Systems / PlayStation 4

Uncharted-Recharted

Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection (2015, x64)

Status

Early

Platforms

Linux x86-64 and macOS (planned)

Game release

CUSA02320, base game and patch (decrypted dump of your own copy)

Repository

JTM-rootstorm/Uncharted-Recharted

SwARc

platforms/orbis (commits)

Updated

2026-11-10

The second game on SwARc’s PS4 platform module, Orbis. Its job is the module more than the game: everything it needs that Gravity Rush did not becomes part of the platform. It builds against SwARc’s main branch.

Status

• The collection ships three executables, one per game (eboot.bin, big2-ps4_Shipping.elf, big3-ps4_Shipping.elf), with libc and libSceFios2. Against Gravity Rush they import new libraries: the hardware video decoder, libScePosix, more of PSN, the mouse, and the error and profile dialogs.
• The first game, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, lifts (25,333 functions, 1.88M instructions) and runs: its intro movies, the title screen, a new game, saving, and into its opening cutscene.
• What it needed went into the module, each piece measured on the console in the game’s own process where the answer was not known:
  • the hardware video decoder (Videodec2), with the movies paced by the flips at the console’s rate;
  • flip mode 2, which flips as soon as a frame is submitted instead of at a vblank, timed against the console;
  • ATRAC9 through the audio decoder as the console runs it, including the RIFF headers it decodes unasked, on LibAtrac9;
  • direct memory moved between views 1 MiB at a time, with munmap across many mappings;
  • the save list with a new item, the progress bar dialog, and the trophies’ unlock state;
  • on the GPU: GDS, wave-wide operations, 64-bit LDS, 16-bit float buffer stores, SGPRs spilled to vector lanes, occlusion queries and loads from a bounded per-lane offset;
  • in the lifter: F16C, and a clang jump table indexed by a byte widened in place.
• It stops in the opening cutscene, where an audio stream’s header says 6 channels and its ATRAC9 configuration says mono. What the console does with that is the next thing to measure.

Next

• That stream, measured on the console, then on through the first game.
• The second and third games, and how one game starts another (sceSystemServiceLoadExec).

The findings have the detail.