Huge Progress Happening In PS4 Emulation With ShadPS4

While PCSX2 is well and thriving, the state of PlayStation 3 and especially PlayStation 4 emulation is rather bleak with PS3 being notoriously hard to emulate and the prospects of PS4 support dying soon.

A few PS4 projects are in the works, but it's in really early development, and right now, PS4 emulation has very low compatibility with 2D games and even lower with just a few 3D games. Currently, there is a handful of known PS4 emulators and compatibility layers, such as Spine, RPCSX, Kyty, psOff, and others, at different stages of progress.

In the following video, you can see one of the PlayStation 4 One Piece games running on shadPS4, a new PS4 emulator, now capable of launching some 3D games on PC. After the release of version 0.1.0, games began to display images and even enter in-game.

Naturally, it's full of glitches, but the sole fact that a PS4 emulator is capable of running commercial 3D games is big progress:

"This version is the first one that shows life to a bunch of commercial games (simple ones mostly). Also, it's the first release with Linux support", says the official shadPS4 V0.1.0 release.

Apparently, now shadPS4 can also boot Resident Evil: Origins Collection and Persona 5:

Here's more PlayStation 4 emulation progress with Nier: Automata and Limbo screenshots from psOff:

It will take longer to fully emulate them and we have to be realistic here, there are no chances of actually loading and playing Bloodborne anytime soon. However, another milestone for PS4 emulation was crossed this week.

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