PS5 Emulation? Really?

Noctosphere · 2026-07-17T00:55:36+0100

I just saw that on my youtube feed. I was just wondering if this was just some overhyped stuff and if there was names for these projects.

XRTerra · 2026-07-17T01:04:28+0100

The most promising one, sharpemu, is inching closer and closer to getting in game in Demons Souls *and* already boots some games such as Dreaming Sarah.

Personally I think it'll only be a month or two before we start seeing polygons rendered in big boy games, but I doubt GTA VI will be playable at launch (though I hope it is). Fact of the matter is that it is progressing incredibly quickly. Infact from my PoV I believe this is the fastest an emulator for a modern console has actually gotten in game, granted it was 2D and PS4 emulators got there pretty quickly... but yk.

Just for reference, ShadPS4 has been in development for 3 years and now mid range PCs from 10 years ago can play PS4 games better than the PS4 could (AS FAR AS I'VE HEARD). Give it some time and I'm sure most PCs with at least PS5 level performance will be able to play most PS5 games at full speed.

https://github.com/sharpemu/sharpemu

Noctosphere · 2026-07-17T01:26:44+0100

XRTerra said:
The most promising one, sharpemu, is inching closer and closer to getting in game in Demons Souls *and* already boots some games such as Dreaming Sarah.

Personally I think it'll only be a month or two before we start seeing polygons rendered in big boy games, but I doubt GTA VI will be playable at launch (though I hope it is). Fact of the matter is that it is progressing incredibly quickly. Infact from my PoV I believe this is the fastest an emulator for a modern console has actually gotten in game, granted it was 2D and PS4 emulators got there pretty quickly... but yk.

Just for reference, ShadPS4 has been in development for 3 years and now mid range PCs from 10 years ago can play PS4 games better than the PS4 could (AS FAR AS I'VE HEARD). Give it some time and I'm sure most PCs with at least PS5 level performance will be able to play most PS5 games at full speed.

https://github.com/sharpemu/sharpemu

Thank you for explanation

The fact that Playstation starts exhibing more and more anti-consumer behaviour surely plays a role in emulators developpement (I would guess). As for the GTA6 part, I still remember that Switch emulation era. When new big games were release (TOTK, Legends Arceus, etc.), emulators were already doing really good and could render most games better than the switch could. But for the new releases, the emulator would crash out, have enormous glitches, constant bugs, etc. Emulators would have a very hard time to render them but would be fine to render older games. I can already guess that it's gonna be the same with PS5 (IF it gets better at emulating in the mean time)

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One more thing. I remember when PS4 got released that a lot of people were saying that it would get emnulated easily. Mostly because the PS4 architecture was basicly the same as a PC. From what I could gather online, PS5 seems to be the same.
I mean, it's not about "having an emulator faster" but rather that our hardware won't need to be five to ten times more powerful than the original hardware in order to run it (like other emulators, like Gamecube/Wii/Wii U that used the PowerPC architecture, or NDS/3DS/Switch that use ARM architecture)

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