RPCS3

The world's first free and open-source PlayStation 3 emulator/debugger, written in C++ for Windows, Linux, macOS and FreeBSD.

You can find some basic information on our website. Game info is being populated on the Wiki. For discussion about this emulator, PS3 emulation, and game compatibility reports, please visit our forums and our Discord server.

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Contributing

If you want to help the project but do not code, the best way to help out is to test games and make bug reports. See:

• Quickstart

If you want to contribute as a developer, please take a look at the following pages:

• Coding Style
• Developer Information

Before opening a pull request, please read our contribution guidelines. In short:

• Discuss new ideas with the developers first, either in the #development channel on Discord or by opening a GitHub issue.
• Pull requests from first-time contributors must link an issue that a maintainer has assigned to them (Fixes #<issue number> in the description). Pull requests without one are closed automatically.
• Test your changes before submitting them. AI-assisted contributions must be disclosed, and you must fully understand and own any code you submit. See the AI use policy.

Building

See BUILDING.md for more information about how to setup an environment to build RPCS3.

Running

Check our friendly quickstart guide to make sure your computer meets the minimum system requirements to run RPCS3.

Don't forget to have your graphics driver up to date and to install the Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio 2022 if you are a Windows user.

License

Most files are licensed under the terms of GNU GPL-2.0-only License; see LICENSE file for details. Some files may be licensed differently; check appropriate file headers for details.