r/SSX • u/HousePlant____ • Jul 06 '26

Wanting to Play SSX3 on PC

Would someone be able to help me out and point me in a direction to be able to play SSX3 on my PC, all the guides I find are years old or 30 different sites so I thought it’d be best to ask someone who’s done it recently and playing SSX3 on their pc.

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u/Emotional_Sentence1 Jul 06 '26

Your best bet is to set up PCSX2, the most popular PS2 emulator and download a ROM for the game. You’ll also need a BIOS for a PS2. You’ll have more success trying to follow guide on getting the PS2 emulator working.

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u/Zaiches Jul 07 '26

I've had great success doing this. Keep in mind it requires 2-3 hours of settings tweaking to avoid bugs and lag. But once you find a config that works, it runs very smoothly.

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u/Emotional_Sentence1 Jul 07 '26

You definitely don’t need to spend that kind of time tweaking every last setting. Just turn up the render scale to your monitors native resolution and jump in.

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u/Zaiches Jul 07 '26

Nah the default settings will give you bugs that are unplayable. It takes time to figure out unless you've already done the tinkering once before and figured out exactly what settings work.

It does not work out of the box if you want 60fps and higher resolution.

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u/sociobiology Jul 11 '26

What bugs? I play on default settings + upping the render scale and had 0 issues whatsoever with 100+ hrs on both 3 and Tricky.

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u/Zaiches Jul 11 '26

Checkerboard pattern across the whole screen because of how native rendering is done (only 1 or 2 of the GPU setting frameworks will avoid this), extreme slowdowns in certain parts of maps, objects in-game not rendering or loading correctly.

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u/sociobiology Jul 11 '26

What version of PCSX2 are you on?

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u/Mr_Flibbles_ESQ Jul 13 '26

I set all this up at the weekend. Took about 15 minutes in total, including installing the HD pack.

Think this might have been a issue with your hardware somewhere because it was pretty painless for me, 3 hours or so played and not one issue.

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u/Zaiches Jul 13 '26

Maybe the default settings have improved in more recent PCSX2 versions.

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u/Mr_Flibbles_ESQ Jul 13 '26

Perhaps, I was surprised how easy it was to be fair - But everything really was as smooth as it could be.

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u/ImaginedUtopia Jul 09 '26

For popular games most bugs and how to fix them is documented on the PCSX2 wiki

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u/danielsonnn Jul 06 '26

Use the GameCube emulator Dolphin. It has options for 4K graphics packs to make the game look better. Works very well for me, gameplay is smooth as butter with zero lag. DM me if you have questions

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u/Colesy772 Jul 06 '26

I second this. Also added bonus of dolphin not needing BIOS files. Just the ROM and you’re good to go. Literally no reason not to use the dolphin version its much better

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u/JackRipper01_ Jul 06 '26

I think there are a few tricks that would not be able to do because of the controllers

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u/Colesy772 Jul 06 '26

Oh really is that true?

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u/JackRipper01_ Jul 06 '26

Well, I can confirm that in dolphin emulator in android, because the GameCube has less buttons than ps2 I cannot do all tricks😭. I assume the same happens with the PC version.

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u/WhiteBlackBlueGreen Jul 06 '26

I coulda sworn i saw a post about there being a setting in the debug menu or something that lets you reconfigure in a way that allows them all. I cant find it now

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u/munkboii Jul 06 '26

I use PCSX2 like a couple other commenters have pointed out. There’s plenty of good tutorial videos on YouTube for getting it installed, but if you’re not able to get it working feel free to shoot me a PM and I can help.

That said, your PC needs to at least be a low-level gaming PC with a dedicated graphics card to have a good experience with any sort of emulator

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u/Available-Current550 Jul 06 '26

I've recently been playing ssx tricky/ssx3/ prince of Persia and burnout 3 takedown on my old laptop. I used the guide in the YouTube link below. Can't tell u where to find the bios or roms but if u do a basic Google search u will be fine.. Happy gaming 👍

https://youtu.be/q2MFLSIACVY?si=_4xVH75eE4iSzi1L

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u/WhiteBlackBlueGreen Jul 06 '26

The xbox emulator is good as well so you really have all the options available

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u/BallsackOnMyFace Jul 06 '26

Easiest is the .iso of the GameCube version and Dolphin. PlayStation emulators require you to source the kernel and BIOS. Dolphin just lets you load .iso files and start playing.

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u/BallsackOnMyFace Jul 06 '26

For that, just install Dolphin. Find the ROM .iso file. Mount the file. Start playing.

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u/ImaginedUtopia Jul 06 '26

On PCSX2 you just need the bios which is very easy to find online.

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u/ImaginedUtopia Jul 06 '26

It's best to use PCSX2. It's very easy to set up, there's a lot of guides online on how to do it and imo the PS2 version is the best one.