John GodGames Emus shared a new video, showcasing 125 PS4 games running on the PC via the Playstation 4 emulator, Spine. This video is almost three hours long, featuring games such as Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition HD, Harvest Moon – Light of Hope SE Complete and Garfield Kart Furious Racing, and more 2D/3D games.
Spine is one of the four main PS4 emulators for PC. The other three are Kyty, fpPS4 and GPCS4.
As I’ve said numerous times, these Playstation 4 emulators are in an early development stage. What this means is that you won’t be playing Bloodborne or Ghost of Tsushima on PC anytime soon. Still, the fact that they can already boot and run 3D games is astonishing.
What’s also crazy here is that the version of Spine that is being showcased here (version 20220517) is from May 2022. In theory, and if this emulator is still in active development, its latest version should run games better.
Enjoy!
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3 hours is quite a lot to watch, so I’ve only quickly skimmed through it. From what I’ve seen, practically everything that’s 2D seems to be working almost flawlessly at 60fps. 3D games are still busted mostly, but a few are working. This is excellent progress. It’s developing at a faster pace than I expected. Combined with future hardware improvements, we just might be able to play AAA PS4 games at comfortable frame rates by the time the next gen starts.
With that said, whether or not playing AAA PS4 games is worth your time is another discussion lol
Note that Spine is different than the usual emulators because it’s mostly an API translator, similar to Valve’s Proton software compatibility layer on SteamOS.
That is also the reason why it is so performant & only available for Linux:
Sony’s own PlayStationOS is a heavily modified FreeBSD clone which also makes use of the POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface) API, therefore translating the calls to Linux equivalents is alot more straightforward than similar Windows’ win32 API functions.
It’s for Linux, so it’s not even worth acknowledging. When they make it for a real OS, aka Windows, then it will be worth acknowledging. Linux… shaking my damn head. Freaking nerds and their desire to be different/special…cut the crap. Windows or bust, end of story, stop being such nerds about it.
Instead of playing JRPGs all day, maybe actually educating yourself is the better route to take for the remainder of your life?
Windows or bust you say? I chose to bust. I be busting all day. Just ask your mom.
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Your username is “True FF Fan” and you tried to gate-keep an emulator to Windows while paradoxically whining about nerds. Stop projecting and touch grass.
He does have ff. In p*rn we know what ff means. He must have a pretty mouth and a deep throat.
Here we go boooooooys. Bloodborne 4k 120fps by 2025 for sure