Swordpdf/PS5SX2
A port of PCSX2 for PS5
About the project
A native port of the PCSX2 PS2 emulator to jailbroken PS5 consoles, running recompilers and a Vulkan renderer directly on the hardware with upscaling up to 6x and phone-based settings.
Useful for
- Play PS2 games upscaled to 4K on a jailbroken PS5
- Change resolution, filters and patches from a phone while playing
- Run SOCOM II online matches through the emulated network adapter
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.
Why it’s trending
- 51 stars so far today, about 67 expected by the end of the day.
- The spike has held for 2 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
- The repository is 4 days old and already has 105 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #152.
- About 15 forks a day — people are taking the code.
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 105
- Today
- 51 · ≈ 67 by evening
- Forks
- 12
- Issues and pull requests
- 1
- Watchers
- 3
- Language
- C++
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Latest release
- vk-285-112 · September 28, 2026
- Created
- September 25, 2026
- Last push
- September 29, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Spotted in
- September 29, 2026Top new repositories this week: #152
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