96w ago - Today
chrisbdk announced via
DemonHades that Spanish PlayStation 3 homebrew developer
rpcs3 is working on a PS3 Disassembler / Emulator PC project called RPCS3 with the current source code available below.
Download:
RPCS3 PS3 Disassembler / Emulator PC Project r21 /
RPCS3 PS3 Disassembler / Emulator PC Project r21 (Mirror) /
RPCS3 PS3 Disassembler / Emulator PC Project r21 (Mirror #2) /
RPCS3 PS3 Disassembler / Emulator PC Project r28 /
RPCS3 PS3 Disassembler / Emulator PC Project r35 /
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To quote, roughly translated: Well then apparently someone has the job of making a PS3 emulator for PC. An now is in the process (to not get excited) only a disassembler.
NOTE: Do not expect to launch a game or homebrew or anything, just are in test mode.
PlayStation 3 RPCS3 emulator open source to run on PCs with Windows OS. For now only a de-assembler PS3, although in recent deliveries have been able to implement ELF compiler.
List of Changes:
r35
- Cleanup code
- Implemented DbgConsole (for sys_tty_write)
- Emulated PPUThreadGetStackInformation syscall
- Fixed return id for FsOpen syscall
- Emulated some pad syscalls constant key table: A = LEFT, S = DOWN, D = RIGHT, W = UP, Enter = START, X = R3, Z = L3, Space = SELECT, K = SQUARE, L = CROSS, ; = CIRCLE, O = TRIANGLE, I = R1, Q = L1, P = R2, E = L2
- Homebrews: Added dump_stack.elf, Added pad_test.elf (press 'X' for exit)
r34
- Fixed compilation errors
- Added missing Time.h
- Fixed cntlzd/cntlzw opcodes
- Fixed close PPU threads
r33
- Removed SDL
- Emulated more PPU instructions
- Emulated some lwmutex/ppu thread syscalls
- Added FuncList
- Improved PPCThreadsManager
- Added ppu_thread test homebrew (work fine)
- Fixed dump from ELF64
ELF64:
GameViewer:
- Search more info
- Implemented saving columns size
r32
ELF64:
- Fixed load section names.
r31
- Implemented GameViewer.
- Fixed crash on exit.
- Rewrote ELFLoader.
r29
- Implemented DisAsm mode for SPU and another fixes.
- PPU Interpreter: Emulated more ops. Fixed UpdateCR.
- Memory: Fixed FastWrite 16/32/64/128.
- SysCalls: Emulated some process/memory syscalls.
r28
- Implemented "DisAsm & Interpreter" mode.
- Implemented SPU emulating.
- Fixed crash in NullMemoryBlock read mode.
- Implemented loading flags from ".got", ".data.sceFStub" and ".rodata.sceFNID" sections.
- Fixed seek for FS syscalls.
- Emulated more PPU instructions.
r21
- Fixed reboot system
- Interpreter - Emulated more instructions
- DisAsm - Added more instructions (thank to BlackDaemon)
- SysCalls - Rewrote base class, Removed count limits
- ELF compiler - Added b/bl opcodes, Implemented auto analyze
r20
- rpcs3: Implemented ELF compiler compiler (Asm, just to test).
- interpreter: Fixed ADDI opcode.
- syscalls: Fixed syscall (system calls) File System.
r19
- DISASM: Fixed code dump.
- interpreter: Found and emulated instructions. Fixed value sc.
r18
- Removed pogina WikiFAQ wiki on the web.
r17
r16
- interpreter: Emulated instructions.
- ElfLoader: Fixed SetPc value.
r15
- rpcs3: Fixed compilation errors for debug mode.
r14
- rpcs3: Emulate some syscalls (system calls) File System. Re-writing mode MThread (now uses pthread 2.8.0) Re-written momoria administrator. Re-writing the store manager (ini). Log Marcos Main and keep their position and now tamano.size Added more opcodes. Fixed 'crash' if the frame Log / DISASM / Memory Viewer is closed. Implement OGL video mode.
- DISASM: MT dump implemented.
r13
- DISASM: Fixed dump mode. Added instructions G4 (~ 90%)
hi...
I took a deep look at the #RPCS3 emulator especialy the ppu emulation. It is possible to increase the performance alot. Since my time is big money I try to get some PoC stuff out. IMHO the performance can be increased by a multiple times. Starting with the decoder which is nicely writter TBH but not tweaked to the performance limit. Building a big switch case is just the wrong way.
Don't get me wrong they made a nice piece of software, but the lack of performance tweaking makes it a bad emulator. Instead of making things look nice they should focus more on pushing the performance to the limit. Look at Dolphine code it is plain ugly to use, but for the performance sake.
I work on a recompiler, which TBH i never expect to be full featured on my work alone. This is way to much to handle for one person, but it should give #RPCS3 people a well knowledge what can be increased.
First of all I try to show the improvements to the decoder, which will be sick. The thing is this, the decoder does alot of stuff which can be done at load time. Loading at startup is not interesting. The performance while it emulates is crucial.
Second I always said it and I still need to say it again. Building a recompiler is not much harder than emulating the stuff like they do but the performance increase will be insane. I looked alot at recompiler codes lately to get a brief understanding how they work and it is doable for the PS3.
I hope #RPCS3 guys will take my help instead of claiming false that their way is faster and reconstruct their emulator. Of course I want to get credit than, because this will be work not much people on this planet can do.
To the decoder using binary search algorithms is way faster than doing the big switch case.
If I manage to make this work I will try to give a presentation on CCC Congress or other congress that let me show this stuff since IMHO it is technically more interesting than what most of those congresses show.
Unless you get your hands in one of these...
http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/7/897/ENUS106-677/index.html