Emulator:Rpcs3

**** THIS PAGE IS A WORK IN PROGRESS ****

About

RPCS3 is an Playstation 3 emulator, it is in early stages of development (at this time). It is capable of running retail titles with varying degrees of success.

This project officially ships the emulator as an AppImage which will need to be made executable and run.

Alternate methods are to:

• compile from source
• use the lutris runner, noting the lutris runner is an appimage and normally lagging behind the official appimage but can be switched out with a little work.

Configuration

Platform	Version	Device	Exec	Type	commandline_format	bios location
Linux	GIT	dirtree	<compiled_from_source>	D	--no-gui "[rompath]"	NONE
Linux	Flatpak	dirtree	net.rpcs3.RPCS3	D	--no-gui "[rompath]"	NONE

ROMs

ISOs are not supported directly. RPCS3 only supports unpacked media or a mounted (decrypted) iso as a device so it can access the dir structure on the disc.

If you have encrypted 1:1 dumps from your media you will need to decrypt the iso first and then unpack it with 7z or similar, at that point you can load the directory with RPCS3 and it will install and run the game.

IRD files for your iso are required to decrypt _if_ you are working offline. Most decryption tools will attempt to reach out to redump to obtain the appropriate IRD if you are online at the time. Decryption can take a while so it is not advised to do this inline on game launch from a frontend.

Configuration Location

For the flatpak version see ~/.var/app/net.rpcs3.RPCS3/config/rpcs3

Saves

Under the rpcs3 config directory see dev_hdd0/savedata

BIOS Files

No BIOS files to speak of but requires firmware to be manually installed

Firmware

1. Download PUP from Sony

2. Install --install-fw cli option or gui

External Links

• github.com - Github Project
• RPCS3 - Project Homepage