spinedemo VS box64

Spine:https://github.com/devofspine/spinedemo

The dev himself wrote on the github page of his demo, that it's a "Wine-like PS4 emulator". He probably uses some of the principles used in Wine. But in the end, the rest of the system is so different that it's still going to be an emulator regardless. It's far from being "Proton for the PS4".

Not ones that will play your game. Most PS4 emulators are currently in development only, like SPINE and Oribtal. It takes years to create these.

Actually, there are two actively maintained emulators with one showing a lot of promise. One of them, Orbital, is only able to boot into the PS4 firmware, but the Spine emulator is able to boot into a large number of indie games, some of them playable. This video from Modern Vintage Gamer can tell you more.

Spine, https://github.com/devofspine/spinedemo, is a GNU/Linux only PlayStation 4 emulator and the only one that got so far as to emulate some games to a playable state.

Then you can find binaries on this repo https://github.com/devofspine/spinedemo/releases/tag/20190609

A relatively new yet functional "emulator" that works a lot like WINE for the PS4 known as spine has gotten quite the update according to GBAtemp's Chary. Now you may ask why is this something worth mentioning? Spine is currently Linux only, and that looks bright for the Deck considering it runs linux, and that Spine's demo ran low end games with a gtx 970 . As a huge Persona fan who already intends to have 1-4 running day one, this interested me enough to post it since this latest update can get 5 royal working in game (although i don't know the hardware used for that accomplishment.)

In the video, they mentioned they can't run steam on RISC-V because box64 doesn't support 32bit apps. In the README of box64, it is mentioned:

I see it can do more now, already tried some stuff. But see it is now more mature than months ago. Will try factorio again https://github.com/ptitSeb/box64/issues/665

Also, in the discussions of box64 is this thread: https://github.com/ptitSeb/box64/discussions/524 My guess is that you have to install both box64 and box86, the latest mesa drivers with vulkan support. And then try to launch the game with proton. There is also this issue that shows factorio running on a Rock 5B: https://github.com/ptitSeb/box86-compatibility-list/issues/284

In Box64, which is an emulator+JIT recompiler, and thus likely pretty slow?

macOS runs x64 executables just fine through Rosetta so I don't see why Wine couldn't make use of that hardware acceleration.

It's also possible to only simulate the entrypoints through Rosetta and then execute native aarch64 code from there. On Linux https://github.com/ptitSeb/box64 does exactly that, for example. However, with the performance Apple has been able to squeeze out of Rosetta, I'm not sure of that workaround is even necessary.

Recently, I got a server from Oracle Cloud, having 4 cores and 24GB of RAM. Then, using a software called Box86 and its 64 bit version called Box64, I succeeded in running Factorio! Unfortunately, 1.1.80 ran at 3 UPS! I went through each major version, testing each individual one down to 0.12. Here are my results!

You could try https://github.com/ptitSeb/box86 and https://github.com/ptitSeb/box64/ , I believe they allow you to emulate x86_64 on aarch64, though I have no experience with them, so cannot say for sure.

git clone https://github.com/ptitSeb/box64.git

If you have time and patience take a look at box86 and box64. These are basically like translation layers that allow x86/x86_64 applications to run on ARM. I personally haven't use them yet, so I can't provide a guide or vouch for game compatibilities. But by the look of the progress made by them so far it looks promising.

You can follow progress of this on https://github.com/ptitSeb/box64/issues/635