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 .

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

How to Run samples and games ( one day )

 See usage message of `rpcsx-os` (`-h` argument), or join the [Discord](https://discord.gg/t6dzA4wUdG) 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>...]`

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.