PlayStation 3 emulator gets shiny new UI for handheld PCs like the Steam Deck
RPCS3's latest update makes it much easier to tweak settings while in-game.
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Considering it's emulating one of the most complex consoles ever made, PS3 emulator RPCS3 is remarkably easy to use. On desktop it has a load of helpful tooltips explaining the basic, recommended settings, with lots of graphical settings and checkboxes for the tinkering-inclined to play with if they so choose. The controller-friendly "big picture" experience wasn't quite so polished, but that's now changed with recent updates to the emulator polishing up the in-game overlay.
As you can see in the video above, the UI for running RPCS3 on a handheld like the Steam Deck now looks quite a bit like SteamOS itself. While the emulator did have an overlay already, it wasn't nearly as functional. You'd have to dig through layers of menus to access things like graphical or audio options, and not everything was tweakable while a game was running.
Now pulling up the overlay by pressing Start + Select offers immediate access to some handy options—taking a screenshot, saving state, restarting the game—as well as access to a settings menu with most of the adjustments available without further digging. Key graphics options like resolution scaling and the framerate limiter are right there and easy to adjust.
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