PS4 Update #4 for Orbital - An PS4 Emulator by @AlexAltea - with DS4 and other Performance Improvements!

Following up after his Milestone Update back in March, Developer @AlexAltea showcases his third Update from his PS4 Emulator Orbital, which now supports the inputs from an original DualShock 4 Controller together with a new and updated Presentation from the current Development Stages of his PS4 Emulator on his own YouTube-Channel (know with a higher Resolution and Quality ). Although the support isn't perfect (the keypress shows big delays on the PS4 while running in Safe Mode - but they are fixable), it is still nice to see how difficult it is to emulate a Console from the ground-up until running a playable Game, but also how much effort he takes to get this PS4 Emulator updated and running better and better. This is already worth some kudos, don't you think? And he has already plans for future updates, such as the possibility to allow a re-installation from the PS4 System Software via an USB Mass Storage Device. Running the Operating System from a emulated Console is always very important and a good basis to make some further work profitable. If this progress will keep so strong for the future, we think we can expect some great functions from that Emulator and for emulating a PS4 on a PC in General, what do you think?​

DualShock 4-Controller connected to the emulated PS4 running in Safe Mode​

Release Notes (via Twitter)

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  Quote via Twitter @AlexAltea from 2nd June 2019 - 2:12 am --> https://twitter.com/AlexAltea/status/1134976069554114561
  

  The quirky Aeolia XHCI is now implemented so we got host USB pass-through to our PS4 emulator. Check out a DualShock 4 connected to Orbital. Kudos to jarves for his help!

Release Notes (via YouTube) Update 13th June 2019

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  Current status: After last update, we have implemented the Aeolia XHCI device (USB 3.0) to get past the "Connect DualShock" message by connecting an actual gamepad to the PS4 VM via host passthrough. There were many issues in our way there and we have fixed those with the invaluable help of @jarves. As a future goal, we also want to implement a virtual USB device for the DualShock 4 (as opposed to using an actual physical device).
  
  In addition, this video will give an overview of the current status of Orbital and give details on another ongoing effort: orbital-ng, our future replacement for orbital-qemu.

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  Current status: After last update, the bootloader now fetches decrypted kernels via IO, not AHCI. This fixes USB storage devices, including the internal HDD (there's a very long story behind this issue). There has been significant performance improvements resulting in smooth framerates. Texture loading issues are solved, which fixes some artifacts. We have also added support for PUPMGR functions, though decryption is still pending pending, hence the error in the end. Several SAMU high-level emulation issues have been fixed. Finally we have also added the possibility of reinstalling firmware via virtual mass-storage USB devices.

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Source: Twitter
GitHub: Orbital
YouTube: Alexandro Sanchez​