Recently, the developers of the well-known PlayStation 3 emulator "RPCS3" made headlines again. The team announced another milestone in the project's development history.
Now, the RPCS3 emulator has its own version of cellSysmodule — one of the PlayStation 3's system modules. The developers explained that this will make the project more autonomous: in the future, players will be able to launch console games without firmware:
Another PS3 system module, cellSysmodule, is now fully implemented in RPCS3 and is no longer loaded from the PS3 firmware thanks to capriots, bringing us a little closer to the long-term goal [of running games without installing firmware].
Previously, the authors of RPCS3 implemented another useful feature in the emulator — the emulator can automatically configure itself using data from the project's Wiki database:
If you launch a game without changing settings, the parameters from the RPCS3 Wiki for that game are automatically applied. Manual configuration is not required, except for personal preferences — such as resolution scaling, anisotropic filtering, vertical sync, etc.
Earlier, RPCS3 developers reported another technical achievement: they managed to improve performance in demanding games, such as Twisted Metal.