90w ago - Today PlayStation 3 developer PsDev has released a PS3 XMB Theme Emulator homebrew application which allows users to preview and visualize how the XrossMediaBar will appear with a PS3 Theme via PC.

Download: PS3 XMB Theme Emulator Homebrew Application

From the ReadMe file: This is an application that will "Emulate" how your XMB will look on your computer before making a theme This application will let you view your XMB and it's icons, backgrounds and colors. This application is meant to help you preview your XMB with making the theme! it will read BMP files and will arrange them so they look just like your XMB.

You will findXMB Two. XMB Two stores files That will make the xmb icons and wallpapper

1- Make some icons with a white background, and or whatever background matches the wallpapper with dimension 64X64 and in the BMP format
2- Make some wallpaper images in the BMP format and with dimension 640x480
3- Rename icons to:

1.bmp - Settings Icon
2.bmp - Photo Icon
3.bmp - Music Icon
4.bmp- Video Icon
5.bmp- Game Icon
6.bmp- Network Icon
7.bmp- friends
Background.bmp - Wallpaper Image

4- Place your icons and wallpapper...

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 / SVN

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

96w ago - Today PlayStation 3 developer CrashSerious has announced news of an incoming PS3 homebrew port of the Dragon 32 / 64 PC XRoar emulator now dubbed PS3Roar.

Download: PS3Roar Dragon 32 / 64 PC XRoar Emulator PS3 Port WIP / PS3Roar BiOS Files / GIT

To quote: PS3roar is a port of xroar for X windows, as well as; the Nintendo DS, GPX32, PSP and AMIGA OS4. PS3roar is a Dragon 32 and 64 Computer emulator that runs on a wide variety of platforms, now including the PS3. Due to hardware similarities, PS3roar also emulates the Tandy Colour Computer (CoCo) models 1 & 2.

The PS3 port and modifications completed by CrashSerious (me). The PS3 port uses PSL1GHTv2, a free and Open Source SDK for the PS3.

PS3roar is a Dragon/Tandy Coco emulator, is a port of xRoar by Ciaran Anscomb. xRoar is Copyright (C) 2003-2010 Ciaran Anscomb (xroar -aT- 6809.org.uk)

From the ReadMe file:

Emulated machines

• Dragon 32 (PAL).
  
• Dragon 64 (PAL).
  
• Tano Dragon (NTSC).
  
• Tandy Colour Computer (1 and 2) (PAL).
  
• Tandy Color Computer (1 and 2) (NTSC).
  

Current status:

97w ago - A few days back PlayStation 3 developer squarepusher2 announced that the Nintendo Gameboy / GBA Emulator PS3 Port known as VBA PS3 would soon become VBANext, and today subcon959 has made available an unofficial VBANext PKG file for PS3 users to try out while awaiting an official release.

Download: VBANext PS3 Build 44ed4409 / VBANext PS3 Build 44ed4409 (WT/GH CFW) / SVN

Some recent changes from the SVN include the following:

• (PS3) Auto-aspect ratio setting + plus more aspect ratios
  
• (PS3) Cleaned up menu code some more.
  
• (PS3) Cut down on some more menu code duplication
  
• (PS3) Uses systemDrawScreen() macro now instead of IFDEF __CELLOS_LV2__ hackery to make a direct call to Graphics->Draw and psglSwap.
  
• (PS3) Cleaned up code duplication in menu code (Core) Doesn't try to set regparm attribute now for non-x86 platforms
  
• Changed blip_med_quality...

101w ago - This weekend PlayStation 3 developer Robo Hobo has released an unofficial PS3 MAME arcade game emulator GameOS port preview of version 0.142.

Download: PS3 MAME v0.142 (Preview) / SVN

Installing:

• Install the psmame package onto your jailbroken PS3 using normal means.
  
• By default all data paths for mame are located under /dev_hdd0/ROMS/mame_data.
  
• ROMS themselves can be placed anywhere and their location chosen with the frontend. The recommended path is /dev_hdd0/ROMS/mame.
  

Default controls:

• As of right now the only defined controls are R3 to open the MAME config menu, Select for coin, and Start for starting the game.
  
• Further control changes can be made in the MAME config menu as needed.
  
• Up to four controllers can be used at one time.
  

Frontend: The frontend can display screenshots of games, these should be placed in /dev_hdd0/ROMS/mame_data/snaps. You can find a full set at http://www.progettosnaps.net/snaps_en.html

Paths:

Under /dev_hdd0/ROMS/mame_data

hash: path to hash files
samples: path to...