Now here is something really interesting. While we still haven’t seen a bug-free Playstation 3 emulator, coder AlexAltea is working on the first dedicated Playstaion 4 emulator for Windows and Linux. This PS4 emulator is called Orbital, is still in a very early stage, and it does not run any commercial games yet.
Do note, however, that this emulator is still not ready for end users. As AlexAltea noted, no binaries are provided, so players must build each of the three components (BIOS, GRUB, QEMU) themselves. Furthermore, configuring the emulator to do something will be hard, as you will need to dump and decrypt the entire PS4 filesystem and sflash, including the kernel.
So yeah, this is still a ways off from actually running any game. Still, those interested can download Orbital from here. You can also find the roadmap for Orbital here.
AlexAltea has also shared the following video, showing the emulator in action.
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Console gamers are losing so much to PC gamers these days. These are dark times for console gamers. I cry a little inside when I consider their plight.
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Losing in the sense that a decent PC costs at least 4 times as much?
A superior one in every way and it can do ALOT more than a PS4. Console users make me laugh, they think PC’s are just more expensive media boxes. Enjoy your web browsing with a joypad. LOL
Uhm, the PS4 is basically a PC, you can get both a keyboard and mouse. Do some research and you may not sound so ignorant.
It’s not a PC, you can’t do half of what you can do on a PC, and you think the keyboard and mouse support on a PS4 is even comparable to a PC? LMAO. I know full well Playsation 3/4 supports keyboard and mouse, it’s nowhere near as functional as a PC.
Tell me then, what can you do with a PC that you can’t do with a PS4?
BTW. I’ve been developing PC software for the past 33 years.
can you show us how to render some stuff in adope premiere on that peasant box?
Sure, speak to Adobe or Sony, show some initiative, prove to them that it is wanted. Porting any of Adobe’s products would not be difficult.
He’s making the argument you can run such software which you can because it’s just x86 software. The problem is it’s not based in reality otherwise they would have done it and the CPU cores are only 1-2 for the OS so that sort of software would be like running on a 15 year old PC.
Yes we know consoles are a computer in terms of running software, don’t play that silly game, of course a console can do such things, the question is that the console is designed to do a limited amount of thing while a PC isn’t.
You can match the quality of most consoles with a much cheaper PC. Most games run at 30fps on console. If you cap pc games to 30 weak hardware can achieve similar visuals. something like a pentium using a used gtx 670 can achieve the same visuals or beyond that a PS4, Xbox or PS4 pro can achieve. Only the Xbox One X is better and thats due to it being new. In a years time the X will fall behind to mid range gear.
Why would they be upset about a emulator that won’t relevant any time soon?
By the time it actually is usable the PS6 will be out and people have moved on.
check up on this in 5 years and see if it’s gone anywhere.
Don’t compare CEMU to other emulators. Cemu is the exception not the norm. There are rumors that the CEMU dev team has access to SDKs and official documentation for the Wii U.
console emulation isn’t really an apples to apples comparison though since they have different architectures.
eh i’m still not expecting it to get too far too soon. Even CEMU still has plenty of issues to iron out since they basically only focus on getting the popular games running.
Ok,let’s waiting good news few years later…
Lol yeah ,waste of time this is.Even in 2018 I have trouble running some ps2 games even on a high end rig.I can’t see emulating red dead till 2040 and that even with glitches.Psp and ps1 emulators were pretty good however
Keep in mind the current consoles are using AMD GPUs and x86 CPUs. Might be easier to emulate than we think.
But we shall see, at the end of the day! 🙂
Maybe, if you did some research, you wouldn’t sound so ignorant.
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LMAOOOOO
To be fair, high-end gaming laptop PCs utterly destroy any console for performance and have done so for many years. Even current mid-range gaming laptop PCs will trounce any console’s performance.
Excellent news.
Very impressed with both CEMU and RPCS3. This is another one to keep an eye on.
nothing to be hyped about…when we see decades old emulators like pcsx2 and even dolphin still not emulating perfectly all games and some games(rogue leader gamecube on dolphin/shadow of the colossus ps2 on pcsx2) are still not able to get full speed on my i7 3770k overclocked above 4.2 ghz.
there is really no reasons to be excited about it…
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Well, all current consoles typically fail to run demanding games properly so that’s no biggie! ?
Some emulators, yes. Many emulators dramatically improve console games by way of rendering the visuals at many times the original internal rendering resolution. Some emulators also allow for high resolution textures packs so to make the already far superior rendering resolution look even better. Oh, and then there’s those emulators that allow for 60fps hacks so we don’t have to suffer the crappy 30fps frame-rate of the original console. Not to mention all of the other configurable options they have.
But in your version of reality “emulators are usually useless” so you’re evidently a stranger to the facts and have made your mind up regardless.
Yeah exactly, and some emulators like CEMU are outstanding. I’m currently enjoying Zelda: Breath of the wild in 4K with extra graphics packs that surpasses the original console graphics by a long shot at nearly 60 FPS. Game looks and plays amazing and frankly, it’s one of the best games I’ve played in a very long time. On a second note, as consoles are ‘hardware wise’ looking more and more like PC’s and are functioning more like PC’s too, emulations will just be easier and easier. I predict it won’t be too long until we can play Uncharted, Horizon, Last of Us, RDR, GoW 2-3, God of War series, Halo 3-4, MGS4 and other gems in visual presentations that far exceeds their original intention.
Very nice. I really must download the latest version of CEMU plus the latest graphics packs files, cemuhook, mapletree and mapleseed soon so to give Zelda BotW another go. Plus I’m keen to see what some of the games I have on Wii U look like when rendered in higher resolutions via CEMU. I’m guessing that the likes of Mario Kart 8 and Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (two games with an already nice art style) will look amazing with CEMU.
I’m no expert on the details of emulation software so won’t profess to be. But, to echo what you’ve said, if they can emulate highly complex multi-custom processor consoles like Sega Saturn then doing so for a x86-based console would seem well within the bounds of possibility. As to what speed a PS4 emulator would run its games on a current PC is something I don’t know. If I recall correctly, it long ago used to be the general rule of thumb that a PC needed to be at least 8 times more powerful than the console being emulated for the games to run at full speed. I’d imagine things have improved since those years.
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We all know the only reason PS is worth it is due to the exclusives. I have one myself for a couple dozen games that dont go to PC. However i buy hundreds of PC games so this makes the PS4 a distant second to a PC for me.
console gamer’s comeback to you
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You can easily buy a nice prebuilt for a good price. No new PC gamer needs to deal with the inflated prices of gpus and ram atm. Head on over to ibuypower etc they have great 1050ti, 1060, 1070 and 1080 systems for a very good price.
Author here: Just wanted to point out that the video isn’t mine, but from one member of our Discord server.
“people who buy consoles don’t care about doing all the things that a PC can do which a console can'”
Ah, that old chestnut. They said that when,
– consoles didn’t use optical media back when they all used games cartridges… before consoles copied PC by CD-ROM then DVD-ROM then BRD-ROM optical drives becoming standard on consoles
– consoles didn’t have the ability to update their OS without hardware modification or the purchase of extra hardware… before they copied PC
– consoles didn’t have swappable storage media at all… until they aped PC by using memory cards for game saves
– console didn’t have mass storage media out of the box… until the original Xbox copied PC with its HDD
– consoles played only games… before they copied PC by having home media centre functionality
– console games featuring bugs could never be fixed… before consoles copied PC by allowing for games to be patched
– consoles didn’t have internet browser software… before they copied PC
– consoles didn’t have the ability to send email… before they copied PC
– consoles didn’t allow mods to be used… until Xbox and to a limited extent PS4 recently copied PC
– consoles didn’t have the ability to video chat… before they copied PC
– current consoles didn’t do VR like on PC… until Sony brought it to PS4
I’m sure there are numerous other things I’m forgetting to mention that console gamers once claimed they didn’t need or want that were on PC but are now commonplace on the consoles of today.
The obvious reality is that consoles have slowly become more like PC regardless of the PR claims to the contrary and the beliefs of their fanboys. Heck, they’re now even x86-based! For all their many faults, at least Nintendo does it slightly differently and with more imagination than the PC-lite approach adhered to by Sony and Microsoft.
Thanks for saving me the time.LOL
Haha! I was only just getting started, lol! It truly is breathtaking that some people can be so ignorant when all the information is so easily at our disposal nowadays. All of those points listed were only what came to mind as I was typing so I’m sure there are many more points that could be added.
I can’t decide what side of the fence you fall on. You point out all the features that have made consoles better than the average PC, while challenging The Reaper95 over the main reason to buy a console. Maybe you just didn’t read your own post before hitting the button?
“I can’t decide what side of the fence you fall on”
1. It speaks volumes for your mentality that you have to divide people that way as though there is a “side” to be taken. Usually only small children and dumb fanboys see the world in such binary terms.
2. Do keep us all updated on whatever other things in life you can’t decide on because you’re so important to us all. No, really, we’re on tenterhooks to hear of your next revelation regarding your indecisiveness. Perhaps you have a Facebook profile whereby you could keep the entire world updated on these issues of great importance.
“You point out all the features that have made consoles better than the average PC”
What a bizarre personal interpretation you’ve chosen to place on the above list of facts. That you arrived at such a bizarre conclusion serves to lend further insight to how your thought process functions. If you’re an immature child then you’d be best advised to think more carefully before posting so to spare yourself further embarrassment. If you’re an adult then the internet is clearly going to problematic for you.
“Maybe you just didn’t read your own post before hitting the button?”
Maybe you ought to reflect on whether anything you’re thinking of posting on the internet makes any sense.
His argument is basically consoles can run everything that a PC can ,except that argument isn’t based in reality of what consoles do. He’ll be saying next consoles can be used in the office for spreadsheets and word processing just to prove a point that’s not based in reality.
Made me laugh out loud, ta!
You’re welcome to make yourself the subject of further ridicule any time.
inb4 peasants REEEE about “piracy”
that being said, if this gets successful Sony will definately C&D the dev team
KKW has been remarkably quiet of late. Like herpes, he’ll be back!
I’m primarily a PC gamer but I love my PS4. Best games I played in a long time were PS4 exclusives last 2 years. All this talk in the comments is silly. It’s 2018 and we still don’t have a half decent PS3 emulator. It will be 2030 by the time it’s viable to emulate a PS4 game. Put aside your irrational PC gamer pride or whatever twisted ideas you have in your brain and spend $400 on a PS4 and just enjoy gaming. You all brag about having two gtx 1080 TI’s SLI anyway so $400 shouldn’t be a big deal to you, right ? Having a PS4 is worth it now for just the backlog of exclusives alone. Say what you want about consoles but Sony first party studios are some of the best in the business and you just don’t find that kind of quality in AAA games these days.
Dude, RPCS3 is half-decent with over 1700 playable games of which 700+ runs good. Check its progress on its blog, the leaps its been taking the last couple of months has been rapidly improving. For example, in July 2017 there were only 278 playable games, now that number has increased to over 700. And the percentage of games that are able to boot and run “ingame” went from 23% to 40% from a list of 2600+ games in only 8 months. That’s what I call nice progress. And the progress and phase is only gonna increase from this point.
“you just don’t find that kind of quality in AAA games these days.”
Yeah that’s true, and a big reason for that is also spelled c-o-n-s-o-l-e-s. The other ones being g-r-e-e-d and E-A. However, there are still a vast amount of great developers still in the game, especially in the indie department. But to name a few triple-A’s; 4A Games, CDPR, WarHorse, DICE, Massive Entertainment, ID software, Epic Games, Arkane, Blizzard, Remedy. Sony and Nintendo department has some skilled developers that is true. But in time PC gamers will be able to enjoy their work too. Patience is key.
bizzysgs is a Destiny series fanboy with a limited grasp on reality whose litany of ‘facts’ and fallacious arguments have been previously refuted much to the amusement of all present. Debating him is as futile as hoping to make a SJW see sense so I find it’s best to ignore him like most here do.
“Unregistered HyperCam 2” Now that’s a watermark i haven’t seen in a long time
…and the Xbots like to convince themselves that the Ponies are envious of them for being able to play PUBG when it looks and runs like that on Xbone and Xbone X! ?
Yeah! And I’m currently eyeballing through the comment section for that video and more that half of all comments consists of blaming the developers for sh*tty optimization and claiming that it runs just as bad on PC 😀 Then if one look at an earlier video by DF, they showed the game on PC and could point out that it ran well over 60 FPS on Ultra settings on an i5 8400 and a 1060/580 GPU 😀
It’s always with way with the console peasantry. Nearly every single time a game on their console is capped to 30fps they scream ‘lazy devs’. Unless it’s an exclusive, in which case they’ll instantly defend it to the last because… fanboy stupidity.
This, despite the fact that every single graphically advanced game of note on their console before it has run at 30fps. One would have thought the penny would have dropped with them by now that the current consoles are simply too weak (thanks to the crappy mobile oriented AMD Jaguar CPU) to push great looking games at the proper frame-rate… but no!
I just viewed their new video analysis of the Assassin’s Creed: Rogue remaster that’s also predictably capped to 30fps on consoles. As sure as night follows day, all the peasantry are commenting that it’s ‘lazy devs’ to blame once more! Amusingly, a few PC gamers have chimed in with some home truths about console hardware and many dummies are being spat in consequence, lol!
And yet their glorious exclusives like Uncharted 4 and HZD are 30fps, lazy devs, even he Pro Can’t do it. Where is the 60fps version of Sea of Thieves On XB1X? but but mah 4K, but but mah HDR.. LOL
Too funny! This really is the worst console generation there’s ever been. So bad that it had to come in two instalments from both Sony and Microsoft and yet all four of their combined consoles are crippled by the same crappy mobile-oriented CPU. Yet the idiotic fanboys continue screaming ‘lazy devs!’ every time their weak console delivers weak performance. D’oh!
yep, even HZD drops below 30fps in the villiages with lots of AI because the reast of the place doesn’t have much AI at all, they just can’t strain the CPU.
I put money side when i was collage, take 4 months and i buyed gaming PC its still rocking after 6 years and its still better today than ps4 pro or xbox X. I hated pay internet bill ps+ bill etcetc games 60 euros controllers,,,Every month. My lession BUY PC u can buy console after many years 60e like me in Finland and i have 3 games in ps4 Last of Us remaster (10e) God of War 3 remaster (15e) and uncharted 4 (15e) All used. Sorry my english from Finland 🙂
Ahh, finally something other than asset flips on PC. 😛
As soon as i saw the leaked specs of the PS4 i was 100% sure they were a troll, how could a console run a literal X86 arc. ? and then once the consoles were out and the specs were even weaker than leaked , i was 100% sure they would drop the PS3 emu work for a PS4 emulator.
From my ignorant perspective maybe oversimplifying but i really feel like it would make more sense to try to emulate the PS4 than the PS3 since you’re trying to translate PS3’s cell cpu power pc arc into modern pc hardware vs. trying to translate PS4’s shared memmory pool (basically integrated graphics) X86 arc with an underpowered 2011-level APU AMD cpu.
PS: The Sony fanboys are the worst, most delusional and cringe fanboys in the entire gaming community.
It’s a bittersweet experience to some extent. While it’s awesome to witness the vast improvement in image quality via Cemu it’s also rather sad that most Nintendo customers don’t get to share in the experience due to Nintendo’s incredibly weak hardware.
Im sure in 5+ years the ps4 emulator will be a thing. Honestly no console platform is safe to some type of emulation sooner or later. Even if its like half broke like Saturn emulation.
Wait, is this real? Damn, kind of hard to believe but awesome nonetheless. 🙂