Playstation 5 Emulation on Linux

[u/Dugarr]

Hey everyone,

since my newsfeed has recently been exploding with PS5 emulation stuff, I’ve reached the point where I realized that it’s not really emulation, but more of a translation layer similar to Proton. So, I had an idea and I’d love to hear your opinion on whether it would be doable. Specifically, creating a translation layer that you could plug into the Heroic Game Launcher, just like Proton, that would allow us to play PS5 games the same way we play Windows games?

[u/Zachattackrandom]

AnyPS5 is already doing a conversion layer so you could just plug that into heroic

[u/casino_alcohol → u/Zachattackrandom]

That name is a bit confusing, not until I saw another commenter link to the github, I thought you were referring to any ps5 console emulating their own hardware 😅

[u/Dugarr → u/Zachattackrandom]

Cool, i didn't know about that.

[u/Coolcricri3]

https://github.com/boykopovar/AnyPS5

[u/Educational_Star_518 → u/Coolcricri3]

this^ and considering they're working on a linux build like alot of emus do ( granted this is recomp i believe from what i read a few hours ago when i seen it )your not gonna need proton nor whatever launcher most likely

[u/Minute-Flan-1923]

i thought kytyPS5 already had a linux version? Never tried it myself but heard that it works on linux

[u/C0rn3j → u/Minute-Flan-1923]

Yup.

[u/Excellent-Love-6943]

All that game launchers do is execute commands that feed game binaries (eg skyrim.exe) to the compatibility binary (proton) with a set prefix directory.

If the translation layer exists, you could easily make a launcher (or modify an existing one) to invoke it, if you knew the commands to run in order to start the game. Hell, you could just write a couple of scripts to launch individual games.

[u/Dugarr → u/Excellent-Love-6943]

I was thinking more along the lines of, you have a menu where you select your translation layer and you're done. Just like I can now choose a different Proton version.

[u/Excellent-Love-6943 → u/Dugarr]

I mean, that's still just a matter of studying how the translation layer invokation works and tweaking it for a different version, if you even want to do that.

Most people just run xyz translator-latest.

[u/Dugarr → u/Excellent-Love-6943]

You are right. I looked at the AnyPS5 code and it seems like a solid foundation. Maybe i can do something with that.

[u/Dugarr → u/[deleted]]

I'm a programmer btw, translation layers just aren't my field of extertise.

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