shadps4-emu/shadPS4

PlayStation 4 emulator for Windows, Linux, macOS and FreeBSD written in C++

33.6k stars · 2.7k forks · C++

Healthy

Healthy: actively maintained by 49 people, no known risks.

Why

No rule fired.

What would change this

Partly checked: maintenance (Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.)
A dormant maintenance status, a deprecated or archived package, a successor link, or a critical advisory would change this.

Maintenance

Partial

Active

Human commits, 30 days: 192
Human commits, 90 days: 365
Human commits, 365 days: 968
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 0%
Last commit: Oct 14, 2026 (13 hours ago)
Last human commit: Oct 14, 2026 (13 hours ago)
Authors, 90 days: 49
Last release: Oct 14, 2026 (16 hours ago)
Median PR merge time: 3 hours

Responsiveness: of 30 recent issues, 70% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 21 hours.

Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Organization
Commits sampled: 500 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 5
Authors for 80% of commits: 15
Contributors: 223

Top committers

StevenMiller123: 15% of commits
kalaposfos13: 12% of commits
georgemoralis: 11% of commits
squidbus: 8% of commits
raphaelthegreat: 7% of commits

Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Organic, confidence high

Bars show stars gained each week. Orange bars overlap a burst.

Bursts

Jun 20, 2023 to Jun 20, 2023: about 21 more stars than usual, peak 21 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Sep 29, 2023 to Oct 1, 2023: about 49 more stars than usual, peak 30 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 31, 2024 to May 31, 2024: about 11 more stars than usual, peak 11 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 4, 2024 to Jul 15, 2024: about 481 more stars than usual, peak 159 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Aug 5, 2024 to Aug 8, 2024: about 151 more stars than usual, peak 111 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 18, 2024 to Sep 4, 2024: about 5.9k more stars than usual, peak 1.9k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
Dec 27, 2024 to Jan 3, 2025: about 822 more stars than usual, peak 227 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 21, 2025 to Feb 1, 2025: about 3.5k more stars than usual, peak 1.2k in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Mar 24, 2025 to Apr 7, 2025: about 1.9k more stars than usual, peak 745 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 25, 2025 to May 26, 2025: about 160 more stars than usual, peak 140 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 18, 2025 to Jul 22, 2025: about 1.8k more stars than usual, peak 828 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Aug 3, 2025 to Aug 5, 2025: about 74 more stars than usual, peak 54 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 23, 2025 to Aug 25, 2025: about 356 more stars than usual, peak 196 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 5, 2025 to Oct 6, 2025: about 230 more stars than usual, peak 197 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 7, 2026 to Jan 14, 2026: about 441 more stars than usual, peak 165 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 16, 2026 to Mar 25, 2026: about 1.8k more stars than usual, peak 568 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a new release.
Oct 6, 2026 to Oct 13, 2026: about 357 more stars than usual, peak 69 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.

2 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

The star history looks organic.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Complete

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now: GPL-2.0 (OSI-approved)
A year ago: GPL-2.0 (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

Sources: GitHub: shadps4-emu/shadPS4

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
Oct 14, 2026: Healthy

Computed 12 hours ago · method 2026.10.2