Haha, I just got rid of a Gravis Gamepad I found in a drawer a few months ago. No idea why I'd hung on to it as I haven't used it since the 90s. 15 pin game port, so I have no use for it anymore.

Oh boy, yeah I think I still have mine in a box somewhere with a bunch of broken OG Xbox controllers.

Worked sort of ok in the old DOS platformers. I remember playing Descent with a joystick for some reason too. I guess it worked ok.

I think I only ever got it to work right with a few games, one of which was Venom & Spider-Man: Separation Anxiety for Windows 95, which was one of the earliest games that required exclusive use of DirectX, so you couldn't play it in Win 3.10 or Win 3.11.

So RPCS3 works that well? I've tried Dolphin and PCSX2 and was quite impressed.

Only played a few games. Resistance, Resistance 3, Blacksite Area 51, Clive Barker's Jericho, Godfather: Blackhand Edition, Army of Two, Army of Two: The 40th Day, and Captain America: Super Soldier. Ran all the games fine except for Resistance 3 -- game runs well, but it hits an error in one of the stages, so it needs an emu update. I turned on the 200% upscaler to run the games in 4K, otherwise the PS3's native resolution is a chore to get through.

Dolphin runs games like a dream, and I still need to finish Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines some day, ha!

I doubt my antique CPU will run PS3 but I wouldn't use it anyway. Still will note for future reference.

Haven't really looked into the spec requirements all that much, but I think any multi-core i7 should do the trick if you were planning on going that route.

Right now if anyone wants to sell me anything, they have to work on some games. I can't think of a time where I've been less interested in what's coming out, so I'll just keep what I have.

Yup. Totally agreed. Right now I'm just working through my old back catalog of games, hardly buying anything new. In fact, most of the "new" stuff I'm buying are just old games on discount that I may have missed in previous years.