PS5SX2 (PPSA99203)

[babyhuey]

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Title

PS5SX2 (PPSA99203)

Content version tested

02.030.000 (catalog build vk-285-163)

AnyPS5 commit

main 90c6839 on Linux and main 559979d + #4530 (merged since) on Windows, relinked with --trap-sdk-syscall-stubs (#3804). Later runs also used the open PRs listed under Current blocker.

System tested

• Linux: Ubuntu 24.04, GCC 13.3, headless (SDL offscreen driver, no window)
• Windows: Windows 11 Pro 25H2 (26200.9457), RTX 3080 (NVIDIA 591.86), WinLibs GCC 15.2.0 r7, Release

Furthest point

Stops before the first frame

What is shown

Nothing on main: every import resolves and it starts, then throws in sysctlbyname during its start-up console survey, about 3 s in on Windows. This build prints nothing to stdout on Windows.

With #4776 and #4667 stacked it runs on. On Linux it reaches sceVideoOutOpen, as far as a headless run goes. On Windows it keeps running past 60 s, creates /data/PCSX2, rewrites /data/PCSX2/ps5sx2-alive.txt and writes 15 shader-cache files, but no frame was seen.

Current blocker

Update 2026-10-14: none in AnyPS5. #4667 (hw.model) and #4776 (machdep.tsc_freq) are both merged. On main it runs with --trap-sdk-syscall-stubs (#3804) and draws its frontend at about 60 fps on Windows; others report the same on Linux with a display. It then needs the user's own PS2 BIOS in /data/PCSX2/bios and games in /data/PCSX2/games.

How it was run

The catalog eboot.bin unwrapped and relinked with --trap-sdk-syscall-stubs (--windows on Windows), run from a folder with app0 and download0, 30 to 60 s per run. Branches with the stacks above are on babyhuey/AnyPS5: test/verify-tscstack (main + #4530 + #4776) and test/verify-sx8 (+ #4667).

[babyhuey]

Update 2026-10-13, Windows 11 (RTX 3080, WinLibs GCC 15.2), --trap-sdk-syscall-stubs: with #4776 and #4667 on main c13dc7e (fork test/verify-sx9, 97a3d6d), PS5SX2 vk-285-163 renders its frontend.

• The window title (AnyPS5's frame counter) goes from PS5SX2 | FPS: 0.00 (6) at 2 s to FPS: 60.56 (127) at 4 s and FPS: 59.94 (1698) at 30 s.
• The frontend shows No PS2 BIOS found: games can't start. Copy your BIOS file (4 MB, e.g. SCPH-70012.bin) to /data/PCSX2/bios, No games in /data/PCSX2/games, and its RetroAchievements sign-in and QR-code prompts.
• A thread snapshot at 30 s has every thread presenting, playing audio, listening for its remote, or waiting idle; nothing is stuck in an AnyPS5 call.

So once #4776 and #4667 are in, what's left to start a game is the user's own PS2 BIOS and games under /data/PCSX2. This build prints nothing to stdout on Windows, which is why earlier runs looked blank. (/data exists in this run because the title creates /data/PCSX2 itself.)

Open pull requests it needs, in order: #4776, #4667.

[babyhuey]

Update 2026-10-13: #4667 (hw.model) merged, so #4776 (machdep.tsc_freq) is the only open pull request PS5SX2 needs. On plain main 7e181fc it stops at sysctlbyname_nid_postfix: unsupported name machdep.tsc_freq. With #4776 rebased onto that main (head d39cb2c), Windows 11 draws its frontend at 59.94 fps with --trap-sdk-syscall-stubs, the same screen as before: it asks for a PS2 BIOS in /data/PCSX2/bios and finds no games in /data/PCSX2/games.