The PS3 Emulator can now boot any game that has ever been released for the console
It’s a big accomplishment for the emulator, which is currently in its tenth year.
From those humble beginnings, the team behind it has today revealed a major accomplishment: everything ever released on the PS3 will now boot up.
The RPCS3 crew tweeted earlier today:
Over the emulator’s history, over 6000 games and programmes have been monitored, thus getting every single one of them to some stage of booting up is a tremendous accomplishment. It’s worth noting, though, that just one of the emulator’s five playability tiers—”Playable”—is worth your time, as the others are riddled with numerous errors, performance issues, or simply refuse to load past the title screens.
So, while cleaning out the “Nothing” tier, which previously made up of “games that don’t initialise properly, don’t load at all, and/or crash the emulator,” is impressive, it doesn’t mean that every single PS3 game ever released will now run smoothly and without trouble on your decently recent PC. As of now, 63.53 percent of PS3 titles are “playable” on the emulator, leaving 36.47 percent out; still a highly fantastic figure, but something to keep in mind!
As stated in the announcement tweet, they “look forward to emptying out Loadable too!” following this, which shouldn’t take long given that only 0.19 percent of games are still in that stage. Actually, just 5.75 percent are in the “Intro” stage after that, which means they’ll boot but won’t “get it through the menus,” so perhaps those two tiers will be wiped out soon as well. If you wish to check the compatibility of a certain game with the emulator, you can do so here.