RPCS3 - About

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The Project

RPCS3 is a multi-platform open-source Sony PlayStation 3 emulator and debugger written in C++ for Windows, Linux, macOS and FreeBSD. The purpose of the project is to completely and accurately emulate the Sony PlayStation 3 Computer Entertainment System in its entirety with the power of open-source community and reverse engineering.

Our goal is to preserve the legacy of the PlayStation 3 hardware and its vast library by bringing it and its exclusives to the PC platform. We want to achieve this by targeting and supporting multiple operating systems as well as being compatible with a wide range of computer hardware with realistic requirements.

The History (2011 — Present)

The project was founded by programmers DH and Hykem in May of 2011. RPCS3 was first hosted on Google Code and was eventually migrated to GitHub later on in its development. The emulator's first successful game boot were primarily composed of smaller homebrew projects and focused hardware tests.

The emulator was later publicly released in June of 2012 and gained substantial attention from both the open-source community and PlayStation enthusiasts alike. Today, RPCS3 is co-developed by two new developers, Nekotekina and kd-11 in tandem with an amazing team of GitHub contributors.

The People

The project is currently maintained and organized by a unique cast of characters, all with meaningful roles to contribute to different aspects of the project. Whether it's working on the emulator directly, coordinating community efforts or even keeping this very website current, everyone plays a role that adds to the bigger picture.

Internal team members aren't the only contributors. A lot of the progress made in making PlayStation 3 emulation possible on PC is thanks to the many developers we've received contributions from in our GitHub community. While many developers do come and go, we do welcome anyone and everyone who is interested in improving the codebase.

Founders

A list of the project founders who are also considered former, non-active developers.

2011

DH Project Founder Lead Core Developer

DH is RPCS3's father, founding the project on May 23rd, 2011. He is responsible for landing RPCS3's code base foundations and for many enhancements afterwards. He left the project in mid 2016 and started doing PlayStation 4 related research.

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2016

Hykem Project Founder Lead Core Developer

Co-founding the project with DH, Hykem is responsible for reverse-engineering many of PlayStation 3's features. He reversed the security features and built a cryptographic engine which emulated many of the PlayStation 3's security components. He is the developer of many well known tools in the scene such as make_npdata. He was forced to leave the emulation scene in mid 2016.

Current Developers

A list of our developers who are working full-time and part-time on the project.

2016

kd-11 Lead Graphics Developer

kd-11 joined RPCS3 in early 2016 as a contributor. He is a veteran in graphics various shenanigans and is currently the lead graphics developer for RPCS3. kd-11 is constantly improving the emulator, mainly its graphical back-end parts and greatly enjoys doings so. Thanks to the funding provided by our Patrons, kd-11 was able to join RPCS3 as a full-time developer in mid-late 2017.

Computer Specifications

Desktop

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X (4.6GHz)

Radeon RX 6700 XT

NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti

40GB DDR4 (3200MHz)

Linux (Arch)

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2013

Nekotekina Lead Core Developer

Nekotekina joined RPCS3 in late 2013 as a contributor. He is currently the project lead and lead core developer. He is working full-time on RPCS3 thanks to the funding provided by our Patrons. Nekotekina is the single-most active developer.

Computer Specifications

Desktop

Intel Core i9-10920X (3.9GHz)

Radeon RX 5500 XT

NVIDIA GTX 1650

64GB DDR4 (3000MHz)

Linux (Ubuntu)

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2016

Ani Community Manager Web Backend Developer

Ani joined the staff in mid 2016 as a Forum Moderator and Helper for the old RPCS3 forums. Ani currently serves RPCS3 as a Web Developer, having developed RPCS3's Compatibility List, as well as Social Media Manager, responsible for managing and moderating the Forums, the Subreddit and running RPCS3's X account. He also writes the full version changelogs, and used to contribute to writing the progress reports.

Computer(s) Specifications

Desktop

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X (4.6GHz)

Radeon RX 6800 XT

16GB DDR4 (3600MHz)

Linux (Arch)

Laptop

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX (4.4GHz)

Radeon RX 6700M

16GB DDR4 (3200MHz)

Linux (Arch)

Steam Deck

AMD Van Gogh APU

16GB LPDDR5 (5500MHz)

Linux (SteamOS)

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2017

DAGINATSUKO Web Developer Graphic and Brand Designer

DAGINATSUKO joined RPCS3 in early 2017 as the web developer and graphic designer. They are in charge of the project's overall branding and presentation on the world wide web. Following the website's initial launch, they have further developed and maintained it with annual updates, up-to-the-minute fixes and additions out of pure passion and devotion to the project.

Computer(s) Specifications

Desktop

Intel Core i9-13900KS (6.2GHz)

NVIDIA RTX 4090 FE

48GB DDR4 (8200MHz C34)

Windows 11

Desktop

Intel Core i9-10900K (5.1GHz)

NVIDIA RTX 3080 FE

16GB DDR4 (4266MHz C16)

Windows 11

MacBook

Intel Core i9-9880H (4.8GHz)

Radeon Pro 5500M

32GB DDR4 (2666MHz)

macOS 14 / Windows 11

Steam Deck

AMD Van Gogh APU

16GB LPDDR5 (5500MHz)

Linux (SteamOS)

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2017

Megamouse Project Developer UI Developer

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Computer Specifications

Desktop

Intel Core i7-10700K (4.8GHz)

NVIDIA RTX 2070

32GB DDR4 (3600MHz)

Windows 10

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2017

elad Project Developer

Ever since elad started contributing in November of 2017, he's been constantly pushing improvements to every part of the emulator as well as improving his own skills exponentially. Thanks to his work, a large number of games have become compatible with the PPU and SPU LLVM recompilers, performance on non-TSX CPUs has drastically improved and his lv2 & MFC related contributions largely increased game stability. He is also responsible for fixing countless RSX mishaps and getting significant amount of games from loadable/menu to ingame/playable with the most notable cases being getting several Naughty Dog titles ingame and figuring out the very last issue that kept MGS4 from properly booting.

Computer Specifications

Desktop

Intel Core i7-6700K (4.2GHz)

NVIDIA GTX 980 Ti

16GB DDR4 (2133MHz)

Windows 10

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2017

GalCiv Project Developer

There is no description available for this team member. Please check back later or feel free to review their contributions.

Computer Specifications

Desktop

Intel Core i9-13900K (5.5GHz)

NVIDIA RTX 4090

64GB DDR4 (3200MHz)

Linux (Gentoo)

Baguette Specifications

Baguette

Butter

Cheese

Peppers

Sausage

Ham

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2017

Whatcookie Project Developer

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Computer Specifications

Desktop

AMD Ryzen 9 7800X3D (5.0GHz)

Radeon 7900 XTX

64GB DDR5 (6000MHz C30)

Linux (Arch)

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2017

2017

hcorion Project Developer

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Computer Specifications

Desktop

AMD R7 5900X (3.8GHz)

NVIDIA GTX 1070

32GB DDR4 (3200MHz)

Linux

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2018

HerrHulaHoop Wiki Maintainer Project Contributor

HerrHulaHoop joined RPCS3 in early 2018 and took up the task to design and set-up RPCS3's Wiki. He is currently the Wiki Maintainer, tasked with developing templates that suit RPCS3's specific needs and also moderating contributions made by the community. Following the Wiki's launch, Hula also began writing and publishing the monthly progress reports on the Blog.

Computer Specifications

Desktop

Intel Core i7-8700K (4.8GHz)

Radeon RX 6700 XT

32GB DDR4 (3200MHz)

Windows 11

ASUS ROG Ally

AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme

16GB LPDDR5 (6400MHz)

Windows 11

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2018

velocity Project Contributor

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2019

Silent Project Contributor

Silent started contributing to the project with miscellaneous UI fixes and later concentrated his efforts on different Windows input APIs, as well as his pet peeve, unicode support.

Computer(s) Specifications

Desktop

Intel Core i9-12900K (5.1GHz)

NVIDIA GTX 1070

32GB DDR4 (3600MHz)

Windows 10

Steam Deck

AMD Van Gogh APU

16GB LPDDR5 (5500MHz)

Linux (SteamOS)

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2017

JohnHolmesII Project Contributor

JohnHolmesII began contributing with edits to the README, and these efforts slowly evolved into various DevOps roles including maintaining build steps, cleaning build output, and helping to maintain CI/CD functions. In the Discord community, he is known as "hurb".

Computer Specifications

Desktop

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (4.7GHz)

Radeon RX 6700 XT

32GB DDR4 (3600MHz)

Linux

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2011

BlackDaemon Project Contributor

BlackDaemon has been around since the beginning as a global forum moderator and avid tester. He was responsible for testing and debugging many games, sharing peculiar issues to other developers so they could be fixed.

Computer Specifications

Desktop

Intel Core i7-5820K (3.5GHz)

NVIDIA GTX 970

32GB DDR4 (2133MHz)

Windows 7

2017

Clienthax Project Contributor

Joining RPCS3 in 2017, Clienthax has significantly enhanced the emulator. They've implemented essential functions for the VSH, also known as the XMB, enabling users to access the original system menu. Additionally, Clienthax integrated the PS1 emulator from the firmware, improving system emulation accuracy. Importantly, by providing the team with the PS3 development kit (DECR), Clienthax has enabled invaluable debugging capabilities, essential for refining the emulator.

Computer(s) Specifications

Desktop

Intel Core i9-13900K (5.5GHz)

NVIDIA RTX 4090

32GB DDR5 (7600MHz)

Windows 11

Steam Deck

AMD Van Gogh APU

16GB LPDDR5 (5500MHz)

Linux (SteamOS)

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2017

Yahfz Project Contributor

Yahfz joined RPCS3 in early 2017, he currently supports the project as a debugger focused on resolving bottlenecks with an endless goal of making the emulator better for everyone on every platform.

Computer(s) Specifications

Desktop

Intel Core i9-13900KS (5.9GHz)

NVIDIA RTX 4090

32GB DDR5 (8000MHz C32)

Windows 10

Desktop

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D (4.5GHz)

NVIDIA RTX 3090

32GB DDR4 (3866MHz C14)

Windows 10

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2018

TGE Project Contributor

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2017

Juhn 0xCA7F00D Project Contributor

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Computer Specifications

Desktop

AMD R7 3800X (3.9GHz)

NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti

32GB DDR4 (3733MHz)

Windows 10

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2017

Asinine Video Content Creator

Asinine joined RPCS3 in late 2017, and started by contributing to the project by making videos for RPCS3's YouTube Channel, writing progress reports for RPCS3's blog and testing games with RPCS3 to update our compatibility database. Today Asinine focuses on making videos for our YouTube channel, testing changes made to the emulator and moderating our compatibility database, Discord and Wiki.

Computer Specifications

Desktop

Intel Core i9-13900K (5.5GHz)

NVIDIA RTX 4090

32GB DDR5 (7600MHz)

Windows 11

Former Developers

A list of developers who have previously contributed to the project.

2013

AlexAltea Former Developer Lead Graphics Developer

AlexAltea joined developers DH and Hykem in the late summer of 2013. He focused mainly on high-level LV2 emulation as well as CPU and GPU emulation in addition to debugging and automated testing via console samples. He also maintained the project up until early 2015. He then left the project to do R&D on other emulation-related projects.

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2014

Tambry Former Developer Project Developer

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2014

Bigpet Former Developer Project Developer

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2017

vlj Former Developer Project Developer

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2014

gopalsr83 Former Developer Project Developer

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2017

Jarves Former Developer Project Developer

Jarves has been around since 2014 doing some contributions from time-to-time. Between various contributions, he has deployed proper .mself and .sdat decryption on the fly which has allowed many games to be further emulated and implemented DualShock 4 native support.

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2017

Numan Former Developer Project Developer

Numan joined RPCS3 in early 2017 as a contributor. Due to his valiant efforts in investigating and fixing various bugs found in the emulator, he was the person responsible for the first efforts that made Demon's Souls boot, which drew a lot of attention to the project, as well as having implemented sys_overlay, a firmware API necessary for Metal Gear Solid 4 to run.

2018

FlashOfSloth Former Developer UI Developer

FlashOfSloth joined RPCS3 in early 2017. He's known for leading the effort into Qt, major UI additions, including a save manager and a trophy notifications.

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2018

Dangles Former Contributor Project Developer

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2018

pauls-gh Former Contributor Project Developer

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2017

O1L Former Contributor Project Developer

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2018

ruipin Former Contributor Project Developer

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2017

scribam Project Contributor

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2019

raven02 Project Contributor

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2017

rajkosto Project Contributor

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2018

Farseer Project Contributor

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2013

ssshadow Community Manager Former Contributor

ssshadow is a human RPCS3 Wiki and has been around since 2013, joining the staff in early 2017. Previously head of Blog and the writer for RPCS3's progress reports, he currently helps the project as a Community Manager.

Computer Specifications

Laptop

Intel Core i7-7820HQ (2.9GHz)

NVIDIA Quadro M2200

16GB DDR4 (3200MHz)

Windows 10

2013

Shadow Project Contributor

shadow contributed MMJoystick support to the emulator, which allows players to use non-XInput controllers such as DualShock 2 on Windows through this API, as well as per-game config files and a few bug fixes.

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