The PC gaming community has greeted the news that emulation of Bloodborne, FromSoftware’s acclaimed title, has come leaps and bounds over the past two months. And adding even more excitement, it has been reported that it is now possible to enjoy the game on your computers with amazing visual quality and performance, all thanks to the shadPS4 emulator.
This project has experienced accelerated development, especially in recent weeks, managing to emulate PlayStation 4 games with great fidelity. In the case of Bloodborne, version 0.3.1 of the emulator, along with several modifications created by the community, has allowed run the game with a visual quality very close to that of the original PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 versions, and even surpass it in some aspects.
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Thanks to these advancements, Bloodborne on PC now features higher quality textures, dynamic lighting, more realistic water effects and reflections, and a stable frame rate of 60 FPS or higher. These achievements have been possible thanks to the combination of the shadPS4 emulator and community-developed mods, which have optimized the game and corrected various technical problems. All this can be seen in a video published by the BonfireVN YouTube channel, where a comparison is also made between the PlayStation 5 versions and the one emulated on PC.
Meanwhile, Sony has yet to announce an official port of Bloodborne for PC, making emulation the only way to enjoy the title on this platform, and increasingly attractive. This effort has been so remarkable that many players hope it will motivate Sony to consider an official release, allowing a wider audience to experience this gem of the Souls genre.
Meanwhile, you can see the great progress in the comparative video (in English), which we leave you below.
FromSoftware boss wants Bloodborne to come to PC, but he wants it quietly: “If I say I want it, I’d get in trouble”
Since its release in 2015, Bloodborne has earned a special place in the hearts of gamers, who consider it not only a challenging action game, but a masterpiece of the genre. Developed by FromSoftware and directed by the acclaimed Hidetaka Miyazaki, the game has been exclusive to PlayStation, leaving PC gamers hoping to one day experience it on their preferred platforms.
So much is the desire for the game, that even recently Hidetaka Miyazaki acknowledged the fans’ fervor to see (b)Bloodborne on PC, not only showing a deep understanding of the situation, but also expressing his own interest in the possibility of a PC port of the game.
During a recent interview with PC Gamer, related to the new Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, Hidetaka Miyazaki, president of FromSoftware, expressed his openness to the idea of bringing Bloodborne to the PC platform. Although Miyazaki acknowledged that FromSoftware does not own the intellectual property rights to the game, he shared that he and other developers at the company have a strong desire to see a PC port for Bloodborne.
