elripalda/Porpoise-Dolphin-Emulator-for-PS5 v1.0

Porpoise 1.0 - Dolphin Emulator for PS5

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The first release of Porpoise: a native GameCube and Wii emulator for jailbroken PS5, powered by Dolphin, with a launcher made for the TV and the DualSense.

Highlights

• Cover-flow library of glass box-art tiles that finds your games on its own: the usual folders, USB and extended drives, plus any folder you add. Plays .iso, .gcm, .rvz, .ciso, .gcz, .wbfs and .wia.
• Automatic box art from GameTDB: front covers, back covers and disc label art, along with game details (description, developer, publisher, release date, genre, players and rating).
• Details page: Square flies the box in, Triangle flips to the back cover, the right stick turns the box, L2 / R2 swipe between games, and the disc spins alongside.
• Up to four players, one per signed-in PS5 user. Controllers can join at any time, even mid-game.
• Button layouts: GameCube (the default), PlayStation (Cross A, Circle B), or Custom, set on a picture of the DualSense in Customize buttons. Any game can have its own layout.
• Memory cards: Slot A and Slot B with save icons and banners. Copy and delete saves, each with a confirmation.
• Settings for everything: video, graphics, audio, controls, system, games and interface, plus per-game settings, each with a reset.
• In-game menu (Options + touch pad): resume, quick video and volume settings, Quit to library, Close Porpoise.
• Smooth play: frames locked to your TV's refresh, stutter-free asynchronous ubershaders, clean 48 kHz sound, never above 60 fps.
• Original menu music and sound effects by @elripalda, each with its own switch and volume.
• English, Español, Français, Português. Porpoise follows your PS5's language. More languages are coming in a future update.

Install

You need a jailbroken PS5 with etaHEN and kstuff loaded, and a way to register homebrew (for example ShadowMountPlus).

1. Download Porpoise-1.0.zip below and unzip it on your computer. You get a folder named PPSA99764.
2. Connect to your PS5 with FTP (for example etaHEN's FTP server and a client like FileZilla) or with PS5 Upload.
3. Copy the whole PPSA99764 folder into /data/homebrew/, so you end up with /data/homebrew/PPSA99764/.
4. Register it the same way as your other homebrew (for example with ShadowMountPlus). The Porpoise tile appears on your home screen.
5. Copy your own game backups into /data/porpoise/games/ (Porpoise creates it on first launch), or onto a USB drive, and open Porpoise.

Box art and game details download automatically while the console is online.

Updating later: delete /data/homebrew/PPSA99764/ first, then upload the new folder. Your games, saves, covers and settings live in /data/porpoise/ and stay put.

Full guide: README · Build from source: BUILDING.md · Credits

Legal

Porpoise contains no games, no BIOS or firmware files and no keys. Play only games you own, from backups you made yourself. Porpoise is not affiliated with Nintendo or Sony. Emulation is provided by Dolphin (GPL-2.0-or-later). Porpoise is GPL-3.0-or-later; every component's licence and source revision is listed in licenses/README.txt inside the zip.

Porpoise-1.0.zip SHA-256: 92282136b2c6953722e7736be28b5e2b5a7e6b89e6d717e0f51424f1e664358e