PS3 Emulation
6 years ago
United States

Hey, I've considered interest in running this game but due to it's circumstances I have no way to play or buy the game anymore. However, the game is very playable thanks to RPCS3 which is a Playstation 3 Emulator that with builds dating back to June 18th can play the game as it was originally intended (almost no graphical glitches, steady 60fps framerate). Could emulation be allowed, and if not what conditions would a emulated version of the game need to do so?

France
xDrHellx
He/Him, It/Its
6 years ago

iirc you can buy codes for the game somewhere, it should work, even if you can't find the game on PSN / Xbox Store anymore.

Virginia, USA

As someone who has ran the PS3 version, despite it not being on the leaderboard (never submitted it but can be found here: ), I wouldn't run it. You can't do the cutscene skips at the end like you can on 360 unless you use the unpatched version, which has segments that can crash the game.

Also won't load times be faster on emu? Wouldn't that give an unfair advantage to people using original hardware?

Edited by the author 6 years ago
United States

@xDrHelix Pretty much all codes are gone. Best Buy was known to be the last place to buy the game and it's DLC (around mid 2016) and not only was that out, people reported that some of the codes didn't even work. For now, it's gone for good.

@speedwerd From my experience loading times might be slower? I'm not too sure given how starting up the game maybe took longer than the 360 demo did for me back then. Emulation for PS3 is still super finicky, especially with 3 different ways to compile the game with varying speeds. As for the PS3 version itself, no surprise that it's got disadvantages tbh

France
xDrHellx
He/Him, It/Its
6 years ago

oh wow really ? Damn that's a shame :( Such a great game.

Oh also in general, X360 loading times are faster than PS3 (for most games i mean). Atleast with the basic HDD for both console.

Edited by the author 6 years ago
MeltingComet likes this
Virginia, USA

I understand at what you are getting at. I'm all for having more people run the game, even with emulation, I just don't want emulation to have an unfair advantage over original hardware, specifically PS3, not just console in general.

If the emu's loading times are the same or even slower compared to base PS3's load times, I'm all for allowing emulation. But if they are faster than PS3 or even 360, I say we need a separate emu category like the haunting ground leaderboards ( http://www.speedrun.com/hauntingground )

But this is all up to WolfBladeEJ89 since WolfBladeEJ89 is the mod for this game.

Edited by the author 6 years ago
MeltingComet likes this
United States

I'll leave that on them, I'd love to give speedrunning this game a try if emulation can be allowed to a capacity. I should probably do more testing to make sure loading times are on par or different with other versions of the game (can only test this with video footage of other versions), so I'll see about that. I also understand regarding emulation given how big of a deal it can be to the ability to run a game (as an example, Kingdom Hearts speedruns are not allowed to be on emulator), and it's a whole new ball game given this is a PS3 game and PS3 emulation is only now recently coming together due to dedication put towards making it functional and compatible.

Edited by the author 6 years ago
United States

Honestly, emulation should be allowed, via separate category or same category, and the PS3 version and XBox version should be separated as well. This is literally an unplayable/noncompetitive game for folks that didn't originally buy the XBox360 version.

I'm all for playing the best version of something, but in this case, the only ACCESSIBLE version is the PS3 version. There is no XBox 360 emulator out there that plays this game accurately, and to add insult to injury Xenia, the furthest along emulator is intentionally gimped to only ever play the game in Demo mode, which wouldn't be valid for a run.

I'd love to do a run of this some time, but this would be what's stopped me so far. I own the PS3 version on real hardware, bought it before it was delisted, but the fact that I can no longer even play the best version, emulator or hardware wise, is a motivation killer.

Willing to bet this is the reason why there's no runs here any more as well. This is a great game. There should be more folks running it.

United States

I haven't done speedrunning in forever but this seems like a very good game to get back into it honestly. It seems like you'll have to ask WolfBladeEJ89 about it since no one else here can do anything.

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