RPCSX

An experimental emulator for PS4 (PlayStation 4) for Linux written in C++

Warning

It's NOT possible to run any games yet, and there is no ETA for when this will change

Contributing

If you want to contribute as a developer, please contact us in the Discord.

Building

1. Install dependencies for Debian-like distributions

   sudo apt install build-essential cmake libunwind-dev libglfw3-dev libvulkan-dev vulkan-validationlayers-dev spirv-tools glslang-tools libspirv-cross-c-shared-dev libxbyak-dev

2. Building

   mkdir -p build && cd build && cmake .. && cmake --build .

3. How to create to create virtual hdd

   Setup size of virtual hdd

   truncate -s 512M ps4-hdd.exfat

   mkfs.exfat -n PS4-HDD ./ps4-hdd.exfat

   mkdir ps4-fs

   sudo mount -t exfat -o uid=`id -u`,gid=`id -g` ./ps4-hdd.exfat ./ps4-fs

4. Run

   See usage message of rpcsx-os (-h argument), or join the Discord for help.

   you can run emulator with Samples using this command:

   rm -f /dev/shm/rpcsx-* && ./rpcsx-os --mount "<path to fw>/system" "/system" --mount "<path to 'game' root>" /app0 /app0/some-test-sample.elf [<args for test elf>...]

5. Creating a log

   use flag

   --trace if you got sigfault

   you can redirect all log messages to the file by appending following to command:

   &>log.txt

License

RPCSX is licensed under GPLv2 license except directories containing their own LICENSE file, or files containing their own license. Thus, orbis-kernel is licensed under the MIT license.