Developer CPasJuste has released pEMU 5.2 for the PS4, Nintendo Switch, Linux, and, added back with this release, PS Vita! These are pretty stable emulators that can provide a very good alternative to Retroarch.

What is pEMU for PS4/PS Vita/Switch

pEMU is a suite of multiple emulators running on the PS4, PS Vita, and the Nintendo Switch.

• pNES (portable NES) is a NES emulator based on Nestopia
• pSNES (portable SNES) is a Super NES emulator based on Snes9x
• Pfbneo (portable fbNeo) is an “Arcade” emulator based on FinalBurn Neo(supports a bunch of old school systems such as Neo Geo pocket, PC Engine, Megadrive/Genesis, GameGear, Arcade,…)

What’s new in pEMU 5.2

From the changelog:

• common: fix audio sync (50hz roms in psnes/pnes and a few games like seiken densetsu 3)
• common(skins): make menu text outline bigger
• common(skins): fix fonts vertical positions
• common: fix font padding and outline position
• common: update gamelists (move to emulationstation format, lower memory usage)
• pfbneo: fix some games detected as clones (X-Men – Konami, …)
• switch (pnes/psnes): update romlist help texture
• switch: fix single joycon mode for new c2d input (thanks R-YaTian)
• vita: add vita support back
• vita: add romlist help texture
• vita: set 2x scaling by default
• vita: remove non working or too slow shaders
• vita: fix slow directory listing (slow startup)
• vita(fbneo): disable console games for now (todo: fix excessive fbneo binary size). Note that a lot of large games like ms5 won’t work anymore for now…
• linux: add buttons gfx, enable some joystick buttons (wip)
• common: general improvements to enhance the user’s experience…

Download and install pEMU 5.2

Please note that you’ll need a Jailbroken PS4, a hacked Switch, or a hacked Vita in order to run the pEMU emulators on these devices.

You can download the latest binaries from the developer’s github here.

For installation procedures, follow the installation process documented for each emulator:

• pnes
• psnes
• pfbneo