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PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 reaches a new milestone: 75% of all PS3 games are now playable on PC (www.gamingonlinux.com)
submitted 1 week ago* by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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Their compatibility list notes 75.33% are Playable, 22.93% can go in-game but not be finished and only 1.69% can't get past the intro.

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[–] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I would love to revisit some games, but the online aspect is a big portion that I've been missing. I would love to revisit some of the world's people created in little big planet. Is that possible?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I’d have to imagine those were all hosted by Sony servers. You would have to convince PSN that the emulator is a real PS3, which is probably a significant challenge on top of the fact that Sony lawyers would probably be let loose on the idea for security implications.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    You can totally get a fake PSN service running in RPCS3. It's called RPCN. However, LittleBigPlanet servers were not hosted by PSN, they were hosted by Media Molecule in conjunction with Sony.

    Unfortunately those servers were hacked and they took down everything. So any content for LittleBigPlanet 1, 2 or 3 is totally gone.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I'm honestly surprised that since there was no plan for a little big planets 4, and a little big planet 3 had 1, 2, and 3, that they didn't just release only the levels data, that way that people could run fan services.

    It wouldn't really cost all that much extra because they would only have to keep the data available for a week or two, and then the community would then keep it alive via torrents or their own off-site storage.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    I can't find a proper source, but I think even the fan communities were taken down.

    It is not surprising that Sony would hold that level data close to the chest. If LBP4 did actually become a thing, they could release all that legacy data as day 1 content.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago*

    Actually yes, at least for LBP specifically, I have done it myself. RPCSN is a built in PSN emulator, and there are multiple major fan maintained servers with archived user content from before it went down. As well as new content from the PS3 emulation era.

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    • [–] 8 points 1 week ago

    I have had a weird urge to play Tokyo Jungle, maybe I'll finally check out ps3 emulation

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    [–] 8 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    The last console made by gentlemans with free playstation online play. Noble years before Sony became greedy corporation.

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    • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    If I could play the Afro Samurai game again I would be quite happy. I was literally looking at buying the physical copy a few days ago. Might try this first.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I didnt even know there was an Afro Samurai game. Love the show though

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    Yeah it was hella fun back in the day. Very hack and slash, but there was a cool mechanic where you could aim your sword and chop limbs off or cut enemies in half, it was very satisfying lol. I lent my copy of it to a friend waaaay back and that friend moved to Australia with it and I never got it back lol I have a craving to play it ever some often, but it isn’t available on any of the new systems or steam or anywhere.

    All that to say, this would be cool because the only copies of it available for 360 are not particularly cheap 😅

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    • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    Hoping Uncharted 2 works soon. Seems like a perfect game to play on steam deck.

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    [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Looking forward to replaying some of the PS3 classics. Although for emulation I’ll probably have to wait until I get something more powerful than my Steam Deck.

    I’m in the process of selling all the physical Playstation 3 games that I managed to get for cheap on GOG, but the exlusives and others will have to be emulated.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Steam Deck is surprisingly capable for PS3 emulation for many games. Have you tried it?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    Not yet but the games I wasn’t able to find on GOG are Killzone 2-3, Uncharted 1-3, God Of War 3 and GT5.

    If I remember well, some of these were reported as too demanding for the Deck last time I checked.

    And even if I could play them I’m too lazy/scared to install 10 plugins and I wouldn’t want to have a short battery life.

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