Alongside Orbital, GPCS4 is another Playstation 4 emulator that is currently under development for the PC. And while both of them are at a really early stage, GPCS4 can finally boot a commercial game. However, and before getting too excited, this emulator is far from being able to run any game at acceptable framerates.
According to its creator, GPCS4 can finally render a 2D image demo. Moreover, GPCS4 can boot the twin-stick shooter for Playstation 4, We Are Doomed. Not only that, but the emulator can… wait for it… actually run the game.
Now while We Are Doomed is not a demanding game, it’s incredible that GPCS4 can even run it. However, do note that We Are Doomed is not playable. While the emulator can go in-game, it’s not capable of fully running this game.
It’s also worth noting that GPCS4 can also boot the Playstation 4 version of NieR. However, I want to make it crystal clear that you won’t be able to enjoy PS4 games on the PC anytime soon. I mean, take a look at the PS3 emulator, RPCS3, and how long it took it to run some of its triple-A exclusives.
Last but not least, you can go ahead and download this PS4 emulator from GitHub. Developers can also assist on its development via its Discord channel.
Enjoy the following screenshot and stay tuned for more!
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joke post?
“Alongside Orbital”
Wait there is another?
interesting progress. don’t know what the future progress will hold for the emulator.
it may be shorter than the ps3 emulator. likely it will be still some years away and will also likely require a beefy 2025 configuration. it being said, i may be more interested in those rumors of more PS4 to PC ports in the future.
bloodborne playable 10 years later
Add 10 more years and then you might see loading screen.
i feel like this is one of those comments that is going to age poorly
Already? Wow i say within 5 years we got playable games
Humble beginnings. This is great!
“you won’t be able to enjoy PS4 games on the PC anytime soon”
The naysayers also said that about Nintendo Switch not so long ago.
“look at the PS3 emulator, RPCS3, and how long it took”
I suspect that it’ll be quicker to emulate PS4 to a decent standard than it took to emulate PS3 with its unusual and quirky architecture.
horizon is coming to pc so all they got is uncharted 4
“lol no. That series is dead, ”
Rumors say next game will star Drake’s lesbian daughter.
i’m afraid of girls too! you might catch cooties! poor incel.
Jesus Christ, an Incel in the wild. Well I never. Poor boy.
That’s never happening. The rumors would have been addressed by now.
lol, ok boomer.
Uncharted 4 is supposed to be the end of the series you pathetic incel.
Did you notice the “A Thief’s End” subtitle?
Or the multiple interviews saying it was the end?
Yeah, there’s not much at all that’s exclusive to PS4 that’s of any interest to me.
I was about to say Resogun but that game is also on PS3 and PS Vita where I already own it but playing the 60fps PS4 version would be cool.
Maybe also Uncharted 4 but that franchise peaked with Uncharted 2 and it’s very long long in the tooth so it doesn’t interest me that much. The Last Of Us 2 might be worth a play but with Naughty Dog seemingly intent on infusing its games with soy it also doesn’t interest me very much. The 60fps remaster of the original The Last Of Us might be worth a play but, again, I already played the PS3 version to death many years ago.
Bloodborne maybe but only if emulation cleans up that game’s godawful shimmering due to the woeful anti-aliasing. It’s 30fps (at best!) anyway so that’s another huge downer but maybe it could be modded to 60fps like Demon’s Souls on RPCS3 has been.
So, yeah, I honestly can’t think of anything genuinely exclusive to PS4 that I’d be excited to play even when it’s free.
The games that i want is BloodBorne and Judgment the rest wutever. Maybe Persona 5 with the new content.
RPCS3 started development in 2011 and played its first commercial game in 2014. The Cell also has a ton of documentation on it that helped the project along. PS4 being x86 doesn’t mean faster or easier emulation though. The Xbox doesn’t have a decent emulator, at least to the same level as PCSX2 and even RPCS3 because even though the Xbox is basically like a PC, there’s not much documentation on the hardware and it uses a numerous proprietary parts that require a significant amount of time and understanding to reverse engineer
thanks for the info.
Yeah, there’s not much at all that’s exclusive to PS4 that’s of any interest to me.
I was about to say Resogun but that game is also on PS3 and PS Vita where I already own it but playing the 60fps PS4 version would be cool.
Maybe also Uncharted 4 but that franchise peaked with Uncharted 2 and it’s very long long in the tooth so it doesn’t interest me that much. The Last Of Us 2 might be worth a play but with Naughty Dog seemingly intent on infusing its games with soy it also doesn’t interest me very much. The 60fps remaster of the original The Last Of Us might be worth a play but, again, I already played the PS3 version to death many years ago.
Bloodborne maybe but only if emulation cleans up that game’s godawful shimmering due to the woeful anti-aliasing. It’s 30fps (at best!) anyway so that’s another huge downer but maybe it could be modded to 60fps like Demon’s Souls on RPCS3 has been.
So, yeah, I honestly can’t think of anything genuinely exclusive to PS4 that I’d be excited to play even when it’s free.
Another bullet successfully dodged then!
Soyny indeed.
naughty dog was never great anyways.
yea, screw him for having an opinion….
Anita is what happens when a woman has a severe Vitamin D deficiency if you know what I mean…
jesus christ, i just saw it. what a f4ggotry.
God of War 3 Remaster
God of War 2018
Spider-Man 2018
Uncharted Trilogy
Uncharted 4
Uncharted 4 DLC standalone (forgetting the name right now)
Bloodborne
Infamous Second Son
Killzone Shadowfall
Knack 1/2 (yeah, I know)
Rachet and Clank Remake
Shadow of the Colossus Remake
Last of Us Remaster
Last of Us 2
Ghost of Tsushima
Order 1885
Driveclub
GT Sport
Horizon Zero Dawn
Until Dawn
Catherine Full Body
Persona 5 Royal
Judgement
Yakuza 6
Yakuza 7
The Last Guardian
You forgot Days Gone and Gravity Rush 2.
only interested in GoW, GoT, HZD, BB, Uncharted 4, Spiderman. well, just wanna play it on pc. hopefully someday..
I don’t care about any of those games. Is that all the “good” exclusives of PS4?
Pretty much.
Dude
You listed Last of Us twice
Driveclub servers are dead
Ratchet and Clank remake sucks compared to original
Ghost of Tsushima seems to be KIA
Knack 1 and 2? Really??
Order 1885? Typing this comment took longer
Yakuza 6 is on PC via Microsoft Store
Why not just say Uncharted series? And the DLC counts separate?
And you listed 8 remasters.
There is trying to make a big list to look impressive and then there is just not giving a sh*t. I do like many of those games (would love Bloodborne on PC) but that just seems desperate to have a bigger list.
I just listed all exclusives available on PS4, for someone that doesn’t have a PS4 or never had some of those games on previous Playstation. Chill.
last of us was good enough its worth noting twice
What do you mean by “Ghost of Tsushima seems to be KIA”?
Literally not one of those games is a “must play”
Yakuza 6 and 7 will both be on PC in due time, as will Judgement probably.
Order is pure trash and everyone knows that.
DriveClub and GT Sport are inferior to several other games on the market not the least of which is Forza.
KZF is so bad it killed the franchise
Uncharted 4 isn’t even worth playing. The novelty of the added mechanics – grappling hook and rope swinging, winch, and driving a vehicle – fade fast and aren’t worth the time wasted to play the same generic game a 4th, maybe even a 5th or 9th time depending on if you played remaster or Golden Abyss or Lost Legacy.
TLOU2 isn’t out and doesn’t matter until we can confirm if it’s trash. Same applies to Ghost of Tsushima.
God of War 3 remaster isn’t even noticeably higher fidelity than the original.
God of War 2018 is probably the only first party exclusive on PS4 worth actually playing I’ll give you that one. But it’s not a “must” play. It does nothing that other games haven’t before except put Christopher Judge in the main character seat.
HZD – another generic, open world Far Cry trash game. No.
Last Guardian – huge disappointment.
Persona 5 is a Sega game and will come to PC.
Everything else is a remaster.This is literally the second SoTC redo. You must be joking. TLOU remaster came out barely a year after the game itself.
So again, no.
Spoken like someone who has no idea how emulator development works.
Nintendo is exponentially easier to emulate, not to mention the games aren’t graphically modern.
The reason why RPCS3 took so long to get to this point was largely due to the PS3 using a custom-built CPU architecture which took forever to translate to be run on a commercial CPU. The PS4 on the other hand uses a relatively simple AMD CPU, so i’d say the prospects look favorable for quicker PS4 emulation.
Yeah, but emulating the ps4 hardware is still going to take so much resources not to mention the ps4 has the power of a decent PC. Translating the calls to a graphics api is MUCH better even if it is more difficult because it is faster.
Power of a decent PC from 2014
2011
One would think emulating a PS4 wouldn’t be too bad, considering most of the processes are standard x86 stuff.
Then again, I can’t program an emulator so I’m no expert here.
emulation is basically using your cpu raw power to run the entire process of a consoles hardware on top of your system simulating the hardware, the os the api, everything. Its not a port, its not how devikits work, its basically Tron on your system.
Yeah I get the basics. It just seems like with some clever coding a lot of the overhead can just be passed through. Virtual systems, also on x86, run pretty well and do something pretty similar, minus simulating the API and graphical hardware.
You realize you can translate the calls to OpenGL/Vulkan/D3D instead of emulating the hardware…
yes but its not the same as running it on that api.
Obviously not, but it’s the only viable alternative that doesn’t need 10 years for the hardware to catch up. Translating the calls is a mess but you can still make a decent emulator. I think one example of this is Yuzu emulator for the Nintendo Switch, but I’m not sure.
last time i checked dolphin has vulkan, i suppose that helps.
while cool… I bought a used ps4 for $100 and played all 5 good exclusives on it. so im good!
not worth it.
I agree, I bought one for the exclusives and not one of the games other then ratchet and clank kept me entertained for more then a day.. now the ps4 has just been gathering dust for over a year
So did I and those exclusives aren’t even good enough to have finished more than 1 of them.
I don’t even use mine except when it turns itself on at random. PS4 does that weird crap where it links with your TV and occasionally decides to turn on, like, 1 out of 35 times you turn on the TV.
I hope will scalate quickly, i think we are just months from playing on the emulator. X86 guys full amd hardware.
Well with good luck within next 5 to then we can emulate ps4 in a normal pc, normal being a medium specs pcs
PS5 will be out soon and this is not even usable for any 3D game yet…
What gamepad problems?
Well it’s a start. PS3 emulator also was like this few years ago.
Yet we still can’t play PS2 on our phones yet
you technically can.. run Pcsx2 through wine on your phone
technically I cant run gran turismo 4 doing that
You could play better games.
So it’s almost like playing on a real PS3/Console?
IKR. i was at my father house yesterday and saw him playing RE5 on his ps3 and while he was just shooting with the MP5 the game dropped to the lows 20.
It seems that people who complain about an emulator inconsistency in terms frames fail to recall that the original system usually is also plagued with problems. Specially the PS3 that outside of PS3 exclusives any multiplat run considerable worse than x360.
There are lots of playable PS3 games already. The Godfather Don’s Edition, Demon’s Souls, Persona 5, Army of Two, Asura’s Wrath, and more. There are no gamepad problems. The DS4 works natively and supports motion controls for games that need it. DS3 needs the PSNow drivers to work properly but it doesn’t take a master’s degree in computer science to figure out how to set it up.
Focus on bloodborne please. The rest of SJWed action adventure crap can wait
Rip for what? You mean to tell me the Gaystation 4 has any game worth playing?
Yes. God of War, Spiderman and Bloodborne
God of War was worth playiing and Bloodbourne, yes.
I wouldn’t give them any awards.
Bloodborne is a masterpiece. Best From Software game yet.
You’re a goddamn ni**er.
Its this goddamn ni**er site of yours that censored me you brain dead porch monkey.
Apes brain hurts? Thinking is hard? Ape wants a banana??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eBVU9hjY94
I believe going forward it gonna get much easier to emulate consoles as the upcoming/current ones use chips similar to desktop CPUs/GPUs, with alteration to the transistors, IPC, core clock, cache, voltage, etc to tailor the console requirements.
the best thing about emulators is once it runs without issues you get to play the best version of the game