DuckStation

Accurate PlayStation emulator that runs on low-end hardware

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Connor McLaughlin (stenzek)Developer
7 Nov 2026Page Updated

Details

Developer: Connor McLaughlin (stenzek)
Source Code: GitHub
Page Updated: 7 November 2026

Supported Systems

PlayStation

Platform Support

Screenshots

DuckStation PlayStation Emulator Screenshot 1

DuckStation PlayStation Emulator Screenshot 2

Overview

DuckStation is a PlayStation 1 emulator written by Connor McLaughlin (stenzek). Its aim is to be as accurate as possible while still running well on low-end hardware, and it discourages hack options, so the default settings should work for every playable game.

It has a desktop interface built with Qt and a fullscreen interface for TVs and controllers. The hardware renderers support Direct3D 11 and 12, OpenGL, Vulkan and Metal, with upscaling, texture filtering, true colour and PGXP to reduce wobbly polygons. Other features include save states with rewind and runahead, texture replacement, post-processing shaders, cheat and patch databases, a memory card editor, CHD support and RetroAchievements.

Builds for Windows (x64 and ARM64), Linux (AppImage) and macOS are made automatically for every change, and there is an Android version on Google Play. You need a PlayStation BIOS dumped from your own console. DuckStation is under active development and is released under the CC BY-NC-ND licence.

Key Features

Accuracy First

Aims for accuracy while still running well on low-end hardware.

Upscaling and PGXP

Upscaling, texture filtering, true colour and PGXP for stable polygons.

Rewind and Runahead

Save states with rewind and runahead support.

RetroAchievements

Supports RetroAchievements, cheat and patch databases.

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What's new in v2026-11-07Latest Rolling Release

Commits

8962d8436 GPU/HW: Add missing logging of depth clears
20916bd89 FullscreenUI: Activate toggle buttons on release instead of press
c3b58f256 FullscreenUI: Support drag/swipe scrolling with inertia
968d20a41 dep/imgui: Don’t smooth scroll requests made while window is appearing
fd8bcdcf1 FullscreenUI: Fix ForceKeyNavEnabled() clobbering gamepad nav source
7d64f8223 FullscreenUI: Include directory selector in open dialog checks
414d8f204 FullscreenUI: Clear all dialogs on shutdown
49a2ff938 FullscreenUI: Fix indeterminate progress bar sweep range
aa9916b88 FullscreenUI: Avoid inverted std::clamp() bounds in dropdown width
f4fe9de23 FullscreenUI: Pass button flags through in MenuButtonFrame() overload
ae4658a7b FullscreenUI: Pass p_open through in BeginBlurWindow()
b73f8b273 FullscreenUI: Keep horizontal menu/sidebar state balanced when hidden
9bbf341be FullscreenUI: Copy/move checkable choice dialog callback before invoking
92a7758b5 CDImageCHD: Use generated subchannel Q for virtual pregaps
b2b68c3ce CDImageCCD: Fix LBA count including pregaps twice
cde17ace5 CDImageCueSheet: Fix single-file pregap and LBA count
0b5b8774c Common: Add PackedOptionalArray
296d48a67 ImGuiManager: Ensure DeltaTime can never be negative
dff25dbc3 FullscreenUI: Improve drag scrolling
0d1b014cc ImGuiManager: Don’t hover pointer for touchscreens
5d4772417 System: Sync to host refresh rates that are a multiple of the console’s
e48f86ab9 SDLInputSource: Fix sensor enable early return
84e1db587 FullscreenUI: Fix clear binding button clearing all
dc623cafe Spanish (Spain) translation update 2026/10/25 (#3814)
f78ecb81c Settings: Fix VSync/frame pacing help text
ae250ebeb D3D12Device: Use frame latency waitable in exclusive fullscreen
3c81431b4 Qt: Use X11 server size for surface size
6cd67d7ef Qt: Round Wayland surface size as per fractional-scale-v1
4b524740d OpenGLContextEGL: Don’t query surface size
60a5c21f4 GPUDevice: Report swap chain resizes from present calls
1e7b6d796 Qt: Accept wayland-egl/wayland-brcm platform names
360a35ed1 Qt: Remove sync()/processEvents() hack
ae7895dae Qt: Pick up X11 window size changes from configure events
8c68d4778 Improve Swedish vertex terminology (#3815)
16be09afe Qt: Skip setting rounded corner state on Windows 10
e7efd4261 Qt: Recheck surface size when restoring from minimized
a4f3e5ff7 VideoThread: Ignore zero-sized render window resizes
076b133a6 CocoaTools: Use native display mode for real scaling factor
5d936496a System: Disable vsync while fast forwarding if it can be switched cheaply
637ff514c VulkanSwapChain: Switch between FIFO and immediate without recreating
2a0e92fe3 FullscreenUI: Fix 0 point display when achievements disabled
a78082b8c Qt: Add descriptions to post-processing page
e0f6fa82b Qt: Remove ‘Post Processing Chain’ groupbox
0310f59ac XInputSource: Poll disconnected slots periodically
e41bcd36d InputManager: Device notification fixes
f591ef20e Common: Fix heap overflow when shrinking DynamicHeapArray
526b4a128 Clarify Swedish automatic setting descriptions (#3816)
d38183754 Improve Swedish translation quality (#3817)
eb68a7d22 AudioStream: Make ApplyVolume() public
cf5890e26 SoundEffectManager: Add volume control
3171f3be9 Cheats: Add block write code types
8cc2ef4a7 Scripts: Add psx-exe to elf converter
25ff3364c Cheats: Merge runs of constant/match writes into vectorised block writes
94cdf91c0 Qt: Update machine translations
831fef0e3 Qt: Fix reset audio settings clearing from base ini
e700391c4 Qt: Rename PromptForAddress() to PromptForHexValue()
3f8df8b78 Qt: Allow editing CPU registers in debugger
fc48940aa CPU: Only intercept TTY syscalls in interpreter with BIOS TTY logging
ca184adb3 System: Don’t apply cheats or update achievements until the game starts
b292b8477 Scripts: Regression test UI