As Sony prepares to stop producing new PlayStation game discs, the developers of the RPCS3 (Russian PC Station 3) emulator decided to breathe life into old PlayStation game discs.
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how report Official Weibo RPCS3, now the emulator allows you to run PS3 games on your PC directly from the CD drive. This feature is available for users of Windows, Linux, macOS and FreeBSD operating systems.
“Plug and play! Having the game in physical format gives you access to games released 20 years ago without having to rely on servers!” – RPCS3 developers boast.
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Before starting for the first time, the user It’s still necessary Provide the emulator with the disk decryption key (must be placed in the data/redump folder). After this, the game will boot from the disk and decrypt on the fly.
It’s worth noting that the ability to boot games from disc only covers a limited number of compatible Blu-ray drives (including external drives). A full list of eligible models is available at RPCS3 website.
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RPCS3 has been in development since 2011 and allows over 75% of the games in the PS3 catalog to run on PC. As of the time of this article’s publication, 2760 of the 3562 cataloged RPCS3 versions fall into the playable category.
Unfortunately, the remaining content consists of the major PS3 exclusives that people bought the console for at the time. Games of this type often push the console to its maximum capabilities, and their complex architecture seriously complicates the emulation process.
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