My… shit I’ve been doing this since Lockdown, replay of the Armored Core series is just about out of the PS2 era and on to the PS3.
And that made me realize… I have no flipping idea how that works these days. I know I want an emulator (RPSC3) and I found a site that might have ISOs. And that is probably actually fine for AC4 since I don’t think that got any DLC. But calibrations and the like were a thing.
From a bit of googling I saw people mention something called “nopaystation” that basically uses what I assume is a hacked/fake PSN to streamline this which sounds awesome (and that I would only ever dare use in wine because holy shit that sounds dangerous). I saw some guides that alluded to setting that up with RPSC3 but… they don’t actually? But I also recall people mentioning using pirated Demon Souls and AC4 servers and… some of the Influencers I have seen very clearly play emulated PS3 games are not the kind of people who even know what an ISO is so that probably isn’t the path folk are taking.
So… what are the current best practices/methods for actually grabbing PS3 games? And maybe xbox/360 if I ever decide I want to Mech Assault again.
Thanks
nopaystation is safe, you get the titles directly from sony’s servers. it’s the sony equivalent of ciangel/freeshop back when you could do that on your 3ds. it’s only for digital games, so i don’t think armored core 4 ever got a psn release so you’d need to get the .iso for it anyways.