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http://www.kdramastars.com/articles/41735/20141002/ps3-emulator-for-pc.htm

http://www.emunewz.net/forum/showthread.php?tid=164533
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RCPS3 Able To Play Commercial Games At 30fps

It is finally here, PC gamers! A real working PS3 emulator for the PC has arrived and we've got some videos of the PS3 emulator RPCS3 playing the commercial game "Arkedo Series - 02 Swap" and "Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice"
Download Here!

Obviously, it's VERY rough. So don't expect to play full games on it just yet. But let the developers know you care about what they're doing!

Subscribe to them on Youtube or leave a comment on their updates.

Only a handful of people have watched their progress videos so far. Let's give them some feedback and encouragement!
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For more reference.

Here's where the project was a year ago It could barely get a few frames of Doom going.


Here's the project AS OF LAST MONTH. Doom looks and plays fluidly with ease. The recompiler they've incorporated is showing real progress!
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Didn't the PS3 and 360 use similar CPUs? I'm not referring to the Cell architecture's co-processors, but I mean the main core in the PS3 and the three cores in the 360. If anything, it seems easier to emulate a 360. Hopefully one of those is on its way too, but we also haven't cracked the original x86 Xbox.
 
nice job. Trying to emulate those PS3 cores must be some crazy task.
 
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What are the recommended/required specs? I assume this emulator will actually need processors with lots of logical cores unlike say Dolphin which just wants two really fast cores?
they are still way off. That video is 16x sped up. The FPS is 0.33 it's unplayable. Give it at least 2 more years till they find a way to emulate it way faster.
 
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nice job. Trying to emulate those PS3 cores must be some crazy task.
Understatement of the thread right here, ladies and mostly gentlemen!
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Yeah, I'm sure it will be a programming nightmare to implement those well, or perhaps at all.

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What are the recommended/required specs? I assume this emulator will actually need processors with lots of logical cores unlike say Dolphin which just wants two really fast cores?
PS3 is single-core with hyperthreading (well, not technically, but it's the same thing in practice). It also has six FPU "cores" used like a GPGPU; that's what makes Cell Cell. I'd assume you could use two cores to emulate the main core, but I'm not sure of the others. It would be neat if tasks for those could be offloaded to integrated graphics or the GPU, since CPUs are awful at floating-point. An 18-core Haswell-EP chip is going to be less powerful than an A10-7850k using HSA, for example, in floating-point.
 
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they are still way off. That video is 16x sped up. The FPS is 0.33 it's unplayable. Give it at least 2 more years till they find a way to emulate it way faster.
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Understatement of the thread right here, ladies and mostly gentlemen!
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Yeah, I'm sure it will be a programming nightmare to implement those well, or perhaps at all.
PS3 is single-core with hyperthreading (well, not technically, but it's the same thing in practice). It also has six FPU "cores" used like a GPGPU; that's what makes Cell Cell. I'd assume you could use two cores to emulate the main core, but I'm not sure of the others. It would be neat if tasks for those could be offloaded to integrated graphics or the GPU, since CPUs are awful at floating-point. An 18-core Haswell-EP chip is going to be less powerful than an A10-7850k using HSA, for example, in floating-point.
OK thanks for the answers.
 
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give it 10 years and hardware will be okay enough to emulate it

also where are the commercial games? I could care less for this homebrew stuff really. cmon now.
weeks ago it was running doom, now it's running a retail game. 2-3 years top and you'll play it decently
 
I remember some folks used to say it was impossible to emulate PS3, guess they were wrong.
 
Wouldn't it be easier to emulate the PS4 and XBONE?

x86 cores and all, an i7 or FX 8000 series should be able to emulate with each core using 1/2 or less CPU power.

That'll be next year, I'd bet.
 
It is coming. The time is nigh.
 
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Wouldn't it be easier to emulate the PS4 and XBONE?

x86 cores and all, an i7 or FX 8000 series should be able to emulate with each core using 1/2 or less CPU power.

That'll be next year, I'd bet.
I believe that the 1.6GHz Jaguar cores are roughly equal in power to two Haswell cores at twice the speed, meaning an i3. Given the number of threads available, an FX-6000 or an i5 is likely going to be the minimum to run them well.

But yes, that's more like decryption than emulation and much easier in theory. It's a stock-standard x86 CPU using a stock-standard GCN GPU running modified Windows and Linux kernels.
 
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I believe that the 1.6GHz Jaguar cores are roughly equal in power to two Haswell cores at twice the speed, meaning an i3. Given the number of threads available, an FX-6000 or an i5 is likely going to be the minimum to run them well.

But yes, that's more like decryption than emulation and much easier in theory. It's a stock-standard x86 CPU using a stock-standard GCN GPU running modified Windows and Linux kernels.
Wait clarify this, you mean the 8 Jaguar cores inside the consoles are equal to two 3.2GHz Haswell cores correct? The way I'm reading that it sounds like you mean core for core.
 
I wish they would remake a few more PS3 games for PS4 or add backwards compatability.

Demon's Souls with improved graphics and 60 fps would do really well on PS4. It doesn't need to be a big overhaul, HD remake would be enough. Like with Sleeping Dogs, Metro, Zelda Wind Waker ~.

Other than that I could see MGS 4, Red Dead Redemption and Uncharted 1-3 doing well. MGS 4 and RDR would be even better on PC though
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Wait clarify this, you mean the 8 Jaguar cores inside the consoles are equal to two 3.2GHz Haswell cores correct? The way I'm reading that it sounds like you mean core for core.
core-for-core, check it out.

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+A4-5000+APU

4 core jaguar @ 1.5Ghz get 2000 on perf. test.... ofc it's a laptop so there's probably a bit more power hidden away in the console version, not much though.

So my guess is the CPUs that are present on the home consoles would get around 4500/5000 on cpubenchmark.net

Here's a list of CPUs from highest to lowest

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

So you can see, almost every i5 and FX 6000+ could easily run the CPU side of things. But even with poor coding, an i7 and 8300 series could do it handily.

The real issue would be the PS4's GDDR5 memory. ofc this is still NOTHING compared to the work that would have to be put into a PS3 emulator.
 
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