Comment on I just tried RPCS3 for the first time since the big update. LBP is now playable on Deck

• Uruanna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  RPCS3 is the name of the emulator. It’s an acronym but I don’t suppose anyone knows or uses it off the top of their head. Like MAME, also an acronym AFAIK (as far as I know), no idea what It means, the acronym is the name of the emulator. So not really initialism.

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• the16bitgamer@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t think RCPS3 has a proper name. But yeah, LBP has been this games name for me for so long that I don’t think I’ve called it anything else.

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  • Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Makes sense. Like MAME, like the other reply mentioned.

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  • Akip@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Made me delve a bit, the logical conclusion i came to:

    it seems to be evolved from

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSX_(digital_video_recorder)

    to https://m.emuparadise.me/Sony_Playstation_Emulators/Windows/PCSX/18

    to

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCSX-Reloaded

    and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCSX2

    There is no mention on their page about it though. https://rpcs3.net/about

    So an initial word play on PC and PS merged into PCS later added reloaded?

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