Emulators are essential elements for the conservation of video games. Nowadays it is very difficult to access an original console from 20 or 30 years ago, but luckily we can play your games in all kinds of emulators. Although it is currently easy to get a Nintendo Switch , and even with a PS3 , their respective PC emulators continue to advance by leaps and bounds and in recent weeks they have improved their performance dramatically.
RPCS3, the PS3 emulator, already reaches more than 100 FPS
RPCS3 is the only and best emulator that PS3 currently has for PC. Its compatibility and performance have not stopped improving in recent years until you can play with normal games such as Uncharted, God of War III, Metal Gear Solid 4 or Skate 3 , where more than half of the games launched for the console are already playable The only one who continues to suffer a bit in terms of FPS is Red Dead Redemption.
In the following video we can see how the titles yield, where there is not a single graphic failure, and even some of them like Skate 3 reach over 103 FPS . To this we must add that you can run the games at native resolution of our monitor, and titles like Uncharted look really spectacular.
Performance improvements have been introduced in the latest emulator update by rewriting the ZCull implementation . Metal Gear Solid reaches 54 FPS now and in parts where before it went to 17 now it exceeds 30, while in Red Dead Redemption they have risen up to 6 FPS, which is an important leap considering that at the same point it was before at 17 and now at 23.
Yuzu, the Switch emulator allows even 8K to play
Yuzu started as an open source emulator that claimed to be able to run Nintendo Switch games. Over the months they went from being able to reach game menus to be able to execute full titles. Now, the emulator allows you to play games like Super Mario Odyssey almost perfectly.
At the end of 2019, the emulator included Vulkan, which greatly increased if AMD and Intel hardware performance. In the last update, not only has performance improved between 10 and 20%, but sound mixing has been improved and stereo audio support has been added. Thanks to this, where before the music and sounds of the games were cut, now they are heard well.
The option of being able to run the games at a higher resolution of the native one has also been added, being able to put them in 4K and up to 8K for example. The result is the performance that we can see next, where Super Mario Odyssey looks spectacular, while Zelda still has enough to improve.
Although the emulator is still very green, its progress is being much faster than the one that had CEMU of Wii U. Surely in the coming months they will be including more improvements.