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Play Station 5 EXPERIMENTAL emulator for Windows

Version	0.01.0w
Developer	pcsx5
Category	Emulator
OS	Windows
Uploaded by	BlowFlies

Description

PS5 Emulator for Windows is not made for illegal activities, and we have a strict policy about piracy.

All resources are obtained via a reverse engineering of legally owned devices, games, and information present on the internet.

The main objective of this project is to enhance the gaming experience, research, and provide education about the core concepts of device emulation (see also Android, iOS and MacOS version).

It’s PlayStation 5 emulator which was just started.
A project done for fun, and for technical research.

Features

It’s not playable now, since the FPS is very low, because there are currently no optimizations.
The emulator will recompile all the shaders, untiling all the textures and upload all the buffers every frame, making it less efficient.
Besides, there are still some problems in the game pad emulation.

To allow devices to run the application smoothly, games will necessarily run with reduced graphics compared to the original console.

System requirements

OS version	Windows 8.1 (or higher)
CPU	Octa core 2.5+ Ghz
RAM	8 GB (12 GB recommended)
Disk space	256 MB

Update

• Graphics
  • Gnm reverse engineeringParsing PM4 command buffers and some other formats to recover the original Gnm calls.
    Still a lot of work.
  • Vulkan backendTranslate Gnm calls into vulkan calls. Far from complete.
  • Shader recompilerTranslate GCN bytecode into Spir-V bytecode. Far from complete.
• Hardware
  • AudioBasic implementation.
  • GamepadBasic implementation.
• System
  • Dynamic linkerTLS support is not complete yet, and possibly neither are some other initialization functions.
  • System resource management, ie. Thread, virtual memory, synchronize object, file, clock.For functions which do not require system resource (e.g: math functions),
    we’ll use the system libraries directly.
    For others, we will try to implement them, one by one.