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EmuDeck guide shadPS4 Tips and Tricks


How to play games.

  1. In Desktop Mode, open shadps4
  2. Skip this step if you have already added your games to shadps4:
  3. Either:
    • In the top left click, File, click Install Packages (PKG), and install your PKG
    • For more information, read the File Formats section
  4. Right click your game, click Create Shortcut, click Create Desktop Shortcut
  5. On your desktop, you should see an icon for your game. Move this icon to Emulation/roms/ps4/shortcuts
  6. If your desktop shortcut contains special icons any special symbols (Ex: the copyright symbol, ©), rename the desktop file to remove these symbols.
    • For example, rename God Of War® Collection.desktop to God Of War Collection.desktop, removing the © after War
  7. Your game should now show up both in ES-DE and Steam Rom Manager