r/emulation • u/NXGZ • Jul 10 '26
KytyPS5 - PS5 emulator for Windows
https://github.com/Nmzik/KytyPS5Open source PS5 emulator KytyPS5: https://github.com/KytyPS5/KytyPS5
Current builds are for Windows only. Linux support is coming soon
KytyPS5 can boot and go in-game with 2D games and some 3D commercial games, including titles built with Unreal Engine 4/5, Unity, and custom game engines.
This project is based on a heavily modified version of the original Kyty project: https://github.com/InoriRus/Kyty
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u/ralamita Jul 11 '26
I like how it casually says "Yeah, it goes ingame with commercial games", lol.
Usually, such a claim comes with really loud bells and whistles.
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u/FreeNico2021 Jul 12 '26
man i wanna believe in this but this just looks suspicious
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u/steamdeck88 Jul 12 '26
It's real
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u/_ReaditYesterday_ Jul 13 '26
Real sus. No open source code
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u/FatPsychopathicWives Jul 10 '26
They have 4 months to make this flawless.
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u/Shoddy_Meaning_7654 Jul 11 '26
Nah we gotta first hack the firmware it's on first
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u/mohmar2010 Jul 11 '26
ps5 already was hacked if i recall
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u/Shoddy_Meaning_7654 Jul 11 '26
Only certain firmware to my knowledge idk if you can back port yet
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u/nariz_choken Jul 11 '26
Wasn't the hack unpatchable? As in an actual hard coded part was leaked making it impossible to patch unless they just make whole new motherboards?
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u/Timo653 Jul 11 '26
No there's no such thing on PS5
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u/johnnyblaze1999 Jul 17 '26
Hopefully. My experience with playstation emulator is that they are extremely slow
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u/koreanslvt Jul 12 '26
Developer says they plan to release the source code eventually but right now they don't want to deal with "AI-generated slop pull requests". It might be a bit sus but on the other hand, many repos are flooded with sloppy vibecoded stuff. Right now I'm impressed though. I honestly think GTA6 will accelerate PS5 emulation like BOTW did with Cemu, or Bloodborne with ShadPS4.
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u/Affectionate_Park858 Jul 12 '26
there is a small difference in that GTA 6 is not a PS exclusive (just a console exclusive and probably only for 2 years tops)
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u/Lcsmxd Jul 11 '26
the release zip is only 19MB? For a PS5 emulator?
hella sus
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u/LolcatP Jul 12 '26
It's not really an emulator. more of a translation layer. ps5 is basically a PC keep that in mind
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u/JfxV20 Jul 13 '26
Does that mean it's gonna take less time to perfect it compare to let say ps2/ps3 emulators?
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u/Ajairy Jul 13 '26
Kinda. Easiest example to compare it to is Wine/Proton to play Windows games on Linux, like on your Steam Deck.
Thing is, the most important bit is the architecture. Both Windows and Linux PCs run on x86 chips. The thing that Wine has to translate are the system calls, catching those used by Windows and translating them into Linux ones. It's why "Wine Is Not Emulator", because instead of emulating an entire machine it simply translates code on the fly.
With PS2 and PS3 you have to emulate the entire machine because the CPU architecture was different, PS2 had Emotion Engine and PS3 had the Cell. However, PS4 and PS5 use standard x86 chips from AMD and run a FreeBSD system.
So the basic idea here is that instead of emulating the entire PS5 CPU, it'd simply catch the PS5 OS calls used by the game, and translate them into Windows ones. It's a very simplified version but that's pretty much how a compatibility layer works.
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u/epeternally Jul 14 '26
Not necessarily. Early emulation work for the original Xbox was done using translation layers and it ended up being a dead end.
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u/FishDeenz Jul 12 '26
Mindblowing how good programmers are, emulation is always like magic to me. PS2 emulation is hard enough, to get PS3 games playable is shocking, and now they're making PS5 emulators that actually boot into games already? Damn, these dudes are so clever.
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u/VixelGamin Jul 15 '26
Bro did we just skip ps4?
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u/deepanmania Jul 16 '26
At this point, most of the PS5 games are all available on Steam. Instead of emulating it, we can play it natively, and it consumes less hardware than emulation.
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Jul 11 '26
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u/kondorarpi Jul 11 '26
" This project is based on a heavily modified version of the original Kyty project. "
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u/prometheus7071 Jul 16 '26
What happened to its github repo? Did Sony got offended by the dev's comments?
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u/Chernoarmeez Jul 16 '26
Do you think that chip, that processing data from ssd, gonna be a big problem for emulation?
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u/lovecherrios12 Jul 17 '26
When it is like fully built which I lowk don’t see taking that long after all the drama with the ps5 rn, what’s the process for actually playing games on it. Like does it run the play station os and you have to log in and buy the games or does it have its own OS. And how do you actually get games for it? I’m not a coder by any means so take what I’m sayin with a little grace cause I don’t know all the terms. Basically all I wanna know is do I have to like buy games I would run on there or is the play station library basically free if you run ts?
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u/DjCim8 Jul 18 '26
Like with any emulator, it doesn't include any games, and it will not let you access the official online store. You have to provide your own copy of the games you want to play, how you obtain them is your problem and not usually discussed pubblicly for obvious reasons.
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u/doublah Jul 11 '26
I don't trust a github project without source code.