Playing More PS3 Games On The RPCS3 Emulator (Including Lollipop Chainsaw & Other Games)

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Playing various PS3 Games on the RPCS3 emulator on Windows 11.

RPCS3 is a free and open-source emulator and debugger for the Sony PlayStation 3. Written in C++, it supports multiple platforms including Windows, Linux, macOS, and FreeBSD1. The project relies heavily on reverse engineering and community collaboration to improve its accuracy and performance. This means that developers and enthusiasts from around the world contribute to the codebase, helping to refine and enhance the emulator’s capabilities. The emulator supports a wide range of PlayStation 3 titles, though performance and compatibility can vary depending on the specific game and hardware setup.

RPCS3 is a very compatible and capable emulator and your experience with the emulator depends on the hardware you use (speed of CPU, instruction set and number of cores) as well as the game you try. So don’t be ready to disregard the emulator as useless if a game doesn’t run. It’s not a turn key experience.

As the PS3 is a complex system emulating it on PC is quite a daunting task. Recompiling of the code into x86 compatible code using multiple threads as well as providing the running game with an environment responding like a PS3. The memory lay out is completely different so there’s a lot of things that take a lot of computing power.

If the compatibility list says the game is playable it is, but your PC will be the Achilles tendon.

RPCS3 is a very intriguing as it tries to provide a way of running games intended to run on vastly different from PC architecture that is the PS3. The PS3’s Cell Broadband Engine (CPU) and the RSX Reality Synthesizer (GPU). The PS3 has 7 floating co-processors and many of the games are written utilizing the parallelism in processing power (math and graphics) needed to have the PS3 peform at its best. The PC is quite different, the way the memory is laid out and accessed, the way math and graphics are being processed. Basically a simpler game (comparable to a single thread app on a Windows PC) will often run fine. A more complex game (comparable to a multi thread PC game) will utilize a lot of the parallel processing the PS3 is capable of – the PC running the RPCS3 emulator needs to have a lot of high performing cores to make the more complex games run well. The easier games – and Outrun is not a very demanding title on the PS3 – will also run on lower end PCs.

The RPCS3 emulator has various settings addressing using multiple threads: for graphics processing power as well as various math threads. It is possible to have the RPCS3 emulator itself schedule the use of threads/cores within the emulator itself – which is something most apps leave to the Windows scheduler.

So it’s a multifactorial thing you need to take into account when trying to run a game on the RPCS3 emulator.
– how the game (it can be a seemingly simple looking game) is using the parallelism of the PS3
(does the game itself actually tax the PS3 hardware or is it an easy game for the PS3 to run?)
– how your PC with its cores / CPU instructions per cycle / multithreaded capabilities will be able to manage
– what is said on the compatibility page of the rpcs3 emulator

Using built in performance settings/specs OSD in the emulator might provide some answers on how much of the PS3 resources are required and how much that actually taxes your system.

Chapters
00:00:00 – Title and waffle
00:06:52 – RPCS3 Settings used
00:07:48 – Lollopop Chainsaw
00:10:07 – Ridge Racer 7
00:13:08 – Assault Heroes
00:16:03 – After Burner Climax
00:17:52 – Bayonetta
00:20:51 – Capcom Arcade Cabinet
00:22:11 – Dirt 2
00:27:24 – Dirt 2 some psychedelic water reflection glitch
00:27:41 – Crazy Taxi
00:29:01 – Zen Pinball 2
00:35:40 – Yakuza Dead Souls
00:46:10 – WRC Powerslide
00:51:08 – WRC Rally
01:04:35 – Wonder Boy Monster Land (Sega Vintage Collection)
01:06:00 – Wolfenstein 3D
01:07:26 – Wipeout HD
01:09:04 – Voltron Defenders of the Universe
01:16:01 – Tomba (PSone) (Epilepsy warning)
01:17:36 – The Sly Collection
01:24:17 – Switchball
01:30:34 – End Credits

Hardware used:
Ryzen9 5900X
RTX3070
Windows 11
OBS
RPCS3 0.0.32-16699 this build was released on 2024-07-21

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