Villainstone

I was just wondering what stops hackers/crackers from making these and running them on PC? I am not interested, its just that I seen a PS3 commercial that said the PS3 does everything. You can imagine the things that went through my head at that point. Well this was one of them.

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mth91

Time.

Edit: and energy.

Edit #2: and money.

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videoman5

It takes alot of CPU power to emulate things. I'd expect emulation of current gen consoles in about 7 years. Heck, emulation of the last gen needs at least a decent computer, and is STILL buggy.

Interesting to note though: Xbox 1 used an x86 CPU, there currently is a project to have Xbox 1 games run natively on x86 based computers.

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justinjja

not positive about this but I think that the 360 and posibliy the ps3 use a different type of processor than the usual x86 computer.
So when creating an emulator you have to create a virtual processor, which requires the computer to be a lot faster than the thing it virtualizes.

For example my laptop can only run a gameboy game like 5x faster that an actual gameboy yet my laptop is probably 1000 times more powerful than a gameboy(they run at like 20mhz?)

Crazy9000

You are correct.

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rastablast

nothing an i7 can't handle lol

Liability

Even PS2 emulation doesn't work perfectly on an i7.

TestECull

An i7 would choke on a PS2 emu running something like Gran Turismo 4 if you get a super populated race going.


Simply too much overhead in the nature of emulating things. Sure, you could run those cheap, sucky little indie games that never sold for more than 5 bucks, but you won't be running the good ones any better than they originally ran on their i486 equivalent.

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VulcanDragon

There hasn't been a good working emulator for the last gen yet, much less this one. And it's going to stay that way for a long time, unless/until someone stops trying to write a software emulator and turns their attention instead to creating a hardware level hypervisor. And good luck with that, I'll bet the architectures are so different that it may not even be possible.

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