5 Best PS3 Emulators for PC Ever Developed

The development of video game consoles seems to tend to be followed by the development of emulators presented by the console community itself. Such as ePXSe for PlayStation 1, PCSX2 for PlayStation 2, PPSSPP for PSP and many more. However, the more advanced console technology is, the more difficult it is for the community to bring emulators capable of playing games nowadays smoothly.

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For example, the PlayStation 3, which has been launched for almost 15 years, has only been able to play a few PS3 games smoothly in recent years, and even then requires a PC with high specifications. One of the reasons is because the PS3 console has a fairly complicated engine architecture, even making game developers overwhelmed in bringing their games to the console.

At least the author found the existence of 5 emulators that were developed toemulate PS3 machine on PC. And for your information, some of the PS3 emulators that the author has listed here may not have been updated or have stopped their development. The author will include a link if you are interested in learning more about it.

1. Nucleus

Nucleus is an open source PS3 emulator that was developed by a man named Alexandro Sanchez or better known as AlexAltea. AlexAltea is also known to be developing a PS4 emulator called Orbital which you can check on this page.

The Nucleus emulator itself is unfortunately not continued further and the developer also seems to be more focused on working on the Orbital emulator. Those of you who are interested in knowing more about the Nucleus emulator can visit this page.

2. Short Waves

Short Waves is a PS3 emulator developed since 2012 by InoriRus and has a Freeware license. Just like before, Short Waves can be said to be in the early stages, where the emulator can only run a few games homebrew apps.

However, what made this emulator a topic of discussion was its ability to run quite complex tests, at which time even RPCS3 (which is now at the forefront of presenting the PS3 emulator) has not been able to match it. You can learn more about it on this page.

3. PS3F

PS3F is a PS3 emulator created by Shima, the developer who also presents closed-source SSF emulator or what is known as an emulator to play the most capable Sega Saturn games.

But unfortunately, like the previous two emulators, the development of the PS3F emulator itself was not as successful as SSF, which is still in its early stages and is still unable to play games. Those of you who can speak Japanese can check the development on this page.

4. ps3emu

After the previous 3 emulators were still in their early stages and couldn’t play games, PS3emu became one of the PS3 emulators that could already run games. This emulator aims to provide a framework for porting PS3 games to x86_64 Linux and strives to recompile as much as possible coding PS3 to x86 system.

But please also note that there are some users who say that this PS3emu has a virus in it. So, if you try it, please take it at your own risk. You can learn more about ps3emu on this page.

5. RPCS3

RPCS3 is probably the single best PS3 emulator right now. It has been proven enough to be able to play at least more than 1000 games quite smoothly, although players will still encounter many bugs and glitches while playing.

The author highly recommends using this RPCS3 emulator if you really want to play PS3 games. You can check the full RPCS3 emulator on this page.