Euro Truck Simulator 2 takes the Xbox controller again, and plays with many mods or all its DLCs. Black Mesa starts. New runtime kit 0.23 also plays Fallout's intro movies at full speed and adds a per-game switch for games that hang on the console's network adapters.
Beta 3 fixes the controller regression in ETS2 that beta 2 brought, and adds a Steam Input choice to Game settings for games like it.
Warning
Beta of alpha software. Betas can have new bugs. Playden signs in to your real Steam account and reads and writes your Steam Cloud saves. Read Before you use it first.
Downloads
| File | What it is |
|---|---|
playden-ps5-0.11.0-beta.3.zip
| The Playden app (the FAKE77031 folder), the console tools (tools/), the README, the compatibility list and the license files.
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playden-kit-0.23.zip
| Runtime kit 0.23. Playden downloads it by itself; you need this file only to install the kit by hand. |
playden-update.json
| Used by Playden to update itself and to find its kit. You don't need to download it. |
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 0.23 (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. No Recreate bottle is needed for this kit.
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.3.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
- Euro Truck Simulator 2 takes the Xbox controller again. Beta 2 gave the Steam emulator ETS2's Steam Input map. The emulator can't drive the sticks that move ETS2's cursor and camera, and the game hid its XInput pad. A game now gets its map only when every stick and trigger in it works, so ETS2 reads the pad through XInput as before; No Man's Sky keeps its map. Games set up under beta 2 get the pad back on their next Play. (#778)
- Game settings › Steam Input. Next to Steam features, with Offline emulation: Automatic (default), Steam Input (always the map) or Game's own (no map, the game reads the controller itself). Try Game's own on a game that ignores the controller. (#778)
- Black Mesa starts, and JBMod should too. They stopped with "A Source engine game is required to run mods". The Steam emulator now tells them the account owns the Source SDK Base. No Recreate bottle needed. JBMod is not tested yet: tell me how it goes. (#785, #779)
- Game settings › Network adapters. Off is for a 64-bit game that hangs at start or loses the network while the console's network adapters are listed. Needs runtime kit 0.23. (#772)
- Fallout set up before beta 2 starts. It gets Translator as its 32-bit code default on the next Play, instead of crashing at start. (#770)
- The game page shows the community's compatibility (Works, Partial, Broken…, with "Confirmed by N players"), next to Your rating.
- "It ran well" rates an untested game Works, so the Library shows it without a trip to Compatibility. Your own rating stays. (#768)
- Test reports say "Answer counted" when a "ran well" answer is counted for the compatibility list, instead of opening an issue.
- Reset puts the program back too. Game settings › Reset and Maintenance › Reset settings also reset a program picked from the game folder. (#769)
- Play no longer refuses with "saved settings are older than its PS5 title's" after Reset UI data. (#793)
- A game session is no longer cut short by stopped checks left over from the game before.
- Cancel in the Queue. A waiting preparation's sheet has Cancel, which takes the game out of the queue and leaves it as it was, and Cancel all for every waiting game, such as a long runtime kit update from Manage installed games. Its last row now says Close.
- In Manage installed games, the focus ring stays whole when moving up a list.
- More games in the compatibility list, from 18 community test reports and more player reports: Clatter, House Flipper 2, Injustice 2, DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO, Satisfactory and others.
New in runtime kit 0.23 (prospero-win)
- Euro Truck Simulator 2 with many mods, or with all its DLCs, starts and creates and loads profiles. It opens every archive in its mod folder at start, and ran out of open files. (#293, #615, #109)
- Fallout's intro movies play at full speed on the translator. (#771)
- Network adapters switch: a game can run without the console's network adapters listed, and the controller still works. (#772)
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:
- Euro Truck Simulator 2: the Xbox controller drives the menus, steering and camera (#778); with your mods, a profile creates and loads (#293, #615).
- Black Mesa: should get past the start. (#785)
- Fallout (GOG, imported): the intro movies play at full speed. (#771)
Might work now, not tried yet:
- JBMod: should get past "A Source engine game is required to run mods". (#779)
- American Truck Simulator with mods: same engine as ETS2.
- Other Source mods that stopped with "A Source engine game is required to run mods".
- A game that ignores the controller since beta 2: try Game settings › Steam Input › Game's own, and tell me which game.
- 64-bit games that hang at start or lose the network: try Game settings › Network adapters › Off.