Emulation Explosion on PS3

Halo crazeee6248d ago

slow news day much?

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Graphics Whore6248d ago

How is making headway with emulators slow news day? Maybe your just jealous that the Xbox 360 doesn't have a dedicated homebrew scene to the most powerful console available.

Bnet3436248d ago

Graphics Whore, what's up with the hostility? Chill out. If people wanted emulators that bad they can play on PC.

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kevnb6247d ago

so you're telling me that pcs cant connect to tvs?

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Naucious6247d ago

old news or what not, its news to me, i never really grasp the concept of putting linux on my PS3, If anybody can help me with a link or something that can guide me to put linux on my ps3 would be appreciated. I love the znes emulator that would be a added bonus playing old school favorites on my PS3.

cLiCK_sLiCK96247d ago (Edited 6247d ago )

I was wondering if you can connect your PS3 to your PC monitor using VGA cables.
Example:
1. PS3 a/v cable to VGA PC monitor.
2. PS3 HDMI, DVI cable (with adapter if it exists) to VGA

My friend does his so with his 360. Thats why im asking if the PS3 can also do the same.

EDIT: My monitor supports resolutions up to 1920x1080.

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HDgamer6248d ago

It's linux. What emulators can't you play on it.

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barakiu6248d ago

would be nice

TheIneffableBob6247d ago

Just get a 60 GB PS3.

ChozenWoan6248d ago

Yes it is nice to be able to have all of your gaming needs met by one machine. I'll be glade when they bring back PS2 emulation on the PS3 as I know a lot of people are holding off just for that one reason... lucky me, I got the MGS4 80gb version just in time.

Also, you'd be surprised what all you can do with Linux on your PS3(s)...

Realtime Raycast Rendering
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Game streaming
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Realtime video streaming
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Head Tracking
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

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Kushan6248d ago

Technically, you can do all that on just about ANY machine that has Linux on it, just it'll be a bit slower (or faster, depending on what machine it is - I dare say a Cray supercomputer would be a teeny bit faster =P).

I do find it interesting that it takes THREE PS3's tied together in order to do real-time ray-tracing (Without ANY other elemends of a game, such as AI, physics, etc.), yet there are actually people out there who believe KZ2 is real-time ray-traced =\

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hakis866248d ago

How much more powerful is 1 Playstation 3 compared to 1 Playstation 2?

I'm guessing that The Playstation 4 might be 3x as "powerful" as the PS3, or maybe more - or at least smarter.
And when not only PC-games but also consoles finally support raytracing we'll get a totally new level of detail in games, and BOY am I looking forward to that! :D

No FanS Land6248d ago

in terms of raw processing power, 1 PS3 is 35 times faster than a PS2.
the PS3 is 200Gflops, and the ps2 is like 4,9. What's strange is that it is still faster then the wii. If I'm not mistaken the wii being something like 3,5.

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Kushan6248d ago

Apples and oranges comparison, you can't really directly compare a Wii and a PS2 since their architecture are so different, but a Gamecube is more "powerful" than a PS2 in terms of the games it can do (Example: RE4 - the PS2 version had reduced texture and lighting quality, as well as pre-rendered cut-scenes) and a Wii is about 1.5x more powerful than a Gamecube.

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No FanS Land6248d ago

There I just found what I was searching for:

http://www.tomsguide.com/us...

This is the main problem with floating points operation per second: it's not that accurate. It's like having a hugely powerful motor in a car with lots of HP, but not taking into account, its wind resistance, weight, drivetrain etc.

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MmaFanQc6248d ago

wow this is seriously old news

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TrueStoryGuy6248d ago

If someone hacked the PS3 and made programs that ran off the PS3 architecture, then this article would be different. But, because it's being run off of Linux, this article is now dated. Someone needs to do their research before they write a brief and unnecessary article on "Emulators".

Thoreau6248d ago

"How is making headway with emulators slow news day? Maybe your just jealous that the Xbox 360 doesn't have a dedicated homebrew scene to the most powerful console available." GW

very true, but the lord said be nice.

Charmers6247d ago (Edited 6247d ago )

Opps replied in the wrong story :-p

yojoe266247d ago

STOP BREAKING THE LAW LOSERS!!!!!!!!!

kingkobra2xxx6247d ago

yojoe, if u actually took the time to see how this is done, you will see that the PS3 is not even hacked, its run through linux, which Sony encourages you to install. So before commenting, READ!!!

Jonny Drama6247d ago

Hacking a console is not against the law. i bought my game machine and can do what ever the fÜck i want with it.. pirating games violates copyright laws so i'm not sure you know what you are talking about.. so who's the loser here???

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n4gno6247d ago

Some comments on games.slashdot.org (link) are ridiculous, you should try to educate them.

example : "ps3 is a flop anyway" :)

randomwiz6247d ago

Didn't we find this out 2 years ago?

IWentBrokeForGaming6247d ago

actually seem to not care if BC is in their PS3 so they can't play PS1 or PS2 games... so why would they even care if the PS3 could emulate even older titles? I don't understand them...

infekt6247d ago

Mind you, Linux had most of these emulators built before the PS3 emu phenomena. But the PS3 is doing a great job at utilizing them. Its a good marriage between the two. Power and open-source efficiency will save us from the clutches of corporate greed.. Oh, who am I kidding! But one can wish, cant they?

Jonny Drama6247d ago

Linux can run an emulator.... get out of town.. Pffff... now i'm off to the next ps3/blu-ray is doomed article

yojoe266245d ago

all the ins and outs of hacking but here is a thought guys. It's called HACKING for a reason. Meaning you're not supposed to do it. If it were meant to be done it would be called "upgrading" your PS3 or something like that. Not "hacking."