Fan-made emulators are becoming the only way to play games that are not being reissued, or that when they are remade have many changes and therefore the original experience of a game is not respected. In the case of PS3, the most widespread emulator is RPCS3, an open source project that is on its way to recovering all games on the console, and has just reached the milestone that it already loads all PS3 games.
This means that all games, demos and DLCs can be run in the emulator without problems or without crashing. Now yes, it does not mean that all games work correctly according to the official compatibility list.
RPCS3 emulator is on its way to making all PS3 games playable
According to the official list From RPCS3, the emulator already runs all PS3 games, while there are only six games left that load, but they only show a black screen. These six games are Everyday Together, Uncharted Waters Online, NBA 09 The Inside, the European version of the official Crazy About Surf game, Twisted Land: Shadow Town, and the Japanese version of White Knight Chronicles II.
If all these games show images when loaded in the RPCS3 emulator, it would then be that these and 186 other games can load the menus. Later, there would also be 987 games that work, but they have bugs that prevent the game from finishing or that are very serious, or that do not work well enough in the emulator. Of the 3233 PS3 games that have been released, the emulator already has 2054 fully playable games, which is a percentage of 63%.
The advancement of this emulator is good news, because it implies that many people will be able to play PS3 games that have not been reissued, even if they are very unknown or minor titles such as the aforementioned Crazy about Surf game, from which people can have memories of him, or serve as inspiration for future titles. The fact that thousands of games are not going to be lost when all the original hardware breaks is good news for game preservation.
