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Q1 2009: Sony Playstation 3 Emulator Scene

March 3, 2009by Chris

PS3 Emulator
Can I emulate the PS3 on the iPhone? Can I play PS3 Games on my 360? How about in Windows or in OS X? Can I play Sega Genesis or Super Nintendo games on my PS3?

All good questions and the answers are no, no, no, no, yes, and yes.

The Playstation 3 is much too powerful at the moment to be emulated by home technology. If you want to play PS3 games on another system then fire up your time machine and download the PS3 emulator from the year 2029 or, more likely, 2039 because there are no PS3 emulators available in 2009 and nothing will emulate the PS3 apart from a cloud or a stack of PS3's running Linux (which makes little sense).

Emulators on the PS3
You can run all kinds of emulators on the PS3 through Linux - the best method for emulation on the PS3.

If you don't want to go the Linux route then you can faithfully emulate the SNES/Super Famicom, and Genesis/Mega Drive, with the XMB and a memory stick.

For the retail route, Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection can be purchased at amazon or elsewhere. You get 40 "resolution enhanced" original Genesis games for your PS3 (including 6 Sonic Games, 3 Golden Axe, and 1 Shinobi III).

It looks like PS3 is catching up to the 360. Worldwide sales (March 3/2009) of the PS3 are pegged at 20.71 million and the Xbox 360 is around 28.82 million, according to VG Chartz.com.

This means that there are tens of millions of enthusiasts for both consoles -- more or less guaranteeing that we will have a PS3 emulator within the next hundred years!

For now, your best bet it to help the economy and drop some cash on a spanky new PS3.

CS 9.3

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