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
Enable Controller
Video Mode
Remapping Keys
Known Keys
Exit on ESC
Troubleshooting
External Links
- github.com - Github Project
- RPCS3 - Project Homepage