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PSXS5

PSXS5 2.0.0: a second emulator drawn on the GPU, up to 16x, plus automatic cheats and a better achievements screen.

Beetle PSX HW, on the GPU

  • A second emulator: Beetle PSX HW (Mednafen), the accurate one, rendering on the PS5's GPU through Vulkan.
  • Internal resolution up to 16x (native, 2x, 4x, 8x, 16x), at full speed: Parasite Eve holds 60 fps at 16x.
  • PGXP: no more wobbling polygons or warping textures (Settings → Graphics → Precise geometry, on by default).
  • Emulator: Automatic (Settings → System) picks Beetle when the BIOS for the game's region is there, and PCSX-ReARMed otherwise. You can also choose either one, per game.
  • One memory card per game, whichever emulator runs it. Your existing saves work in Beetle; the memory card manager shows them as before.
  • Save-state pictures, the quick-resume picture, scanlines, the TV frame and the menus all work over Beetle's picture.
  • The whole screen now reaches the TV through Vulkan; the old path stays as a fallback.

Beetle needs your own BIOS for the game's region: scph5500.bin (Japan), scph5501.bin (USA), scph5502.bin (Europe) in /data/PSXS5/bios/. The PC tool recognises your dumps and gives them the right names:

python tools/psxs5_sync.py bios <your BIOS files> --host <PS5 IP>

Cheats for every game, automatically

  • PSXS5 knows all 1,961 PlayStation cheat files of libretro-database. When a game starts, it finds that game's file and downloads it. No PC tool and no setup.
  • Smarter matching: "Disney-Pixar's" or "Disney-Pixar", "VII" or "7", "The Legend of..." or "Legend of..., The" all match; sequels never mix; full GameShark sets win over one-code files.
  • Cheats work with both emulators.

Achievements

  • Two tabs: Achievable (closest first) and Achieved.
  • Progress bars for counted achievements (18/80 dragons, 23%), and a tracker in game that pops up when one moves.
  • Settings → Achievements: switch the unlock pop-ups and the tracker off if you'd rather not see them while playing.
  • Fixed: discs weren't recognised (no achievements loaded) in 1.2.0.
  • Every image format is recognised with both emulators, PBP and CHD included.
  • When your version of a game isn't in any set (some PlayStation Store or patched images), PSXS5 now says so.

Picture

  • Crop black edges (Settings → Display): hides the black lines many games leave at the top and bottom, which an old TV hid. With Stretch, the picture fills the screen.
  • With Stretch, the border and TV frame no longer shrink the picture.

Your own covers

Suggested in #1.

  • By name: an image in /data/PSXS5/covers/ named like the game's title, disc file or serial (Crash Bandicoot.png, SCUS-94900.jpg) is used automatically.
  • By hand: on the shelf, △ (Details), then □. Choose any image from covers/ or the game's folder, with a preview.

Seeing your games

  • Unlocking /data: PSXS5 asks LegacyJB, etaHEN (port 9028, with its Legacy CMD server on) and PS5SX2 Helper. Settings → System → Allow PSXS5 in PS5SX2 Helper adds PSXS5 to that helper's whitelist. The README's new Unlocking /data section explains which one to use.
  • Games copied another way (FileZilla, a file manager, a USB drive): python tools/psxs5_sync.py index --host <PS5 IP> --fix-cues lists them for PSXS5 and repairs .cue files that point at renamed .bin files.
  • The empty shelf now shows where games and the BIOS go, and why it's empty when /data is locked.
  • Cheats are found even when /data is locked.

Install or update

  • From 1.1 or newer: Settings → About → Check for updates. This needs /data unlocked.
  • By hand:
    1. Extract PSXS5-v2.0.0.zip.
    2. Copy PPSA97510 to /data/homebrew/ on the PS5, with permissions 777. Or run: 
      python tools/psxs5_sync.py app --app-dir PPSA97510 --host <PS5 IP>
    3. Close PSXS5 completely (PS button → Close Game) and start it again.

Your games, saves, states and settings stay as they are.

Needs

  • A jailbroken PS5 with etaHEN and kstuff (developed on firmware 13.60), and LegacyJB loaded so PSXS5 can see your games folder.
  • ShadowMountPlus.
  • Your own games, and for Beetle PSX HW your own BIOS dump.

No BIOS files, games or keys are included, and none will be provided.

Known limitations

  • Beetle PSX HW needs the BIOS of the game's region; without it, PCSX-ReARMed runs the game (up to 2x).
  • The first time a new effect appears, Beetle prepares its shader: a short hitch, once.
  • Shaders (CRT filters beyond scanlines) aren't there yet.

Licences

PSXS5 is GPL-3.0-or-later. Beetle PSX HW (GPL-2.0-or-later), PCSX-ReARMed (GPL-2.0-or-later), Mesa RADV (MIT), rcheevos (MIT) and the rest: see PPSA97510/licenses/ and the source at this release's tag.

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