Aren’t we at the stage where getting the game to boot to the start menu is a big deal? I would imagine getting games running is a bit further off.
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LinyosT@sopuli.xyz 2 months agoThere are already PS4 emulators. Though they’re extremely early and work a lot closer to how Wine/Proton do rather than traditional emulation IIRC.
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millie@beehaw.org 2 months ago
If they’re bring ripped and preserved, it doesn’t really matter if they work yet, in an archival sense.
senseamidmadness@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Yep. The PS4 and Xbone are both very close to off-the-shelf AMD APU’s as far as I remember; you could buy very similar processors for desktop use. Emulation would require a ton more power than the original chips, and the original chips are so close to desktop processors that it’s more efficient and feasible to reverse-engineer the proprietary API’s those console chips use.