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A native PCSX2 port for the jailbroken PS5 can now read PS2 discs from the console's own drive. The feature is one day old, it is off by default, and half of the PS2 library cannot be read at all.

A Switch emulator now runs as native PS5 homebrew, no Linux involved. PS3 emulation on PS5 is real too, but it runs under Linux and Digital Foundry tested it back in May. The thing that actually changed this month is a Vulkan driver.

Six games were reported fully decompiled in one stretch of 2026. Five are finished or within a rounding error of it, none gives you a download today, and the difference between those two facts is the whole story.

AnyPS5 is not a PS5 emulator. It rewrites PlayStation 5 executables into native Linux and Windows binaries. A week ago it had no releases and one anonymous game drawing a logo. It now has two releases and a named game running at 60 fps.

One DK64 port advertises zero AI code. The first Wii recomp discloses that it used AI. A third group is getting quietly delisted from community trackers. The split is now the most useful quality signal you have.

Romhack.ing pulled AI-translated patches after the Langrisser V backlash. A Dreamcast RPG got an AI patch that gutted a human project mid-flight. Here is what is happening, and how to tell what you are downloading.

RPCS3 can boot PS3 games straight from a disc now, but most optical drives cannot read those discs at all. Here is which Blu-ray drives the community has confirmed working, what to avoid, and the power problem nobody warns you about on a Steam Deck.

RPCS3 can now boot PS3 games directly from a Blu-ray disc, no dumping step required. The Linux support that makes this work on a Steam Deck landed on 31 August. Here is what you actually need, including the part the announcement skipped.

NVIDIA confirmed there will be no DLSS 5 override in its app. Within days the mod scene shipped one anyway, with automatic detection for nineteen emulators including mGBA and Snes9x. That list tells you everything.

A new GBA hack unlocks Pokémon that were sitting inside the 2003 cartridge all along, plus the encounters that vanished when the e-Reader died. This is a restoration, not an expansion.

Prosper and PS5PCEM are genuine projects, though one of them is not an emulator at all. They are also not the biggest names in PS5 emulation, and the sites that outrank them on Google are scams.

Now that neural rendering runs inside emulators, the question is whether it should. We think the answer is no, and not mainly for the reasons you would expect.

CRT shaders reproduce what a game was built to look like. Neural rendering invents detail that was never there. Both make old games look better, and they are not the same thing at all.

Static recompilation reached the PlayStation 1. PSXRecomp turns a PS1 game into a native binary or a WebAssembly build, and Pepsiman Recompiled is the proof. Here is how it works and why it matters for handhelds.

ReXGlue turns Xbox 360 games into native PC ports through static recompilation. Here is what that means, why it can beat emulation, and what it means for handhelds.

Nintendo’s February 2026 takedown wave reshaped the Switch emulation scene, and August brought 400 more repos down. Here is what happened and what it means for you.

Decompilation and recompilation both turn classic games into real PC applications that run better than emulation, but they work in completely different ways. Here is the difference, and why it matters for your handheld.