shadPS4/README.md

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shadPS4

An early PS4 emulator for Windows and Linux

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Status

Currently it can only load PS4 ELF files.

Elf Loader

Logging system

Everything else

Why?

The project started as a fun project. Due to short amount of free time probably it will take a while since it will be able to run something decent but I am trying to do regular small commits.

Build

Windows

The project is using cmake files. To build, just use Visual Studio 2022.

Linux

Generate the build directory in the shadPS4 directory:

cmake -S . -B build/

Enter the directory:

cd build/

Use make to build the project:

make -j$(nproc)
Platform Build status
Windows build Windows
Linux build Linux

To discuss this emulator please join our Discord server: Discord

Who are you?

Old emulator fans and devs can recognize me as "shadow". I was the founder and coder for a lot of emulation projects:

  • PCSX
  • PCSX2
  • PCSP
  • JPCSP
  • arcadeflex
  • rpcs3 contributor

Contribution

I currently accept any kind of contribution, here is a list of some items that may be useful:

  • PKG extractor (there was an initial work on this, just search project history commits).
  • Initial GUI with imgui, SDL3 and Vulkan.
  • Better logging system with spdlog.
  • to be filled...

Documentation

Wiki has some documentation for PS4 PKG format

PKG PS4 File Format