 and a remake for PS5. They would do the same with Infamous. I believe if Uncharted tracks some popularity they might do a remake for the trilogy too.

They better don't, Sony already bought a PSX emulator back in the day, so it wouldn't be available on PC (Connectix Virtual Game Station).

@@ghost085 That's not entirely fair, Sony isn't Nintendo 😉 Although they did act very badly towards Connectix, that was a long time ago and lessons were learned. Sony's licensing of PCSX Rearmed for the PlayStation Classic demonstrates that they are not the hostile bully they were back in the early 2000's.

I've got the same CPU with a rtx 3070 and most part is very good but there are slow downs and crashes depends on the games really some games you just need a 8 core CPU

If he hasn't changed his PC I know he have a i7 10700 last time he did a rpcs3 video

I'm using Ryzen 7 5800X with 3060ti and find most games i play run pretty well with infamous 1 and 2 and GOW 3 and fight night games

@@altaafsheik5725 6 cores should be enough, thing is you need low latency cores with a beefy IPC and preferably TSX and/or avx - 512 instructions

@@Threewlz yeah i have an i5-11600k and even before this update I was very surprised at the good/great perf I got in a lot of games. GT5 and 6 in particular already ran either at fullspeed or close to it when other cars were on screen (framerate would only really tank when there was a big grid of cars on-screen at once, like 8-16) but the main issue with them was just that they were super prone to crashing and de-syncing, and in some cases game progression was blocked by some screens being unpassable due to threads hanging (GT5's used car dealership would load, but if you tried to buy a car, the game would hang indefinitely instead of proceeding to the next screen.) They've fixed that bug thankfully but I wonder if it's still gonna crash or not.

I want to know how well it performs on Zen 4 CPU because they have AVX512.

Yes please!

Bro had i9 and 4080 w/32gb ram

Licensing. These emulators are usually released under a copyleft license like GPL, and are using tons of code from similarly licensed projects, means instead of taking them out of the market, they would even be required to release all future improvements they do under the same license. This could theoretically be circumvented by relicensing it (which would require consent of all contributors) and replacing all code derived from other projects, but it's probably far more easy to just start from scratch and have full control.

It's also something I doubt they want to do Nintendo for example, how much more money do you think they make by reselling their old games every time they release a new console? If they had some dedicated emulator that all flies out the window because the expectation would be that it'd be multiplatform, at least internally between their own line of consoles

@@Full_Throttle_Axolotl Nintendo HAS emulators for their older hardwares; how do you think the old games they release over and over again run on the Switch? xD The thing is that their in-house emulators are kinda shit compared to free ones, but apparently it's "good enough". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

ROI There's no profit in emulation. Why spend millions you won't get back. Not enough people would buy an emulator to make it worthwhile on new consoles. Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft already released stats in in the PS3/360/Wii Era showing that emulator use was insignificant overall after the first year. So that millions is better spent on new games.

licensing, also it's too much money and resources for not enough profit

They're not, They have a Patreon.

@@DeejBruce that's for donations

we don't deserve these people, also makes me so mad that some snot nosed bastards complain about "too slow progress" "my favourite game is not working"...

@@DeejBruce The devs don't charge users up-front to access the software, so it's "free" compared to something like paying for Adobe Creative Suite.

I'm pretty sure the development started before Patreon was even a thing, and has been developed for a long while without donos. So, it's mostly labour of love without compensation.

I can't wait for the inevitable: RCPS3 on Xbox Series X

​@@UnorthodoxJediWow, good point. There might be a point in the future when the Xbox can play PS3 games but the PS5 can't.

They could, but if I'm not mistaken RPCS3 is open source so they would have to 1: credit the original emulation team and 2: publish any changes they make to the emulator.

@@Plumtopia I know they'll never do that but that would be a win-win

The license allows it, but I don't think Sony wants to add GPL-2.0-only (which requires fulfilling source code requests for interested users) code into the PlayStation.

It'll maybe be apart of the Vol. 2 of the MGS master collection while Vol. 1 has the 1,2,3. They'll just have to cutout the references to PS3 on the game

I completed MGS 4 on a Quad Core at 60 fps most of the times. Idk how better they can make an emulator for a console that developers shat their pants to port games.