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CLUSTER GAMES-PLAYSTATION-EMULATOR · 6 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2020-10-27

PlayStation emulators and launchers

This cluster comprises open-source emulators and graphical launchers for PlayStation 2, 3, and 4 games, spanning desktop, mobile, and web platforms. Dated entries appear sporadically from October 2020 through July 2026, with two early entries (2020 and 2022) followed by four entries between October 2025 and July 2026. All traction leaders (ps2-emu, shadPS4, and shadps4-qtlauncher-pre-release-bin) currently show zero stars, so no clear traction leader emerges.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

OCT 2020: 1OCT 2025: 1NOV 2025: 1MAR 2026: 1SEP 2026: 1OCT 2026: 1
OCT 2020OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 3 hand-coded · 3 unlabelled

Operator · 1 hobby · 5 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 6 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01gravityrush_pc6★6 dayslivehobbyExperimental Windows launcher that runs PlayStation 4 Gravity Rush games from user-supplied game files on PC.
  2. 02shadPS40★2 molivehand-codedopen sourcePlayStation 4 emulator that runs commercial games on Windows, Linux, and macOS with a graphical launcher.
  3. 03shadps4-qtlauncher-pre-release-bin0★2 moliveopen sourceGraphical launcher for PlayStation 4 emulation that lets users run PS4 games on their computers.
  4. 04RPCS30★1 molivehand-codedopen sourceOpen-source emulator that runs PlayStation 3 games on desktop systems and includes debugging features.
  5. 05shadps4-qtlauncher-bin0★6 mostaleliveopen sourceA graphical launcher for the shadPS4 PlayStation 4 emulator to start and manage games.
  6. 06libretro-pcsx2-launcher0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceLauncher that starts PlayStation 2 games through an emulator directly from a game frontend.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.