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Type: desktop-application
ID: org.duckstation.DuckStation
Package: duckstation
Name:
C: DuckStation
Summary:
C: PlayStation Emulator
Description:
C: >-
<p>DuckStation is an simulator/emulator of the Sony PlayStation(TM) console, focusing on playability, speed, and long-term
maintainability. The goal is to be as accurate as possible while maintaining performance suitable for low-end devices.</p>
<p>"Hack" options are discouraged, the default configuration should support all playable games with only some of the enhancements
having compatibility issues.</p>
<p>DuckStation features a fully-featured frontend built using Qt, as well as a fullscreen/TV UI based on Dear ImGui. Other
features include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Hardware renderer supporting OpenGL and Vulkan APIs.</li>
<li>Upscaling, texture filtering, and true colour (24-bit) in hardware renderers.</li>
<li>PGXP for geometry precision, texture correction, and depth buffer emulation.</li>
<li>Accurate blending via Rasterizer Order Views/Fragment Shader Interlock.</li>
<li>Texture replacement system in hardware renderers.</li>
<li>Vectorized and multi-threaded software renderer.</li>
<li>Motion adaptive deinterlacing.</li>
<li>Adaptive downsampling filter.</li>
<li>Screen rotation for vertical or "TATE" shmup games.</li>
<li>Post processing shader chains (GLSL and Reshade FX).</li>
<li>Border overlays/bezels displayed around game content.</li>
<li>"Fast boot" for skipping BIOS splash/intro.</li>
<li>Save state support, with runahead and rewind.</li>
<li>Supports reading directly from CD, bin/cue images, raw bin/img files, MAME CHD, single-track ECM, MDS/MDF, and unencrypted
PBP formats.</li>
<li>Preloading of disc images to RAM to avoid disk sleeping hitches.</li>
<li>Merging of multi-disc games in game list/grid with memory cards shared between discs.</li>
<li>Automatic loading/applying of PPF patches.</li>
<li>Direct booting of homebrew executables.</li>
<li>Direct loading of Portable Sound Format (psf) files.</li>
<li>Time stretched audio when running outside of 100% speed.</li>
<li>Digital and analog controllers for input (rumble is forwarded to host).</li>
<li>GunCon and Justifier lightgun support (simulated with mouse).</li>
<li>NeGcon support.</li>
<li>Controller presets and per-game configuration.</li>
<li>Automatic content scanning - game titles/hashes are provided by redump.org.</li>
<li>Optional automatic switching of memory cards for each game.</li>
<li>Supports loading cheats from existing lists.</li>
<li>Memory card editor and save importer.</li>
<li>Emulated CPU overclocking.</li>
<li>Integrated and remote debugging.</li>
<li>Multitap controllers (up to 8 devices).</li>
<li>RetroAchievements.</li>
<li>Video capture with FFmpeg backends.</li>
<li>Free camera function.</li>
<li>Parallel port cartridge emulation.</li>
</ul>
<p>"PlayStation" and "PSX" are registered trademarks of Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Limited. This project is
not affiliated in any way with Sony Interactive Entertainment.</p>
DeveloperName:
C: Stenzek
ProjectLicense: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
Categories:
- Game
- Emulator
Url:
homepage: https://www.duckstation.org/
help: https://github.com/stenzek/duckstation
vcs-browser: https://github.com/stenzek/duckstation
Icon:
cached:
- name: duckstation_org.duckstation.DuckStation.png
width: 64
height: 64
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width: 128
height: 128
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height: 64
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width: 128
height: 128
stock: org.duckstation.DuckStation
Launchable:
desktop-id:
- org.duckstation.DuckStation.desktop
Screenshots:
- default: true
caption:
C: Desktop Interface
thumbnails:
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height: 852
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height: 513
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height: 426
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width: 224
height: 152
source-image:
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height: 1064
- caption:
C: Big Picture Mode Interface
thumbnails:
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source-image:
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height: 1665
- caption:
C: Hover Racing Game
thumbnails:
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source-image:
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width: 1212
height: 1062
- caption:
C: Fromage Game
thumbnails:
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Releases:
- version: 0.1-10339-g9b31d8b57
type: stable
unix-timestamp: 1764979200
ContentRating:
oars-1.1: {}
