# Knack for PC: running the PS4 game with a replacement runtime

> Knack for PC ports the PlayStation 4 game Knack to Windows and Linux by running its original x86-64 code with replacement PS4 system libraries and a Vulkan graphics core. The Knack-specific work covers imported system functions, fixed-address memory, NGS2 audio layouts, and graphics translation. The author reports that the first chapters play from start to end; later chapters remain untested.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-08
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/AbdelmoumenDeghbouche/knack_pc>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/AbdelmoumenDeghbouche/knack_pc/blob/993a1849fc99d6ee7c373e77eb7919b7e8ae347a/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/knack-pc-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/knack-pc-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/knack-pc-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Provide a dump of your own Knack PS4 copy; the development target is CUSA00068 with update 01.10.
- **Prerequisites:** A 64-bit CPU with AVX and a Vulkan 1.3 GPU are required; the Linux build needs glibc 2.39 or newer.
- **Testing evidence:** Later chapters and the listed EU versions are untested; the Linux AppImage has been opened but not played.
- **License:** GPL-2.0 license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/AbdelmoumenDeghbouche/knack_pc/blob/993a1849fc99d6ee7c373e77eb7919b7e8ae347a/README.md>

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