As promised, the developers of PS3 emulator RPCS3 have put out a blog post detailing the work they've been doing recently and it's pretty amazing.
RPCS3 now supports high resolution rendering, as shown off in their video:
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The difference is incredible, but we are talking about a games console that came out in 2006, PC hardware has moved along so far from what was possible with the PS3.
On top of that, Anisotropic Filtering (AF) up to 16x is now in as well, which can help games even further with providing a clear image.
In future, they plan to add in custom anti-aliasing, texture scaling algorithms and hopefully more!
If you wish to try it, you can download an AppImage from this page. It doesn't require any installation, no root rights are needed. Just make it executable and run it. That's not the end of getting it to work though, as it still needs PlayStation 3 firmware files which can be downloaded from Sony, see more on the quickstart guide.
Of course, you then need some games to actually play. I'm unsure how legal it is in my own country to backup games from a PS3 to play in an emulator, so I won't be touching it myself. Doesn't stop me marvelling in the progress of RPCS3!
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: TheRiddickQuoting: PompesdeskyDoes simply putting an original game disc in one's PC drive work with the emulator ? That should be pretty legal I guess.
You would need a drive capable of reading the area of the disc that has the sector information on, no it is NOT like PC BluRay discs, Sony hide their sector/disc information which is why most people ripped their games on PS3 to its internal HDD first.
Sony should hire these guys and put a optimized version on PS4Pro, for backwards compatibility, but we all know both Sony and MS don't want old games to survive, they would be happy if all older console generation games were deleted from history, money trumps common sense all the time.
But yeah if your going to download these ISO files, then have some common sense and use a VPN regardless of if you own the original disc or not.
Lawyers have proven in the past that they simply don't care how old and unobtainable copyrighted material is, they WILL go after you and force you to pay, here in Australia I think they were getting people to pay $400 for downloading torrents, but even here that can be asking too much! (contrary to popular belief, we're a country of mostly poor people, at least now days, lol)
If MS does not want people to remeber old games, then why are they developing x360 and xbox1 emulators for xbox one?
TheRiddick Oct 11, 2017
Quoting: NouserWhy did they even bother including such high resolution images when nobody was going to be able to appreciate them at a PS3?
It just means PS3 players had to be closer to see it. That's really why this works so well. The emulator can use the high resolution textures meant for close up views for much further away, making it look much nicer at higher resolution. I imagine it's not so easy with LOD versions of the models though.
TheRiddick Oct 11, 2017
Last edited by TheRiddick on 11 October 2017 at 12:14 pm UTC
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