DuckStation
DuckStation is an simulator/emulator of the Sony PlayStation(TM) console, focusing on playability, speed, and long-term maintainability.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- Android Tablet
- AppImageHub
- Flathub
Features
DuckStation News & Activities
Recent News
- Maoholguin published news article about DuckStation
PS1 emulator DuckStation may drop Linux support over AUR issues and new license limitsDuckStation, a prominent PlayStation 1 emulator known for accuracy and performance, faces a potenti...
Recent activities
- justarandom added DuckStation as alternative to StarPSX
Alaik added DuckStation as alternative to KRetro
justarandom added DuckStation as alternative to ScePSX- POX updated DuckStation
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What is DuckStation?
DuckStation is an simulator/emulator of the Sony PlayStation(TM) console, focusing on playability, speed, and long-term maintainability. The goal is to be as accurate as possible while maintaining performance suitable for low-end devices. "Hack" options are discouraged, the default configuration should support all playable games with only some of the enhancements having compatibility issues.
A "BIOS" ROM image is required to to start the emulator and to play games. You can use an image from any hardware version or region, although mismatching game regions and BIOS regions may have compatibility issues. A ROM image is not provided with the emulator for legal reasons, you should dump this from your own console using Caetla or other means.
DuckStation information
Developed by
stenzek Licensing
Proprietary and Free product.Written in
Alternatives
13 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
AlternativeTo Categories
Gaming Software, System & HardwareGitHub repository
- 8,886 Stars
- 808 Forks
- 79 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
Very modern, works very well
Stenzek, the lead dev, has made this emulator no longer Open Source, but "Source available," he changed the licensing making it impossible to fork or modify this emulator. He's also livid against plugins, meaning that this emulator cannot be used for anything but exclusively playing video games. Emulators, for those who don't knows, are also used for decompilation projects, and ePSXe was used by the Toys For Bob developers to basically recover the source for the spyro games. Stenzek goes against all of it. Avoid this schizo at all costs.
Solid emulator for a fun console. Seems to run better than alternatives, and even has a mobile version.