Play 800 NES games

[Joshua822]

Oh shit, I heard that the new PS3 firmware update from Sony blocks the NES emulator...shit...

...eh, it wasn't that good anyway :/ Me wants PS3-DC emu...R2..

You don't need it ! You can play all NES games there directly in your browser !

[spiraldoor]

But it's more the actual emulation on PS3 than the NES games themselves that I like...

[Joshua822]

Well, you could always don't upgrade your firmware at all.

[spiraldoor]

I'm not going to. Unless they add a good new feature, in which case I will abandon NES games.

[Joshua822]

Or you could always get the new firmware and get a crack...

[spiraldoor]

Cracks are kind of non-existant for PS3 as of yet...if hackers manage to decrypt the firmware, they will be able to make their own versions of it, like they did with the PSP. PS3 with custom firmware would be amazing, they could probably emulate everything up as far as the Wii, maybe, and they could create an ISOloader, but that would effectively reduce PS3 game developers' profits to zero, then there would be no more games...a mixed blessing indeed...

[Joshua822]

As far as Wii goes, you need 10x the power to emulate something good (Like PS2 emulating on a Pentium 3), the PS3 is not powerfull enough to emulate it excellent, same for Xbox 360.

[spiraldoor]

The PS3 could certainly emulate the Wii. Maybe not at full speeds, but probably at playable speeds. And the PS3, while much more powerful than the 360, is nowhere near 10 times as powerful, so the PS3 could probably only emulate the 360 at about 0.001 fps!

[Joshua822]

The PS3 has a 7-core processor and the 360 a 3 core, so that won't work. The Wii uses an IBM Broadway processor, that is a 1-core CPU, so the PS3 is about 7 times as fast. It might be playable, but not at full speed, that is to bad, or else i would buy a PlayStation 3.

[spiraldoor]

If you like emulators, get a PSP and install custom firmware. The amount of emulators and homebrew for that device are simply amazing. NES, SNES, GB, GBC, GBA, PS1, Saturn, MAME, DC, N64...

[Joshua822]

Iprefer my good old laptop for emulating consoles

[spiraldoor]

But a PSP fits in you pocket

[Joshua822]

When i'm out i mostly don't game. And if i wan't to, the GBA backwards compatibility of my Nintendo DS is enough

[Tobbe]

The PS3 has a 7-core processor and the 360 a 3 core, so that won't work. The Wii uses an IBM Broadway processor, that is a 1-core CPU, so the PS3 is about 7 times as fast. It might be playable, but not at full speed, that is to bad, or else i would buy a PlayStation 3.

That's not the way it works, you know.

Oh, and it's bullshit that the PS3 is much more powerful than the Xbox 360. It theoretically has more processing power, but nobody can utilize it's full power yet.

[stan423321]

The PS3 has a 7-core processor and the 360 a 3 core, so that won't work. The Wii uses an IBM Broadway processor, that is a 1-core CPU, so the PS3 is about 7 times as fast. It might be playable, but not at full speed, that is to bad, or else i would buy a PlayStation 3.

No sense at all.
1) Frequency. Frequency is more than multithreading, especially in emulation.
2) SPUs acts as 1 thread, CPUs as two. So: PS3 has 2 normal threads and 7 anormal, X360 - 6 normal, Wii... unknown, probably one or two normal.
3) Another op-codes.

[spiraldoor]

nobody can utilize it's full power yet.

Which is why we've only seen 20% of its power. When you see it at 100%, you will be thoroughly 0wned.

[Tobbe]

Will you please shut up?

[spiraldoor]

You shut up.

[Joshua822]

Well, some guy on the ubuntu-nl forums told me this. He explained it well so i thought he was right. I'll read something about hardware emulation in the future before going to argue

[Phoenixan]

The PS3 has a 7-core processor and the 360 a 3 core, so that won't work. The Wii uses an IBM Broadway processor, that is a 1-core CPU, so the PS3 is about 7 times as fast. It might be playable, but not at full speed, that is to bad, or else i would buy a PlayStation 3.

That's not the way it works, you know.

Oh, and it's bullshit that the PS3 is much more powerful than the Xbox 360. It theoretically has more processing power, but nobody can utilize it's full power yet.

Well, it was the same case in the Sega Saturn. The Sega Saturn was technically 4 times more powerful than the PSX, but due to the complexity of it, no one was able to fully utilize that.