PS4 Meet "spine" - a new and 2nd approach to PS4 Emulation by "devofspine"

Following up with the newest Updates from an already well-known PlayStation 4-Emulator by @AlexAltea, today we like to present you another Project - or we should better say, a new approach - in Emulating PlayStation 4 Game Titles on a PC running on Linux. Although not many Informations are available yet for this specific Emulator - also we aren't sure what the Name of this Emulator should suggest (thanks to @andrea2107 we mght know it) - but please welcome "spine - PS4 Emulator for Linux". And the coolest thing is, the Developer behind this Project, naturally named "devofspine" also released a Demo Version of his Emulator, so you can test it by your own together with the usual Source Code on his GitHub Profile Page, which allows you to tinker with this PS4 Emualtor by your own. At the current early Stages, this PS4 Emulator showcases a fully compatible and stable Gameplay from the PS4 Game Title "Mega Man Legacy Collection" (a Collection of the first six Mega Man Game Titles) but even when it isn't a newer AAA-Game Title, it is still impressive to see such a stable Gameplay so early in Development, don't you agree?
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- Introduction by @Roxanne​

Screenshot from the Main Menu of "Mega Man Legacy Collection" running on "spine"​

Initial Release

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  Someone named "devofspine" released short video showing linux binary running ps4 version of Megaman Legacy Collection.
  
  
  
  Usually things like that are fakes not even worth looking into, but not this time. Looks like this project is real. It seems to work as a compatibility layer for ps4 binaries, you can compare that to Wine. This also mean that this project gonna be very hard to evolve in to real ps4 emulator. Anyway fact that is already running 2 (two) ps4 games is really impressive!
  
  Requirements:
  SDL2-2.0.9-1.fc29.x86_64
  glew-2.1.0-2.fc29.x86_64
  fmt-5.2.1-1.fc29.x86_64
  boost-filesystem-1.66.0-14.fc29.x86_64
  boost-system-1.66.0-14.fc29.x86_64
  Tip: Use Ubuntu 18, seems to be easiest way to run it.
  
  Tested files:
  249e1ba9a1a0e49e7ee16cfda80b2054 data.pie
  6911087c37fde29034c1d9ef2950684a eboot.bin
  38c82774d44373cf24f84401eec97623 eboot.bin
  

Source: GitHub
Download: Version 20190609
Developer Discussion: Reddit​

 

I'm not sure if I'm excited or not. It's essentially an emulator running those games anyways. If it was an actual ps4 title and not old games running in an emulator on ps4... then I'd be excited.

 

It's still more progress and and emulator running within an emulator isn't no easy feat. Thanks for the heads up @kozarovv

 

Impressive,Didn't expect to see PS4 emulation at this stage that soon.

 

also we aren't sure what the Name of this Emulator should suggest

well,the dev did explain what it meant.... it's a reference to wine ( wine is not an emulator )
in fact SPine is not an emulator
oh also SP is just ps backwards....the dev tought this would be nice to have

 

@MasterTurkey You should because technically it is launched PS4 executable. It doesn't matter if this is emulator targeted to Megamans or Uncharted 4. :P

 

well,the dev did explain what it meant.... it's a reference to wine ( wine is not an emulator )
in fact SPine is not an emulator
oh also SP is just ps backwards....the dev tought this would be nice to have

Good point, added to the Main Article.

 

well,the dev did explain what it meant.... it's a reference to wine ( wine is not an emulator )
in fact SPine is not an emulator
oh also SP is just ps backwards....the dev tought this would be nice to have

Even more impressive than i thought,
What is the difference in instruction sets between the PS4 and standard x86-64?

 

The PS4 has an ARM coprocessor that handles uploads and downloads, video encoding/decoding, and sound. I'm not aware of any changes to x86-64. I'd think talking to those involves syscalls rather than new instructions, but that's just a guess.

 

The PS4 has an ARM coprocessor that handles uploads and downloads, video encoding/decoding, and sound. I'm not aware of any changes to x86-64. I'd think talking to those involves syscalls rather than new instructions, but that's just a guess.

So the instruction sets should not be any different from an Athlon 5150? (The PS4 APU is based on two Athlon 5150 APUs)