Questions

Yes. The PSoXide player runs the public demo disc on its itch.io page. It requires no installation or BIOS file.

On itch.io. The PSoXide Demo Disc puts most of them on one image, and several also have their own download.

A standard, unmodified retail PlayStation cannot directly boot a burned PSoXide disc. You need a modchipped console or another compatible homebrew boot method. PSoXide does not endorse modchipping or provide installation help. Modifying a console can permanently damage or brick it; any modification is at your own risk.

Half-Life’s source is public. It requires your own game data and offers no disc-image download. Hollow Knight has no public build. The Quake port is available with the shareware episode's data.

Watch Bonnie Studios on YouTube for Half-Life, Hollow Knight, Quake, NitroXide and VoXide running on original hardware, plus the browser emulator introduction.

No. PSoXide uses its own kernel to boot discs, written from public documentation and black-box observation. It can't load a BIOS at all.

20 of the 20 games on the compatibility list reach the in-game tier in headless runs, with no BIOS. None has been played through and rated "playable" by a person yet.

The speed and memory comparison against DuckStation, Beetle PSX and PCSX-Redux is being measured again on a current build. The results will be published on the comparison page with how they were measured, whichever emulator comes out ahead.

There's no cross-emulator accuracy comparison yet. PSoXide is tested against a real console using a hardware test battery, with documented differences and reproduction steps.

It builds from source as a desktop app (the README lists the extra packages Ubuntu needs), and it has a browser build, which is the player on itch.io.

git clone https://github.com/EBonura/PSoXide-emulator.git
cd PSoXide-emulator
make bootstrap
make build
./target/release/frontend

You need Rust through rustup, Python 3 and your host's C/C++ build tools.

Clone the SDK and run make hello-tri-disc. You get a bootable BIN/CUE with one shaded triangle. The walkthrough covers the tools you need and how to run it.

No. You can write bare-metal Rust against the SDK, or build scenes in the editor and let the engine and cooker turn them into a disc. Cortex Ignition is made that way.

The SDK is EBonura/PSoXide, the emulator EBonura/PSoXide-emulator, and the editor, engine and Cortex Ignition EBonura/PSoXide-editor. The editor and emulator pin their source dependencies, and make bootstrap fetches them. The SDK builds independently.

PSoXide’s SDK, engine, editor and emulator are released under GPL-2.0-or-later, with third-party notices where applicable. Games, music, artwork and other assets may have different terms. The emulator does not require or load a Sony BIOS. Check each project’s licence and distribution notes before reusing or sharing it.

The SDK, emulator, editor and engine are GPL-2.0-or-later, as are most of the games; the Quake port is GPL-2.0-only. Half-Life is source-only for non-commercial use.

Using the tools does not automatically license their output under the GPL. Distributing a program incorporating or linking PSoXide’s GPL runtime or SDK generally requires GPL-compatible licensing of the combined program and complete corresponding source, including required build material. Independent art, music and other content keep their own terms; bundled demo assets may not be reusable in your release.

Open an issue on the repository it's about: the SDK or this website, the emulator, or the editor and engine. For a change to the emulator, run make check, make test and make fmt-check, add a focused regression test, and say whether your evidence comes from emulation or real hardware. Never commit BIOS files or game images.