A Fake PS4 Emulator Has Appeared

[Linux Panic]

Summary

A recently discovered PS4 emulator has appeared by the name of PCSX4 copying the naming convention of PCSX and PCSX2, which is keeping the Sony naming theme. Except when you go to download it you are forced to go fill out a survey for money or install a third party extension which doesn't work when attempted. When checking the listed GitHub on the PCSX4 website it shows that the last update was 4 months ago. The GitHub also has less documentation then an OSU graphics tablet drivers. 

 

Along with conflicting information all over their website. In their terms of server (which is on the website as Tos. Why?) It says that PCSX4 is governed by the laws of France. Meanwhile on the GitHub page is says the country is the Netherlands.

 

It also claims to advertise that it can run the games at 4K60FPS. Now that is only possible for the PS4 Pro not the regular PS4 which this appears to be advertising to.
And a further catch is on the website blog it talks about only getting the 2018 PS4 Spiderman only working this year when its been advertised to be working since 2019 on their Facebook and YouTube. There is no substance to any of their claims and this scam has been planned for some time because the website has been registered since June of 2014 according to who.is 

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A Scam PS4 Emulator has appeared with no supporting documentation and it appears that all it is trying to do is farm money from suckers trying to download it by sending them to dodgy survey pages that will farm more data then Facebook. To quote Lester from GTA V "Prepare to get your data mined"

 

My thoughts

My thoughts on this are clear. It is 100% a scam. There is no sort of documentation for anything of worth. There are OSU graphics tablet drivers (as mentioned before) that have more documentation then this entire project. It is being used solely to farm money and data at the expense of the public. It has no true basis in reality and its making a big fuss and attention grab at nothing just to farm money.

 

Sources

https://www.pcsx4.com (Main Website)

https://www.pcsx4.com/d (Download Page)
https://pcsx4.com/tos (Terms of Service)

https://github.com/hawku/TabletDriver (OSU Tablet Driver) 

https://github.com/ps4emurepo (PCSX4 GitHub)
https://www.facebook.com/pcsx4 (Facebook Page with no updates since 2019)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCadIRTx7kExOs_jRFu1UC-Q (YouTube with no updates since 2019)

https://pcsx4.com/posts/spider-man-2018-pc-ps4-emulator (Spiderman 2018 Website Blog Entry)
https://who.is/whois/pcsx4.com (Who.is website information)

[Spotty]

Moved to Console Gaming. The Tech News section is for discussing news articles relating to tech topics. Your sources appear to just be the sites website and social media pages, which according to you have not been updated in several years. As per the Tech News Posting Guidelines:

• Your thread must include a link to at least one reputable source. Most of the time, this should be a respected news site.

If there are recent published news articles discussing this then please edit your post to include those articles, along with brief quotes from those articles and it can be moved back to the Tech News section, otherwise you can continue the discussion in the Console Gaming forum.

[Mark Kaine]

yeah, this seems pretty old, ive heard about this years ago i think.

 

Furthermore there is no PCSX , at least not actively developed afaik, there is a PCSXR (reloaded) however. : )