r/BloodbornePC • u/LongjumpingCharge847 • 4h ago
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.
r/BloodbornePC • u/Mauorycy22 • Oct 11 '24
Communication FAQ - Bloodborne on PC
edit 1. https://youtu.be/-zjzBbdl7hk for in-depth analysis of bloodborne emulation
This post consolidates most of the available information about a possible Bloodborne port/remake and emulation. If you're wondering about Bloodborne's future or just want to play it on pc, this FAQ should give you a good overview.
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Official Future of Bloodborne (Sony)
Q: What is the current status of Bloodborne development?
A: As of now, there is no official word from Sony or FromSoftware about any active development on Bloodborne, whether it's a port or a remake. Sony remains silent on this topic, and has continued to do so for 10* years now.
Q: What could happen to Bloodborne in the future?
A: Sony has two major paths for Bloodborne: they could release a PC port of the original game, or commission a full remake. A remake would follow a model similar to the Demon's Souls Remake, being a launch title for ps6.
Q: When might any announcement happen?
A: There are two key dates to watch for: March 24, 2025, the 10th anniversary of Bloodborne, which is a more likely candidate for a reveal than anything else. Alternatively, any major PS6-related announcements could also bring news of a potential remake.
Q: Why doesn’t Sony seem interested in Bloodborne?
A: One major reason is the closure of Japan Studio, which was an integral part of the Bloodborne development team. Another factor is that, while Bloodborne has a dedicated fanbase, it doesn’t have the massive mainstream appeal that Sony tends to prioritize for remakes and ports. We are vocal, yes, but we are still a minority compared to the mainstream fans.
Q: What should I do if I want to play Bloodborne but don’t expect anything official from Sony?
A: Your best option is to wait for the PS4 emulator to become stable, or enjoy the game on a PS4 or PS5 console.
Summary:
Sony isn’t likely to release anything new related to Bloodborne in the near future. While both a PC port and a remake are possible, there’s no official confirmation on either. For now, it might be best to endure and wait for emulation as a more viable option.
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Bloodborne Emulation (ShadPS4)
Q: What is emulation?
A: Emulation allows a computer to mimic the hardware and software of a PlayStation, enabling PS4 games to run on a PC. Emulators themselves are legal, but they exist in a grey area due to connection with piracy, as you need the ROM files to play a game.
Q: How does emulation relate to playing Bloodborne on PC?
A: ShadPS4 is currently the main PS4 emulator in development. Once it's completed and fully functional, it will allow Bloodborne to be played on PC (but in 60fps and with mods).
Q: Will Sony shut it down?
A: As stated above, emulation by itself is a fairly legal thing to do. It is however important to ensure that at no point of development there is copyright infringement going on. Due to such incidents happening in the past, ShadPS4 devs are fully aware of the dangers and are preventing it from happening. Therefore, it is very unlikely sony will shut it down.
Q: What is the current status of ShadPS4?
A: ShadPS4 is still in development and far from perfect. While it’s technically possible to play Bloodborne on PC right now, the experience is full of bugs, performance issues, and other technical problems. For most people, it’s not yet a viable option, and i do not recommend you play the game right now, especially if it's your first time.
Q: Can i play it now?
A: As of now, bloodborne on emulation is not fully playable. Based on the current progress, it may take around a year or a little more for ShadPS4 to offer a near-console level experience. It might be less, but still, there's a lot to do. If you want to be up to date, join the discord server or subscribe to Fromsoftserve (or virtually any reliable and well known Bloodborne YouTuber, there is a list of sources at the bottom of the post).
Q: How do I play Bloodborne on ShadPS4?
A: A detailed tutorial for setting up ShadPS4 is available on their Discord server, and you can follow this guide for step-by-step instructions: Google Doc Tutorial.
Q: Can i play on a low end pc? A: It is very likely that once the emulator is ready, it will support a lot of older hardware. As of now, the general requirements for the emulator are available here. There are however attempts at running it on weaker hardware; in general if you really need to know, look for your specs and bloodborne emulation on youtube.
Q: Where can i get a copy of Bloodborne and the modules :D :D?
A: Not on this subreddit or the ShadPS4 discord server. Remember that it is illegal to share those files, and can bring sony's attention to the emulator if asked or shared in connection to the emualtor.
Q: What fork/branch should i use?
A: As of today, 31/03/2024, for the most optimal BB experience, i recommend to use the fork made by diego, available here. This build supports particles and is made specifically for bloodborne (I think?).
Summary:
While there’s no official PC port, ShadPS4 is being developed to allow Bloodborne emulation on PC. It’s not fully ready, but it's expected to be working just fine in the near future. For it to work, you need to have a copy of bloodborne and ps4 modules.
Where to follow the development of ShadPS4
- https://www.youtube.com/@fromsoftserve
- https://www.youtube.com/@gmoralistube
- The official discord server, and specifically the bloodborne channel
- The official twitter account
r/BloodbornePC • u/Connor__99 • 4h ago
Question Bloodborne Randomizer
Greetings, I can normally run Bloodborne on shadps4 and play it kinda well. I recently tried to install Randomizer mod on it, searching up different guides and videos. I use mod organizer and I tried to generate a randomized world, which initially seems to work, due to the fact that the first enemies and the first drops are different form the usually. But as soon as I try to create a new seed and start a new game I have always the same world with same randomized enemies. Furthermore, initials weapons and shops items are not randomized even if checked the option. Any suggestions?
r/BloodbornePC • u/c1rala • 1d ago
Hype I did it!!
I never had a Playstation so I didn't get to experience this masterpiece until now. I started out with a Strength focused build but I decided to replay the game but with a Skill/Bloodtinge build (I had just defeated Micolash when I decided this) because I just enjoyed the game so much. Truly incredible, huge shout out to the shadPS4 team and the modding community for making it possible to play the game!
For those who are interested in my setup:
AMD CPU (Ryzen 7 5800x)
AMD GPU (Radeon 6700XT)
Mods:
* Jump on L3
* Full Cloth Physics with Blood
* Vertex Explosion Fix
* Drawparam Collection (NO AA, SSAO, Color Grading, DOF, etc)
Patches:
* 60 FPS
* Disable Chromatic Aberration
* Disable Motion Blur
* Disable HTTP requests
* Disable vsync
r/BloodbornePC • u/DuHammy • 11h ago
Question I never see "nightly" when selecting update channels. Full Souls, PRTBB, MainBB.
Every tutorial I look at says to set it to nightly. I've never ever seen this option despite downloading from the link everyone posts I've tried installing this a few times, and can get it running but come across minor issues, that I feel this could potentially resolve.
The game was running perfectly fine up until I had invisible enemies just past the first cinderblock fist guy where the dogs are. Did some googling and found it was related to either vertex of sfx fixes. I re-applied the fixes, and then the game started crashing as if I didn't have the vertex of sfx fixes applied.
Not sure where to go from here.
r/BloodbornePC • u/Dreadking_Rathalos • 18h ago
Question (repost) fix for stuttering?
Repost because I couldn't get the video to load in my original
6750XT with 5700x3d and 32GB DDR4, not the best setup in the world so it may just be that
I finally got the game running today and it looks awesome for the most part, but I am getting constant frame dips (shadps4 claims its going to the 40s but it feels a lot lower)
I am using the half cloth physics mod
video
720p patch,
skip intro
disable chromatic abberation
tasksplit patch
disable http requests
60fps patch
disable vsync
any advice is appreciated. the issue seems to be worst when being attacked for some reason, it may just b my GPU being too crappy
yes, I died to a yharnamite
r/BloodbornePC • u/hirohamada69 • 14h ago
Question Diegolix shadps4 0.5 or 0.6
Does anybody have shadps4 diegolix build version 0.5 or 0.6? There's no option to download older versions on his repository. I can download shadps4 branch's older builds but they dont have support for KB+M. It ran great on my system on 0.5 version but with the latest 0.7 it has extreme stuttering and kind of unplayable. Can somebody please help me out.
r/BloodbornePC • u/ScientistNo1516 • 17h ago
Question How to know if DLC installed?
I just finally figured out all the stuff to make it run and ive been playing for like 30 mins but im worried because idk if the DLC installed and i do not wanna do it all again to get it to work. It says my game size is 29.3 GBs with the 1.09 patch.
r/BloodbornePC • u/jnf005 • 20h ago
Question Low performance on a R7 6800u device
I have played BB with shadps4 on my desktop for a bit, it's a 9900k system with a 4070ti, works well and looks great. I have an upcoming trip and wants to play it on the go, so I installed the official 0.7.0 build on my GPD win Max 2 with a 6800u apu. I've seen some vids of BB running on Steamdeck mostly stable 30fps, which has an apu with less and older CPU core, less iGPU shader unit than the 6800u's iGPU with the same architecture, so I figured it would just run. But nope, it's running way worse, mostly in the low 20s and stutters like hell. I see the GPU utilisation is max and the 6800u is running at the maximum 28w, so I'm not sure if I can squeeze more performance out of it.
Is there like a hack build with better performance? Or is it a windows limitation? I have a spare m.2 slot and SSD on my hand, I can install Bazzite dual boot if that's needed.
r/BloodbornePC • u/Significant-Gur4158 • 20h ago
Question Game crashing at a place where it didn't crash before and now i'm stuck
A few days ago i finished The one Reborn and went to Nightmare of Mensis. Only thing i did there was take the first lamp then left to explore regions i forgot. Today went back to that region throught the Lecture building 2nd floor and when i tried to get to the lamp my game crashed.
I always had a few crashes here and there, nothing too bad, but at Mensis, just right after the silver beast, my entire pc just freezes, i can't even force the game to shut down.
Is there a way to fix it? Can i go back to hunters dream without a lamp? hunters mark just take me to the beggining of the level.
r/BloodbornePC • u/neckro23 • 1d ago
Question Any fix for poor performance in Nightmare realms?
Hey y'all, I've been enjoying playing through this game (for the umpteenth time) in shadps4. My PC is pretty mid (Ryzen 5900HS CPU) but in most areas I get about 45 fps, which is much better than the console version. I haven't experienced any crashes or major glitches, and I've played through the entire base game by now.
However my framerate seems to tank whenever I enter any of the Nightmare areas. Performance was a bit choppy in Nightmare Frontier (and my PC hard-locked a couple times) but I was able to get through it. In Nightmare of Mensis my framerate would drop a lot when I looked in certain directions (towards the Brain, maybe?) but I managed.
Now I'm trying to play the DLC and it's basically unplayable. I drop below 10 fps in Hunter's Nightmare all over the place. What's the deal? Is there a mod that fixes this?
I'm not running any mods aside from the 60 fps patch, chromatic aberration/dof disabled, vertex explosion fix, and 60 fps sound fix.
r/BloodbornePC • u/Zealousideal_Rip_234 • 1d ago
Hype Can we freely use chalice glyphs in the game?
I've seen a mod that integrates some modded and cut content chalice glyphs into the game, but can we use just any glyphs, like from different farming guides?
r/BloodbornePC • u/darthveder69420 • 1d ago
Question How to use keyboard and mouse?
I cant map them in the controller settings of the emulator. I used rewasd which worked but rewasd only works for free for 7 days plus the mapping of the bloodborne config for it that i used had a giant issue with not being able the change which button I used to to dodge. I use L shift for every game that has a dodge but changing it wasn’t possible for some reason and dodge was hard stuck on space bar instead. This was major issue cus I can’t adjust to using space for dodge. Is there any alternatives to re wasd that are free and also have a bloodborne config?
r/BloodbornePC • u/darthveder69420 • 1d ago
Question How do I close the game and save my progress?
In he middle of playing the game and just realised I dont how to do this basic thing.
r/BloodbornePC • u/SyrupInteresting1907 • 1d ago
Question HELP Cainhurst Crash
I have the cutscene fixed and it’s not crashing at any cutscenes, but instead while fighting logarius it crashed twice seemingly out of nowhere sometime in 2nd phase. now when I reload the save I crash if I stay in Cainhurst and don’t immediately run and teleport back to the hunters dream. Already tried a fresh install. Using version 0.7.1 tried 0.7.0 and was the same. Also tried the diegobb build and it crashed no matter what for me.
r/BloodbornePC • u/Blue-Imagination0 • 1d ago
Question Legion go anyone?
Anyone have tried on legion go recently? I tried 2 3 months ago it was not good enough for me to continue, if anyone is playing on legion go handheld please share your settings and mods you have installed.
Thanks you 👍
r/BloodbornePC • u/Nice_Collar176 • 1d ago
Discussion Game keeps fucking crashing after dying to Living failures
title says it all
r/BloodbornePC • u/HOTU-Orbit • 2d ago
Random The little guy is just a distraction for the big guy!
This particular Hamlet Fishman doesn't ever attack you. He just stands over there, waiting for you to come over to attack, hoping you don't notice the giant shark monster on the left.
r/BloodbornePC • u/Outrageous-College-4 • 2d ago
Guide Guide for newbies to emulation for bloodborne
Hey, so you want to play the legendary game but on something not nearly 15 years old well heres how
Step one (could take 60-120 minutes solely due to the download speed)
First download shad ps4 4.0 from the official site https://shadps4.net/downloads/
You will have to select 4.0 from the dropdowns and download the QT GUI version for your respective unit
Once downloaded it will say hey were should we put games and saves, put them in a folder you will be able to access easily as you will need these files later on
Now, here's where I can't help, as sailing the high seas is an intolerable offense, but here's what I will say to aid you.
If you are from America, the version set here for Bloodborne is the complete edition, if in the EU it is the GOTY edition
You will see many options likely depending on what way youre getting the files but note you will need these 2 files and maybe 3, these being MAIN GAME, UPDATE 1.09, and possibly DLC
Once the files are on the computer open up shad ps4 and hit the file icon in the top left and hit extract pkg
extract the MAIN GAME FIRST, then the UPDATE, then DLC
Once done you have the main step done and can technically play for like 2 seconds. which is why the next step is necessary for the game to work
Step two (Should only take 15 minutes max unless something went terribly wrong)
Download Shad Ps4 version 7.0 https://shadps4.net/downloads/
(Reason for the redownload is I don't trust the in-app updater so a fresh download is better)
It will ask for a place for games I RECOMMEND you put it in a place that is easy to access (For later), Same With the saves
Put the files ( Should be Cusa00900 or the other Cusa00******) that you got from step one or already have into the games folder YOU JUST ASSIGNED and it should show up that you have bloodborne if not it means you may have downloaded a virus or you moved the wrong files Again the files should be Cusa00900 or the other regions Cusa file
Before moving on there's some things in the settings I think you should do
Firstly go to the general tab and select update channel and change it to full souls (this is the stable version of the emulator)
Second hit check for updates while there cause whilst 7.0 is the most recent it might not be by the time you do it
Third Go to the Input tab and select Hide cursor then Always for hide cursor
Fourth go to the graphics tab nd select 2 things Disply mode FullScreen and the select Graphics device and the one you are using
Lastly if you are playing on a PS5 controller go to the inputs tab and disble motion controls otherwise you will taunt constantly (whilst funny sucks during combat)
NEXT
right click on bloodborne and select cheats/patches
it will open up a window select patches up top
at the bottom select bloodborne.xml | shadps4
here's what I recommend you click
skip intro
disable chromatic aberration
disable motion blur
disable HTTP requests
60 FPS (With Delta Time)
I DO NOT RECCOMEND CHANGING RESOLUTION
this is not for performance but because you will not be able to play the game at 1440p there are missing and broken textures with the higher res options only missing more and breaking more.
After that comes the trial and error stage of crashing
Step three (Could take 2 minute could take a hour)
Heres what I have found for mods you will likely need (I will explain how to install in step 4)
BUT BEFORE TESTING make a duplicate cusa folder incase the mod doesn't work or you cant get the game to work
IF your character is having triangles or textures just come out of you in a annoying fashion you will need this mod https://www.nexusmods.com/bloodborne/mods/109
If you can hit things but they cant hit you, no you don't need to do a no hit % heres what you need
If you have a 12gen intel and above or a amd CPU(cant verify I don't have one) this might work, didn't for me but might for others https://www.nexusmods.com/bloodborne/mods/41?tab=files choose the final version
The other option is this https://www.nexusmods.com/bloodborne/mods/70?tab=files I would just choose the top option as I have personally not tested 60 fps cutscenes and people seem to have issues with it
IF you have any more trouble go to the emulation help megthread or the discord https://www.reddit.com/r/BloodbornePC/comments/1f5c8zz/megathread_emulation_help/
Theres also other mods for performance on nexus if you cant play it at 60
Step 4 (take roughly 20 minutes)
Once the mods are on the PC they will likely all have a file labeled DVDroot_ps4 to install the mod head to your bloodborne file your going to play and paste the files over where the previous DVDroot_ps4 file is located
Now here's the issue with some of these mods you cant hear anything
If that's the case go into the duplicate bloodborne files I told you to make earlier go into DVDroot_ps4, then sfx, next copy these two files to get sound back in the game
frpg_sfxbnd_commoneffects.ffxbnd.dcx These fixed hitting and punching sounds
AND
frpg_sfxbnd_m28_00.ffxbnd.dcx These fixed menu and footstep sounds
Now that you copied those paste them into the playable bloodborne folder via DVDroot_ps4, then sfx and paste
If still missing things again go to the discord or the emulation help megathread https://www.reddit.com/r/BloodbornePC/comments/1f5c8zz/megathread_emulation_help/
AND that should really be all there is now go play hunter!
r/BloodbornePC • u/yasserhaouzi • 1d ago
Question shadps4 crashing at launch
Every single time I try to launch bloodborne, with multiple different PKGs from different sources, it crashes instantly and closes the emulator. If anybody has encountered this issue, some help would be greatly appreciated.
r/BloodbornePC • u/Spyzzixu • 2d ago
Question controller doesn't work anymore
i played bloodborne on an old shadps4 version, now i updated to 0.7.1 WIP and it feels better in terms of fps. i played only 20 min then i hop off. now when i want to play my controller doesn't work at all ? i tried to restart the game, and every little things that i have in mind but i can't play. solutions ?
r/BloodbornePC • u/hyth7 • 1d ago
Question Graphics flickring
Hey everyone i have a question The game runs fine some random crashes here and there but nothing major but i have a problem where the textures in game are flickring not just envirmoent but on some bosses like the blood starved beast, what could be the issue and how to fix it thanks
r/BloodbornePC • u/theshakashow • 1d ago
Question Player model clothes are stiff, anyone else experience this?
As the title says, my character models clothes don’t flow as I run, the long jackets are stiff and you can see my character models legs run through them as I am moving. Has anyone else experienced this and know which additional mod I should install?
r/BloodbornePC • u/Dangerous_Cog • 2d ago
Question How can I legally download bloodborne from my ps4 to my pc?
I want to play bloodborne in of and to do that I want to download it legally from my PlayStation and out the file into shadps4
r/BloodbornePC • u/jdhayward • 2d ago
Question Crashing as soon as I attack.
Got the game set up running at 1440p 30fps with subtle reshade and the enhanced mod.
Everything running great for about an hour and now as soon as I hit an enemy I crash.
Bumped the resolution down and this stopped it but it was running perfectly prior to this.
Is there anything else I could try?
Specs are 3090 I7-10700k 32gb ram.