leolobato/playden-ps5 v0.11.0-beta.2

Playden for PS5 0.11.0-beta.2

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No Man's Sky now takes the controller, and you can save a game's settings as your own preset and use it on other games. New runtime kit 0.21 gives 32-bit games up to 4 GB of memory, fixes Metro 2033 Redux, BIT.TRIP RUNNER, Chained Together's menus and Slay the Spire's network error, and adds Arial, Times New Roman and Courier New to new game setups. Installs no longer break games whose folders are spelled two ways, such as BioShock.

Downloads

Getting the beta (from 0.7.0 or newer): turn on Settings › Updates › Beta updates, then Check now. Playden updates the app and runtime kit 0.21 (477 MB). Make sure console storage has at least 8 GB free first (PS5 Settings › Storage). Your sign-in, games, saves and Game settings are kept.

After the update: Playden asks once whether to update your games to the new runtime kit. This takes about 30 seconds per game and downloads nothing from Steam. If you choose Later, they stay on the Runtimes tab of Manage installed games, and Play updates a game's runtime kit first. Until then, games keep running on their old kit from PS5 Home.

Recreate bottle for two fixes: the new fonts and the Metro fix are in the Windows setup that a game gets when Playden prepares it. A game set up before keeps its old setup. To get them, use Maintenance › Recreate bottle on that game (your saves and Game settings are kept).

Updating from 0.6.0 or older: update to 0.8.0 first (see its notes), then turn on Beta updates.

New install: unzip playden-ps5-0.11.0-beta.2.zip into a folder of its own and copy the FAKE77031 folder to /data/homebrew/ (see the README). On its first start Playden offers to download the runtime kit; you can sign in while it downloads.

What's new

• My presets. Game settings › Save as my preset… keeps a game's settings under a name you choose. Choose settings lists your presets under "My presets", on every game, with what each one sets. Triangle on a preset renames it, updates it from the game you are on, or deletes it. A game that uses your preset changes with it when you update the preset.
• No Man's Sky takes the controller. Playden gives the Steam emulator the game's own Steam Input layout, and ships an emulator build that tells the game a controller is connected. Before, the game took only mouse and keyboard. (#726)
• Game folders spelled two ways become one folder. Some games spell a folder differently in different parts of their download, such as BioShock's Content and content. Windows sees one folder; the console saw two, and BioShock crashed loading its first level. Installs now use one spelling. An existing install is fixed by its next update, or reinstall it. (#544)
• Steam China files stay out of installs. Magicraft's download also lists a build for Steam China; Playden installed it over the normal files and left an old game version. An install that has those files is offered an update that puts the normal files back. (#694)
• 4 GB for 32-bit games. Game settings › Address space › 4 GB gives a 32-bit program up to 4 GB of memory without changing its file, for games that run out at 2 GB. Needs runtime kit 0.21.
• Longer launch arguments. Extra arguments can be up to 4096 characters (was 512), for games that load their mods from a long command line, such as Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord. Needs runtime kit 0.21. (#716)
• More Environment variables. WINE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE, and WINE_PS5_PARK_FILES and WINE_PS5_CACHED_FILES for games that open very many files. Needs runtime kit 0.21. (#721)
• 32-bit code: Native or Translator. A new Game settings row chooses how a 32-bit program's code runs. Translator is for programs that crash on Native; programs built with Watcom, such as Fallout, use it by default. (#584)
• "Couldn't start" in one message. A game that stops with an error at start now gets one message with the reason, Change settings and Open logs, instead of two.
• Imported GOG games show their own icon in the library and on PS5 Home when there is no store cover.
• Imported folders with ":" in their name (Warhammer 40k: Space Marine) are offered as Copy only, and play from the copy. They used to fail after the copy, with "install folder cannot be mapped for Wine". (#763)
• Import finds the program in very large game folders. Wanted: Weapons of Fate (36,000 files) showed "No Windows program found".
• Play works on the first try after a runtime kit update. It could fail once with "the game could not start" and work the second time.
• In the log viewer, Left and Right move between Refresh and Back.
• More games in the compatibility list, from your test reports and my tests: Fallout (GOG), BioShock, Subnautica, Slay the Spire, BIT.TRIP RUNNER, Metro 2033 Redux, Wanted: Weapons of Fate and 16 others.

New in runtime kit 0.21 (prospero-win)

• 4 GB of memory for 32-bit games that ask for it (Game settings › Address space › 4 GB). Wanted: Weapons of Fate starts with its unpatched program. (#582)
• Metro 2033 Redux starts. It crashed at start when it asked the graphics driver for a shared fence the console can't give. Needs Recreate bottle. (#463)
• BIT.TRIP RUNNER starts: Wine now compiles D3DX effects. (#630)
• Round menu buttons work in Chained Together and other Unreal games that check for a mouse. (#669)
• Slay the Spire's network error is gone, and games that look up network names no longer crash without a network library. (#728)
• Fallout plays: the translator runs the old decimal instructions it uses. (#584)
• Arial, Times New Roman and Courier New (metric-compatible Liberation fonts) in new game setups, for games that show no text without them. Needs Recreate bottle. (#132)
• Longer launch arguments and profiles, and the new Environment variables above.
• A log line tells what holds the files when a game runs out of open files. (#721)

Games to test

These games should work now, or better than before. Please try them and say how it goes on the linked issue, or open a test report if there's none.

Fixed in this release, please confirm on your console:

• No Man's Sky: the controller should drive the menus and the game. (#726)
• BioShock: install it again, then play past the first level load. (#544)
• Magicraft: Update should put the normal game files back. (#694)
• Metro 2033 Redux: Recreate bottle if you set it up before, then start a new game. (#463)
• Slay the Spire: should reach its menu. (#728)
• BIT.TRIP RUNNER: should start and play. (#630)
• Chained Together: the round menu buttons should take clicks. (#669)
• Fallout (GOG, imported): Mouse preset; the menu buttons are the red dots. (#584)
• Wanted: Weapons of Fate (imported): with its original program. (#582)

Might work now, not tried yet:

• Metro: Last Light Redux: same crash as Metro 2033 Redux. (#425)
• Fallout 2 (GOG): Watcom, like Fallout. (#585)
• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare: stopped at Couldn't load image 'gamefonts_pc', which can be a folder spelled two ways; install it again first. (#422)
• Before the Echo: runs out of memory at start; try Address space › 4 GB. (#685)
• Any 32-bit game that closes after a while or on a big level: try Address space › 4 GB.
• In Stars and Time: no text in menus or dialogue; Recreate bottle for the new fonts. (#697)
• RimWorld and other games that show no text: Recreate bottle for the new fonts. (#132)
• Euro Truck Simulator 2: "Too many open files" when saving a profile; try WINE_PS5_PARK_FILES in Environment variables. (#293, #721)
• Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord with mods: paste the full launcher command line into Extra arguments. (#716)
• Other Unreal games whose 3D menus ignore clicks, and other games with a Steam Input layout that ignore the controller.
• Dead Rising and other games that look up network names. (#728)