A lot of old games have become unplayable on modern hardware and operating systems. I wrote an article about how making games open source will keep them playable far into the future.

I also discuss how making games open source could be beneficial to developers and companies.

Feedback and constructive criticism are most welcome, and in keeping with the open source spirit, I will give you credit if I make any edits based on your feedback.

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[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

PS3 in particular has very weird hardware. There aren't any good PS3 emulators for PC. Basically the only way to play PS3 games is on an actual PS3.

[–] ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

What do you mean? RPCS3 is an excellent emulator. It's not completely hardware accurate, almost no 3D emulator is, but it's still pretty good.

[–] nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 9 points 4 months ago

RPCS3 is indeed excellent, but if you look at their compatibility list about a third of all games aren't in a playable state. The big exclusive titles people usually set up an emulator for will work for the most part, but outside of that it quickly becomes a lot sketchier.

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Out of all the games I tried to play, only one of them worked.