RPCS3 PS3 emulator just got updated... and its awesome!

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RPCS3 is a PlayStation 3 emulator for Windows, Linux and Mac. In this episode we take a look at the V0.0.28 update, its advancements this emulator has seen in the past year with some seriously impressive results.
PC Specs:
CPU : Intel i9-13900k
GPU : NVIDIA RTX4080
RAM: 32GB DDR5-6000MHz
OS : Windows 11 Professional
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[@ModernVintageGamer]

PC Specs: CPU : Intel i9-13900k GPU : NVIDIA RTX4080 RAM: 32GB DDR5-6000MHz OS : Windows 11 Professional

[@7ellowY]

Chicken sandwich

[@SharifSourour]

Nice. I should be able to run it Ok (maybe like 30-60 FPS @810p+ with vsync off, medium settings or equivalent) on my Radeon Vega 16, i7 MacBook Pro in my Win 10 VM.

[@aydenbeta1380]

Yeah won’t be able to afford any of those parts any time soon for the next 5 years

[@sippingthe]

@@aydenbeta1380 ong

[@floodstate]

@@aydenbeta1380 Not sure what you're running. But I'm on a 5800X and I've been poking around RPCS3 the past few days. Using the reommended settings for the following titles. Gran Turismo 5 - 50-60fps at 1440p. Car dealers and some other things will tank frames to low 30s in some places still. Gran Turismo 6 - 45-50fps at 1440p. Runs a lot worse for me than GT5. skate. and Skate 3 - 80 - 120fps at 4K. Ratchet and Clank Tools of Destruction - 4k, 50-60fps, some places will happily exceed 60fps. Ratchet and Clank A Crack in Time - much more unstable than Tools, some graphic effects can tank frames hard. Some areas will run close to 60+ at all times, but most locations will have drops to at least 30-40. MGS4 - 40-60fps usually. I have it uncapped so it can exceed but you're going to have some sections drop. Overall, rock solid for most of my time playing. Gran Turismo and Ratchet franchise have a lot of issues still, MGS4 obviously still has a ton of issues, it needs hacks/cheats to fix issues to get it running. You'll definitely need at least a 6 core CPU though as quad cores can get seriously bogged down. My old 3600X could still get a really solid 60fps on Skate 3. Enough to play through a good chunk of the goals. GPU isn't too important, especially if you don't use resolution scale. My 3080 is usually hovering around 50% at most in most of the games I've tried. Usually even lower.

[@Willian774]

Holy shit, I remember when I never expected RPCS3 to run games so smoothly at 4k, let alone to support savestates

[@ShadowriverUB]

Savestates are easy, you just dump memory and other state factors and load it back. Its same prinvplevhow PS4 hibernation work. but more complex hardware the more neucences to save is needed to not let game to glitch out on load.

[@bionicmanspeedruns]

they already were in rpcs3. just one at a time and if you load it you lose it

[@kirby0louise]

@@ShadowriverUB It's not the same as hibernation, as hibernate only saves RAM, not the full machine state. The only true implementation of save states on official consoles is Xbox quick resume

[@elimalinsky7069]

The save state feature is indeed surprising, as emulators for newer consoles don't usually have it, but then I guess dumping 256 MB of RAM isn't such a huge deal.

[@kirby0louise]

@@elimalinsky7069 There's still another 256MB of VRAM you'd have to dump. Either way it's not about size of RAM/speed of dump, the people who use savestates don't care if it's instant or takes 10 seconds. The real problem is saving and restoring the other parts of the machine gets very, very complex as consoles get newer.

[@JasonLihani]

It's always so insane that these are just little side projects for the devs. I love this community.

[@danielgoett]

it's awe inspiring what they've accomplished!

[@YourPalHDee]

But somehow it would be "Too expensive" for Sony according to the guy in the video.

[@dvornikovalexei]

I completed MGS 4 in March on RPCS3 and it was great. This emulator is insane.

[@Mr-fe5ng]

amazing

[@exakelgaming]

I get random character models missing but once MGS4 is perfectly playable.... then RPCS3 will be perfect :D

[@lachychops2]

So glad its improving, last I tried it (2020ish) it was struggling on rdr. Seems like a good time to go back to it 😎👉👉

[@samsniper2000]

What are your specs?

[@AddlerMartin]

Tell us your specs, bro

[@TravisStamper]

Love RCPS3. Been using it since back in the beta days. Grown a lot since I started using it.

[@PEPSIMaxMusic]

I've been using it for years now to run the Need For Speed Most Wanted beta builds. It's come a LONG way since then

[@Suhrvivor]

The emulator is officially still in alpha iirc.

[@chickerinoradio6617]

beta days? remind me what it says in the title bar of rpcs3 just after the version number?

[@nathanddrews]

Thank you for your service. 😂 Hopefully you donated to the project in those early days, too.

[@henrik1743]

Sony are absolutely stupid for not doing backward compatibility

[@batzertyabc3339]

Hey MVG i just wanted to mention that some people made a custom online server for gran turismo 6 and it's crazy to play it again online on real hardware i think it can also be compatible with rpcs3 so that's nice to get 16 people racing clean !

[@SRC267]

Is it the SRKade server? They have some fighting games there like Tekken

[@0uttaS1TE]

Wait, seriously? What's the name of it?

[@Housesider]

Do you need CFW to play on the custom servers?

[@batzertyabc3339]

There is someone that made a tutorial on yt but for some reasons i can't post the discord server link here

[@ricardowilliams3765]

@@batzertyabc3339 yeah, youtube NUKES every link you can put (idk about youtube links though, those might work?).

[@estignatic]

This emulator is very CPU bound, unlike Xenia Canary which is more GPU bound but im so glad we gave fully functional emulators for all 7th gen consoles.

[@masterhenson6767]

It runs pretty well on my 6th gen i7 6700hq as well.

[@BastyTHz]

rpcs3 have avx-512 which is something that break the limit of traditional cpu, they can do paralleled like in gpu by having more than limited dozen register

[@domingorodriguez3077]

@@BastyTHz so why is intel killing avx-512 off?

[@ghouldude2]

@@domingorodriguez3077 I believe AVX512 was killed off because the little cores don't have it, the big cores do. But windows scheduling was having issues with giving AVX tasks to little cores in testing and they couldn't resolve it for whatever reason. Also, AVX was a large thermal contributor to an already thermally limited design. I think that made their decision easier. I feel like we will see AVX 512 again in an intel CPU, but it may not be until they work with windows to ensure it's a smooth experience. In contrast, AMD supported AVX 512 for the first time in the 7xxx series CPUS, but it's a weird half AVX 512 where they combine two AVX 256 units in some black magic voodoo technique. But my understanding is that the performance isn't quite as robust as what we saw in the Intel 11 series Rocket Lake parts.

[@donjuan4067]

LOL 7th Gen Emus.. Especially RPCS3 will play less than half the titles. About 50% if not more will have severe lag and stuttering issues or other failures. EMU might be operational for 7th Gen consoles.. But fully functional is like 5 years away, at least

[@pacifico4999]

Not putting the specs in the description was actually a genius move. It drove up engagement by 100000%

[@Artificeral]

I'm delighted to see GT6 running so well on the emulator. With GT Sport and 7 being online-focused, GT6 may be the last Gran Turismo ever to have a full-fledged, flexible career mode. Kaz and his team have since shifted their aspirations to online esports, making Sport and 7's single player modes feel watered down.

[@chickerinoradio6617]

not to mention that GT6 has a fairly decent online mode by itself which recently got revived and is fairly active

[@haaxxx9]

@@chickerinoradio6617 FOR REAL?! I just jailbroken my PS3 and been playing GT6 for a minute now, do you have more information about the online aspects revival?

[@skycloud4802]

Oh that's a shame. I was looking forward to eventually playing 7 for its career mode.

[@SKY11211213]

dont forget, GT7 has no leveling at all but instead car collection scores. This means, apart from drop feeding new content and SJW characters sending wall of text e.g. first car you buy monologue by a zoomer who is a car historian in her 20s, GT7 feels nice to drive but awful to navigate, you can not differentiate from player a vs b by looking at their level whether they are skilled drivers or noobs, to sort online lobbies easily.

[@SKY11211213]

@@haaxxx9 just google it. There are two or three teams doing their own stuff. PS3 uses some old standards from PS2 which means 1st party games use that for sure, so that depending on luck or bad luck, DNS routes are used to point the console to a community server like PS2 does and less like origina Xbox with it's Insignia Live which just points at one static direction to get all games routed.

[@bulutcagdas1071]

Yep played through the entirety of Demon's Souls with a fairly weak laptop back in 2019. It's really amazing.

[@stefanscicluna2799]

Finshed that game abd finished my sanity

[@TheRibbonRed]

How "weak" was your laptop?

[@bulutcagdas1071]

@@TheRibbonRed 1050 Ti and a 7700hq

[@TheRibbonRed]

@@bulutcagdas1071 That's surprising. I have an RTX2060 & i7-8750H. Thought I couldn't run anything on RPCS3 with it.

[@bulutcagdas1071]

@@TheRibbonRed Demon's Souls is surprisingly easy to emulate. However not all games will be as easy to run. From what I understand, the emulator really likes high core counts with high frequencies.

[@KillCommander]

Don’t forget the specs 😄

[@Aragorn7884]

🤔🤷🤦

[@justarandomguyontheinterne681]

why?

[@Yoshi278]

@@TheSpadis My steamdeck can run a good chunk of the rpcs3 library at a near stable 60fps. You should be alright assuming you don't crack everything up to 4k 120fps.

[@UniverseGd]

You must be poor to say that.

[@giorgio5789]

​​@@TheSpadis rpcs3 does not need a strong gpu, just a fast cpu. I have an i5-12490F and the las of us runs at 40fps or more most of the times

[@GeordiLaForgery]

I'm almost convinced rpcs3 developers are sophisticated advanced aliens with AI that makes chatgpt look like tetris.

[@jdthompson8783]

I was actually interested in your specs. Could you please put them in the description like you mentioned? Thanks.

[@T0TALLYAWESOMEGUY]

I know right. No specs to be seen

[@zombiebillcosby]

@@gerboogwouldnt a good CPU be more important in this case? Preferably one with AVX-512.

[@Manic_Panic]

@@zombiebillcosby People forget what matters is CPU single threaded performance for emulation... and 8 cores when it comes to PS3 emulation specifically. GPU only comes into play when you want to use upscaling features.

[@Dakobra_]

​@@zombiebillcosby yeah RPCS3 is very heavy on the CPU. You don't really need all that beefy of a GPU to run games on it, but you definitely need a decent CPU.

[@Darkmetamorphosis1]

I don't think you need 8 cores to emulate ps3, a ryzen 4 core should be able to handle it

[@Varmint260]

Been using RPCS3 to run Midnight Club: Los Angeles and the various Ratchet and Clank games recently, and it's so great to see these games without the low res limitations. I think Tools of Destruction's visuals still hold up at 4K despite originally rendering at an upscaled 640p. My 5800X seems to struggle with Motorstorm Pacific Rift, but it seems to get a little better with every update. Also, it seems like every time I open up RPCS3 there's a new version to download, so clearly the devs are very active!

[@rolanfbaby]

Where did u get the midnight club?

[@Varmint260]

@@rolanfbaby I think I bought the PS3 copy of the game from Walmart back in the day. There are copies on Amazon for 15 bucks these days, though. I still have my collection of PS3 disks and I dump them to my computer with an LG WH16NS40 BD drive before loading them into RPCS3.

[@YourPalHDee]

Man Midnight Club LA is one of the best games I ever played.

[@MikhailKutzow]

Really excited to hear they're making progress. MGS4 is one of the games I (and no doubt many others) am most looking forward seeing them get running. Also hoping to be able to play the PS3 Armored Core titles on this someday. These people are doing something insanely impressive with this emulator.

[@legion3343]

I played through mgs4 a few months ago Some visual errors and wasn't butter smooth but it was playable

[@kevinleite6309]

Ridge Racer 7

[@snakeshepard9761]

I played through Armored Core 4 and now I'm going through For Answer. They run at 60 fps most of the times despite my CPU (i5-8600k, which isn't optimal since it's not an 8 cores CPU). They rarely crash, so it's advised to save every couple of missions. I couldn't play V since either my CPU can't handle it or it still need work.

[@nisnast]

​@@snakeshepard9761when was the last time you tries AC V? I think there's been an update that improved performance for it

[@snakeshepard9761]

@@nisnast maybe 3 to 4 months ago. But I made peace with the fact that some games can't be emulated on my currest system. I hope I'll be able to upgrade my hardware not too far into the future.

[@sudolicious]

Thanks for covering RPCS3. Really love and admire these guys. Played Demon's Souls like half a year ago on it, for the first time since playing it on my fat ps3 back in like 2011 or something, and I was stunned at how amazing it performed and looked. These guys deserve all the positive attention and support that they can get.

[@RuffDestroyr]

I love rpcs3. I was playing Shadow of the Colossus at 100 fps. It was such a unique experience

[@leonbelmont4028]

Isn't shadow of the colossus a ps2 game ?

[@jawknee4088]

@@leonbelmont4028yes but there’s a ps3 port/remaster, and ps4 remake.

[@SparkingSkeline]

RPCS3 has come a long way and I'm proud of them for improving it.

[@andresbravo2003]

More improvements means more playable games.

[@ninjaskillzyt]

no way

[@slvrshore5300]

@@ninjaskillzyt if you look at its avatar, you can see its not from the smartest end of the quotient.

[@SB-tk4km]

You comment, but have you tested?

[@bpcgos]

My first experience with RPCS3 back then that made me in awe was ability to play After Burner Climax, then Army of Two, and then Motorsport pacifi rift

[@Woodzta]

I use a 12100F and 3060 Ti SFF build. It outperforms the PS3 itself and many of the ones under 'Ingame' are surprisingly playable. Also, for anyone wondering about how other specs might stack up, there's an RPCS3 CPU Tier List on the subreddit. It's a Google doc - if you search for it, you'll find it.

[@raygomez2115]

Me with a 12600k 🙌 s tier

[@nateo200]

Post the link if you find it please! I've got a 3060Ti but with a 3900X.....3DS and DS emulators run great on it same with my laptop and its 6900HS and 6700S GPU

[@estignatic]

@@nateo200 3900X is in the B tier

[@NielsGx]

3700x and old gtx 1060 6gb already runs games better than og hw

[@richardhunter9779]

I am glad somebody is compiling that list, however, I own two of the CPUs in that list and they are both in the same tier - they do not perform the same. Whatever benchmark they are using is less multithreaded than Infamous 2.

[@DarshUK1]

MGS4 is one of the only MGS games I’ve not completed because my blu ray had a tiny scratch on it and couldn’t play past a cutscene about halfway through the game. What these people are doing is incredible and significantly better for people like me who want to legally emulate something instead of paying for PS Now or a “remaster” when I already bought the original years ago! Great vid too

[@trinitybingham2406]

It's amazing they were able to keep this going and improve it as far as they have. I loved infamous, and this makes it plausible to play it again without having to buy a PS3.

[@treelineresearch3387]

PS3 is such an architecturally wacky machine I'm surprised anyone has gotten emulation past just booting up, very impressive (and staggering amounts of) work.

[@Joe_334]

I have been battling with getting GTA IV to play on rpcs3. I can't find a guide for it. Been wanting to play without the console...

[@shain4636]

@@Joe_334 perhaps try xbox 360 emulation, if no luck then id just wait, it will happen sooner or later

[@gozutheDJ]

@@Joe_334you know there’s a pc version right?

[@getyoted7105]

@@gozutheDJpc is just as bad. The pc version never got optimized and since it’s old you need a bunch of work to get it running properly

[@donjuan4067]

@@shain4636 xbox 360 and Ps3 had a ton of similar titles, minus the exclusives off course. The 360 emulation is miles ahead of the PS3.. Not knocking the devs hard work.. Just saying the emu is more complete. more that 75% of the games run flawlessly. Not the case with RPCS3 I tried 10 random games and all had major issues.. Not fun.. But one day, they will figure it out.

[@conza1989]

Gran Turismo 5 and 6 is where I'm at, I'm really pleased to see the progress of this emulator. I'm one of the people who don't want the newer GTS or GT7 games because of online issues, other problems. My next PC I want to buy when I can do, 4k60 or maybe 4k120 in GT5 GT6, I don't mind graphical issues at all, just smoothness of play, probably even 1440p60 would be quite an improvement over original hardware.

[@levant5378]

Don't hold your breathe, the reason GT games are so hard to emulate, even the PS2 entries, are because of the level of hardware knowledge that Polyphony Digital would exploit to gain as much performance and visual fidelity for their games is insane.

[@conza1989]

@@levant5378 Yeah not for a while but I would say, eventually enough brute force w/ further optimisations, it should be able to get to a locked 1080p60, who knows when but one day, and if it gets better, it'll be a good time.

[@LunaRa22]

GT4 runs great on pcsx2. the problem i have with GT5 on rpcs3, is that it desyncs... otherwise runs great! It's the first GT game with behind the wheel cockpit view cant wait to emulate it without desync issues...

[@danpatrick7176]

Love this kind of emulation improvement coverage thanks mvg!

[@spazmochad]

New logo thumbnail looks like it spells out "MUG"

[@StephenBanyar]

Well, it's a good thing he's not from London!

[@lifewater989]

I’m glad that the PS3 era was last (hopefully) generation of exotic hardware.

[@zophar1]

It never ceases to amaze me just how far emulation has come since the 90s. The Domain is impressed!

[@pixelmentia]

This is amazing. There are so many PS3 titles that could benefit from a higher framerate and resolution.

[@colonelvector]

I've been using this recently for MGS3 HD and aside from stuttering when new areas/shades caches load, it's been flawless. Probably the best way to play it until the remake comes out

[@Patrick-bn5rp]

Use the predictive async shader thing under GPU settings. (Can't remember the official name) It'll cut down on stuttering by loading in dummy textures while the real textures load in.

[@colonelvector]

​@@Patrick-bn5rp oh sweet, thanks for the advice

[@Recals]

@@colonelvector did you try playing the 3ds version on emulator ?

[@colonelvector]

@@Recals maybe at one point but the Ps3 version supports 60fps and higher resolution by default, which I couldn't guarantee with the 3ds version

[@snakeshepard9761]

The Xbox 360 version on Xenia Canary is much better. If you're in an area with water in it the game speed drops to 50% and in areas like Groznij Grad, the bike chase and later areas (The Boss fight included) the game runs very slowly too. And you need to tweak the controls a lot to circumvent the pressure sensitivity, I got a custom layout and I can play pretty well with it, but it's hard to retrain the muscle memory. I had 0 shader compilation stutters (I have an i5-8600k). On Xenia it runs flawlessly and the controls are better, since you don't have the pressure sensitivity things and they're more similar to the original. The only issues I couldn't fix were the cockpits of the Hind (they weren't see through), a couple of glitches during radio conversations and a cutscenes where Sokolov explains the Shagohod in Groznij and a flickering triangle in the skybox when you fight the Shagohod. And strangely, both RPCS3 and Xenia have a bugged cutscene: after you kill The Boss there's a cutscene that show the aircraft and only its inside is rendered. On PCSX2 the game runs very badly from The Fear onwards (and has the same controls issue of RPCS3, if not worse) and even after hours of tweaking it still looks a bit blurry. Let's hope that the Master Collection comes to PC too, I don't care about the remake. The only gripes I have is that the HD Edition doesn't have the nightmare sequence or the extra stuff (Snake vs. Monkey and secret theater).

[@Denyah_]

please put specs in the desc :D

[@JohnnyRetroInc]

Kinda of clickbait, you need top of the line hardwire, though I did play ps3 emulator with less hardware and it was fine.

[@SRC267]

Can't wait for RPCS3 for Android. It will happen one day, just not today.

[@omegadomega]

Considering how Yuzu (A switch emulator, that would probably preform similarly to RPCS3 on mobile) only runs on the highest end Snapdragon phones, I'd doubt RPCS3 would be any different.

[@schemar17]

We have ps2 and wii on android so give it like 6 years

[@Tinaphromad]

​@@omegadomega PS3 games are harder to run than switch games, and considering switch games already run poorly on phones, its gonna be a bad experience

[@XxXNOSCOPEURASSXxX]

Maybe in 10 years

[@bonedryretro3674]

This has come a long way. Great video. It felt like no one would ever truly nail PS3 emulation. Now. it's here.

[@Kuzor]

RCPS3 will always be the most impressive emulator to me. The fact fans can do this is really awesome

[@Treynath84]

I love RPCS3, it's such a good emulator. I've noticed going back to games that didn't run well, that they run a lot better now. (8fps-17fps, not playable, but a lot better) (I need to mess with my settings more, I could probably get better performance) I managed to get MSG4 to work after a while, need to play it at some point. Honestly, with how good this emulator is getting with these recent updates, I'd imagine a lot of PS3 games would be playable on a Steam Deck. More demanding ones like MGS4 probably won't run too good, but some might run well.

[@dynamitegaming3856]

What are your specs?

[@Treynath84]

Ryzen 7 5800H RTX 3060 When I last tested it, I had 16gb of RAM, although some games ran the same on 8gb.

[@dynamitegaming3856]

@@Treynath84 did you play mgs4 If so how did it run?

[@Treynath84]

Settings are un-optimised, there's probably something I can do to fix performance. Haven't played much so I can't remember exactly, but I think it was 40-60fps, I could be wrong. I had to use a patch to get it to work, took a few minutes to figure out how it worked.

[@MatSpeedle]

Very impressive! Sony needs to hire these guys to do what they clearly can't (or won't) Awesome!

[@andersonandrighi4539]

Yeah... But no! Sony wants to sell remakes. Look how The Last of Us part I got one remaster for the PS4 and a remake for PS5. They would do the same with Infamous. I believe if Uncharted tracks some popularity they might do a remake for the trilogy too.

[@ghost085]

They better don't, Sony already bought a PSX emulator back in the day, so it wouldn't be available on PC (Connectix Virtual Game Station).

[@firstsurname9893]

@@ghost085 That's not entirely fair, Sony isn't Nintendo 😉 Although they did act very badly towards Connectix, that was a long time ago and lessons were learned. Sony's licensing of PCSX Rearmed for the PlayStation Classic demonstrates that they are not the hostile bully they were back in the early 2000's.

[@acepedro12]

This has to be the first time I hear anyone referring to GT 5 and 6 as beloved and "some of the very best".

[@Holammer]

Since R&C Rift Apart is coming to PC so I'm familiarizing myself with the series by playing the future games with RPCS3. Great games, they would be worth porting to modern systems if possible.

[@levant5378]

Yeah the biggest issue with the future series was and tools wasn't so much the gameplay, (which got worse as they went on), but rather the retconning of the original trilogy and the kiddyfication of the characters and story. Tools is still the best on PS3.

[@snakeshepard9761]

The best ones are Ratchet & Clank 1 and 2 (Going Commando) for the PS2, Deadlocked is interesting too. They can be easily emulated on PCSX2 with widescreen patches too, the HD version on PS3 had a lot of glitches. The other games were made targeting very young kids only I think. The first one is still enoyable nowadays (it targeted teenagers), the second has an amazing gameplay and it already targeted younger audiences but it was still tollerable. 3 (Up Your Arsenal) is for young kids, Deadlocked is like 2 (target wise) while Tools of Destruction, A Crack in Time and the Remake are for newborn babies unfortunately...

[@carn9507]

@@levant5378 I far prefer Into the Nexus and Crack in Time over Tools.

[@AdsaAdad]

The big deal with GT5 and 6 is, like a few other games, it's that they're not available and will never be available anywhere else. They are on ps3 only, no xbox, no PC, no remakes, no sort of backwards compatibility. Locked to this one specific bit of hardware that's hard to emulate and no longer being manufactured.

[@bookshelffury]

right but, with 86 some million consoles sold they really arnt hard to find

[@SungJinWoo369]

Progress in emulation always impresses me And this is definitely a great step

[@SB-tk4km]

You comment, but have you tested?

[@Two49]

Infamous 2 running at higher resolutions looks so good it's insane.

[@igordasunddas3377]

If one considers, that the architecture the PS3 was built around (Cell), is entirely different from x86-64, it's unbelievable how well RPC3 performs. Amazing job the devs did and your video shows it off nicely. Thank you!

[@boboboy8189]

I still remember one of the dev hack PS3 back in 2014. So he knew how Cell CPU works and how to emulate it. In 2016, this emulator can play GoW 3 as long as you have 8 core AVX2 back then. Compare that to Pcsx2, it need 4 years Just to make it running FF10 and Even that, you need to use speedhack to make it playable

[@aqua95]

You forgot to mention about the fact that Gran Turismo 5 and 6 suffered from random freezes/crashes. Thanks to the stability updates made to the rpcs3 for these games, the random freezes/crashes are finally gone. Now it's the perfect occasion to play endurance races.

[@polar-star64]

RPCS3 has a bright future ahead of it, incredibly excited for the future.

[@E_Sunbro]

As someone who just had to sell off his entire physical collection, this is amazing news as PS3 was one of the largest parts of my collection.

[@colderosion]

It's amazing how much progress the RPCS3 team has made.

[@bonbarmandrink]

The emulator community is wholesome

[@domingorodriguez3077]

can't believe the rpcs3 developers do this stuff for free... incredible

[@DeejBruce]

They're not, They have a Patreon.

[@domingorodriguez3077]

@@DeejBruce that's for donations

[@error-4518]

we don't deserve these people, also makes me so mad that some snot nosed bastards complain about "too slow progress" "my favourite game is not working"...

[@ElNeroDiablo]

@@DeejBruce The devs don't charge users up-front to access the software, so it's "free" compared to something like paying for Adobe Creative Suite.

[@grandsome1]

I'm pretty sure the development started before Patreon was even a thing, and has been developed for a long while without donos. So, it's mostly labour of love without compensation.

[@EastyyBlogspot]

Weird random thought i had....first time i heard about shader compilations was the RPCS3 and now i see it in so many games now days

[@MINI_91]

Bless the emulation community.

[@aaronkemp7789]

I love RPCS3. I'm not even mad when I can't get a game to work, because it's amazing that any games work at all!

[@T0TALLYAWESOMEGUY]

Yeah mate, I got a new Ryzen 7 5800X3D and 3060ti. Been streaming some PS3 on Twitch on the new beast PC, and RPCS3 is reeaally good now.

[@andrewgarcia1630]

Love your channel, man! Emulation has come a very long way for sure 😊

[@chiarosuburekeni9325]

A far cry from using NESticle version 3.4 (yes I’m that old and nerdy enough to remember the specific version and emulator that came out in like the fall of 1997 😂). That was the beginning of my emulation journey. Barely worked and couldnt even run Nintendo games smoothly on my pc. Now we’re doing this with emulation! Crazy

[@andrewgarcia1630]

@chiarosuburekeni9325 Bro! I started emulation on Android. I remembered when I first emulated Pokemon Fire Red on my Galaxy Exhibit and was blown away of how it performed. Now, I'm emulationing PS2 games on my PC 😁

[@patfer1189]

Impressive considering the challenges. Infamous 2 was probably the easier game to unlock the frame rate for since it already had an unlocked frame rate on PS3. It didn't hit 60 fps unless you were looking straight up to the sky, but it was there.

[@nullgator8073]

Another important difference from last year is the continued progress on moving games up from the loadable and intro categories. This rising tide is lifting all boats which is a good sign for the overall accuracy of the emulator as well as it's power as a preservation tool. Hopefully we see all games make it to the intro by the next update

[@mutalix]

Great video MVG, but sadly no PC specs in the description 😥

[@davidbeyerle6996]

I would love to see Sony collaborate or even hire the emulator devs and help bring great PS3 games to their current player base.

[@wotanmituns33]

rpcs3 is a godsend, all hail the dev team!

[@Leevalee]

for MGS4 while the new version of rpcs3 does "run" it with the pervasive crashes, but theres a custom build of rpcs3 that will run it with minimal issues.

[@SkyfighterZX]

Just recently replayed killzone 2 on it and it was great, only rare crashes that were not an issue, and very rare graphical glitches that had 0 inpact on the game, the rpcs3 emulator really is trully amazing, i was not expecting it to work so well

[@justanotherpxrson]

I love RPCS3. I use it to play the skate trilogy with unlocked fps, and while not 100% perfect, its still a fantastic experience.

[@lpnp9477]

My person right here

[@lpnp9477]

I will add though that in Skate 2 rpcs3 adds a weird latency that while not unplayable, does affect the experience negatively. Skate 3 runs almost perfectly on RPCS3. Skate 2 is best played on Xenia for now.

[@justanotherpxrson]

@@lpnp9477 I have been playing skate 2 just fine personally. I need to give nexia another shot though, it has been years since I have really tried it.

[@lpnp9477]

@@justanotherpxrson glad to hear it! For me, the extra lag was unplayable but the less this kind of thing bothers a person the better

[@Kaine1111]

The specs for your setup isnt in the description mate

[@AFourEyedGeek]

The save state mention caused to me gasp out loud and then curse. I'm impressed with that emulator even if Ixwont be using it. Good work as usual.

[@HybridAngelZero]

As someone who's a huge enthusiast for RPGs and niche Japanese titles, I am thrilled to see the strides being made in RPCS3. Games like Battle Princess of the Arcadias, Legasista and The Guided Fate Paradox are probably never getting native ports to new platforms, so them not being lost forever is wonderful

[@toprem4037]

Id bet money on MGS4 being in whatever comes after the first MGS Volume collection that Konami is working on now.

[@ELwhaaat]

I'm excited to upgrade to a Ryzen 7800X3D, according to some benchmarks I've seen like on Techpowerup it performs better than any other CPU on RPCS3

[@deathdoor]

I want to know how well it performs on Zen 4 CPU because they have AVX512.

[@frischifrisch6860]

At 5:22 you wanted to put the specs of your computer in the description. I think you forgot that. Would you be so good as to add the information. Great video and many thanks 👍

[@seraphin01]

I never understood why Sony crosoft and Nintendo (or Sega) would not just go to one of these big dev teams and say : OK here's a few millions, you take that out of the market, you work for us, you port this officially on the new hardwares Not only would they remove talented people from emulation scene (let's face it, Nintendo clearly want them off for instance) and they'd get a functional emulator with bells and whistles ready in no time that they can cash upon. It sounds like a no Brainer to me, especially with the ps3 emulator.. Starting from scratch for Sony would be a waste of time and money at this point

[@NeovanGoth]

Licensing. These emulators are usually released under a copyleft license like GPL, and are using tons of code from similarly licensed projects, means instead of taking them out of the market, they would even be required to release all future improvements they do under the same license. This could theoretically be circumvented by relicensing it (which would require consent of all contributors) and replacing all code derived from other projects, but it's probably far more easy to just start from scratch and have full control.

[@Full_Throttle_Axolotl]

It's also something I doubt they want to do Nintendo for example, how much more money do you think they make by reselling their old games every time they release a new console? If they had some dedicated emulator that all flies out the window because the expectation would be that it'd be multiplatform, at least internally between their own line of consoles

[@NeovanGoth]

@@Full_Throttle_Axolotl Nintendo HAS emulators for their older hardwares; how do you think the old games they release over and over again run on the Switch? xD The thing is that their in-house emulators are kinda shit compared to free ones, but apparently it's "good enough". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@viet0ne]

ROI There's no profit in emulation. Why spend millions you won't get back. Not enough people would buy an emulator to make it worthwhile on new consoles. Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft already released stats in in the PS3/360/Wii Era showing that emulator use was insignificant overall after the first year. So that millions is better spent on new games.

[@jesusbarrera6916]

licensing, also it's too much money and resources for not enough profit

[@freevbucks8019]

RPCS3 is so accurate it even crashes on games that crash on the real hardware

[@MetalJody1990]

It's an incredible and impossible emulator. Hard Corps: Uprising runs at 4k60 on my i7-4790 + rtx 3050. Absolutely phenominal work from the RPCS3 team!

[@montymole7114]

Biggest surprise for me is the fact it is over a year since your original video. Where the hell is my life going!

[@jfygt2623]

(Built a good spec PC to emulate RPCS3) **Plays GTAV** 💀

[@dafff08]

i couldnt play little big planet for pretty much a decade since my ps3 broke, while getting this increasing craving to relive my youth, which made me quite happy to see that i could boot it up on my pc after all these years. its a great feeling to be able to hop on on to some classics and relive some of the nostalgia. the 2000s were pretty much the golden era of gaming. no micro dlc, lootbox garbage. no excessive grind to bolster ingame transactions. this was the time where triple a meant quality and passion for the product. i mean sure, the graphics still were a bit rough around the edges and controls still needed some refinement but the gameplay was much more focused on quality. dont get me wrong, theres still tons of 2010s games that are top notch, but you have to find the gems between all these other big studio titles.

[@Knez011]

What are your PC specs MVG? I think you forgot to put them in the description. Also did anyone try this emulator on a Ryzen 5600X? What can I expect?

[@altaafsheik5725]

I've got the same CPU with a rtx 3070 and most part is very good but there are slow downs and crashes depends on the games really some games you just need a 8 core CPU

[@Threewlz]

If he hasn't changed his PC I know he have a i7 10700 last time he did a rpcs3 video

[@sebastiangonzales46]

I'm using Ryzen 7 5800X with 3060ti and find most games i play run pretty well with infamous 1 and 2 and GOW 3 and fight night games

[@Threewlz]

@@altaafsheik5725 6 cores should be enough, thing is you need low latency cores with a beefy IPC and preferably TSX and/or avx - 512 instructions

[@Housesider]

@@Threewlz yeah i have an i5-11600k and even before this update I was very surprised at the good/great perf I got in a lot of games. GT5 and 6 in particular already ran either at fullspeed or close to it when other cars were on screen (framerate would only really tank when there was a big grid of cars on-screen at once, like 8-16) but the main issue with them was just that they were super prone to crashing and de-syncing, and in some cases game progression was blocked by some screens being unpassable due to threads hanging (GT5's used car dealership would load, but if you tried to buy a car, the game would hang indefinitely instead of proceeding to the next screen.) They've fixed that bug thankfully but I wonder if it's still gonna crash or not.

[@paulobeckerrb26dett]

WHOA, I wasn't expecting to be able to play GT5 and 6 on my PC! Thanks so much for bringing this to our attention ❤

[@kgonepostl]

What's your gpu MVG?? Might want to mention your setup briefly next time.

[@Jamesssssssssssssss]

MGS4 art style is great, still hold up today.

[@TwinOpinion]

Tremendous work from the RPCS3 Team! What was once a pipe dream is now a feasible reality!

[@nisnast]

I finished MGS4 on RPCS3 a couple weeks, I have a good PC, but not exactly beefy. Ryzen 5 5600g 16GB RAM RTX 3060 And I managed to get higher frame rates than the PS3 original and run the game at 4K. Due to the nature of the PS3, RPCS3 is mostly CPU bound, if you want to know if your CPU is good for RPCS3 or want to upgrade to one that is, there is a tier list available, just Google for it, my CPU is considered B-tier and yet it still ran Armored Core 4, Demon's Souls and MGS4 with next to no issues (i had minor graphical glitches in MGS4). Also, with this CPU you don't need a graphics card at all, there's videos of people playing MGS4 at 1080p and 30 FPS without a graphics card (quite impressive considering the original game ran at 1024x768p and would often drop frames to the low 20s) Since RPCS3 is mostly CPU bound tho, that frees up your graphics card to upscale the image, I've managed to run all previously mentioned game at 4K/60, the only exception being MGS4 which would dip whenever things got too frantic (but the only dips are when the frame rate would tank on original hardware)

[@JustinRaySarten]

The PS3 was ahead of its time. I still remember the whacky "Cell Processor" commercials. I just want to play MGS4 without having to stream it whenever Sony says you can I believe it's been available to stream to PS5 twice and each time I played through the game again and I am patiently waiting for them to let me do that again which sucks! It shouldn't be this way......

[@josetomascamposrobledano4618]

PS3 was such a great generation. I’m starting to feel sad at the increase difficulty to join/expand the experience with this console. You better be ready to pay top dollar for an official controller or pay a premium to get a disk of an obscure game.

[@No_True_Scotsman]

Does anyone know if the license would allow Sony to put RCPS3 on the PS5 officially? They really should help get this project running better and then add it to the PS5 and sell PS3 games on the store. I know they never will but a guy can dream.

[@No_True_Scotsman]

​@John-gj6geWow, good point. There might be a point in the future when the Xbox can play PS3 games but the PS5 can't.

[@Plumtopia]

They could, but if I'm not mistaken RPCS3 is open source so they would have to 1: credit the original emulation team and 2: publish any changes they make to the emulator.

[@No_True_Scotsman]

@@Plumtopia I know they'll never do that but that would be a win-win

[@ens5n1e07p]

The license allows it, but I don't think Sony wants to add GPL-2.0-only (which requires fulfilling source code requests for interested users) code into the PlayStation.

[@ens5n1e07p]

@@Plumtopia The 2nd point is not a requirement per se with RPCS3 (as it's licensed with GPL-2.0-only, like Linux). They would just have to grant the source code to interested *users* (not necessarily anyone), fees notwithstanding (yeah they're also allowed to charge a sum of fee if they want to on the grounds of "shipping costs"). They could even make an RPCS3 fork that requires the Sony PS5 security to be intact (if they for some reason wants to do so).

[@coldfries8976]

WOW this is mindblowing. MGS looks like a 2018 game here, it's crazy! I might use this Emulator to play the Ratchet and Clank games again!

[@samoht77]

I'm very interested in your specs. Any chance of them being added to the description?

[@michaelmouton53]

Yes please!

[@TheTyisawesome]

Bro had i9 and 4080 w/32gb ram

[@vortenzi2592]

Incredible that this is running as well as it is, given the hardware architecture. Props to the team for working tirelessly to make this happen. I have such a backlog of PS3 games I still want to get through, but I'm on my second PS3 after hardware failures in the past and I know my current hardware has limited time. Sadly Sony hasn't stepped up to ease that anxiety via backwards compatibility. Knowing I can still play the games via emulation in the future is such a breath of fresh air.

[@Royameadow]

I have been an active tester of the Late Tiger Woods Era of PGA Tour ('I2 to 'I4) since December of 202I, and during my time running analysis, we are now in a position where the entire PGA Tour series is able to run on the emulator, with PGA Tour 'I3 being the only title that cannot properly run its DLC yet due to ongoing issues with its unit of PARAM.SFO; as of sometime shortly prior to Build I5080, PGA Tour 'I4 is now able to run its PARAM file without having to be moved via what I coined in the forums as the Kravicka Method (which is simply moving the file to another folder other than the Root Folder of the game, which for a while was the only way to get into the main game), now its Disc~based builds can play on the Revision 0I bugfix and also run all 045 courses without having to make use of the DLC Insertion Mod for the Masters Historic Edition that I was working on months ago, an improvement that I can comfortably admit is a major convenience as I did not want to have to do rigorous Hex Editing in the course data. At the time of this post, I still have yet to document on the forums and on the channel about my findings on 'I4, this is ultimately due to other media obligations that I have right now but at least I have been able to report on it in some capacity; I am certain that other testers will give it a go as well, it truly has been pleasant to play all the courses while gradually getting my Main Four Custom Characters to Level 0I00 (right now, everybody is between Level 080 and 082) before touching Career Mode and wishfully we'll be able to discuss similar about progress on 'I3 in the same regard in the months to follow. (:

[@BOXING_LOUNGE]

I must be the last man standing. Ps3 console overclocked firmware, fastest ssd, upscalers - mclassic and 4k gamer pro. Better - fps, anti aliasing, depth of field and O YES, its 720p is upscaled to 2160p🥊🥊🍿🙏

[@DrGreenThumbNZL]

Cringe 😂

[@BOXING_LOUNGE]

@@DrGreenThumbNZL See for yourself, I've made almost 600 videos 👀

[@DrGreenThumbNZL]

@@BOXING_LOUNGE Ps3 sucks, the 360 was way better , GTA IV run at 640p on PS3 😂

[@BOXING_LOUNGE]

@@DrGreenThumbNZL ok xbox fan boy 😂😂😂

[@BOXING_LOUNGE]

@@DrGreenThumbNZL final fantasy on xbox runs at a lower rez than the ps3 version, but these conversations are around 15 years old now...

[@yuGmooDehT]

So glad I finally upgraded my pc after a decade. This is gonna be great!

[@stevemeister3840]

MGS4 was a gem, and it’d be a shame for it to be stuck on old tech forever.

[@NickJR528]

It'll maybe be apart of the Vol. 2 of the MGS master collection while Vol. 1 has the 1,2,3. They'll just have to cutout the references to PS3 on the game

[@xizar0rg]

Interesting choice that MVG has decided to rebrand as Compiling Shaders. Nifty animated logo, though.

[@kirby0louise]

Wish they would reverse their stance on a DX12 renderer that was present in earlier builds so a Xbox port could be done. They say they dropped DX12 to be more multi-platform but that's hardly the case when they exclude platforms as a result of the API removal

[@jaykVEVO]

I just beat MGS4 with the latest rpcs3 build, and besides audio stuttering, the game was perfectly playable and looked amazing with 4k upscaling. It’s crazy to be able to fully emulate a game like mgs4, with it being like you said one of those games that seems doomed to never make it off the ps3.

[@GabryyLG]

what gpu do you have? I'd imagine 4k on mgs4 is no easy feat. I have a RTX 3060 12GB. I dunno if its worth it to get RPCS3.

[@SacilvioSantos]

That's why I've left PlayStation on this current gen, I've got a SX. The backwards compatibility on Xbox is far from perfect, but there are so many good titles on it, and plus - I can use my physical games on it. I have almost 200 physical games for PS3 here that I can only use on my PS3, and I expected a full BC from PS5/Sony. What I got: "even you if you have the physical game, you gotta pay the Plus to be able to STREAM a PS3 game, sir". Well, deal breaker for me.

[@JohnSmith-xq1pz]

Sony seems to enjoy putting bullet holes in there shoes as much as possible

[@pixelmentia]

Yeah the PS3 streaming is awful. Input lag for days.

[@Optim121]

Wait till you find out about PC and its near infinite compatibility. You'd leave your SX in the dust too.

[@JohnSmith-xq1pz]

@@Optim121 I'm considering building a "All in One" Game Console/hand held emulation machine one of these days

[@Optim121]

@John Smith that's what I have, you get all the emulators and obviously all native releases(which there are ALOT of) I also really enjoy matching each system with its respective controller, so I'm able to play wii games with a wiimote, ps1/ps2/ps3 with a ds5, snes with a snes controller and so on. It makes it little bit more fun.

[@lahma69]

Wow.. I had no clue they had implemented save states. That is truly phenomenal! I would have never guessed that that was something they were even considering trying to implement.

[@p_mouse8676]

I always take that playability rate with a big container of salt. Don't get me wrong the work, talent and effort in any of these emulators is extremely impressive!! But the vast majority of those "playable games", would even run on a potato. Often they are simple games that are also ports. Also, there are quite some games that one doesn't need a emulator for and are available on PC natively. All emulators include these in the playability rate, but it says extremely little about what is actually playable from the most interesting stuff.

[@dvornikovalexei]

I completed MGS 4 on a Quad Core at 60 fps most of the times. Idk how better they can make an emulator for a console that developers shat their pants to port games.

[@GXShade]

It is really cool that emulation is getting better.

[@hemny984]

Pc specs?

[@SShambler]

I remember playing Tools of Destruction on PS3 after the release, and it ran good but not excellent, with noticeable drops. But now I can go and replay it once again with 120fps and 1440p. Mind-blowing! Better Remastered than I could imagine. Awesome work.

[@JaycRam]

I bought a modded PS3 in 2017/18, in case my big boy PS3 ever died. 7 years later, I really dont need it, and might sell. RPCS3 has come a long ways.