# AlexAltea/orbital

Experimental PlayStation 4 emulator

Repository: https://github.com/AlexAltea/orbital
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/orbital
Homepage: https://phi.nz/orbital/
Language: C
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2024-04-06T23:38:08+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3231, "days_push": 879, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3653, forks 271 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:13.103462+00:00)

## What it is
Orbital is an experimental, virtualization-based PlayStation 4 emulator written in C/C++. It is a research project not ready for end users, requiring users to build components themselves and extract their own console keys.

## Use cases
- emulate ps4 games on pc
- run playstation 4 software on linux
- research ps4 kernel and hypervisor internals
- boot decrypted ps4 kernels in a vm
- study virtualization-based console emulation

## When to choose
- you are a researcher or developer interested in PS4 emulation internals
- you want to experiment with hypervisor-based emulator architectures
- you can build from source and extract your own console keys

## When to avoid
- you want a ready-to-use emulator to play PS4 games
- you need binaries or user-friendly setup
- you lack a CPU with virtualization extensions and 12+ GB RAM

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: experimental
- function: simulation
- domain: gaming-tools, simulation, developer-tools
- platform: windows, cpp
- tags: ps4-emulator, hypervisor-based, qemu, vulkan, reverse-engineering, virtualization, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- AlexAltea/orbital (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:13.103462+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:31:39.971769+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/AlexAltea/orbital (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:13.103462+00:00, sha 4e2fcb8d8806)
  - homepage: https://phi.nz/orbital/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:25:51.195119+00:00, sha e9841949d164)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.