fpPS4 VS orbital

PlayStation 4: fpPS4 is the best PS4 Emulator according to the emulation wiki (PS4 Emulation is very early in development so it's not recommended you use PS4 emulation): Download fpPS4

Yes, in fact the PS4 is beginning to see HLE with various emulators, most notably fpPS4 (free pascal PS4).

https://github.com/red-prig/fpPS4

There's a couple actually. Spine was the most impressive at the time of its last release, but it's been about a year since that release and whether it's still being developed is still unknown. fpPS4 and Obliteration seems to be the most promising right now.

PS4 emulation is in the works, but playing something like Ghosts of Tsushima is years away. fpPS4 and Obliteration are experimental emulators / compatibility layers, but they’ve only been in development for a few years and can just boot simple games. That being said, Ghost of Tsushima was one of many games listed in the GeForce NOW leak from Ighor July a few years ago; Since then, many of the games listed have indeed been announced for PC, so a PC port might be on its way.

There's a PS4 emulator being developed in Pascal. For real.

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