Orbital is the first and the only PS4 Emulator that is under development currently. The emulator is far from running a game right now but in a recent video, Alexandro Sanchez, one of the developers behind the project, uploaded a video to youtube that shows the emulator supporting a Dual Shock 4 controller. The emulator has been in development for a short while so not much has been achieved in the way of progress but this is still a huge step for the emulator. PS4 emulator orbital demo is also out and can be downloaded.
PS4 Emulator Orbital Now Supports Dual Shock 4 Controller
The video shows the emulator running in safe mode with a PS4 controller hooked up to it. The controller can be seen working well on the emulator, however, it does need a bit of setting up. The video itself may not appear all that impressive to you if you are not that much into the coding side of things, however, to anyone who is interested in emulation, Orbital seems to be a worthwhile project.
Emulators are very difficult to develop especially for modern consoles such as the PS4. It is 2019 and we still don’t have a 100 percent functional emulator for the Ps3 yet so Orbital could potentially take years to even successfully boot a game.
The description of the video reads as follows,
Current status: After last update, we have implemented the Aeolia XHCI device (USB 3.0) to get past the “Connect DualShock” message by connecting an actual gamepad to the PS4 VM via host passthrough. There were many issues in our way there and we have fixed those with the invaluable help of @jarves. As a future goal, we also want to implement a virtual USB device for the DualShock 4 (as opposed to using an actual physical device).
Download Orbital Demo
If you are an advanced user with programming knowledge then you can go ahead and download the demo from here. However, do note that that there aren’t any binaries which means that you will have to build each of the three components (BIOS, GRUB, QEMU) yourself. Furthermore, configuring the emulator to do something will be hard, as you will need to dump and decrypt the entire PS4 filesystem and sflash, including the kernel.
Let me know in the comment what you think regarding Orbital.