# shadps4-emu/shadPS4

> A PlayStation 4 emulator written in C++ for Windows, Linux, macOS and FreeBSD that lets you run PS4 games on a PC. It is early in development and already runs Bloodborne, Dark Souls Remastered and other games.

- Magnitude: 2.2 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 33,855 total · +14 stars measured 2026-10-22, 00:42–11:30 UTC, ≈ 29 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Games & graphics · Language: C++ · License: GPL-2.0 · Created: 2022-10-24 · Last push: 2026-10-22
- GitHub: https://github.com/shadps4-emu/shadPS4 · Homepage: https://shadps4.net/ · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/shadps4-emu/shadPS4

## Useful for

- Run Bloodborne or Dark Souls Remastered on a PC without a PS4 console
- Build the emulator from source on Linux or macOS
- Configure keyboard or gamepad controls and capture a screenshot with F12

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-22 (UTC), 00:42–11:30: 33841 → 33855 stars (+14). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +29 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Interest is fading: the two-day pace is 60% of the previous week and a half.
- About 7 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 2,831
- Issues and pull requests: 5,289
- Watchers: 206
- Average over the last week: 40 per day
- Usual pace: 41 per day
- Latest release: Pre-release-shadPS4-2026-10-22-8a48cd014406986c7bbf49e83e96c4ec8fa8938a (2026-10-22)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-01 … 2026-10-30: 15, 14, 17, 27, 29, 69, 57, 49, 58, 67, 52, 51, 62, 49, 37, 39, 52, 51, 40, 40, 31, 7, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None

## Magnitude by day, last 14 days

10-09 3.4, 10-10 3.8, 10-11 3.7, 10-12 3.3, 10-13 3.1, 10-14 2.9, 10-15 2.7, 10-16 2.4, 10-17 2.5, 10-18 2.6, 10-19 2.7, 10-20 2.4, 10-21 2.3, 10-22 2.2

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-22 11:38 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.