Back in March, we informed you about the first Playstation 4 emulator that is currently under development. And a few days ago, its creator Alexandro Sanchez shared a new video showing its current state.
According to Alexandro, all drivers initialize correctly now and VFS is successfully loaded. First userland application, /mini-syscore.elf, is decrypted and launched successfully and shortly after /SceSysAvControl.elf is lauched which successfully handles system events. Simultaneously, mini-syscore detects an issue with the HDD, which is to be expected during first-time boots, and launches /safemode.elf. The system enters Safe Mode successfully, but gets frozen while rendering the safe mode menu.
What ultimately this means is that this emulator is in a very early stage and is not intended for consumers/players. And as you may have guessed, the emulator is nowhere close to emulating any PS4 game so don’t expect to be playing God of War or Spiderman any time soon.
Still, it’s pretty cool witnessing the baby steps of this first Playstation 4 emulator. Also, and since I know that some have been tricked by fake PS4 emulators claiming to be running God of War flawlessly, know that there isn’t any such emulator. I mean, we can hardly play PS3 and X360 right now so a fully working PS4 emulator is the biggest lie someone would come up with.
Enjoy and stay tuned for more!
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This is actually great news. Heard first here.
Seeing that I’m very much into emulators, this was interesting to hear about. What you like and what other people like are 2 different things. Its all a matter of perspective.
Don’t feed the troll.
And 2018 is not over yet. Its the best year for emulation. Awesome.
shave your armpit hair you gey frog
It should progress very fast, ps4 is an x86 architecture
people said the same thing about ports are going to be better on PC… And we have seen how that BS has turned out…
I didn’t see anybody saying that. What i saw was that as the consoles use the same architecture, games would not see the graphical improvement that we saw last Gen, and that pretty much was correct.
Travel back to PS4/X1 first batch of news,reveals that’s what developers said 😉
Bad ports were during the X360/PS3 days…. nowadays, very rare games have problems. The PS4/XONE consoles are based on the x86 arhitecture… yes that should help in the long run but some hardware and some specific feautures are custom made so its actually not that easy. Modern consoles can be more advanced than previous ones.
I have played almost all Playstation 4 exclusives and the only game that really is worth owning a PS4 for is God of War. It has other good exclusive games as well but only really 1 or maybe 2 must play games that are not available on PC. Red Dead Redemption 2 does not count since it will most likely come to PC in 2019.
I liked horizon zero dawn a lot also
As I said 1 or 2. Depending on taste someone will choose their 2nd must play from Uncharted 4, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Bloodborne, The Last of Us: Remastered, Spider-Man. But in my opinion God of War is way better than all the other Playstation 4 exclusives and really the only one that is must play.
Surely he means God of War remastered trilogy
Was huge fan of previous God of War, I can’t look into Last of us copy paste God of War
Fair enough. That’s just your personal opinion though. Horizon Zero Dawn is in my top 5 favorite games of all time. Spider-Man PS4 is the best Spider-Man game ever made. Quite frankly you don’t get that level of quality from most publishers because they aren’t willing to take risks, allocate the necessary budget and trust the vision of the developers. That’s why I support console exclusivity even though I’m primarily a PC gamer. Sony makes damn sure that the quality is high and I don’t think those games would’ve turned out just as good if they were multiplatform. Jim Sterling made a video about this and I agree 100%.
nice free vpn you’re using there bud. damn your life is sad
ah oh, too dumb to realize what i said or just needed confirmation from me?joh can look your ip too btw. lol
Will be interesting I guess but PS4 only has a few games I would even bother wanting to DL to begin with if I did not own one in the 1st place.
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PS4 F….u…c..k The Sony Players!!! hahahaha
why not use the colorless version?
Diversity.
if you say so i guess. most people just use colorless memes as the norm.
the meme by design generates a common reaction. which can be interpreted multiple ways. the only proper way to figure out the salty meme is by the artist who created it. and if they intended it to be racists.
If the answer is no then there is nothing wrong with it.
i had you in my mind as a reasonable person, why racism?
wow! now a troll like you asking for tolerance!
yeah if you haven’t noticed, trolling means joking and not being serious.
“Diversity.”
Bullshit. the meme is meant to be salty. so how can it be respectful at the same time?
kinda mixed about it, i mean yeah this is great news. by the time the emulator is any good PS Now support could change on pc or any mobile platform. they have leaked vids of PS now supporting up to 8k 60fps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwqB2uxEY4k
makes me wonder if you could emulate the ps4 through cloud emulation. then you wouldn’t need to much power to run the emulator. that’s probably where orbital should consider going.
well anyways, one way or another we’ll be able to play them on our favorite PC platform.
hahahaha cloud emulation, hahahaha, i think someone doesn’t grasp how the “cloud” functions. I was going to explain why you don’t know what you’re talking about, but f*ck it, do some google research and figure it out for yourself.
Just a one guy??he should find another people to speed up the development progress and use patreon or something to fund the development..
Good luck with that. PS 5 is about to come out in a year or two and people still can’t even emulate PS 3 games at a steady 30 fps yet lol.
Most likely your pc sucks, cause Ive been emulating ps3 on my pc without fps dropping below 30 (can go 60 if game supports it.)
Also, to the author of this article, not having a fully functional ps3 emulator has NOTHING to do with the likeliness of a ps4 emulator being made. We have a slightly more advanced x360 emulator than original xbox emulator, so according to your view, that would not be possible. You must think there is some secret emulator release schedule somewhere. LOL
I haven’t even attempted to emulate PS3 games on my PC to be honest. because I played them all 10 years ago when they came out on an actual PS3. But I do keep up with the emulation scene and I’ve yet to see a fully playable PS3 game even though they’ve made progress. They will probably get there eventually but I would rather not wait 10 years to play a game emulated.
Too much hassle to play some 2 or 3 worthy games.
Sonyggers BTFO.
Nice. Should be able to play some of the great Sony games by the middle of the PS5s life cycle maybe.