
Same for the PCSX2, a great and popular PS2 emulator.

If you heard about Dolphin, an emulator for the GameCube and Wii games has been in development for more than a decade and is still updating. This emulator development requires years of hard-working and typically requires more powerful hardware than the original machine requires. Unlike Orbital which is a low level emulator, GPCS4 is a high level emulator, something works like wine.As you know building an emulator requires reverse-engineering because what a piece of hardware of a platform does while running a game is completely different from what other platforms do. This emulator is at a very early stage, and can only run some demos or loading logos. A Real PlayStation 4 emulator runs a demo To run or develop GPCS4, a CPU supporting AVX512 together with a graphics card supporting Vulkan are required.Ĭurrently, only Windows build is supported. Here you can get more resources which are very usefull for developing. This is a previous running result of Nier:Automata, not correct though, I'll improve it.įor more details you could join our discord server to contact with me, or if you are used to Tencent QQ/TIM, just join our group. Next I'll focus on Nier and improve the graphics implementation. There're still some hardcode test code, but with more design, and most important, this time with our shader translator, no hand write shaders anymore. Will improve these things step by step.įirst correct image rendered, although this is a 2D image demo, it's actuall rendered in 3D pipeline. Besides, there're still some problems on game pad emulation. GPCS4 will recompile all shaders, untiling all textures and upload all buffers every frame, making it less efficient.


It's not playable now, since the FPS is very low, because there's no optimizations at all currently. The only reason I start this project is learning 3D graphics, nothing serious.įirst commercial game support, We are Doomed. This comes following the Nucleus PS3 / PS4 PC Emulator, Orbital PS4 Emulator, Spine PS4 Emulator and a PS4 Compatibility Layer Uplift for Orbis on Windows.īelow are some demonstration videos from Asuka Langley's YouTube Channel, with a dedicated GPCS4 Discord Channel for continued development and from the ReadMe.md: GPCS4Ī project for fun, and technical research. While not actually playable yet, developer Inori ( InoriAsuka on Twitter) announced the GPCS4 PS4 emulator for PC now supports the commercial PSN game We Are Doomed which boots and runs noting that there's currently no optimizations at all and the FPS is very low at the moment.
