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Monday, September 7th 2026 RPCS3 Emulator Now Lets You Play PS3 Games Directly From the Disc by DrUsmanSaleem | Monday, 13:47 | Discuss (20 Comments) RPCS3, the popular open-source PlayStation 3 emulator, now lets you play games straight off a physical Blu-ray disc, without dumping to a hard drive or SSD. The team announced the change on X, calling it "plug and play," and noted it works with games released as far back as 20 years ago without needing to reach out to any servers. A compatible Blu-ray drive is still required, and RPCS3 keeps a running list of supported models from LG, ASUS, Samsung, Lite-On, Sony, HP, Plextor, and BenQ on its site. The feature started out Windows-only but has since been extended to Linux, macOS, and FreeBSD as well, and package installations run from the disc drive are apparently faster now. Monday, September 7th 2026 RPCS3 @rpcs3 You can now play your PS3 games on PC... DIRECTLY FROM THE DISC DRIVE! PLUG AND PLAY! Owning your games as physical media allows you to play games released as far back as 20 years ago without relying on any servers! See compatible disc drive models at rpcs3.net/quickstart#dum 8:40 PM · Sep 6, 2026 · 4.7M Views RPCS3 PC w/ Blu-ray Drive PlayStation 3 games can be dumped using a PC with a compatible Blu-ray disc drive using dedicated software but may require advanced knowledge regarding dumping data from game discs. More information on compatible Blu-ray drives can be found below. Build 0.0.42-19958 This build was released on 2026-09-07 Pull Request #19410 Commit SRO1647D Submitted by kd-11 Windows For a wide range of hardware setups on both laptops and desktops with support for Windows 10 and 11. SHA-256 Download Packages 70.2 MB Download for x64 70.2 MB Download for arm64 Linux For a wide range of hardware setups on both laptops and desktops with support for most common distros. SHA-256 Download Packages 70.2 MB Download for x64 70.2 MB Download for arm64 macOS Experimental For Apple Silicon or Intel hardware with dedicated graphics on macOS 12 or later. SHA-256 Download Packages 46.0 MB Download for x64 46.0 MB Download for arm64