Spine is a new Playstation 4 emulator, 20-50 games can go in-game, demo available for download

Back in February 2020, we informed you about a PS4 emulator. However, it appears that there is another Playstation 4 emulator, called Spine.

[sampsonon]

the games are garbage. Just by a ps4. It's pretty cheap right now.

[MadLad]

Emulators have proven better at backing old content than the companies who released them, and the console manufacturers who ran the software.

Although, without seeming like I'm trying to attack you, it seems like you're more worried for feeding money into Sony than you are basically anything else, being you lash out at anyone doing anything, or saying anything, that isn't positive towards the company.

[Profchaos]

Countless older titles from the SNES era or ps1 era have been lost because studios archived it and lost it all.
Games a few generations old are unavailable because they were never re released and have long since expired their copyright.

What emulation enables the community to finish preserve the final product and play it 20 years later on what will be standard hardware.

A CPU in a standard workstation in 20 years will eclipse the biggest graphics card you can buy today and make titles that have been forgotten about playable that's what emulation allows it isn't about stopping sales and if games are preserved and rereleased like doom recently was people still buy them because they better support modern hardware

[MadLad]

@Cigi

I said console MANUFACTURERS, and not simply Sony, but believe I hold some weird bias all you wish.

[King_Noctis]

I remember some people here didn’t mind when it come to the Switch emulator. Now emulators suddenly are bad.

[MWH]

clearly you lack proper knowledge on the emulation purpose, a wise person would learn about a topic before talking about it or remain silent.

[Loktai]

We're a few years away from emulating a PS4 - but it will be good once it works because a PS4 isnt too far off from a PC. But honestly by the time you can emulate a PS4 well a PS4 is going to be a 50 dollar buy with a controller on the used market no doubt. Why bother ? Well eventually it'll make more sense , years down the road like say 20 when people just want to play something for nostalgia sake it may actually be easier to emulate some of these old consoles than get a 25 year old game running on those PCs. I know that sounds wacky but hear me out, its super easy to emulate a PS1 these days, but trying to get some of the games that were also on PC at the time to run nice on modern hardware is a pain- that said the PS4 has a lot more multiplats with PC than a PSX did so it makes even more sense.

[FanboyPolice]

Your don't understand what emulation is

[uth11]

Don't know why you got so many downvotes, you are absolutely right.

To get old PC games running, it's much easier to run them in an emulator like Dosbox than it is to run them natively- or you can buy a patched version of the game from GoG. Despite what people claim PC native backwards compatibility with decades-old titles is rather poor

[CDbiggen]

Anyone else still getting these endless spam messages? Driving me nuts.

[_Decadent_Descent]

Thought I was the only one. It's annoying af.

[S2Killinit]

Im reporting them each time. “Spamming mailboxes”

[DaMist]

Same here, blocking them does nothing as they come from another "account" right afterwards

[porkChop]

The accounts all haven't been active for like 10 years. Just disable all the accounts that haven't been active in the last 5-10 years.

[SegaGamer]

Some of these accounts were regular users in the past, so they must have been hacked. It makes me wonder about the security of our accounts.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

@SegaGamer,

This is why I like 2 factor authentication apps like Authy, it helps prevent alot of these hacks and makes it almost impossible to have your account stolen. Keepass works great as a password manager and has a password generator built in, which I started using to make significantly more complicated passwords than I could ever remember.

[MadLad]

I've been getting about two a day, for about a week.

[Tapani]

Yup, getting two a day. Super annoying...

[timotim]

How is this even remotely a hot news story??? Honest question. I mean...it has 11 comments in 5 hours and we are talking about an emulator here. I understand that N4G uses an algorithm to determine the heat...but how exactly does this algorithm work? Like who really thinks this is a hot topic???

[specialguest]

This is really strange for this to be the hottest news today at only 320 degrees(at the time of my comment). Maybe it's just a really slow news day, or maybe N4G is slowly dying

[343_Guilty_Spark]

It'll be a good thing if it does.

[SegaGamer]

Comments aren't the only thing that makes a topic hot, clicks also count. Also, I'm not sure why you are discounting general interest in an emulator, a lot of people are interested in emulators, especially if it's for current gen consoles. It's more interesting than those Hentai games with zero comments being one of the top topics of the day.

[NeoGamer232]

At least it isn't a stupid article that XSX/PS5 is great/horrible for whatever stupid reason now.

[Skuletor]

Are you bad mouthing [insert unheard of devs name here]?

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

I don't really see much point to it right now, PS4's and their games are cheap and plentiful at the moment, I won't be interested until the PS4 is no longer on sale and the games become rare or hard to get.

[feenix-5]

Yeah suuuuuuuuuuuuure

[MrVux000]

The whole argument about preserving games falls flat now that Sony has confirmed most of their library and exclusives will be B/C on PS5 with enhancements and they are likely to do so with future iterations of Playstation platforms.

For those pissed off by this, dont be. There is no stopping piracy, so why lose sleep over it? (and people can spin this all they want, if you never purchased these games, especially games that will be supported in years to come, that is an act of piracy). Emulators themselves are legal, ROM-s are not.

End of the day, this aint much different than playing on an more expensive-jailbraked PS4 with possible higher framerates and resolutions (if you have powerfull enough PC ofc).

[FanboyPolice]

I look forward to this

[blanka4545]

amazing it got even this far!

[Venom_Rex]

Not Impressed Until it can play games like Marvel's Spiderman at a Stable Frame Rate