RPCS3 is a free and open source PlayStation 3 emulator, and they hit a huge milestone for compatibility recently.
While they don't have any recent blog posts, they did take to Twitter to announce that the "Loadable" category has hit zero games. This means that all games can at least boot up now, although there's still a fair few that will display an image but don't make it past the menus although that list is short too at only 2.56% of the overall library they're tracking. They're also tracking 28.96% noted as only just able to get in-game but have issues preventing them being fully playable (performance, bugs etc).
A long road and emulator development is certainly challenging, great to see it continue on though.
Their latest video from a few months ago showed off MotorStorm Pacific Rift now being playable:
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Despite what the likes of Sony, Microsoft, and most notoriously Nintendo think of emulation outside of their own stores (which are often sorely lacking) — it's vital for preservation.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
slaapliedje Jan 9, 2023
Quoting: BotonoskiHa, I enjoyed the jokes about optical drives being cup holders... and then someone built a bay device that was a cup holder.Quoting: slaapliedjeA shame 5.25" bays are going out of fashion really, they are handy for more than just disk drives. I remember buying my father a bay accessory with a car cigarette lighter on it, as a bit of a joke, and he ended up using it for years until he quit smoking.Quoting: BotonoskiOh wow, I coincidentally bought a compatible blu-ray drive when I was replacing the dead DVD drive in my PC. Guess I'll be keeping an eye at my Value Village for games to buy and dump.Nice!!! I just ended up putting my old Bluray drive into an external case; as not all computer cases are including a 5.25" bay these days...
The most gnarly thing I ever saw was an early teledildonics device, where you would use it as a... well they had little animations of a dude banging his PC tower :P
Quoting: slaapliedjeYou should be more careful of the things you say that people won't be able to un-see.Quoting: BotonoskiHa, I enjoyed the jokes about optical drives being cup holders... and then someone built a bay device that was a cup holder.Quoting: slaapliedjeA shame 5.25" bays are going out of fashion really, they are handy for more than just disk drives. I remember buying my father a bay accessory with a car cigarette lighter on it, as a bit of a joke, and he ended up using it for years until he quit smoking.Quoting: BotonoskiOh wow, I coincidentally bought a compatible blu-ray drive when I was replacing the dead DVD drive in my PC. Guess I'll be keeping an eye at my Value Village for games to buy and dump.Nice!!! I just ended up putting my old Bluray drive into an external case; as not all computer cases are including a 5.25" bay these days...
The most gnarly thing I ever saw was an early teledildonics device, where you would use it as a... well they had little animations of a dude banging his PC tower :P
Last edited by Purple Library Guy on 9 January 2023 at 7:34 pm UTC
slaapliedje Jan 10, 2023
Quoting: Purple Library GuyAnother mind ruined!!Quoting: slaapliedjeYou should be more careful of the things you say that people won't be able to un-see.Quoting: BotonoskiHa, I enjoyed the jokes about optical drives being cup holders... and then someone built a bay device that was a cup holder.Quoting: slaapliedjeA shame 5.25" bays are going out of fashion really, they are handy for more than just disk drives. I remember buying my father a bay accessory with a car cigarette lighter on it, as a bit of a joke, and he ended up using it for years until he quit smoking.Quoting: BotonoskiOh wow, I coincidentally bought a compatible blu-ray drive when I was replacing the dead DVD drive in my PC. Guess I'll be keeping an eye at my Value Village for games to buy and dump.Nice!!! I just ended up putting my old Bluray drive into an external case; as not all computer cases are including a 5.25" bay these days...
The most gnarly thing I ever saw was an early teledildonics device, where you would use it as a... well they had little animations of a dude banging his PC tower :P
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