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PlayStation 3

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Overview

Introduced in 2006 by Sony, the PlayStation 3 was a console system.

Technical specifications

  • CPU: Cell Broadband Engine running at 3.2 GHz with one PowerPC PPE and eight Synergistic Processing Elements (seven usable).
  • Memory: 256 MB XDR main RAM and 256 MB GDDR3 video RAM shared with the RSX GPU.
  • Display: NVIDIA RSX “Reality Synthesizer” GPU clocked at 550 MHz producing 1080p-ready raster graphics.
  • Sound: SPU-like digital audio processor with 256 simultaneous audio channels and AAC/MP3 decode acceleration.

Supported ROM extensions

ps3, psn, zar

Emulators

  • rpcs3 (rpcs3) – Requires BR2_PACKAGE_RPCS3

Notes

You must first load the firmware by running rpcs3-config from menu>f1>Applications then File>Install firmware. PS3 roms are directories must be renamed to end with .ps3. PSN digital games are installed in rpcs3-config, create a text file ending with .psn that contains the game's ID. First time you load a game, it takes time (a progress bar is visible). It doesn't happen next times.

Source data: REG Linux emulationstation/es-system/es_systems.yml