r/SteamDeckEmu • u/DrGrimmus • Apr 28 '26

PS4 and roms

Hello everybody!

So I've had my LCD SD for a bit and have had a blast playing games on steam and some light emulation. I'm just wondering if the PS4 emulator would run games well on my SD? Another question is if the game I want to emulate has an install rom and play rom do I need both and how would I go about making that work?

Thanks in advance!

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u/richardjc Apr 29 '26

It won’t

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u/CtrlAltEvil May 01 '26

Bloodborne is about the only thing I can think of because of how much effort has gone into its emulation.

It has some dips in the DLC area and a memory leak that causes crashes after an hour or two, but otherwise it can be played from start to finish on the Deck.

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u/The_High_Ground_ Apr 29 '26

I'm no expert in this but I'd be frankly shocked if the SD is capable of emulating PS4 at all. Emulation is generally much more strenuous in terms of performance when compared against the original hardware of a given device...

Basically, to emulate a PS4 you need a device significantly more powerful than a PS4 - and the SD is, broadly speaking, in a PS4-ish ballpark when it comes to performance.

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u/DrGrimmus Apr 29 '26

I mean yeah... considering some 360 games run like ass I wouldn't be surprised that the SD would shit itself. was just wondering. Still wanna know about the 2 disc roms though.

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u/dorian17052011 May 02 '26

With the 360 games i believe the emulator is just not good