The open-source project says all 1,166 tracked AMD RDNA 1 and RDNA 2 instructions are implemented, though system library translation remains incomplete.
AnyPS5, an open-source project working to run PlayStation 5 games natively on Windows and Linux PCs, has reached a major milestone. The project announced it in its latest GitHub update.
AnyPS5 now says it has implemented all 1,166 tracked AMD RDNA 1 and RDNA 2 shader instructions, giving it full GPU shader instruction coverage. The project credits more than 100 human contributors, as well as AI-generated code.
The project has decoded the GPU instruction set used by the PS5’s Oberon SoC, which has an 8-core AMD Zen 2 CPU and a custom RDNA 2 GPU. The developers noted that the count covers only instructions the decoder recognized. Decoded opcodes that don’t appear in AMD’s public list were excluded.
System library translation remains incomplete. The latest data shows 3,052 of 3,535 functions implemented, or 86.34%. The developers said the list includes only functions already declared in the project’s core/libs/prx directory and does not account for every function exported by the PS5 firmware.
AnyPS5 is a compatibility layer that allows PS5 binaries to run natively on PC. It converts executables built for the PlayStation 5 into formats Windows or Linux can read, much like Wine or Proton. It does this by translating the PS5’s proprietary API calls, such as those for graphics, audio, and user services, into native calls on Windows and Linux.
Boykopovar, the project’s founder, explained that the core/libs/prx directory covers only low-level system libraries, such as libSceAgc, which interact directly with the hardware or the operating system kernel. It does not include engine-level middleware, modules shipped separately with games, or SDK libraries that only wrap other system libraries.
Full support for the PS5 library is still a long way off. Even so, at least one title, the 2D platformer Dreaming Sarah, has been shown running at a stable 60 FPS on PC through AnyPS5. The game is lightweight and demands little from the CPU or GPU, but the developers say they expect to support more demanding games soon.
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