Will PS3 Emulation Work On The Steam Deck? RPCS3 Full Setup Guide And Gameplay

Today we are going to push the Steam Deck to its limit. While we emulate Ps3 Games and see how they will perform. Some of the results might surprise you.
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[@strohhuttv8848]

Yeah the PS3 one of the weirdest systems I owned, was also my last console I bought before I came to the PC. Seeing it run so well on a handheld makes me realize how fast technology is improving.

[@llJeezusll]

I mean tech is always growing at such a fast rate That even phones these days are as powerful or even more powerful than the last gen consoles. And soon we'll probably see another handheld system as powerful as the current consoles out

[@insensitive919]

Wow, same. Wasn't sure I even wanted one, but a family member was getting rid of a half-broken ps3 from a renter that bailed on him and I managed to get it working. Just had to hook up a dvi cable and get the fussy disk drive to like me. Definitely the quirkiest console I ever owned, gonna try to get Alpha Protocol running on it, then I don't have to worry about steamdeck supporting a very old and very niche game. 😅

[@bimmer8602]

@@insensitive919 lol that sounds do random. Renter bailed

[@Cub__]

Yur

[@Soup-man]

When a little tablet can emulate the PS3 but the new Playstation can't.

[@So2ogLAC]

😞😞😞 it's sad

[@martinlutherkingjr.5582]

It can, it’s just Sony doesn’t want you to.

[@antrax5.745]

Lol you’re dumb. It obviously and even better than the steam deck. It’s just not good for Sony.

[@frankvandermerwe1487]

Hahaha you think the ps5 can't emulate ps3 games?

[@Soup-man]

@@frankvandermerwe1487 Show me proof that it can

[@OrkDiktator]

Thank you for your tutorials. I don't have a SD or do emulation stuff but it's definitely interesting to watch how the emulators evolve even from a standpoint of pure curiosity

[@PatoQuicksilver]

Best explanation ever! I was unable to use RPCS3 on gaming mode (EmuDeck flatpak), you make it possible!

[@mattflin5171]

Great video, very helpful. Thanks!

[@paulflood1183]

Love this type of content. I'm on my steam deck most days

[@khamm83]

Thank you so much, your details and extent of them helped me a lot. Thank you thank you!

[@hellbornKrieg]

demon s souls was exactly what i was looking for. one of my favoritve games, and being on the move a lot more i cant use my consoles as much. amazing video

[@mandrews6282]

Been on a Yakuza kick and have played through every RGG western title and spinoff now including Fist of The North Star, Ishin, Judgement, and even Binary Domain. But, I still have my eye on Yakuza Dead Souls (laugh all you want lol), Kenzan, and others. Went looking for how to emulate PS3 on deck and glad to see my man was way ahead of me. Appreciate this one.

[@michaelomara]

this helped me. thank you

[@TruthAlmighty]

Good job my boi video was perfect

[@Anime_Fan_0069]

I tried out Silent Hill Downpour and Lolipop Chainsaw on the Steam Deck and those run pretty good for me.

[@clownworld1017]

Thank you for reminding me to play Lolipop Chainsaw. Finna download it on the SteamDeck

[@Anime_Fan_0069]

@@clownworld1017 No problem!

[@tamim4235]

Please can someone try to run fight night round 4 smoothly on steam deck? I need help because mine stutters :(

[@darkfalzx]

TLoU and Uncharted are difficult games to emulate even on a high-end PC. I think it's more about the emulation just not "being there". That said, there are many community patches and workarounds that might improve the experience quite drastically... Then again - the PC versions of both of those are supposed to land soon-ish, so it might be worth it just to wait.

[@jermainemunger1603]

You suck as a KZbinr,why would you have games already uploaded, you just waste space on people device

[@Torbulous]

for those that choose to use RPCS3 for Persona 5, know that there is no "Royale" version on PS3. There was a community working on back--porting content from Royale onto the base version of Persona 5 for PS3, but idk if they're still going to do it since the game is releasing on PC and all consoles. Might be worth looking into.

[@noob-kun7768]

Atlus gonna ported P5R to pc

[@Torbulous]

@@noob-kun7768 oh I typed PS instead of PC. I meant PC. edited my comment. But yeah, I'm just speaking for those that still want to use RPCS3 for P5. The Royal stuff won't be there.

[@villain7574]

@@Torbulous obviously

[@Torbulous]

@@villain7574 I mean it's only obvious if you're in the know of it.

[@villain7574]

@@Torbulous not apologizing for lack of IQ

[@ff10fire666]

PS3 was the last home system that Sony created that I actually care about. It started off rough with its price and hardware to program for but had a lot of gems.

[@--Traveler--]

beginning really sucked. but man it grew to be something big. i dont like modern systems really. they feel like meta pc's. may as well become pc manufacturers' tbh. they are already there.

[@CDubb442]

60GB OG ps3 greatest system of all time ps1,2,3 and Blu-ray player way ahead of it’s time MS took that playbook with the XBX

[@xXYannuschXx]

@@--Traveler-- And Sony has started porting even PS5 exclusives to PC.

[@xXYannuschXx]

Yeah, the PS4 was absolutely lackluster. Horribly slow CPU and GPU combo and basically just 08/15 AAA titles you have seen a million times before. The PS2 had such an armada of well mad and unique first party titles, even the PS3 had alot of them; but with the PS4 they did a nose dive...

[@bimmer8602]

Random gem that I thought of but folklore looked really good. Too expensive nowadays because it's rare.

[@mynameiscemil]

Hi Alex. This is an awesome tutorial again. But there is also other side of Steam Deck: Windows user like me. I did whatever you shown your other videos for other emulators they all work nice. But Rpcs3 is little complicated and question is all same for windows 10?

[@yngvie659]

Thank you you see this demon souls wart like the opening played. I had a custom character but then when I turned on the game, I could see the health bar I could see my weapon and shield, but I could not see the character or the environment so I was like what the heck do I do to make it work and your tutorial has helped me now I can actually play the game and I’m super excited because I’ve never played this game.

[@jalalboukki4562]

Hello buddy I want to thank you for the tutorial you are the only one who dear to explain to Poeple how to set up the emulation waiting for new ones

[@OhNoItsAlexx]

Hey, thanks

[@WoodAvenger]

What about playing roms in iso format ? Can you load iso files directly or do you need to mount the iso an then extract its content into à New folder ?

[@RL_Stine_88]

I was really really close to pulling the trigger on a PS5 Horizon Bundle. I live in California, so the price is $550 for the bundle. I was mostly getting it to have for the new GOWR. But more and more I have been realizing, it doesn't really matter to me if I play God Of War Rag day one or not. Their are about to be a nice pack of games coming out around that same time. So more n more I have been getting excited about the idea of getting a Cleveland Steamer Deck! I didn't think this would be possible at all, even if it is on a very limited game library. Steam Decks seem seriously almost too good to be true haha!!

[@toasterboy2003]

It's 440 cause California tax is dreadful

[@alexscotwilson]

I updated my rpsc3 today and I can no longer play mk vs dc. I get sudo memory and verification failed error logs. have you notice anything like this?

[@strider775]

Will you be doing an emulation guide for the Xbox 360 on the Steam Deck? Great content as always!

[@0311E]

Hi Alex, so just wanted to let you know that for some reason when you go to the controller settings this part is empty for me. Can you find out why this is working for the deck. I put everything you said but for some reason the actual buttons labels don't come up. Thank you. in the flat pack they did but it only playes games on gamescope and not vulkan.

[@cal2196]

Hi thank you for the tutorials it worked really well I have a question tho how can you add PKG to Steam rom manager? I can't seem to be able to do it is there a way to do it?

[@birdman4birdlegs]

I was playing rainbow six vegas 2 on rcps3 last night which is not traditionally an easy game to run. I lowered the resolution to 960 x 540 and then uppped the sharpening. It still looked great and it ran really solid

[@suecamilleri7363]

Can it be played online too?

[@birdman4birdlegs]

@@suecamilleri7363 I don't know if RCPSN supports it. Technically you could play splitscreen with people via parsec

[@mattalled1918]

Hey, is there a trick to getting FSR working? is it maybe game-dependent? I followed your guide, I have FSR checked on in the GPU tab of RPCS3 and I also turned on FSR on the steam deck overlay but it just doesn't seem to work properly. When I go into settings, it seems like FSR turns on for a few seconds then turns off and keeps going about in a loop. Once I boot up my game, it just says OFF at all times. I'm trying to play God of War Collection. Any tips? Thanks!

[@mpredolim]

Hey, have u faced any audio issues like...suddenly the audio of every game doesn´t works? This occurs only with PS3 games. Used to work perfectly but now...not anymore. Thanks!

[@dalebyrne6228]

The tutorial is really good the only thing is where do you the games from? As iv download files an they don’t show in my micro card pkf files from another video doesn’t seem to work I can’t figure it out…

[@Bod2600]

Please tell me where I can find the "Parcel Specific Configuration" on the SD LCD. Thanks in advance. 😊

[@northernsaturn8095]

The Fact that the steam deck can run PS3 Games (Some Not well but they boot) is really incredible

[@mr.hemiroids794]

The problem I ran into is any PS3 game you actually want to play runs like shit. Red Dead Redemption Midnight Club Etc. Or at least the games that I'm interested in.

[@diegojames8678]

@@mr.hemiroids794 same here

[@DreamerSouls]

The one major difference that I noticed between downloading directly and using flat packs is that none of the emulators through emu deck with an exception of cemu Xemu and ryujinx, have the toolbar at the top of the window [File-Emulation-tools-help ect] and that makes doing things like launching the Wii menu on dolphin, or doing literally anything on melon DS impossible

[@tanvirhanifa7674]

so it's better to just download and install them individually instead of through emudeck or even flatpak?

[@josephellis4968]

You can turn it on via the emulators themselves on desktop mode

[@David-ym2vk]

@@josephellis4968 By turn them on themselves, do you mean launch the game in desktop mode, launch the emulator in desktop mode, or turn on the toolbar in desktop mode so it shows up when launching from game mode in steam? I tried emudeck, but it was pretty annoying not having the toolbar for yuzu and having to go back to desktop mode just to change a single setting then back to game mode to play the game.

[@cl_tyr]

you can open the emulator itself through steamos or desktop mode and make it so it does show the toolbar

[@iSubUwU]

I followed everything but anytime I download a ROM it is extracted into an ISO and I cant figure out how to get it to run the ISO as when I try to load the game or ass it it says there is no content, been looking for a video to help with no success. Anyone have any tips?

[@BIGPAPA1337]

Thank you 🙏

[@skywarp0564]

Hey Alex did you or are you going to do a review on Escape from Tarkov? Has it ever cross your mind?

[@jazmine1265]

At this moment I'm playing. Resistance fall of man, demon souls,castlevania and uncharted on my steam deck

[@FauxPriest]

Yo, where's the Big Beard Alex at? Bring him back😂🥲

[@theciscokidwpg]

Could it be that the last version of PCS3 (it auto-updated) doesn't have the "Microsoft X-Box 360 pad 0" anymore under Evdev? It only shows "Steamdeck" and controls don't work properly

[@akalalaimranrp]

Fighting games using RPCS3 works great on Steam Deck. I have Tekken 6, TTT2, Street Fighter x Tekken, King of fighters 13, Virtual fighter 5, Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate and Marvel vs Capcom 2 and 3. It's Amazing what Steam Deck can handle for an handhold.

[@tamim4235]

Please can someone try to run fight night round 4 smoothly on steam deck? I need help because mine stutters :(

[@pokepe12]

Did you have any extra configurations for running ttt2? For a lot of people it seems to run very poorly

[@Shadybiglpac]

How u get Ttt2 to work

[@jtdogzone1911]

How do you get key board without steam ?I could just look it up but it would be cooler if..,sigh nvm still thank you sir. Very informative.

[@pollockjeffery22]

When I click add games and go to the game location then I select choose but it doesn’t print anything over for me. Any idea why that could be?

[@BioAlpha5]

ngl making tutorial vids are super super fun lol i can see why people do it

[@coryfisher6943]

Every time I download a game, it being a ISO file do I then extract it? When I do and put it in the Roms folder of my primary SD card it doesn’t show up RPCS3 when I go to “add games” then to find a game I go to my primary SD folder them to the ps3 rom folder and it doesn’t read it or it’s corrupted etc. need help :(((

[@Chris-oy3zn]

How do I get the configurations to transfer over to gaming mode? Everytime I come back to desktop mode they all revert back.

[@kimi5263]

When add my game, why can't I find it in my downloads folder? But when I look in my downloads folder, it's there

[@eleazerlopez1209]

Hey so I got to the part where you have to add the games but for some reason it's not reading them. I have the iso but it's not registering. Does someone have any insight??

[@arjithsk6279]

The games aren’t showing up in in the emulator. Ive tried the iso file. And unpacking it as well. Still doesn’t work. How do i fix this?

[@BONEZYEAA]

It wont let me download when i get to “download ps3 update “ screen doesn’t even ask for security just doesn’t load

[@floridasickboy]

So help me out with “The Godfather”….it’s asking me to use a dual axis controller? Is there a fix. Can you do a video if there is. Subscribed

[@hamza4u119]

wtf? dude I feel like I traveled back in time and I'm seeing the young version of you hah 😂 just 2 videos and day and night difference. can't believe that hh

[@keepitshort4208]

Will it ever be able to play most games ?. I know ayaneo 2 can but will steamdeck can improve or will wait for steamdeck 2 ?

[@HiPlayerProdigy]

Just got done playing Ragnarok Odyssey Ace (PS3), not all PS3 games run well a lot of them require setting changes like ModNation Racers, Lost Planet 2 and Resistance 2.

[@josebacha6927]

Hi alex i installed the demon souls in my deck but the sound its bad cracking WHAT CAN I DO PLEASE

[@royandescartes]

question. i keep getting an error about Trophies and the game sayd game will be terminated., how do i fix this?

[@writerb5001]

I'm beyond frustrated. I had an SD card and loaded some games on it. I had minor issues but got Tekken 6, Dragon's Crown, and Odin's Sphere running. I couldn't be happier. Then the Sd card crashed. Got another SD and NOW every time I try to load a game I just get a black screen...

[@royandescartes]

i need help !!!! i keep getting this error about creating trophies or something like that and the game says it will quit now

[@mp4486]

anyway to check how to enable debug mode? I can't find the folder to enable it anywhere

[@MrSaneCesar]

Hi there question of sorts is there a reason as to why MY knock off playstaion 4 controller works ok on the steam deck but the 8 bit do controller and Xbox controller's don't also any setting recomendations for GTA 4 loads the files doesn't play Kind Regards thanks, side note Xbox and 8 Bit do work fine in Spiderman for steam.

[@joelsbowlsarejoelsgoals9636]

I got Infamous running with good framerates but the audio is choppy and it seriously pulls from the CPU. almost all cores were 90-100%. the temp I think was about 80.

[@deathpunx28]

Does anybody know where the save directory is? I can't seem to find it.

[@nontox7831]

I don’t know why but this just doesn’t work for me I trying to play skate 3 I downloaded rcsp3 and skate 3 but for some reason when I go to boot game and put my game it it crashes and refuses to work I need help I want to try this

[@benjaminbarrow2449]

When tryna find path to roms my sd card will not show up an I don’t know where to find it plz help

[@tamim4235]

Please can someone try to run fight night round 4 smoothly on steam deck? I need help because mine stutters :(

[@OnTheSetipoop]

My game shows but when I click on it it says invalid file or folder what do I do now?

[@Ownage4lif31]

Majority of emulation is based on optimization. I tried running ratchet & clank 3 years ago and got like 20 fps. Now I get well over 60 just fine. TLOU is probably in the same boat here. As time passes and RPCS3 improves, you will see more games run at high framerates on all pcs, handhelds etc... Patience is key.

[@roninstormYT]

also alex allot off games that say playable witrh a green dot dont run that well like never dead i cannot get that thing too run i get black screen on the first mission after the cutsense other youtubers got it too run maybe using a custom rcps3 launcher then and on my pc desktop too

[@pockoclock228]

11:30 How do you set it up for .iso rather than .bin? Your explanation was rather vague since you didn't even interact with that part of the menu, instead just saying what is supposed to be done.

[@harounalkanderi5128]

Only CD ripped games shown on Rom Manager, pkg psn games not showing up, any solutions? many thanks

[@Soup-man]

You can now take their exclusives anytime, anywhere.

[@SlyMelodica.]

can you do xenia ik it's a test version in emudeck anyway to get it going?

[@Creeper_ofDoom]

MGS4 Time (I will use a custom build called MGS4Deck)

[@seandubose2342]

Can you run college hoops 2k8 on steamdeck? If you can, then im sold and will buy one!

[@BiGQuincie]

Does fight night champion or round 4 work

[@JRAM7]

If i downloaded emudeck am i ok with the parsers section how they are?

[@whoismikejonez]

ps3 was the last home console to support non hd resolutions. why do i not see more of these emulators take advantage of that. surely it would be easier to emulate at 480p or even 480i than 720. and yes while not optimal. would probably be more than playable with most games.

[@20mat]

I know this is an old comment, but pretty much every modern console emulator lets you choose what resolution you run the game at, including non-HD resolutions, the thing is- reducing your resolution on most if-not all emulators rarely does much to improve performance, because the vast majority of emulators are CPU bound and rely very little on GPU performance, playing at 1080p really is no different from emulating the game at 480p because at the end of the day, your GPU was hardly getting taxed to begin with, assuming you have any kind of modern GPU. I mean consoles like the xbox 360 were working with 512 MEGABYTES of ram SHARED between the CPU and GPU, it's the backend of these emulators that work to translate the workload of a PS3 or Xbox 360 into a language your CPU can understand is what makes it pretty taxing. Long-Winded explanation, but TL;DR: resolution doesn't matter as much as you think it does.

[@ananon5771]

great video, demon souls at 60 is super impressive.

[@OhNoItsAlexx]

It really is!

[@Parzival-xq1dw]

Where do you download your ps3 games from

[@mohit7636]

You could use AUR alternatively. It updates automatically

[@_m3kh170]

Does anyone know how to make the game icons executable or do i have to open rpcs3 everytime

[@songoku9348]

I tested Tekken Tag 2. Runs flawlessly

[@ivanliu1909]

Any idea how to install custom patches?

[@gamerphxd9652]

Do i need internet connection for ps3 emulation can I play it offline once I already download the game🤔

[@rajgill7576]

I want a ps3 emulator so bad. Little did I know ow it marked the end of my childhood. The kast console to be had new and played into the dirt

[@waniselbouyalaoui5886]

hi everthing works fine but i have no sound what should i do

[@wooly1782]

I can't launch it in gaming mode its just stuck in the loading screen

[@Shayoden]

I really would never expected to see Demon Souls run a 60 fps on Steam Deck. 30? Maybe. Stable 30? Don't think so. 60? Absolutely not. Incredible device.

[@adamcrux6829]

I'm just as shocked as you. It was a challenge to get it running that smooth on my last gaming PC with a i7 8700k @5Ghz and a 1070. Now with my new system 11900k and 3080 it runs smooth and at 4k 60. I just got it setup on my steam deck and have to say that it's perfect. Even when you get into the open world with dragons and enemies it stays locked on 60 where as my old 8700k would have frame rate drop below 30 at times. When I first load into an area it can take a few seconds to catch up on the steam deck where my new PC feels smoother than it did on the PS3, it's still so little it's not even a issue while playing the game. I've only had my steam deck for a few days now but I'm so glad I bought it. I do wish I would've saved the money and got the 64GB model instead of the 512GB (main reason was the etched glass) because the first thing I did was throw a 1TB ssd in it. I have all my emulators running off a SD card including the PS3 games and have had zero issue doing it that way as well. There is a small delay on SD card while loading the game the first time while it build the shaders but after that it doesn't effect performance.

[@guko9877]

No homo Alex but the beard looks clean not used to the trim lmao

[@shaolin95]

Bummer that fight night runs in slow mo 😭

[@Blasphemoustattoos]

I'm on the deck but For some reason no games load even though I have them downloaded, anyone know any reason for this

[@ThomasGaitherJr]

I need help, I'm at 9:34 and I can get ROM Manager to see my SD card. I tried to drag and drop the sd card to the desktop and link it from the desktop but when I set the path to have the ROMs point to the desktop and then test the parser, my ROMs are still not being found. What am I doing wrong? Please and Thank You.

[@benjaminbarrow2449]

I’m having the same issue an nobody is responding

[@roeetal13]

what to do if it doesnt recieve controller input?

[@silenceburns1336]

Before watching, I got RPCS3 to run Demon's Souls just fine, with very minor tweaking. I'm an emulation novice, and haven't dipped into it since emulating some original PS games back in 2013, so it took 4 days (maybe an hour or 2 a day) to get it right. Take care that in desktop mode, you can easily mute whatever program you're running on accident, and this took me 2 days to figure out, as I'm also green with Linux. On to watching the rest of the video.

[@VerdeMorte]

Can it run Motorstorm Pacific Rift & Apocolypse?

[@PossiblyAndrew]

4:48 Any way i can do it WITHOUT a micro SD card?

[@adik007]

Hi. My emulator doesn't recognize the game. I have Demon's Souls. In the folder, another PS3_GAME folder and does not see anything after selecting Add Games. Do I have to prepare this folder with the game somehow?

[@eleazerlopez1209]

Have the same problem, did you ever figure it out??

[@Zizmir]

also having this issue

[@B2396B]

What site did you download the roms because certain files wont show up

[@israelmendoza5262]

Tried running fallout 3 in sd. I cant get past the opening scene.

[@Captain_Obvious_Says]

Really wanted to play Operation Raccoon City and it runs but it runs really slow :(

[@Orbital_Dew]

i dont own a steamdeck ... why do i keep watching these videos ?

[@Tai827vtuber]

Persona 5 you can get running well you just gotta change settings in the emulator

[@jangelelcangry]

The shader compilation wait at the beginning is the worst thing about RPCS3. 19:40 reminds me to emulating goldeneye on an early 2000s Duron CPU.

[@glenngratz4077]

Wow.. Well, it looks like SteamDeck PS3 emu might be worth it just for Demon Souls alone. That's impressive!