PS64 1.0.0

First release of PS64: the Commodore 64 on your PS5.

Two ways to play

• With a Commodore 64 Ultimate: see and hear your C64 Ultimate on the PS5, and control it with the controller.
• Without one: PS64 has a built-in C64 emulator (VICE). Joystick and keyboard work in games, disks load at full speed, and multi-disk games can swap disks.

Finding games

• Browse and search the C64 Ultimate's storage.
• Copy your own games into PS64's games folder (/data/ps64/games) for the emulator.
• Search the online Assembly64 database and start a game straight away (needs an Assembly64 client ID).
• Mark favourites, and get back to the last 25 things you started.

Controls

• D-pad or left stick: joystick (emulator) or cursor keys. Cross: fire or RETURN.
• Square, Triangle, Circle: SPACE, RETURN, RUN/STOP. L1, R1, L2, R2: F1, F3, F5, F7.
• Touchpad: on-screen C64 keyboard. Options: menu. L3: file browser. R3: C64 Ultimate menu.
• Options > About PS64 lists everything.

Good to know

• The C64 Ultimate needs Web Remote Control turned on (and FTP for browsing).
• On C64 Ultimate firmware 1.1.0, keys are typed into the C64's keyboard buffer: they work in BASIC and menus, but not inside games, and there's no joystick. The emulator has neither limit.
• SID and MOD music plays on a C64 Ultimate only.
• Tested on PS5 firmware 13.42 with ShadowMountPlus.

Thanks to the VICE team and to the Assembly64 team at hackerswithstyle.se.