PS3 Emulator

Can anyone recommend a PS3 Emulator? Just found this:

Playstation 3 emulator pc 2011! (PS3 emulator v3.01) Work on PC | hack4all.com

Download 1- FastyShare.com - PS3eumlator.rar
Download 2- zPag.es - Invalid Page

I'm sure there are many emulators. Any recommendation? I have tones of PS3 games but the console was stolen.

thanks!

 

have you personally tried this yourself?

 

no, that is why I'm posting here

 

looks fake

 

I say i do not believe in ANY sort of ps3 emulation, it's not possible to achieve with current mid-range pcs (including 2ndgen m17xs) as much as you should NOT post such info here unless its verified.

 

Agreed, it doesn't look very legitimate. That and the only reason the PS2 emulator, aka pcsx2 was even allowed to continue for a while was because "theoretically" people were using their own ps2 bios to run the program.

I'm sorry you lost your Ps3, but I hope we all stopped you from downloading a possible virus.

Here's a site I use for emulators. http://emulator-zone.com/ If it's not there, I would just wait it out.

 

one word : fake

its just come out and already v3.01 ????
the website itself is cheap and worst of all is the stinking external DL's link

Check out this link : it will be there whenever an actually working ps3 emulator come out.

EmuCR: PS3

 

I am pretty sure it's not possible to emulate PS3, heck, even PCSX2 fails when emulating several games of the old PS2...

 

I like the theorized requirements to emulate a ps3 though

desktop i7 extreme oc'd to 6.4Ghz on all 6 cores
1 590/6990
10gb ram(Due to all the textures)

No way we're gonna be able to do that anytime soon.

 

PCSX2 has a come a very long way though, aswell as dolphin (GC/Wii emulator). They can emulate MOST games pretty well, but as you stated, not as well as we would hope.

 

Hence pcsx2 is still technically in beta. Most full releases are usually 1.0.0, but its still in 0.9.8.

 

0.9.8 for like 2 years now

 

Not really sure why this is in this forum.

 

Well, every time I tried to emulate a game on PCSX2, the emulator fail in some way or another:

1. Silent Hill: Origin. The game runs really well, but only the intro part of the game, then you have the flashlight problem, and you have to play on SW mode, which sucks, and again if you turn on the lights, the fps goes from strong 60 fps to a weak 30 fps, with no reason !! that's a bug on the emulation, no doubt.

2. Batman Begins... The emulator does not work for this game.

3. Silent Hill: Shattered Memories.. The emulator does not work well on HW mode. And SW modes goes slow with the flashlight besides the resolution is awful using SW mode.

4. Raw Vs Smackdown 2011.. The game emulates well, but as soon as you have more than 4 characters on the game, the games runs too slow, even @3.6 GHz... and the emulator doesn't even use one core at full usage.

So if PCSX2 does not work well... we can not expect nothing about PS3.. or as someone said, requirements will be to high.

 

a noob question here
why the requirements would be so high to emulate it? as it was stated here over 6Ghz on six cores, over 10Gb RAM and the highest range GPU, desktop hardware

 

Because consoles usually do operations in hardware that are much slower to do in software throught emulation, then there's DRM, SPU, I/O, and other stuff that must be perfectly synchronized otherwise the game glitches.
The PS3 for example is going to be a pain to emulate and will require tremendous power because of the Cell SPEs, unless they find a way to offload those on the GPUs, but there's still the problem with the XDR ram and the internal working of the security which is yet to be seriously broken.

 

Emulating any system is difficult. The people doing it apparently aren't allowed to just copy the console's OS and mod it to computer, they have to reverse engineer it then work from the ground up. It's a difficult process unfortunately.

Also, the ps2 and ps3 both have multiple processors, and writing code to copy that function on a pc is difficult.

 

ok, now I see why. Thanks for clarification guys!

 

I read on an emulator-forum that there is no chance in hell that there will be an emulator for this generation of consoles (X360 + PS3) before we approach computers with 8x 2.0 ghz processors. (8-cored processors with 2.0 GHz on each core..).

The RAM isn't that big of an issue i think, TreyArch and other dev-companies for PS3 and X360 is ing about why the producers didn't add more ram to it, (512 mb for the X360 and 1gb for the PS3?)even when its so cheap. They state that it really limits the game-dev's boundaries..



- Scott.

 

then the new 8 core AMD FX CPU should handle that

 

Magneto; Probably
Now, the next thing would be actually making someone cracking all the layers of the PS3 and as someone earlier in this thread "Re-engineer" and compile this code to PC...

It must be one hell of an job, wouldn't see anyone doing it in the near future..
I mean, sure, George Hotz did crack the security-layer which made it possible to run homebrew apps on it, but wouldn't the process of making an PS3 emulator actually require you to "break up" the whole system and re-code it for Windows?

I'm an total newbie on this subject, i just re-tell what i've read before..




- Scott.

 

yeah I agree, there are definately many difficulties besides hardware power..

but the capable hardware is already available

 

Old-school emulation is cool because it is pretty flawless, and multiplayer/networking wasn't around yet. Newer stuff isn't worth it due to the fact that the PC running it has to be very powerful, and you usually don't have the MP and networking capability. You're not going to find anyone playing MW3 on a PS3 emulator. A PS3 or XBox 360 emulator is pretty far off. Just buy the console if it is that important to you. Then you'll have all of the functionality too.

This is coming from a die-hard emulation guy.

 

Very true.

Speaking strictly from the technical standpoint -- although I can't cite actual references (heh) -- our machines just don't have the capacity to emulate the hardware of the Xbox 360, and especially the Playstation 3. Might as well just get a used console on the cheap. . . or hope for a port of your favourite titles.