What does one do to try it out?

Ah, thanks for the info, ssshadow! Il be back home soon so il give it a try in a couple of hours. I'm amazed at how well the emulator performed for you with terrariia! I honestly thought we woukdnt even come close to any frame rates higher than 6.
PS: any good suggestions for some threads to read? I hate to noob the place up as everyone seems to know what they are doing, I swear to god il contribute to support by making a tutorial on basics 101 or something.

Look at some of the game reports that I have made for instance But really, the three workarounds above, move game data around, get files from the PS3 OS and pause threads that hang or loop with errors is pretty much the best you can do to try and get games to run. Always look in the log for sys_fs errors, files that can't be found, because these can always be fixed by moving files around and maybe setting up paths in the virtual file system manager. (The only exception I think is Nier which has strange bugs and can't read it's own packed data)

Edit: the reported frame rate for terraria is incorrect...