Both the SeaBIOS/GRUB forks have been removed in favor of using decrypted 80010002 images. During the past year massive progress has been done in both the emulator and hypervisor, although we are not ready yet to share details, w...
2021-04-06 16:20:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Brief update: Bootloader now fetches decrypted kernels via IO, not AHCI. This fixes USB storage devices, including the internal HDD (there's a very long story behind this issue). There has been significant performance improvements resulting in smo...
2019-06-13 12:04:48 +0000 UTC View Post
After last update, we have implemented the Aeolia XHCI device (USB 3.0) to get past the "Connect DualShock" message by connecting an actual gamepad to the PS4 VM via host passthrough. There were many issues in our way there and we have f...
2019-06-02 01:19:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Brief update: After improving certain functions in the "AuthMgr" secure module of SAMU, we have fixed the permissions for the Safe Mode executable. This allows the virtual PS4 hard drive to be accessed and fixes the error (CE-34333-6) from the las...
2019-03-27 15:38:42 +0000 UTC View Post
After last update, we have reimplemented large parts of the PS4 GPU graphics pipeline using Vulkan and recompiling AMD GCN bytecode into SPIR-V. This finally allows us to "see" the Safe Mode menu, booted from a PS4 5.xx kernel. At ...
2019-03-19 04:50:32 +0000 UTC View Post
During the past month several real-time VM introspection tools have been added to Orbital. These tools allow us to analyze the state of the PS4 OS within the virtual machine, and can help considerably at tracking bugs down.
These features in...
2019-02-05 03:18:56 +0000 UTC View Post
We now offer a ImGui-based to allow rapid prototyping of tools that could be useful to developers. Over the last couple of months work has focused mainly in two areas: improving the Intel HAXM hypervisor that powers Orbital and fixing issues on Aeoli...
2018-12-16 10:07:58 +0000 UTC View Post