# RPCS3/rpcs3

> Free and open-source PlayStation 3 emulator and debugger written in C++ for Windows, Linux, macOS and FreeBSD. It lets you run PS3 games on a PC and inspect their behaviour.

- Magnitude: 1.9 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 19,981 total · +6 stars measured 2026-10-08, 00:06–10:19 UTC, ≈ 14 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Games & graphics · Language: C++ · License: GPL-2.0 · Created: 2012-11-03 · Last push: 2026-10-08
- GitHub: https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3 · Homepage: https://rpcs3.net/ · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/RPCS3/rpcs3

## Useful for

- Run PS3 games on a PC without the console
- Debug game behaviour with the built-in debugger
- Test game compatibility and report bugs to the developers

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-08 (UTC), 00:06–10:19: 19975 → 19981 stars (+6). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +14 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 2,487
- Issues and pull requests: 19,194
- Watchers: 598
- Average over the last week: 12 per day
- Usual pace: 10 per day
- Latest release: v0.0.43 (2026-09-30)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-04 … 2026-11-02: 13, 11, 20, 14, 1, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None

## Magnitude by day, last 14 days

09-24 1.6, 09-25 1.5, 09-27 1.6, 09-28 1.7, 09-29 1.5, 09-30 1.5, 10-01 1.2, 10-02 1.5, 10-03 1.4, 10-04 1.5, 10-05 1.7, 10-06 1.7, 10-07 2.1, 10-08 2.0

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-08 10:27 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.