RPCS3 devs video running their emulator on Raspberry Pi 5

mitu

The RPCS3 dev team blog post offers some info about how they got it to work.

sugarfree

The games look to run very well. Great news! I'm curious if the emulator can run on the Pi 5 2GB.

gomisensei

@mitu Does it seem likely there is a chance of this running on raspberrypiOS anytime soon? they mentioned they only had it running on Arch linux.

mitu

@gomisensei I don't know, but they have binaries to download and you can try it on RaspiOS.

gomisensei

@mitu hmm,i only saw arch-linux ppas, i'll have to check again.

mitu

They have an AppImage - I thought this is a portable kit and cab be run on any Linux installation, just like a FlatPak kit.

retropieuser555

I'll play around later or next week, but you should only need fuse to open appimages. They specifically have an arm64 appimage on the website so it shouldn't have an architectural problem

RapidEdwin08

@retropieuser555 said in RPCS3 devs video running their emulator on Raspberry Pi 5:

I'll play around later or next week, but you should only need fuse to open appimages. They specifically have an arm64 appimage on the website so it shouldn't have an architectural problem

In my experience should only need libfuse2 for AppImage to run. (on Raspberry Pi OS 64bit Bookworm)

retropieuser555

So the app does load, added the PS3 firmware (fyi this is still available even today on PlayStation.com's official channels), added my copy of Braid, changed the resolution to as low as possible 25% of native, it loads and is around 11fps. So there's probably other things they did to make it work at a not unreasonable speed. Anyway I'm not a big PS3 fan, it's more that I was really impressed that such an advanced machine could even be booted on a pi 5.

I'll leave this here for now, but if anyone does want to pick this up and play with the settings, it definitely runs

caffeinelights

@retropieuser555
Are you using an overclock on your pi5?

I've still got a PS3 serving as my primary bluray player at this point, so doubt this is worth it from a playing standpoint, especially at such a low resolution. But this does sound intriguing from a tinkering standpoint. Thanks for confirming that it is at least operational.

DTEAM

I found this for X86. (rpcs3-appImage.sh)
I don't know if it works well. I know it's not for Pi5, but good to know.

https://github.com/raelgc/retropie_rpcs3-appImage

VelvetSpectra

Can the Raspberry Pi 5 handle PS3 games with the RPCS3 emulator as shown in the developers' latest video?

DTEAM

@DTEAM said in RPCS3 devs video running their emulator on Raspberry Pi 5:

I found this for X86. (rpcs3-appImage.sh)
I don't know if it works well. I know it's not for Pi5, but good to know.

https://github.com/raelgc/retropie_rpcs3-appImage

@retropieuser555

Hi retropieuser555,

I tried the script above on a Pi5, but I'm not sure if it install rpcs3-v0.0.34-17229-38571067_linux_aarch64.AppImage and I don't know if something is missing for a Pi5 on Retropie. It's probably to slow, but I'm just curious to do a test.

Do you see any big missing part in that script?. I follow the instructions proposed on the GitHub page (link above).

Thanks

retropieuser555

@DTEAM you can just download it off RPCS3 official website, that's all I did. No need to worry about scripts. Although I did run it in the desktop environment, I didn't bother to see if it ran in the framebuffer or needed a window manager etc

DTEAM

@retropieuser555

Hi @retropieuser555, I finally got it up and running on Retropie on a Pi5 (8GB). I ran a game from disk and from a .pkg file. Both load and run between 6 and 11 fps. You can go higher but the Pi shutdown after 2 minutes (heat or memory issue... I don't know). I'm trying several combinations of configurations to see if you can play a game at a good speed with a lower quality. If more people want to test. you're welcome. Here's what I did:

read this:

1 . https://rpcs3.net/quickstart
2. https://github.com/raelgc/retropie_rpcs3-appImage
3. https://wiki.rpcs3.net/index.php?title=Help:Default_Settings

Download RPCS3 Linux AppImage and the PS3 Software update
Copy the AppImage in a new folder :

/opt/retropie/emulators/rpcs3-appImage/bin

create a file retropie.pkg in /opt/retropie/emulators/rpcs3-appImage
inside copy the PS3 Software update and add this:

pkg_origin="binary"
pkg_date=""

do this :

chmod -R 777 /opt/retropie/emulators/rpcs3-appImage

In /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg add this:

    <system>
    <name>ps3</name>
    <fullname>PlayStation 3</fullname>
    <path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ps3</path>
    <extension>.ps3</extension>
    <command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 _SYS_ ps3 %ROM%</command>
    <platform>ps3</platform>
    <theme>ps3</theme>
  </system>

in /opt/retropie/configs/ps3/emulators.cfg add this:

rpcs3 = "XINIT-WMC:/home/pi/rpcs3-appImage/bin/rpcs3-v0.0.34-17229-38571067_linux_aarch64.AppImage"

IMPORTANT: in the command line above, rpcs3-v0.0.34-17229-38571067_linux_aarch64.AppImage name can be different if your file is more recent. Put your file name.

Add a disk game or a pkg file in /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ps3 following the instructions from here and here.

Now click on the game. You need a mouse to navigate in the GUI. The first step is the installation of the Firmware . Go in file/install firware (you need the PS3 Software update file).

Now, go to boot game and select your .ps3 folder.

Last step, in the GUI, you can right click on a game and do the configuration. RPCS3 have a wiki site for game settings. And you must set your controllers.

Don't forget, ISO files doesn't work. You must extract the files from the ISO with 7z and copy those files in a <name of your game>.ps3 folder. Your ISO must be decryted

DTEAM

In the settings, V3D for "graphics device" doesn't work for me. I used the other option

Retrodade

@DTEAM I did what this all says, anyone can help?
I'm getting this in error log, using the unofficial pi5 base on the forum
Thanks

Parameters:
Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/rpcs3-appImage/bin/rpcs3.AppImage "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ps3/Batman_The_Telltale_Series_Episode_1_BLES02245.PS3"/PS3_GAME/USRDIR/EBOOT.BIN
/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh: line 1322: 2659 Segmentation fault /opt/retropie/emulators/rpcs3-appImage/bin/rpcs3.AppImage "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ps3/Batman_The_Telltale_Series_Episode_1_BLES02245.PS3"/PS3_GAME/USRDIR/EBOOT.BIN

DTEAM

It works very slowly. You will not be able to get a good gaming experience. Try with 1942.

A Former User

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