shadPS4

An early PS4 emulator for Windows and Linux written in C++ by shadow , skmp , wheremyfoodat

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Status

Early progress , a small amount of ps4 sdk demos and homebrew games working

Elf Loader

Logging system

Everything else

Why?

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

Build

Windows

Check building instructions in windows build

Linux

Check building instructions in linux build

Build status

Platform	Build status
Windows build

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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 contribution, here is a list of some items that may be useful:

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

Documentation

Wiki has some documentation for PS4 PKG format

PKG PS4 File Format

Sister Projects

• Panda3DS: An multiplatform 3DS emulator from our co-author wheremyfoodat
• hydra: An multisystem , multiplatform emulator (chip-8,GB,NES,N64) from Paris