The Evolution of RPCS3 Emulator: Better Performance and Enhanced Online Play for PS3 Games

2024-02-02 20:13:29

The team working on one of the most popular emulators for the platform Play station 3 Sharing a new video showing a number of PS3 games with online modes, according to the team GalCiv has worked elaborately on improving the emulator, allowing many PS3 games to be played online.

The cool thing here is that the RPCS3 emulator also supports adding friends to your RPCN account and inviting them to matches. This is similar to how PSN accounts work on any PS3 console, where some games also have active leaderboards and rankings.

Note that not all PS3 games currently support online play, you can check the emulator’s compatibility list with online play hereThis list is all the compatible games that can be played online now. Some games require a dedicated server to be created by the community in order for online play to be possible.

Being able to play PS3 games online on PC via this emulator is an amazing achievement. Some of the PS3 games that currently work with multiplayer on the engine include SoulCalibur V, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker HD, Demon’s Souls, and Blur, so we hope the team continues to work. On that.

For the past few years, GalCiv has been hard at work improving RPCN, allowing for many more PS3 games to be played online.
You can even add friends to your RPCN account and invite them into online matches in the same way you would on PSN with a real PS3!https://t.co/NaLNhn8dBM

— RPCS3 (@rpcs3) February 2, 2024

PlayStation 3 emulator performance has become better

Last August, the team demonstrated an RPCS3 emulator dedicated to running console games PS3 Some screenshots that give us a brief look at the performance benefits offered by the latest update.

It is worth noting that last year’s version of the RPCS3 emulator was able to run God of War III at a rate of 84 frames per second, which is an impressive number on the AMD Ryzen 7 5700X card and using the same capabilities, but with the release of the new RPCS3 emulator this month, and the game ran at more than 100. fps according to screenshots taken by the development team. This shows that the emulator will, over time, become better than the original platform in all aspects, not at the graphics level

Wondering how 2023 is going so far with regards to furthering technological innovation and PS3 preservation through emulation?

Here’s a performance comparison between a February build and a recent August build, using a Ryzen 7 5700X CPU in God of War III! pic.twitter.com/d9b1TZMmDL

— RPCS3 (@rpcs3) August 17, 2023