Summary
Bloodbornefans have had it rough over the past few years, arguablyeven rougher than Hollow Knight: Silksong fans. We’ve had to sit by whilePlayStation announces PC ports and remasters for pretty much every game in its first-party library, even games that haven’t sold well like Sackboy’s Big Adventure, while Bloodborne has been stuck in 30fps on the PS4 since 2015.PlayStation doesn’t even acknowledge the game unless it has to.
Calls for a PC port or remaster have never been louder,with even FromSoftware getting in on the act, but we all know that where the big publishers fail to deliver, modders and fans aren’t far behind to pick up the slack. Bloodborne being a PS4 game makes it much more difficult to emulate than older titles, and the fact that PS4 emulation is still being worked on almost 11 years after the system’s initial release tells you exactly how tough it’s been. However, a new emulator called ShadPS4 appears to be making some decent headway.
It’s an emulator that’s been around since 2023, but it made a splash earlier today after announcing thatit’s attempting to get Bloodborne fully functional on PC, something that PlayStation has refused to do since release. Those behind the emulator have made it very clear that this is a work-in-progress build at the moment, but ShadPS4 is the first PS4 emulator out there to successfully boot up Bloodborne and access the character screen.
Bloodborne Fans Are Bringing It To PC Thanks To New PS4 Emulator
As you can see in the tweet from ShadPS4 above, Bloodborne can currently run on the emulator, though a red filter is plastered over the top of everything, almost like you’re into a Virtual Boy. We can see the player access the main menu, fiddle around with some setting, and then access the character creation screen, though that’s where things get very broken and messy. It’s progress though.
We don’t know exactly when Bloodborne will be made playable on PC with this emulator, and some theorize that it could potentially take years. Still, it’s better than nothing for Bloodborne fans that have been waiting patiently for almost a decade, and at least we know that if PlayStation plans to abandon the game forever, PC emulators always have our back.
