One day PS3 will emulate the Wii

[Squilliam]

zarx said:

Squilliam said:

Actually it would be fairly straight forward for the PS3 to emulate the Wii. The biggest problem is gaining access to the Move libraries and porting them for use with the Wiimote. The PPC core in the PS3 is just an evolved version of the PPC core in the Wii so it would not be difficult for it to run the same programs as they would share most if not all of the same instructions. Infact it would probably be easier to emulate the Wii than the PS2 because the PS2 has a very unique architecture and the PS3 cannot match it for memory bandwidth which makes emulation more difficult.

1. While it is true they are both derived from the same line of CPUs both are heavily modified so they are probably not similar enough for the Cell to act as a Wii CPU at least 2. not without low level programming (not something your average homebrew developer would be able to do without a dev kit at least) and the 3. ability to downclock the PPC to 729Mhz. Running faster any games that require specific timings from the CPU wouldn't run properly if at all (more it has been optimised for the hardware more likely this is) and running faster would break most games anyway, 4. aditionaly the speed and amount of cache etc would also cause problems if not managed correctly. 5. The Wii has other quirks like the the memory architecture and the way the Wii's GPU works would mean that it would still be nearly impossible to get an emulator compatible with a handful of games on the PS3.

1. Modifications or not, they both run Power PC processors with a majority of instructions shared between the PPC core on the Cell and the PPC core on the Wii. Trust me, this makes emulation a vastly more simple job than the Dolphin emulator on PC which has a completely different architecture to emulate to. 3. Clock speed has never been a problem on the PC architectures ranging from 2-4Ghz machines.

2. Whats homebrew got to do with this? Emulate the Wii and homebrew works.

4. The PS3 has a much larger, faster cache which goes with the territory given it is a more modern design.

5. Brute force is the hard counter to quirks.

In any case had Sony kept other OS it would have been likely that someone would have developed a Wii emulator for Linux on the PS3 simply because of its great novelty and interest factors. Without Move theres no reason for an emulator. Without OtherOS theres no ability to emulate Wii games.