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Orbital, a PS4 emulator is now in the works
- Thread starter rtv190
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Cool, but they gotta find a way for me to dump my games first, easily. Not gonna bother playing my games in an emulator if it's difficulty to dump them.
It's kinda fascinating that there is already enough information about the PS4 OS for this kind of approach to work. I would have expected this only years after the hardware is no longer supported, when many unpatched hacks allow people to inspect both hardware and software.
Still, I really wouldn't expect this to run commercial games in this decade. Maybe in the late 2020s.
Still, I really wouldn't expect this to run commercial games in this decade. Maybe in the late 2020s.
These consoles need support. The projects need people actually working on them to get done. I think it mostly lies on the popularity of the exclusives and the community behind it. You can point out one emulator that's behind, but there's several I've listed that have made amazing progress and some even in a short period of time (cemu being the best example of that). I'm not saying it's going to be soon or anything, but If the project has good support and a lot of help, it could progress nicely in a few years. A lot of the times too they make the most popular games compatible first and bloodborne would be at the top of the last just like BoTW was running 4k60 fps will the full game complete before a lot of other titles got finished (and just like Demon Soul's is on the PS3 emulator). I do think the PS5 will be solid, but what I don't know is if Sony is going to have backward compatibility and what year would From Software release a remastered version of bloodborne considering demon souls isn't remastered yet either and that came out a long time ago. Either way! I'm excited by the idea of a new emulator that could do that for every game and not just ones publishers select and even if it did take as long as 5-10 years it will be cool to have. The additional features and modifications are also a nice touch.
I'm sure it will come along quicker than the Xbox emulation did.
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PS4 has been able to run pirated stuff for a while now. All the games up to 5.0 are uploaded on the net and can be run on hacked PS4s.
Considering that people are still cheating in GTA5, I think hacking has been around for awhile now. An emulator wouldn't change that, nor would an emulator mean anything for the actual console.
Even if we could play PS4 games perfectly tomorrow, actual emulator to console crossplay would still be a ways out.
Those are just texture mods; still not something you need an emulator to exist for in order to do.
Nah. Xbox One's still sell despite the having Play Anywhere for their games. The average console gamer doesn't want to buy a gaming PC. Hell, the average joe doesn't want a PC period. Maybe a laptop if needed for school or working at home. Others are fine with just phones/tablets.
Gaming will eventually get to where most gamers are available on a variety of platforms anyway as the real money is in software. Only Nintendo sales hardware at a profit day one. MS has no reason to care whether someone buys Halo 6 on Xbox ONe or PC or plays it on both with their play anywhere. They just want that $60. I'm honeslty surprised Sony hasn't launched their own PC storefront. The console crowd will still buy their hardware and the games there, and they could sell their exclusives to the PC only crowd without losing a cut to Valve etc.
Everything will probably be cloud based eventually as well, but internet capacity and availability is a long way from that.
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who said it'd be working by then? It could be like RPCS3 and have a shitload of titles working by the beginning of next year
RPCS3 has been in development for quite some time now, it just has been recently that we started hearing games actually running on it.
Man, if you expect to actually play games on this emulator by next year or even 2020, you'd be hugely disappointed.
Honestly, as this thing is based off QEMU, I really wouldn't expect something high performance from this anytime soon. It could provide an interesting basis for other projects, as the basic work in understanding the firmware and OS will likely be useful for other emulators. But to get really good performance, like say CEMU or RPCS3, you probably want something coded from scratch, even if it is "just" emulating the OS on a high level like CEMU does.
welp i guess we can finally get 60fps on some of the more demanding games, that the ps4 cant offer... In 12 years from now.
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This is the most interesting part to me. Does this mean it's like VirtualBox or VMWare?
5.0 is completely hacked or at least the "kernel" is from what I recall.
Going by the fact that there's a music rip floating around, it's been dumped.
QEMU goes a step beyond virtual machines by emulating the hardware. Check out their Wikipedia article, it's pretty cool.
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Fun fact, in Dolphin, you can connect to the Wii Shop Channel and buy and download games. Or at least, you could until Nintendo disabled purchases, but that goes for real console too.
Amazing, obviously not up to snuff yet, but good to know something is being worked on.
I assume development should end up being quicker than let's say RPCS3 since the PS4's architecture is closer to PCs, still, I don't feel the necessity to play with it ASAP since PS4/PS4P offers great IQ, that goes without saying that the PC that will be needed to run that correctly in a few years will probably need to be top notch.
I assume development should end up being quicker than let's say RPCS3 since the PS4's architecture is closer to PCs, still, I don't feel the necessity to play with it ASAP since PS4/PS4P offers great IQ, that goes without saying that the PC that will be needed to run that correctly in a few years will probably need to be top notch.
Few facts [for US and probably EU market]:
Emulators are legal [Sony lost big time when they sued against PS1 emulators]
Emulators can be marketed as being able to produce better image/framerate than consoles
Emulators can be SOLD as premium software products
Emulators cannot use proprietary code [they have to be custom written], but users can extract from console what they need [BIOS and GAME data]
Emulators cannot use base console game media for marketing [screenshots/comparisons]
Emulators are legal [Sony lost big time when they sued against PS1 emulators]
Emulators can be marketed as being able to produce better image/framerate than consoles
Emulators can be SOLD as premium software products
Emulators cannot use proprietary code [they have to be custom written], but users can extract from console what they need [BIOS and GAME data]
Emulators cannot use base console game media for marketing [screenshots/comparisons]
User warned: Don't attempt to derail a thread by equating emulation with piracy.
The ps4 introduced the next generation of consoles, it's only fair that orbital introduces the next generation of pirates......
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Pretty much, no GUIs/bootscreens yet, a lot of reverse engineering on the OS side still needs to be done.
They're not emulating the hardware itself, lol. They're simply translating specific code/instructions/whatever into a format that can run on your Windows computer.
Yeah, maybe you did, lol.
Maybe the basic concept isn't very far from what WINE does, translating code that is supposed to work for a specific OS only into something that works on a different OS. Although I suppose the custom hardware stuff in the PS4 also needs to be taken into account.
I was very interested in this part, so I went and checked the comments/replies from the developer himself