# Lantern Engine: a Bloodborne runtime for Windows and Linux

> Lantern Engine runs Bloodborne CUSA03173 update 1.09 from the player's own PS4 dump on Windows and Linux. Built on bbport and shadPS4, its game-specific runtime supplies PS4 system services while the game's code executes on the CPU and graphics are translated to Vulkan. The source documents additional launcher, rendering, control, and performance work.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/Awakenchan/LanternEngine>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/Awakenchan/LanternEngine/blob/f96cc42e869090377f5a4c0424b080132ecb9467/engine/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/lantern-engine-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/lantern-engine-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/lantern-engine-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** A user's own decrypted Bloodborne CUSA03173 dump with update 1.09 is required.
- **Prerequisites:** Linux support is beta and requires a Vulkan driver, Python 3, and glibc 2.38 or newer.
- **Limits:** The renderer and shader recompiler still use shadPS4 components at their core.
- **License:** Lantern Engine's own code is GPL-3.0-or-later with additional terms; other components retain their own licenses.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/Awakenchan/LanternEngine/blob/f96cc42e869090377f5a4c0424b080132ecb9467/engine/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/Awakenchan/LanternEngine/blob/f96cc42e869090377f5a4c0424b080132ecb9467/README.md>

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