Emulating different PlayStation consoles has been popular for years, and developers are constantly trying to do so on different platforms. On Monday, the developers of the PS3 emulator RPCS3 released a teaser on YouTube showing how to run their emulator on Arm64 hardware, specifically on… . in They also demonstrated the emulator running on the Apple M1 chipset. Finally, the emulator can now run on Arm64 chipsets across Windows, Mac, and Linux.
If you’re not familiar with RPCS3, this is the emulator that Atlus tried to familiarize you with around Personality 5It was released in 2017. In defense of Atlus, the developers have been name dropped a personality On her Patreon page. Patreon sided with the RPCS3 developers but asked them to remove all references to a personality Titles.
Surprisingly, the PS3 emulator even runs on a Raspberry Pi 5, which is not a powerful gaming engine. Through some magic, the RPCS3 team has managed to push the hardware to its limits. The frame rate is locked to a maximum of 30fps, and the graphics look like they come straight from the PlayStation Portable’s display, a 480p display from 20 years ago. The developers were unable to display those games in the PS3’s native 720p resolution. Naturally, the more powerful Apple Silicon chips will display games at a higher resolution.
Think of it this way, though. If you traveled back in time telling people that a PSP could play PS3 games, no one would believe you. But the proof is now here, and the teaser showed how the games didn’t experience severe frame drops. Although impressive, RPCS3 isn’t the first emulator to run natively on Arm64 hardware, with that honor going to Dolphin, the popular Wii and GameCube emulator.