PS4:Emulators and Homebrew Games

What are emulators and what systems can I play on PS4?

• Emulators are applications that act/behave like a completely different system in order to play games released before / not natively made for PS4.
• On the PS4, there are 2 types of emulators: official (either made by Sony or the company that made/owns the rights to the emulated console) and ports (fan-made emulators).
• Officially the PS4 can emulate PS1, PS2, PSP (but the number of PSP games that work are very low) & Sega Saturn.
• Ports allow the PS4 to emulate MSDOS, NES, every GameBoy, MAME, Atari Lynx, Neo-Geo Pocket, SNES, VirtualBoy, WonderSwan, Nintendo 64, PS1, Sega Genesis/MegaDrive, Nintendo DS, FB Alpha Arcades, Capcom PS1,2 &3, MSX, NEC PC-FX, NEC PC Engine, Sega Saturn, Sega Dreamcast, old PC games, Atari 2600, Atari Jaguar, Vectrex, PSP, various ports, 3DO.

Emulators

Official

• PS2 (with creation tools such as PS2-FPKG 0.6)
• PS1 (with creation tools such as PSX-FPKG 0.2)
• PSP (NOT RECOMMENDED - with creation tools such as PSP HD GUI V.1.0)
• Sega Saturn (with creation tools such as SATURN-FPKG 1.1)

Native

• RetroArch (multiple systems - unofficially ported)
• mGBA (Game Boy Advance)
• PCSX-R (PS1)
• GBemu (Game Boy / Game Boy Color)
• Cinoop (Game Boy / Game Boy Color)
• PS4NES (NES)
• PNES (NES)
• Reicast (Dreamcast)
• Yabause (Saturn)
• fMSX (MSX)
• Chip8 (CHIP8)
• OpenBOR (Open Beats of Rage engine)

Via PSP Package

SMSPlus (Master System)

Via PS2 Package

SNESStation (Super Nintendo) FCEUX (NES) DOSBox (MS-DOS)

Via RetroArch for PS2

ReGBA (Game Boy Advance) DaedalusX64 (Nintendo 64) QuickNES (NES) PicoDrive (Genesis / Master System) PGEN (Genesis)

Homebrew Games

• Lapy Game Collection
• River Raid by Lapy
• Console Wars by Lapy
• Brain Splitter by Lapy
• Nanospeed Gamer by Lapy
• PS4 Doom ps4 port of DOOM
• PS4 Snake ps4 port of Snake
• PS4 Pacman ps4 port of Pac-Man
• ShepHard by MasterTurkey
• The Enchanted Forrest by RetroGamer74