To avoid illegal activities and misuse of source code, RPCS4 is made semi open-source.Īll components & plugins of RPCS4 is open source except the core executable. pdix hash which is linked to your PS4 account so dumped images are useless. You should not run pirated games, RPCS4 is made in such a way that game cache-image (GCI) is encrypted with a 256-bit header with. This is a parallel project to RPCS3, and nobody from the current RPCS3 team is directly involved (in other words, this project does not impact RPCS3 development). There will be frequent releases which you can grab from the download section. It uses OpenGL, Vulkan and DirectX 12 as its back-end API renderers and runs most of the PS4 exclusives on high-end machines with some glitches as it is still in beta. RPCS4 should in particular not be confused with PCSX4. It’s a private project being worked on by one of the original developers of RPCS3 “DH”. RPCS4 is an virtualization-based PS4 Emulator and debugger project written in Java for smartphone compatible with Android OS.