Overview
- RPCS3 announced the direct‑from‑disc feature on Monday and credited contributors digant73 and Megamouse for the work that enabled on‑the‑fly disc decryption and booting.
- Users must have a compatible Blu‑ray drive and place each disc’s decryption key in RPCS3’s data/redump folder for the emulator to read and decrypt the disc.
- The emulator supports internal and external drives on Windows, macOS, Linux and FreeBSD and includes faster install times for package installations read from the disc.
- Running games from the disc removes the need to fully dump game files to fixed storage, saving time and SSD space and building on RPCS3’s roughly 75% playable library compatibility.
- Developers and outlets frame the change as a community‑led preservation measure that makes physical collections more usable as Sony plans to stop producing new game discs from 2028, though drive limits and legal ownership rules still apply.