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PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 reaches a new milestone: 75% of all PS3 games are now playable on PC (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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Their compatibility list notes 75.33% are Playable, 22.93% can go in-game but not be finished and only 1.69% can't get past the intro.

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[–] 11 points 3 months ago (6 children)

I would love to revisit some games, but the online aspect is a big portion that I've been missing. I would love to revisit some of the world's people created in little big planet. Is that possible?

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    I’d have to imagine those were all hosted by Sony servers. You would have to convince PSN that the emulator is a real PS3, which is probably a significant challenge on top of the fact that Sony lawyers would probably be let loose on the idea for security implications.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    You can totally get a fake PSN service running in RPCS3. It's called RPCN. However, LittleBigPlanet servers were not hosted by PSN, they were hosted by Media Molecule in conjunction with Sony.

    Unfortunately those servers were hacked and they took down everything. So any content for LittleBigPlanet 1, 2 or 3 is totally gone.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I'm honestly surprised that since there was no plan for a little big planets 4, and a little big planet 3 had 1, 2, and 3, that they didn't just release only the levels data, that way that people could run fan services.

    It wouldn't really cost all that much extra because they would only have to keep the data available for a week or two, and then the community would then keep it alive via torrents or their own off-site storage.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    I can't find a proper source, but I think even the fan communities were taken down.

    It is not surprising that Sony would hold that level data close to the chest. If LBP4 did actually become a thing, they could release all that legacy data as day 1 content.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago*

    Actually yes, at least for LBP specifically, I have done it myself. RPCSN is a built in PSN emulator, and there are multiple major fan maintained servers with archived user content from before it went down. As well as new content from the PS3 emulation era.

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