Oh, I thought you meant something like Mental Ray Stand-Alone.

I do not think anything can take a Maya file with particles other than Mental Ray as a .mr or .mi file, and others like Renderman with a .rib file etc.

Maybe there are others like Monte Carlo or Vray-beta that can but in all cases other than Mental Ray stand alone, I have no idea.

You might need to ask the support of those other renderer's if they support Maya 8.5 files that include certain particle types.

Anyone else have any success in any other renderers like this?