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[MDSLKTR]

"I just tried the new PS5 emulator SharpEmu and tried to run Demon's Souls Remake, and right now it only shows the game's splash screen and then you get a black screen, I swear to God it's something historic"



"Things are happening PS5 emulator emu on PC!
It now runs the game Dreaming Sarah
And among the exclusives, it runs the startup screen of Demon's Souls Remake
It's currently being developed and improved to run games like ShadPS4"



"more than emulating, it's a compatibility layer. just like WINE on Linux, PS5 games are already x86_64, if they get serious. they have something tangible and solid. in 2 days. and everything points to them being hard at work ;D !!!THE COMMUNITY IS WONDERFUL!!

 

[kasrkinsquad]

Sony can go out of business now. Fuck it.

 

[Bojji]

I think for this SSD I/O will be the biggest obstacle, but similar to PS3 (and SPUs) - only some games really use it.

 

[666]

PS5 Pro Max Ultra

 

[Kuranghi]

Funny timing, karmic response on Sorny for being arse bandits

 

[Spyxos]

Can we even emulate a PS5 smoothly with today's hardware? Or is that something for the future?

 

[BloodFree]

All games come to PC eventually, if not officially, then they get emulated like the all-revered Bloodborne.

 

[Fahdis]

Honestly, PC emulation is the future for "Pubs" as well cause they'll be finished with their shit closed platforms.

 

[Bojji]

Can we even emulate a PS5 smoothly with today's hardware? Or is that something for the future?

Emulators always require more power than the base hardware. That said, 9800x3d is ~2.5x better than PS5 CPU, 5090 is ~4-5x better than PS5 GPU.

 

[MrJangles]

Great stuff. Fuck you Sony.

 

[BennyBlanco]

 

[Hudo]

Excellent news. Now about that Switch 2 emulation...

 

[winjer]

The timing for this news is amazing.

 

[adamsapple]

Can't wait to emulate PS5 games on my Helix in a year or two.

 

[amigastar]

I would rather have a Switch 2 emulator right now in this moment

 

[Trilobit]

I thought I was on

all of a sudden.

 

[PeteBull]

Give it few more years and by 2030-2035 we will be able to embrace our inner Black Flag while playing ps5 in a way sony fears even more than physical discs

 

[FalconPunch]

Emulating the ps5 to play the 4-5 exclusives released by sony? What's the point? Those exclusives for the most part suck.... Ask me how I know.

 

[Tobimacoss]

This is going to be yuuuuuuige hit to Sony, since cross gen expected to last forever.

 

[Audiophile]

Hopefully this sees great progress and even PS6 gets compromised super quick. I expect and hope for a significant mobilisation of this community to undermine Sony given the plan to move to digital only.

 

[mathheeww]

It's not rendering the game splash screen, it's just displaying the sce_sys/pic1.png. Don't expect to run 3D games in the next 2-3 years at the very least.

 

[CrustyBritches]

Would be great long-term solution to game backups and preservation.

 

[Tobimacoss]

Can't wait to emulate PS5 games on my Helix in a year or two.

Up to PS4 is pretty much guaranteed.

I would rather have a Switch 2 emulator right now in this moment

There would need to be an exploit first, I think Nintendo and Nvidia made sure there's no exploits this time around.

 

[CamHostage]

Can we even emulate a PS5 smoothly with today's hardware? Or is that something for the future?

Not really, but this doesn't seem to be emulating the whole hardware unit; it's a compatibility layer like WINE/Proton to replace the needed OS communication while letting the mostly compatible/comparable hardware do the big work.

 

[SScorpio]

Emulators always require more power than the base hardware. That said, 9800x3d is ~2.5x better than PS5 CPU, 5090 is ~4-5x better than PS5 GPU.

Somewhat true, but why emulate when you can translate? The CPU is just Zen 2, a modern PC can natively run the code.

The issue is the GPU as it doesn't use Vulkan, OpenGL, etc. So a translation has to occur there. Then there's also handling the other pieces of hardware that are custom.

With AI tools advancing like they are, we'll continue seeing this stuff come out faster and faster. We're already getting tools to do decomps of 360 and PS3 games.

 

[Forsete]

It rendered a png file. Zomg \o/

 

[The_hunter]

Not really, but this doesn't seem to be emulating the whole hardware unit; it's a compatibility layer like WINE/Proton to replace the needed OS communication while letting the mostly compatible/comparable hardware do the big work.

Wine is a bundle of Windows/directX libraries, and reverse engineered libraries they can't ship.

Can't even imagine the work to do this with a closed undocumented platform like a playstation 5.

 

[amigastar]

There would need to be an exploit first, I think Nintendo and Nvidia made sure there's no exploits this time around.

 

[viveks86]

This is going to be yuuuuuuige hit to Sony, since cross gen expected to last forever.

Time to believe in generations again

 

[Clear]

Hopefully this sees great progress and even PS6 gets compromised super quick. I expect and hope for a significant mobilisation of this community to undermine Sony given the plan to move to digital only.

This actually encourages digital only you muppet!

 

[PauloRoberto]

This actually encourages digital only you muppet!

Cmon, you need to see how is 3ds scenario today... on a 3ds :-D

 

[LordCBH]

Peak

 

[RayBoy]

 

[MDSLKTR]

It rendered a png file. Zomg \o/

Quite a few (basic) things are running already

Emulating the ps5 to play the 4-5 exclusives released by sony? What's the point? Those exclusives for the most part suck.... Ask me how I know

If it goes fast enough, Rockstar won't pussyfoot around about the GTA 6 pc release

 

[SpokkX]

Great news. With the big coding models this will surely happen faster than many think

Just look att all the recompilations happening all over. They are 100% because of ai

 

[LordOcidax]

Can we even emulate a PS5 smoothly with today's hardware? Or is that something for the future?

2X5090 is Sli mode paired with a 32 cores CPU probably and 128Gb of Ram.

 

[Forsete]

Quite a few (basic) things are running already



If it goes fast enough, Rockstar won't pussyfoot around about the GTA 6 pc release

I don't read noodles, sorry.

 

[CLW]

 

[kasrkinsquad]

Can we even emulate a PS5 smoothly with today's hardware? Or is that something for the future?

My going hypothesis is that most modern processors are so fast that the performance hit from emulation is pretty minimal. Bloodborne ran at 29-36FPS at 1080p on my Legion Go 2. Pretty good for 2E+5P+16CUs. Steam OS is faster then Windows in most games at this point.

Native ports are better but this is what we are gonna get until either publishers learn that they really should just sell all their games at all times or we get recomps going for PS4 level systems.

 

[Setsuna Mudou]

this is how games are actually preserved, not with stupid physical media

 

[PlayStaytion]

Emulating PC games is better.

 

[kevboard]

Can we even emulate a PS5 smoothly with today's hardware? Or is that something for the future?

it's not emulation. it's an API conversion layer. Sony's API instructions are being translated into Vulkan instructions.

it's the exact same thing that the Steam Deck does to run Windows games.

what they probably will have to do however is emulate the PS5's OS somehow, so that the games expecting some OS feature to react to certain things they do to properly function.

like if a game expects the PS5's on-screen keyboard to pop up, or if it expects the PS5's save game manager to react to it... even stuff like friends lists etc.
if the game doesn't get a proper response that it can work with it will probably either just get stuck waiting, or crash.


that's why Microsoft emulates an entire Xbox 360 OS environment when they run 360 games on Xbox One/Series consoles. all the OS features need to be simulated to make sure the games don't crash or hang

 

[StereoVsn]

Can't wait to emulate PS5 games on my Helix in a year or two.

I kind of hate the Nu XBOX just as much as Sony… but this would be truly hilarious.

 

[StereoVsn]

Wine is a bundle of Windows/directX libraries, and reverse engineered libraries they can't ship.

Can't even imagine the work to do this with a closed undocumented platform like a playstation 5.

We may not imagine it but Claude sure can!

 

[Mr Hyde]

Anybody got a Bloodborne ISO laying around somewhere? Asking for a friend.

 

[CamHostage]

Great news. With the big coding models this will surely happen faster than many think

Just look att all the recompilations happening all over. They are 100% because of ai

No, I don't think so. Certainly this can help some of the tedious work (the volume of projects announced on certain well-cracked platforms is kind of related to vibe coding...as is the percentage of abandonware and quality issue complaints out there ,) but most of the breakthroughs I know of have been people doing the work or coming up with clever workarounds. Emulation designers got good at what they're doing, leakers have dug out more important info in documentation, and APIs have made it easier to devise compatible solutions.

 

[simpatico]

This was always bound to start happening faster when consoles became gaming laptops.

 

[Magic Carpet]

I use a Sega CD Bios with Retroarch just so I can see the Sega CD boot up animation when loading a game.

edit-ya know, this kind of stuff is just going to speed up the eventual streaming only future.

 

[Cakeboxer]

Great news. Now i just need a Sony game i'm interested in.

 

[Barakov]

"I just tried the new PS5 emulator SharpEmu and tried to run Demon's Souls Remake, and right now it only shows the game's splash screen and then you get a black screen, I swear to God it's something historic"



"Things are happening PS5 emulator emu on PC!
It now runs the game Dreaming Sarah
And among the exclusives, it runs the startup screen of Demon's Souls Remake
It's currently being developed and improved to run games like ShadPS4"



"more than emulating, it's a compatibility layer. just like WINE on Linux, PS5 games are already x86_64, if they get serious. they have something tangible and solid. in 2 days. and everything points to them being hard at work ;D !!!THE COMMUNITY IS WONDERFUL!!

Sony did want a digital future. But it's not the one their envisioning.