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The playstation 3 tag on WindowsForum.com collects discussion of Sony's PlayStation 3 as it relates to PC gaming and emulation. The main recurring theme is RPCS3, the open-source PS3 emulator for Windows PCs, including compatibility milestones such as the project reporting roughly four in five tracked titles as playable. Coverage also explains why the console remains difficult to emulate, focusing on the Cell Broadband Engine that Sony, Toshiba and IBM developed and how its unusual multicore design complicates translation to PC hardware. Readers interested in PS3 emulation progress, compatibility statistics and the technical background behind running console games on Windows will find the most relevant material here.
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    RPCS3 PS3 Emulator Reaches 79% Playable Entries: What the Compatibility Stats Mean

    The PlayStation 3's Cell processor made the console hard to program, and it also made the console hard to emulate. RPCS3, the open-source PS3 emulator for PC, now lists roughly four in five tracked PS3 entries as playable. That is a long way from where the project started. The headline figure...