spinedemo VS orbital

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.)

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