rpcs3 (ps3 emulator) now has demon's souls in a near-playable state

[The Murderous Cop]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI7nRkq9CEo
https://rpcs3.net/blog/2017/03/11/des/

this is actually really awesome for a emulator still in really large development. considering this is working, i'm really excited for what they're gonna do in the future. love emulator development logs/reports like this from other developers like the devs at dolphin or citra.

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[beachbum111111]

Must have been a nightmare to program considering the ps3s hardware. Sucks these guys are only making a tenth of what the guys who made cemu are getting via patreon

[cooolguy32]

I wanna use it, so I can play my copy of kingdom hearts 2.5 remix on PC
oh Demon Souls.

[McJob]

I really doubt this is going much further. A lot of games utilised Cell in ways you just can't achieve on the PC without a lot of special casing and interrupts to fundamentally change the way that game is rendered. With hundreds of PS3 games to work on...yeah, nah. This won't last long.

[The Murderous Cop]

I really doubt this is going much further. A lot of games utilised Cell in ways you just can't achieve on the PC without a lot of special casing and interrupts to fundamentally change the way that game is rendered. With hundreds of PS3 games to work on...yeah, nah. This won't last long.

they said the same thing about Z-Freeze and other features that dolphin couldn't emulate properly, but look where we are now with that

who knows, something could happen

[Whackin]

they said the same thing about Z-Freeze and other features that dolphin couldn't emulate properly, but look where we are now with that

sure, but this issue isn't z-freeze, its cell, its definitely possible to run into a problem they can't fix

[McJob]

but look where we are now with that

Cell (which is PowerPC64) has several significant components which are going to be absolutely murder to effectively run on any standard PC configuration; the main processing unit which controls the rest of the pieces, 6 functional cores for games and a data bus which controls input/output, and that's not focusing on any of the rest of the PS3's hardware.

Cell is used in scientific laboratories and high performance media equipment. The PS3's incarnation might not be the strongest variant, but current PC hardware is far away from running most of the games in an emulated state.

[The Murderous Cop]

Cell (which is PowerPC64) has several significant components which are going to be absolutely murder to effectively run on any standard PC configuration; the main processing unit which controls the rest of the pieces, 6 functional cores for games and a data bus which controls input/output, and that's not focusing on any of the rest of the PS3's hardware.

Cell is used in scientific laboratories and high performance media equipment. The PS3's incarnation might not be the strongest variant, but current PC hardware is far away from running most of the games in an emulated state.

huh, i didn't know all of that. that's pretty cool, actually.

it does seem like they are getting quite a bit of work done related to it though: https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3/tree/master/rpcs3/Emu/Cell

even if it won't support a lot, it'll still support a few things, so that's pretty nice.