With Sony recently confirming that it will no longer port its PlayStation games to PC, there has been a rush to perfect emulation of its titles. Over the summer, 2025's Ghost of Yotei was booted on PC via an emulator for the first time, and the same happened with the PS5 launch title, Demon's Souls.
However, while SharpEmu is certainly the choice for running emulated versions of PS5 games, one player is trying to get Astro Bot to run natively on Windows, without the need for an emulator, and so far, they've had some success. After jumping through a few hurdles, the game is running on Windows, with up to 120 FPS via frame generation.
The native Astro Bot PC port was shared on Reddit by Equal_Classroom_872. It runs through a "Windows executable using AnyPS5, with a Kyty-based Vulkan graphics layer."
Across four of Astro Bot's different areas, Equal_Classroom received varying frame rates. In Sky Garden, they received 32-34 fps; in Hoover Beach, 51–53 fps; in Snowy Canyon, 43–44 fps; and in Cymbal Party Land, 37–39 fps. This was, however, boosted drastically via frame generation.
With 2x frame gen, the game...
