RPCS3 update thread

snickothemule · Mar 7, 2014

RPCS3, a Playstation 3 emulator has been in the works for a while, but something really cool has happened, as it can run a commercial game!

Well, the video looks very garbled and there are bugs everywhere, but that is hardly surprising. Freaking great achievement in any realm.

https://github.com/DHrpcs3/rpcs3

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/rpcs3...om/news/rpcs3-is-a-new-ps3-emulator-still-in-early-stage-boots-commercial-game/

RPCS3 developer here. I wonder how can you "guarantee" this. BlackDaemon tried this game 8 hours ago for the first time and it turned out it was working.
Of course, now that we noticed a few glitches in it and we are going to publish a fix soon: See: http://i.imgur.com/eT2sITq.png

We don't focus in commercial games when developing the emulator. That would make no sense, specially at early stages too many crap happens at the same time, so we use simple test programs which only use certain parts of PS3s syscalls. This week, I started an autotest repo that could speedup development a lot by automatizing tests: https://github.com/DHrpcs3/ps3autotests/

Everything else you said is right. Notice that we will focus a lot in HLE, of course we will have to write a fancy dynarec for the PPU and the little bastard ones (SPUs), but one important key of the PS3 are that the game doesn't run in bare metal. They use a lot of so-called modules and it turns out that they perform a lot of CPU intensive tasks. We have several ideas for optimazing the emulator (they will be a "priority" once the compatibility is more or less acceptable), all we need is time and/or people willing to lend us a hand.

Now, regarding other comments. It's true that this emulator was first released 3 years ago, but the development was somewhat slow (only 2 people were working on it) and with long inactivity times. Now the amount of people working on it is growing fast the lasts months / weeks. So please guys, there is no need to extrapolate things.
I personally don't care how many time PCSX2 or Dolphin required, most of us are probably doing it for the sake of emulation and reverse engineering.

http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1373273&p=44155378&viewfull=1#post44155378

EDIT: According to the RPCS3 forums, Disgaea 3 is showing some intro video stuff.

Hard core Rikki · Mar 7, 2014

Sony just dodged a bullet, now that it launched its successor.
It'd be huge if PSN+ subscriptions with free games could down the road be used in emulators.

snickothemule · Mar 7, 2014

That'd be hilarious if the emulator had complete access to the Playstation network. All these new accounts buying up subscriptions out of nowhere.

Butz_san · Mar 8, 2014

look, this is the progress achieved so far

Azary1977 · Mar 8, 2014

Awesome!

Good job PS3 Emulator team! Keep moving forward!!!

Dizzee · Mar 8, 2014

A historical moment I guess, looking forward to see more progress.

aceloop · Mar 8, 2014

Finally i can get to play GTA5 on PC...

Dizzee · Mar 9, 2014

LMAO, good luck playing it at 200 frames.. per hour

. On a serious note PC version is not far away, by the time the emulator supports this game GTA VI will be out.

Kirby · Mar 8, 2014

Unfortunately, with the way that desktop processor technology is progressing these days, I doubt any PS3 emulation will be able to suitably replace a console this decade.

edit> fudge....I just managed to click on the spoiler. Oh well, the Happening will still continue

snickothemule · Mar 9, 2014

Neat. Videos, but still neat.

Xtreme2damax · Mar 9, 2014

Does it go ingame? One screen looked like it was ingame footage. So what's the framerate with this, judging by the shots it seems anyone from 1 fps to around 5 fps.

snickothemule · Mar 9, 2014

It doesn't go in game. Terraria on the other hand is showing some premise.

tykel · Mar 9, 2014

That second video Butz_san posted in particular is very impressive. Not so long ago we were told there would not be an emulator for years...

Definitely keeping the repo on my radar now, with CEN64.

46480 · Mar 10, 2014

Whoot!
Awesome news.

Leiw · Mar 23, 2014

nice progress, this will be really interesting in a few years
however I'm wondering what firmware they are basing it on?
hopefully 4.55 with all the latest features

46480 · Mar 24, 2014

Automatic builds from their official forums.

http://www.emunewz.net/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=199

makotech222 · Mar 24, 2014

Disgaea 3 is now in game. god damn...

snickothemule · Mar 24, 2014

Indeed.

Prestigious. I remember the days of emulating Disgaea on my Athlon 3000+ for laughs.

Kirby · Mar 25, 2014

>0.3 FPS with almost 100% CPU on all 8 cores

this is going to take a while, isn't it?

-Ashe- · Mar 25, 2014

They are using an interpreter at the moment, so there's quite a bit of room for improvement...

Dizzee · Mar 25, 2014

Does is it even take advantage of all cores? He's running it on a laptop with integrated graphics card, it should work much faster on a high end desktop.

Anatasia · Mar 25, 2014

So we should take our bet on the Playstaion 4 emulator

MT · Apr 3, 2014

Last of Us in a few years on PC!

IvicaMarkovic · Apr 5, 2014

Dizzee said:
Does is it even take advantage of all cores? He's running it on a laptop with integrated graphics card, it should work much faster on a high end desktop.

The only one who broke 1fps barrier in D3 is running on dual CPU Xeon ( 12 or 16 cores, i don't remember correctly ). So, it's either using all cores or its massive CPU cash helping it. Though, it's maxes all of my 4 cores.

DinJerr · Apr 11, 2014

Butz_san said:
look, this is the progress achieved so far

Speed: Very Slooow is very ironic indeed.

Dizzee · May 18, 2014

Sonic CD now ingame

Net_Bastard · May 20, 2014

Kurbster said:
>0.3 FPS with almost 100% CPU on all 8 cores

this is going to take a while, isn't it?

Two things you must note:

1. This emulator only has an interpreter at the moment, with no dynamic recompiler.

2. By the time this emulator gets to the point where end users can enjoy it reasonably, a computer that can run it well should cost about as much as a computer that can run Dolphin and PCSX2 well.

Nokiaman · May 22, 2014

Net_Bastard said:
Two things you must note: By the time this emulator gets to the point where end users can enjoy it reasonably, a computer that can run it well should cost about as much as a computer that can run Dolphin and PCSX2 well.

Yeah this. PCSX2 was developed when most of PCs were still using single-core CPUs and when dual core and quad core CPUs became norm then it was pretty trivial to run any game unless it was some CPU hog like MGS games for instance.

DinJerr · May 21, 2014

By the time this emulator reaches maturity, 12-core PCs would probably be the norm I guess.

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