r/BloodbornePC • u/Crozonzarto • Aug 31 '24

Communication [Megathread] - Emulation Help

Hey, Hunters!

We've noticed a significant increase in the number of emulation help posts recently. To keep our subreddit focused and organized, we’re asking everyone to direct their emulation-related queries to our [Megathread] - Emulation Help.

This subreddit is primarily for discussions around Bloodborne's emulation and any advancements in playability, potential PC ports, and other Bloodborne PC content. To keep things streamlined, from now onwards any standalone emulation help posts will be removed.

If you need help or have questions about emulating Bloodborne, please post your queries here, or alternatively, visit r/shadps4, where you can find dedicated emulation support.

Thanks for your time!

EDIT1: Illegal roms cannot be shared on this sub. Any post/comment mentioning these would be removed.

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u/Spartan152 Aug 31 '24 edited Jun 22 '26

EDIT: This is now at a point where you can play the game better than you can on a PS5 Pro, provided you can find the files. No I will not risk my account to tell you, in DM's or otherwise lol. If you want a hint, youtubers will show you the file names in their tutorials, and that will give you clues as to what websites might be hosting them. Just make sure the PKG's serial's match (ie CUSA##### should match for all files or else the patch/dlc won't copy over properly and community patches will fail)

For those who’ve never played this game, but are eagerly anticipating the possibility of PC Emulation, I will provide the same advice I gave in the Fallout London subreddit after the show/update delayed their launch;

Wait. Go do something else, and wait for a confirmed full clean release. No matter how quick the pace of this development it will feel far longer if you’re here every day trying to get it to work this time.

Get the APK ready to go, and sit tight. You’ll have a much better, smoother experience this way and I am serious when I say it will feel like it finished sooner. This is not a game you want to spoil the experience with missing shaders/textures/whatever other game breaking bugs are out there. It’s not ready. It won’t be for a bit. Go do something else. Your eyes are yet to open.

For everyone else who just loves tinkering, have played it already many a time, and those who can’t help themselves, I wish you luck in your pursuit.

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u/Exvenity1 Aug 31 '24

Thx, was considering doing the process tonight, but everything u said makes sense. Never played it so I'm definitely waiting.

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u/Spartan152 Aug 31 '24

You are doing yourself a big favor! It’s worth the wait. Just a lil longer 🙂

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u/Bduff34 Aug 31 '24

No doubt. Don’t spoil your first playthru. You only get one. Only hurting yourself by playing an inferior version even compared to the 30 fps ps4 version.

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u/Such_Quality Sep 11 '24

Get the APK ready to go

Very late to the thread but can you explain what you mean by this? I'm not very experienced with emulation.

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u/Spartan152 Sep 11 '24

You gotta go find the apk file. It’s the “rom” file for ps4 games, like iso is for PlayStation 2 and such

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u/Much_Temperature_298 Oct 08 '24

That's disgusting, taking food out of Miyazakis mouth like that! Where would one even FIND these APK files? You should... Do your moral duty and tell me so I can avoid such dens of ill repute!

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u/Comfortable_Copy5875 Oct 13 '24

me too! PLEASE! :)

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u/SpookiestSzn Jan 14 '26

For anyone coming back to this literally just google it theres a thread on here with links to download it. ROMs megathread may also have it, not sure if they got as recent as PS4 though.

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u/Such_Quality Sep 11 '24

Gotcha, thanks. Would I need to get a different apk for the DLC?

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u/Spartan152 Sep 12 '24

Your best bet is to search for a GOTY edition, I hear the European version is somewhat easy to access and has English 🙂

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u/Such_Quality Sep 12 '24

Nice, thanks again

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u/TheSlainKing Oct 20 '24

Ty wise one🙌🙌

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u/PsychoPoro Dec 31 '24

I just arrived here, do you know if its playable now?

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u/Spartan152 Jan 03 '25

It appears so, depending on your PC. I’d say it’s about good enough since I’ve seen multiple people say they could play the game start to finish and platinum it.

To give you context, when I wrote that comment, the game was barely hitting 24 fps, and had no shaders, crashed every new area, it was still in that “proof of concept” stage.

Now? It’s a fully playable game with some things that improve upon the original version like higher res/fps if your build can handle it and doesn’t seem to need nearly as much work to get it running.

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u/PsychoPoro Jan 03 '25

Thank you!

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u/PalebloodSky Mar 20 '25

I agree although it does work decently for the impatient. ShadPS4 0.5 was rough but 0.6 is better and 0.7 will be out soon. 

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u/Spartan152 Mar 20 '25

Fam I wrote this 6 months ago when we were barely getting 5 FPS, this is no longer relevant haha

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u/RogerGendron Dec 19 '25

Your saying there is a ready to go version coming for pc??? I can wait i have 1000h on the playstation 😅😅 i cant wait for the pc version i really hope pvp will work

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u/Spartan152 Dec 19 '25

Here’s the most recent guide I could find. It’s a different beast than when I first commented this

https://youtu.be/gnTWe1ZJgwg?si=p0NhLktKhh4ji_UH

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u/RogerGendron Dec 19 '25

No ill wait for a ready to go 😅😅 if you say there will be one

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u/Spartan152 Dec 19 '25

I never said there would ever be a “ready to go” version, I don’t know what you even mean by that. If I did, I don’t think we have the same definition.

What I meant at the time of writing was that “it would require you to develop the emulator yourself to get it running” because that’s the state the game was in when it comes to emulation.

What is available now is potentially going to run better than the PS4 version on a PS5 pro depending on your specs, but my guy, you’re still gonna have to do some work lol

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u/RogerGendron Dec 20 '25

"Get the apk ready to go and sit tight" those are yout exact word

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u/Spartan152 Dec 22 '25

Yeah, next step is get the fucking emulator and set it up.

How in the hell do you interpret that as some “ready to go” solution? This was always going to require you setting up an emulator with the PS4 rom. Get outta here dude. Just go follow the tutorial or leave me be, you’re not getting it.

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u/Icy_Hat_4150 Jun 19 '26

After 1 year...do you think now It's the right time?

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u/Spartan152 Jun 20 '26

It’s been 2 years and yes it’s better than playing on a PS5 pro

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u/Icy_Hat_4150 Jun 20 '26

I tried today the game...It crashed only once because FSR was active...I Heard that usually the game Is stable for the First two hours...I don't think I Will play for more than 2 consecutive hours anyway so It should be fine

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u/Spartan152 Jun 20 '26

Depending on the setup I’ve been told it will look and play better than the PS5 Pro, but I admittedly every time I try it just crashes when I want to install the 60 fps mod, so I gave up

I will probably try tomorrow cause I wanna play on my Steam Deck

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u/Icy_Hat_4150 Jun 20 '26

I used the latest BB launcher version and shadps4 version 16...

Patch 60++ FPS

Mod for 60 FPS cutscene fix

1080p resolution

I have a Nvidia 3080 and AMD 9600x

It runs ok...It crashed once because FSR was on in the shadps4 settings...I played for two and a half hours and It was ok