Orbital PS4 emulator for Windows – PC Desktop
Description
Orbital is a virtualization-based Play Station 4 Emulator for Windows and Linux that is under heavy development (see also MacOS, iOS and Android version).
It can only boot the firmware. Do not expect to play commercial games with it yet. It is also open-source and is a low-level emulator.
Decryption with SAMU is “emulated” by hashing encrypted input blobs and returning decrypted blobs previously obtained from the actual console.
No keys were dumped, no keys will be dumped. More importantly: we don’t need them, so this project does not target SAMU.
Features
This project is not ready for end users. No binaries are provided, so you must build each of the three components (BIOS, GRUB, QEMU) yourself.
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.
You might find hints on how to do this in the few scattered .sh files in this repo.
Kernel ELFs generated from memory dumps will not work since writable segments might have been modified into a state where booting is not possible.
Please generate proper binaries offline by decrypting ELF segments with SAMU on your actual console, not by dumping memory.
The experimental version is aviable on the link below.
System requirements
In order to run the application correctly, it is necessary to meet the minimum requirements given in the table below.
| OS version | Windows 7 (or higher) |
| CPU | x86-64 CPU with AVX/BMI1 |
| RAM | 8 GB (12 GB recommended) |
| Disk space | 70 MB |
It is still possible to install the app on devices not mentioned above, but we cannot guarantee its proper functioning.
We recommend backing up the device on which the app will be installed before performing any installation of third-party apps not from the official app Store.
Update
•Adding Vulkan support to QEMU
•Added support for decrypted kernel images
•Emulating Aeolia’s UART interface
•Emulating Aeolia’s SFlash interface (partial)
•Implemented Liverpool GC/Starsha
•Implemented IH ringbuffer
•Implemented Command Processor
•Processing SAMU commands (30% completed)
•Vulkan backend for GFX engine
Install
- Download the .zip archive
- Extract the .zip archive on a folder
- Select the folder containing the extracted file
- Open the file .exe as administrator
- Press install button
- Launch the software
