PS4 emulator shadPS4 hits 31.2K stars, runs Bloodborne on PC after Sony's 9-year refusal
JafarNajafov · x · 2026-08-14
After Sony refused to release Bloodborne on PC for nine years, a small team on GitHub developed shadPS4, a PS4 emulator written in C++ from scratch. It has gained 31.2K stars and runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, and FreeBSD.
Key features:
- Custom shader compiler built on yuzu's Hades blueprint, optimized for modern AMD GPUs
- Native x64 execution of PS4 binaries with help from Panda3DS team's research
- Deep reverse engineering of PS4 OS internals contributed by fpPS4 team
- Cross-platform from day one, same codebase runs on all major OSes
- Successfully runs Bloodborne, Dark Souls Remastered, Red Dead Redemption, and more
- Active development, stable v0.15.0 released March 2026
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