PSSwanStation build 26

Added

• The renderer changes while a game runs. Software and Vulkan, both ways: the game goes on where it was, with no restart. The picture presets that change the renderer apply at once too.
• Multi-disc games as one (Settings, Interface, View; on): the discs of a game are one entry, sharing one memory card. Discs are now also found when each is in a folder of its own named after the disc (Game (Disc 1)/...), in folders named only CD1, CD2 (Game/CD1/...), and by "CD2" or "Disc 2" at the end of a name. Off: each disc is an entry of its own.
• Variable refresh, really asked for: "120 Hz, variable refresh rate" (Display output) now asks the output to leave its fixed rate, so on a TV with VRR each frame is shown as soon as it is ready, where the console's firmware offers it (the boot log says whether it does).

Changed

• The graphics driver is Mesa main of 31 October 2026 (27.0.0-devel, as Crux2 1.0.17 builds it): fixes to the shader compiler and to how graphics pipelines are found in the shader cache.
• Newer parts: libsmb2 (c6e4997) and libnfs (affe4c8).

Fixed

• 120 Hz fell back to 60 Hz on TVs with VRR: before the first frame such a TV refreshes at 48 Hz, which was taken for a TV still at 60 Hz.
• Cover downloads could stop for the rest of a run when a cover downloaded but could not be saved (a full or read-only drive); the boot log now says why it was not saved (bobrass, pull request #5).

Source

This ZIP was built from PSSwanStation commit fb1b4f861762d93a4b0c3766589a82256fedc164, this release's tag. The title is distributed under the GNU General Public License, version 3, as a whole; the source of every part is public at the revision it was built from:

• PSSwanStation: SwanStation (the emulator, with the libraries in its tree: libchdr with LZMA and zstd, xxHash, Xbyak, stb, libretro-common, OpenBIOS) and the PS5 frontend in ps5/ (with miniz, stb_vorbis, stb_truetype, pugixml and nanosvg (ES-DE themes), dr_mp3, AMD's FSR 1 and CAS headers, NVIDIA Image Scaling, AMD FidelityFX SDK's FSR3 optical flow through swordpdf's ps5-framegen and Mihawk's MihawkGen frame generation with its network, and PS5SX2's USB pad decoder, an HTTPS client of its own on mbedTLS, Crux2's clock and pacing wait, the disc drive after DuckStation's (GPL) and 5S2CD's disc readers, Project Nayuki's QR Code generator, the sandbox elevation client and Font Awesome Free's icons): fb1b4f861762
• PS5_Vulkan: the RADV link recipe, the packaging tool and sce_module/libc.prx: f410e67a0241 with the patches in ps5/patches/PS5_Vulkan, which make e5e62cb5946a
• the PS5 platform layer (libps5platform.a) and the SDK headers, from the payload SDK fork, with musl's regex and dlmalloc: b5efad528e0a
• RADV, Mesa's Vulkan driver (with ACO, NIR and Mesa's Vulkan runtime), from the PS5_Mesa fork: 1ba9874f4786 with the patches in ps5/patches/PS5_Mesa, which make c3eab8ac8b24
• LLVM libc++, libc++abi, libunwind and compiler-rt builtins (linked into eboot.bin): ps5-payload-dev SDK release archives, https://github.com/ps5-payload-dev/sdk/releases
• the interface kit: BlackBearReloaded's ps5-homebrew-ui through mihawk-99's PS5_VKHomebrewUI (its Vulkan backend): shapes, text, themes, components, springs and the mixer, in eboot.bin; its fonts re-baked by ps5/tools/bake-fonts.sh (Inter, Montserrat, Press Start 2P and Patrick Hand under the SIL OFL 1.1, DejaVu Sans Mono under the Bitstream Vera licence), and its recorded sounds and songs in assets/hui: 2188642afbcc with the patches in ps5/patches/PS5_VKHomebrewUI, which make ea00f4febd38
• libsmb2 (network shares): c6e4997fcbdb
• libnfs (NFS shares): affe4c88829c
• rcheevos (RetroAchievements): 1433173220a7
• mbedTLS 3.6 (HTTPS once the sandbox elevator has run: RetroAchievements, covers, the updater): 068ff080b369
• FFmpeg 9.0.2 (ES-DE themes' videos): libavformat with the MP4 demuxer, libavcodec with the H.264, AAC and MP3 decoders and their parsers, and libavutil, configured by ps5/tools/build-ffmpeg.sh: 946fcce07b6d
• glslang (shader presets brought in from a USB drive are compiled with it): e1b562a8bed2
• the Lapy helper (lapy.elf): PS5-Lapy-JB-Daemon's one-shot helper for this title, built unchanged: c3bdfe3a3993, no longer on GitHub: its archive
• the game database (assets/gamedb.zip): the libretro database's PlayStation lists, rearranged by ps5/tools/make-gamedb.py: bf825e3ec48d (metadat/developer/Sony - PlayStation.dat, metadat/redump/Sony - PlayStation.dat, LICENSE)
• the libretro cheats (assets/libretro-cheats.zip): the libretro database's PlayStation cheat files, matched to serials by ps5/tools/make-libretro-cheats.py: bf825e3ec48d (cht/Sony - PlayStation, metadat/redump/Sony - PlayStation.dat, LICENSE)
• crt-guest-advanced by guest(r), from the libretro slang shaders (assets/shaders/crt-guest-advanced): its passes compiled to SPIR-V by ps5/tools/make-chains.py, its lookup pictures unchanged: e1d75632a205 (crt/crt-guest-advanced.slangp, crt/shaders/guest/advanced)
• Mozilla's root certificates (assets/cacert.pem), as certifi 2026.07.22 carries them, unchanged: read beside the console's list by the title's own TLS: 2026.07.22, https://pypi.org/project/certifi/2026.7.22/

licenses/ in the title's folder holds each part's licence, and licenses/components.json the same revisions.

SHA-256 of PSSwanStation-PS5-PPSA99248-build26.zip: f625f9af19abdbfb99e3135c81e7e6aa509cc8c9607b857e0e158fbe3ffba9bf

No games, BIOS files, console firmware or keys are included, now or ever: use games you own, from your own discs.