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How to play Bloodborne on a Windows PC without conventional emulation

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Published Oct 24, 2026, 8:30 AM EDT

My love for computers started with a trusty Compaq back in 2005, and I haven't looked back since. This had me graduate into being an avid tinkerer, even if I end up soft-bricking stuff most of the time.

I do also love video games.

Bloodborne is a special game, and its intriguing Lovecraftian world was enough to draw me in — someone who doesn’t really play or enjoy Soulslikes. It’s also been locked to the PS4, and it has never made its way to other platforms.

Yes, this includes the PS5 as well, which technically just runs the PS4 version of the game with backward compatibility and no additional tweaks enabled, which is a bit unfortunate. With no PC port in sight, the community took it upon themselves to port Bloodborne .

Getting Bloodborne to work on PC initially began with shadPS4, a PS4 emulator . While this worked marvelously well, it was still emulation and not a native PC port.…

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