spine VS orbital

Closed source: spine, orbital, rpcs4

Not always, sometimes linux has better performance (like with elden ring), sometimes it has worse performance, and sometimes games aren't playable on linux like most games with invasive kernel level DRM, oh yeah and sometimes games or game related things are ONLY available on Linux like the spine PS4 emulator which has already achieved ingame status with a lot of 2D/indie games and is making a lot of progress.

🔗 https://github.com/devofspine/spine/releases/tag/20220517

Current frontrunner for PS4 virtualization AFAIK is orbital https://github.com/AlexAltea/orbital

One of the 3 original creators of RPCS3 is working on a PS4 emulator called Orbital. You can take a look at his github repo here

It looks like orbital is licensed under MIT? Is the source code only partially released or is it actually open source?

Because you don't just have to figure out the software (software that is already not just a stepping through the debugger away from comprehension), but the hardware too. Even in the ps4 case, there's a world to reinvent (here the lines between emulation and virtualization may effectively blur though, since only "secondary devices" wouldn't be run directly)

Like this.

There are only two PlayStation 4 emulators in development at the moment, Orbital which I think their most recent breakthrough was just getting the setup screen to boot, no games.

People are making good progress on ps4 emulation, just look at this. Still VERY much work to be done, but i expect an usable version in 1-2 years.

There is already a PS4 emulator: https://github.com/AlexAltea/orbital