PS3 emulation is looking pretty promising lately [Archive]

baseline bum

08-19-2017, 08:28 PM

lol they mostly show playable parts of the game..Lots of bits that is still unplyable

Those first six games I posted are supposed to be fully playable with good framerates. I know Demon's Souls is if you configure it correctly. The majority of games either don't start, crash a lot, or run 5-15 fps with really bad texture problems but last year they all ran that bad except for one crappy Shrek game and some really lame cartoony game I can't recall right off hand.

baseline bum

08-19-2017, 08:30 PM

Hence looking promising with a lot more to be accomplished.

Streaming PS3 games through PSNOW is still the more effiecient way. :tu

Buying the PS3 games from Gamestop and the Playstation Store is still the most efficient. But hopefully RPCS3 will give us a way to play these PS3 games once the legit hardware becomes hard to find and expensive.

Wild Cobra

08-20-2017, 07:56 AM

How about Grand Tourismo 6?

baseline bum

08-20-2017, 02:14 PM

How about Grand Tourismo 6?

It's only listed as loadable.

https://rpcs3.net/compatibility?c=g&o=2a&p=2

You have any interest in the Forza games? You should be able to play the upcoming Forza 7 in Windows 10, and most people I know into racing simulations prefer Forza to Gran Turismo. Forza 7 is also supposed to run at 4k 60fps on XBox One X if you'd rather play racing games on console to put on an HDTV vs monitor. At least it was running 4k60 at Microsoft's E3 presentation back in June.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T85Fshj2eiY

Mikeanaro

08-20-2017, 07:39 PM

Looking good, but what GPU are they using?

ElNono

08-20-2017, 08:17 PM

Reck

08-20-2017, 08:20 PM

GT Sports is kicking ass... and I'm not a driving sim guy... that said, I played it on this 250k+ cabinet...

http://i.imgur.com/D3iKZ9p.jpg

The VR version is kinda weird though, just weird not feeling the G forces when turning, etc...

Waiting for this so bad.

Actually impressed they're releasing it this year. Thought for sure it would be pushed deep into 2018.

Still might though. You never know with Polyphony.

baseline bum

08-20-2017, 08:27 PM

GT Sports is kicking ass... and I'm not a driving sim guy... that said, I played it on this 250k+ cabinet...

http://i.imgur.com/D3iKZ9p.jpg

The VR version is kinda weird though, just weird not feeling the G forces when turning, etc...

Is GT Sport a simulation like previous Gran Turismo games and like Forza Motorsport, or is it an arcade racer like Forza Horizon?

baseline bum

08-20-2017, 08:43 PM

Looking good, but what GPU are they using?

I'm not sure if it really even uses the gpu in those videos. I can't seem to find it now but I saw a post from one of the RPCS3 devs this week talking about how they just started emulating the RSX with gpu instead of the cpu. Almost all emulators are extremely cpu bound, and bound by single core performance. For instance, CEMU can run mostly 30 fps on Zelda BOTW if you have a 4GHz Skylake quadcore but drop down to a 3.6 GHz i7-5820k hexacore and you get lots of drops into the low to mid 20s on the framerate. PCSX2 for the PS2 is similarly straight cpu bound. Same for Dolphin on Wii + Gamecube. I can't think of any emulator that cares a whole lot about what gpu you run. But I haven't ran RPCS3 mostly because I have pretty much every PS3 game I want already either on disc or bought from the Playstation Store, so I'm going to wait until it's really polished before installing and gaming on it. But if you have a Skylake i5 or i7 with a decent clockspeed it seems like Dragon's Crown would be pretty playable. I remember you're really into 2D beat 'em ups and that is a killer game. Odin Sphere Leifthrasir is another really cool 2D beat 'em up listed as currently playable on the RPCS3 compatibility list, but that could mean it runs at 15-20 fps instead of the 30 fps a real PS3 would run it at. So playable but not enjoyable if that's the case.

Mikeanaro

08-20-2017, 08:54 PM

I'm not sure if it really even uses the gpu in those videos. I can't seem to find it now but I saw a post from one of the RPCS3 devs this week talking about how they just started emulating the RSX with gpu instead of the cpu. Almost all emulators are extremely cpu bound, and bound by single core performance. For instance, CEMU can run mostly 30 fps on Zelda BOTW if you have a 4GHz Skylake quadcore but drop down to a 3.6 GHz i7-5820k hexacore and you get lots of drops into the low to mid 20s on the framerate. PCSX2 for the PS2 is similarly straight cpu bound. Same for Dolphin on Wii + Gamecube. I can't think of any emulator that cares a whole lot about what gpu you run. But I haven't ran RPCS3 mostly because I have pretty much every PS3 game I want already either on disc or bought from the Playstation Store, so I'm going to wait until it's really polished before installing and gaming on it. But if you have a Skylake i5 or i7 with a decent clockspeed it seems like Dragon's Crown would be pretty playable. I remember you're really into 2D beat 'em ups and that is a killer game. Odin Sphere Leifthrasir is another really cool 2D beat 'em up listed as currently playable on the RPCS3 compatibility list, but that could mean it runs at 15-20 fps instead of the 30 fps a real PS3 would run it at. So playable but not enjoyable if that's the case.
Yeah, Dragon Crown is kickass I have it on my list since you told me about it but I have been busy and with almost no time to play, a friend gave me a year ago Killzone Shadow Fall as a birthday present and I´ve never finished yet.
So when I have some free time I play some PC game, lately I played Wonder Boy 3 Dragon´s Trap remake, Mother Russia Bleeds, Ori and the Blind Forest, Axiom Verge, and SWAT 4 remake, all games that you can play an hour and then quit.

I have an i7 4790 so thats no Skylake, but I wanna think these guys are going to optimize, like it happened with Dolphin and that girl that in just 1 month did more optimizing that others did in years.
Im very interested in PS3 emulation to play Hard Corps Uprising there, so I dont have to plug the console, but is posible to have those PSN games that are digital only?

baseline bum

08-20-2017, 09:05 PM

Yeah, Dragon Crown is kickass I have it on my list since you told me about it but I have been busy and with almost no time to play, a friend gave me a year ago Killzone Shadow Fall as a birthday present and I´ve never finished yet.
So when I have some free time I play some PC game, lately I played Wonder Boy 3 Dragon´s Trap remake, Mother Russia Bleeds, Ori and the Blind Forest, Axiom Verge, and SWAT 4 remake, all games that you can play an hour and then quit.

Man I gotta play Mother Russia Bleeds, I have heard nothing but great things about that game. There is a new Ori coming out too. I'm not sure if it's this year or next, but I remember seeing it at Microsoft's E3 conference.

I have an i7 4790 so thats no Skylake, but I wanna think these guys are going to optimize, like it happened with Dolphin and that girl that in just 1 month did more optimizing that others did in years.
Im very interested in PS3 emulation to play Hard Corps Uprising there, so I dont have to plug the console, but is posible to have those PSN games that are digital only?

If you bought the games off the PS Store I think they said they're able to use those once you transfer them off your PS3 hard drive, that it was the preferred way to play as opposed to ripping from a blu-ray disc. I hope so because I have a ton of PS3 digital games I bought (they're so cheap now in their sales and I usually only buy the discs for games I can't get digitally). I don't know off hand any good sites for PS3 roms. My go to rom site is emuparadise.me, but I don't think they carry anything newer than Wii roms. No 360/PS3/Wii-U AFAIK. Damn I never heard of Hard Corps Uprising, but after checking some reviews it looks like a pretty awesome Contra inspired game. I'll put that on my watch list and grab it when it goes on sale for $5 (almost all PS3 games go for $5 or less at some point in their sales).

Mikeanaro

08-20-2017, 09:12 PM

Man I gotta play Mother Russia Bleeds, I have heard nothing but great things about that game. There is a new Ori coming out too. I'm not sure if it's this year or next, but I remember seeing it at Microsoft's E3 conference.

If you bought the games off the PS Store I think RPCS3 said they're able to use those once you transfer them off your PS3 hard drive. I hope so because I have a ton of PS3 digital games I bought (they're so cheap now in their sales). I don't know off hand any good sites for PS3 roms. My go to rom site is emuparadise.me, but I don't think they carry anything newer than Wii roms. No 360/PS3/Wii-U AFAIK. Damn I never heard of Hard Corps Uprising, but after checking some reviews it looks like a pretty awesome Contra inspired game. I'll put that on my watch list and grab it when it goes on sale for $5 (almost all PS3 games go for $5 or less at some point in their sales).
MR Bleeds is very funny, you wont have so many moves as Double Dragon Neon but is a violent MF plus it has 2 endings and the good ending is hard to get but when you make it is very rewarding, I finished the bad ending first and then with experience got the good ending.

I have Hard Corps Uprising but is not completely legal, I bought the game from some guy that gives me some PSN code and then I must create a folder put the game there and If I recall correctly some kind of virtual drive, so I dont have the game registered in my PSN account.
Maybe someone dumps the game and is emulator friendly.

DJR210

08-21-2017, 10:35 AM

It's only listed as loadable.

https://rpcs3.net/compatibility?c=g&o=2a&p=2

You have any interest in the Forza games? You should be able to play the upcoming Forza 7 in Windows 10, and most people I know into racing simulations prefer Forza to Gran Turismo. Forza 7 is also supposed to run at 4k 60fps on XBox One X if you'd rather play racing games on console to put on an HDTV vs monitor. At least it was running 4k60 at Microsoft's E3 presentation back in June.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T85Fshj2eiY

I prefer Forza to GT because the customization options are deeper and it has a paint program built in.. Made some really good offensive cars to troll with back in the day

baseline bum

10-14-2017, 12:49 PM

Yeah, Dragon Crown is kickass I have it on my list since you told me about it but I have been busy and with almost no time to play, a friend gave me a year ago Killzone Shadow Fall as a birthday present and I´ve never finished yet.
So when I have some free time I play some PC game, lately I played Wonder Boy 3 Dragon´s Trap remake, Mother Russia Bleeds, Ori and the Blind Forest, Axiom Verge, and SWAT 4 remake, all games that you can play an hour and then quit.

I have an i7 4790 so thats no Skylake, but I wanna think these guys are going to optimize, like it happened with Dolphin and that girl that in just 1 month did more optimizing that others did in years.
Im very interested in PS3 emulation to play Hard Corps Uprising there, so I dont have to plug the console, but is posible to have those PSN games that are digital only?

Dude if you don't have Odin Sphere Leifthrasir, you gotta get it based on the games you're into. Oh man that game is epic. And it plays really well on RPCS3. I was getting 55-60 fps on it when I tried it this morning and I have a slightly weaker cpu than you (Xeon E3-1231v3, which is a rebranded i7-4770 minus 100 MHz). I was using the European ROM [BLES02241]. You need to create a quick patch that's explained in the RPCS3 forums for it to run though, otherwise it gets stuck on a loading screen.

Here is a quick video on setting RCPS3 up. You should have no problem running it on an i7-4790.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upR7J3U9_PI

Mikeanaro

10-14-2017, 03:17 PM

Dude if you don't have Odin Sphere Leifthrasir, you gotta get it based on the games you're into. Oh man that game is epic. And it plays really well on RPCS3. I was getting 55-60 fps on it when I tried it this morning and I have a slightly weaker cpu than you (Xeon E3-1231v3, which is a rebranded i7-4770 minus 100 MHz). I was using the European ROM [BLES02241]. You need to create a quick patch that's explained in the RPCS3 forums for it to run though, otherwise it gets stuck on a loading screen.

Here is a quick video on setting RCPS3 up. You should have no problem running it on an i7-4790.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upR7J3U9_PI
Wow this game looks great too! I´ve downloaded Dragons Crown and its great, only made the first mission because the stupid generic USB controller had the right analog wrong so it was hard to control that dwarf that opens treasures while you are kicking asses.

But now I´ve found a program that makes a PS3 controller work like a XB360 controller, like an emulator its name is SCPToolkit, and now I can play Cuphead on it, is a little late since I had to finish the game with a keyboard but now I can take the bosses on expert mode.

Now also have Hard Corps Uprising too but I need to upgrade the video card to use Vulkan drivers since my 780 died like a year ago.

Gonna check if there is another region iso for Odin Sphere.

baseline bum

10-14-2017, 04:23 PM

Gonna check if there is another region iso for Odin Sphere.

You gotta get the European ISO version to get past a loading screen. Specifically one called loading trophy information. The European iso has a simple workaround in this thread:

https://forums.rpcs3.net/thread-188090.html

The other three versions I know of (North American ISO, North American PSN, and Japanese ISO) aren't playable. I can only personally vouch for the beginning of the game though (but it's listed on the compatibility list as fully playable). I liked the first 15 minutes so much I bought the PS4 version of the game.

You have to do a little bit of tweaking in RPCS3. Eg some games work better with only 1 SPU thread (eg Catherine, which runs at 30 fps if you choose 1 but 15 fps if you choose more) while others want 3-4 (eg Demon's Souls). I ran Odin Sphere Leifhthrasir on 1 SPU thread.

Mikeanaro

10-14-2017, 08:21 PM

You gotta get the European ISO version to get past a loading screen. Specifically one called loading trophy information. The European iso has a simple workaround in this thread:

https://forums.rpcs3.net/thread-188090.html

The other three versions I know of (North American ISO, North American PSN, and Japanese ISO) aren't playable. I can only personally vouch for the beginning of the game though (but it's listed on the compatibility list as fully playable). I liked the first 15 minutes so much I bought the PS4 version of the game.

You have to do a little bit of tweaking in RPCS3. Eg some games work better with only 1 SPU thread (eg Catherine, which runs at 30 fps if you choose 1 but 15 fps if you choose more) while others want 3-4 (eg Demon's Souls). I ran Odin Sphere Leifhthrasir on 1 SPU thread.

Well this must be the Euro version then, this guy always put games with links in his videos, here he shows you his config before entering the game and some links.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSHzeYJAsR0

I find easier to config this PS3 emulator than the PS2 ones which is weird considering PS3 complexion.

baseline bum

10-15-2017, 01:33 AM

Well this must be the Euro version then, this guy always put games with links in his videos, here he shows you his config before entering the game and some links.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSHzeYJAsR0

I find easier to config this PS3 emulator than the PS2 ones which is weird considering PS3 complexion.

Yeah that's the European rom BLES02241

DJR210

10-15-2017, 09:56 PM

The screens of these games running in 4K look pretty promising.. Another benefit of gaming on God's platform

baseline bum

10-16-2017, 11:02 AM

The screens of these games running in 4K look pretty promising.. Another benefit of gaming on God's platform

You should check CEMU man. I was playing Breath of the Wild at 4k last night on it.

DJR210

10-16-2017, 12:37 PM

You should check CEMU man. I was playing Breath of the Wild at 4k last night on it.

:lol I'm sure that really angers Clipper Nation (http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=28500)

baseline bum

10-16-2017, 01:22 PM

:lol I'm sure that really angers Clipper Nation (http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=28500)

Usually I buy the shit if I like it after pirating, but I gotta wait for Super Mario Odyssey and an official confirmation of Bayonetta 2 releasing on it to see if I want to drop $330 on Switch plus an SD card. And then Wii U is fucking $200 used. No way I'm buying that piece of shit for one game at that price. Unreal to pay that much for a last gen console when my PS4 only cost $20 more brand new with a free game.

140

10-17-2017, 05:53 PM

:lol I'm sure that really angers Clipper Nation (http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=28500)
:lol

DJR210

10-17-2017, 09:02 PM

Usually I buy the shit if I like it after pirating, but I gotta wait for Super Mario Odyssey and an official confirmation of Bayonetta 2 releasing on it to see if I want to drop $330 on Switch plus an SD card. And then Wii U is fucking $200 used. No way I'm buying that piece of shit for one game at that price. Unreal to pay that much for a last gen console when my PS4 only cost $20 more brand new with a free game.

One game I felt the need to buy after renting from Codex.. Dying Light. I will say that I feel guilty for playing the Witcher 3 a year later and not having bought a legit copy though..

baseline bum

10-17-2017, 09:16 PM

One game I felt the need to buy after renting from Codex.. Dying Light. I will say that I feel guilty for playing the Witcher 3 a year later and not having bought a legit copy though..

The Complete Edition of The Witcher 3 is $20 today on both GOG and Steam to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the series.

baseline bum

01-25-2018, 03:17 PM

Pretty impressive performance on Castlevania Lords of Shadow 2. Damn this is becoming a really nice emulator.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmDtN1x_stw

koriwhat

01-25-2018, 04:43 PM

Pretty impressive performance on Castlevania Lords of Shadow 2. Damn this is becoming a really nice emulator.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmDtN1x_stw

rad! i don't play games really but have always been interested in emulation of consoles. i wish i could do more programming outside of web work. ugh

baseline bum

03-04-2018, 09:18 AM

Damn they got one of the coolest PS3 exclusives running pretty flawlessly: 3D Dot Game Heroes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U28jn4XLfAE

baseline bum

04-21-2018, 07:20 AM

They're actually ingame in The Last of Us now. I imagine this might be the hardest game on the system to emulate considering how much it pushes the original hardware.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ9xXgRtWcc

hater

04-21-2018, 10:58 AM

Where to download the games???

baseline bum

04-21-2018, 11:02 AM

Where to download the games???

https://downloadgameps3.com/

baseline bum

04-22-2018, 02:39 PM

Damn apparently the new version of RPCS3 plays Demon's Souls better than a real PS3. LOL this game was the reason I bought a PS3 last year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5eF3kw9ca0

DMC

05-05-2018, 09:33 PM

I still have a PS3 (and PS4). Haven't played the PS3 in a long time. I liked Motorstorm and the sequel.

koriwhat

05-09-2018, 10:54 AM

Damn apparently the new version of RPCS3 plays Demon's Souls better than a real PS3. LOL this game was the reason I bought a PS3 last year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5eF3kw9ca0

so rad

baseline bum

08-01-2019, 06:49 PM

Holy shit, RPCS3 now runs Persona 5 at a locked 60 fps on an i7-8700k.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJF5Q2btPOY

And now Nier Replicant at 60 fps also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-ek4GbfjgI

Might be getting near time to retire my PS3 and use emulation. Really impressive how far this emulator has come.

Get in here Cry Havoc, I know you were interested in Persona 5 when it was rumored for Switch, but now at 4k60 PC looks like the place to play it.

IronMexican

08-01-2019, 10:46 PM

You can finally enjoy GTA4 again, bb.

baseline bum

08-01-2019, 11:03 PM

You can finally enjoy GTA4 again, bb.

Fuck off :lmao

God I hate that game. It was the Fallout 76 of last gen.

spurraider21

08-01-2019, 11:35 PM

Fuck off :lmao

God I hate that game. It was the Fallout 76 of last gen.
fallout 76 didnt get amazing reviews though :lol

IronMexican

08-01-2019, 11:36 PM

:lmao

It got a 10 on IGN. It must be great

NASpurs

08-02-2019, 12:19 AM

I've had my 580 GTS for half a year already and it's a great card when it comes to modern PC games but Radeon is shit when it comes to emulation because from what I understand, lack of OpenGL support or some shit. At least things look promising with CEMU and their Vulkan support next update.

Cry Havoc

08-06-2019, 10:37 PM

baseline bum

08-06-2019, 11:11 PM

Hell yes! Thank you.

Eh crap I just watched some of that video again and the game looks very sped up at 60 fps vs playing it on real hardware. I have both the US version on PS4 and the Japanese on PS3 and for example the NPCs walking by you in the city are way slower on the real hardware. Probably better to just run it at the original 30 fps. Damn I would love to play this at a 60 fps that didn't screw up the animations. :pctoss

Cry Havoc

08-06-2019, 11:36 PM

Eh crap I just watched some of that video again and the game looks very sped up at 60 fps vs playing it on real hardware. I have both the US version on PS4 and the Japanese on PS3 and for example the NPCs walking by you in the city are way slower on the real hardware. Probably better to just run it at the original 30 fps. Damn I would love to play this at a 60 fps that didn't screw up the animations. :pctoss

Honestly 30fps is fine. Probably not going to run on the switch at 60fps anyway.