PS3 emulator?

[lxgoldsmith]

...Can we end this thread now? Because I'm imagining waves of people in the near future demanding xbox one and PS4 emulators because "they're built like computers."

sounds good.

Idk if it will be easy to make a ps4 emulator. The system RAM is gddr5, which suggests that it is shared between the system and the gpu. If the GPU is set up with up to 8GB of gddr5, it will be noticably more powerful than the xbox, take a bit more coding to work out less gpu ram in the emulating PC, and there will need to be system requirements set up to ensure that people don't expect too much out of the emulator.

 

[SgtDoakes]

lol thinking about playing the last of us? its getting some crazy good reviews

 

[DarkSable]

Idk if it will be easy to make a ps4 emulator. The system RAM is gddr5, which suggests that it is shared between the system and the gpu. If the GPU is set up with up to 8GB of gddr5, it will be noticably more powerful than the xbox, take a bit more coding to work out less gpu ram in the emulating PC, and there will need to be system requirements set up to ensure that people don't expect too much out of the emulator.

Too late to call a conspiracy theory designed to sell Titans? 😉

 

[lxgoldsmith]

Too late to call a conspiracy theory designed to sell Titans? 😉

wat?

 

[DarkSable]

wat?

Sorry, it was late at night, and I wasn't thinking real clearly.

I was telling myself a story about how that was obviously a conspiracy theory - Nvidia and sony teamed up with each other. Nvidia found out that the ps4 would be moderately easy to emulate, and told sony to use a lot of GDDR5 memory in the next PS4, right before releasing the Titan; i.e. the only graphics card with enough VRAM to come close to the PS4 for emulation.

So yeah, that's the explanation... I sort of forgot you wouldn't be able to follow from one sentence.

 

[skelly32x]

Will 4 GTX TITANS be enough?

 

[DarkSable]

Will 4 GTX TITANS be enough?

Nope. You'd have to buy four for yourself, and four for whomever you're going to pay large amounts of money to develop the software to emulate with. It's not a matter of "computers don't have enough power to get up to the level of magnitude necessary to emulate," it's a matter of, "The ps3 is so freaking badly designed nobody has the time nor inclination to write a program to emulate it well."

 

[ShindoSensei]

The PS3 isn't awful to design; if you put your back into it you can crack it. The Ps3 was already hacked (and if it's hacked it can be emulated) but it's just a lack of someone going the extra mile and just doing it.

 

[gamerk316]

The PS3 isn't awful to design; if you put your back into it you can crack it. The Ps3 was already hacked (and if it's hacked it can be emulated) but it's just a lack of someone going the extra mile and just doing it.

*sigh*

Again: the PS3 design is VERY hard to emulate. Effectively, its a 7 core processor, with a high speed data cache the CPU's get "fed" instructions from. Very hard to emulate this type of system, even if you had infinite processing power. And we don't by the way; the software locks you would need to prevent corruption (remember: You need to maintain the states to SEVEN CPU units, while keeping the memory state sane. NOT easy to do; one CPU gets too far ahead, bam, you corrupted memory.) kill performance. Thats why the best we have is emulation of the BIOS, since that only requires a single CPU unit. Little more then a PPC to X86 conversion.

360 is easier to do, as its architecture is more sane, but its still a 3 core CPU with 2-way SMT; same issues as above. (Nevermind, that like the attempted Xbox emulator a few years back, MSFT will flip. Not a fight worth fighting.)

 

[BoldJapan]

This thread has been active for 6 months HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHA

 

[will824]

I would love instead that the Devs would realize the PC Gaming industry is an important niche nowadays and start porting the games to PC, which is much much easier than to emulate a PS3.

 

[meowmix44]

Haha, no. It's doubtful we're going to be seeing them any time soon, either - the PS3 in particular has an odd combination of decently powerful CPU with many threads and mid-range graphics card....

Until someone with the ingenuity and time codes an emulator that takes massive advantage of a GPU's compute ability, we're not going to be seeing PS3 or XBox emulators.

Powerful isn't part of the equation

 

[Simplyme]

So who's right ? : )
Is PS3 Emu a loch ness monster or a real thing ???? I read the whole thread and still didn't find any clear answer... The guys saying it's already up and running could you just post a valid link to DL it ? (and please, no survey BS scam, thanks)

 

[gamerk316]

The only PS3 emulator out there can barely emulate the BIOS, and can't play any commercial games.

 

[ShindoSensei]

Food for thought: instead of debating if there is an emulator that can work; make your own damn emulator that can work on just about any gaming PC. Just be sure to share it ;D

I'd be willing to help!

 

[lxgoldsmith]

Haha, no. It's doubtful we're going to be seeing them any time soon, either - the PS3 in particular has an odd combination of decently powerful CPU with many threads and mid-range graphics card....

Until someone with the ingenuity and time codes an emulator that takes massive advantage of a GPU's compute ability, we're not going to be seeing PS3 or XBox emulators.

Powerful isn't part of the equation

Gpu ram is a stumbling point, though

 

[nick90944]

I have a working emulator... but every rom I download is for running on a ps3.. can't find out how to load the game into my emulator.. anyone know?

 

[meowmix44]

I have a working emulator... but every rom I download is for running on a ps3.. can't find out how to load the game into my emulator.. anyone know?

Are you sure its working? You should be able to select an ISO to run of the game

 

[gamerk316]

For the last time: It doesn't exist.

The only one in existence can (barely) load the BIOS.

 

[rav007]

I think systems up to the PS2 were worth the effort of emulation. This excludes the XBOX. The reason for this is backwards compatibility of a single console, I buy the next gen of each console with the expectation of backwards compatibility as I usually sell the previous one back (exchange) or sell online. PCSX2 was justified because of the non-backwards compatibility of the PS3 (after the first console release) and the fact that I have to buy my PS1 games I already have on CD back on the PS3 is stupid so thats why I would emulate. In every other aspect it is not worth it and I think you should just buy the consoles

 

[Lordgeorge16]

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Did anyone actually try this one out? How well does it run?

 

[lookerup]

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Did anyone actually try this one out? How well does it run?

i declare fake.

 

[ShadeStormXD]

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Did anyone actually try this one out? How well does it run?

It doesn't matter you need to do a survey to get bios

 

[Trever Grissam]

I think systems up to the PS2 were worth the effort of emulation. This excludes the XBOX. The reason for this is backwards compatibility of a single console, I buy the next gen of each console with the expectation of backwards compatibility as I usually sell the previous one back (exchange) or sell online. PCSX2 was justified because of the non-backwards compatibility of the PS3 (after the first console release) and the fact that I have to buy my PS1 games I already have on CD back on the PS3 is stupid so thats why I would emulate. In every other aspect it is not worth it and I think you should just buy the consoles

actually all ps3 can play ps1 games just not ps2 just have to set up virtual memmory card

 

[rjackowens]

As for the original question, yes, PS3 emulators do exist, but they aren't mainstream. Most PS3 emulators only emulate the PS3 OS, and lack the capability to play games. Also, in reply to the many comments who said full PS3 emulating is many years ahead, they are incorrect. Sure it will take maybe several years, but PC hardware is rapidly advancing, and the PS3 was released 7 years ago. Now that the PS4 is released, it won't take long for programmers to create an emulator.

My prediction is once PS4 is mainstream, there will be a fully functional PS3 emulator.