ShadPS4 v0.17.0 is released. An early PS4 emulator for Windows and Linux written in C++.
ShadPS4 Changelog:
Welcome to another big release of shadPS4. This release is the first to introduce shadnet support, which although still doesn't offer much it allows to post your online scores and share them with other players. Still you can't play multiplayer games but we are working towards to make it possible one day. Another big update is ZArchive support. Forget the 20.000 files per game you can now use ZArchive files for compressing games and having them in 1 file instead of hundreds. KosmicKrisp has also landed in the world of macOS giving much better compatibility and speed to macOS users. There are several other fixes let's cover the most important below
Highlights
Online stuff
ShadNet, our own networking backend, is now integrated for the first time
Most of the matchmaking library is implemented — lobbies, rooms, joining, signaling
Friends support. Make your online friends in shadnet
Invitation dialog
Your name now switches to your Online ID once you're connected
NP Manager got new settings and general cleanup
Web API layer grew a lot: new library implemented, multipart uploads, push events
NP Commerce
Trophy handling tidied up
Mouse support
sceMouse is emulated now, so the handful of games that supported a USB mouse are playable with one
Plus a bunch of follow-up fixes for opening, closing, and games that check whether a mouse is even plugged in
AvPlayer, video & audio
AvPlayer got a serious cleanup: audio/video sync, startup races, stack usage, frame sizes, buffer handling
Video decoder flush behaviour fixed
Audio3D mix queue reworked
AT9 no longer crashes from reading past the end of its data
AT9 encoder now runs natively
OpenAL fixes and NGS2 fixes
Graphics
NVIDIA clip distance emulation
T# min_lod implemented through VK_EXT_image_view_min_lod
Depth write state is now respected for register clears
Robustness2 is now required, allowing the null buffer/image workarounds to be removed
Sampler garbage collection added to the texture cache
Texture cache: image download handling refactored
sRGB handling for BC formats refactored
Buffer barriers for compute-written vertex/index buffers and indirect dispatch/draw buffers
Assorted validation errors fixed and miscellaneous renderer fixes
Shader cache invalidation caused by struct padding in memcmp fixed
Shader recompiler
GCN thread mask accuracy fix
Vertex attributes are always specialised on number class
Geometry shader vertex offsets initialised from the input primitive type
V_ADD_I32 carry-out propagation, V_LOG_CLAMP_F32, V_PK_MUL_LO_U16 fix
IREmitter atomic operation corrected from And to Or
Kernel, memory & core
Filesystem abstraction layer
File reads now go through an intermediate buffer before being copied to guest memory
PthreadOnce uses pthread primitives instead of std::mutex
TLS leak on non-primary threads fixed
Code patches for cmp and xor instructions involving the TCB
sceKernelAllocateDirectMemory now honours search_end
Fixed mappings with a zero address on older games is now handled properly
HLE libraries are no longer loaded when force-LLE is set
Unresolved objects are no longer auto-stubbed
Null dereference fixes in save data mount checks
Memory patch fixes, with hex exception handling
LLE malloc init, fixing issues with LLE fonts and allowing more LLE libs to run
Input & peripherals
Pad state latency reduced for single-sample reads
Users are no longer logged out when a pad disconnects
Controller colours reset on shutdown
Fixes to Camera support
Interface & quality of life
Fullscreen startup behaviour polished
The window icon is now set to the game's icon
Big Picture UI settings improved
Shader list, memory map and module list widget states are saved, duplicate shader dump windows prevented
New shadPS4 log with a logging refactor, an option to flush the log
MS_VC_EXCEPTION is now passed through to the handler on Windows
Trophy fixes and an auto-generated PathType::TrophyDir
NP checks moved into sceNpTrophyRegisterContext
Improvements to the in-app bug report flow
Download: ShadPS4 v0.17.0
Source: Here
2026-07-31

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