# NHL24 PC: running NHL 24 on Windows through a game-specific PS4 runtime

> NHL24 PC runs the PS4 version of NHL 24 on Windows through a game-specific shadPS4 fork. It executes the game's x86-64 code directly, replaces PS4 system-library calls with native implementations, translates GCN shaders to SPIR-V for Vulkan, and extracts the user's own base and update PKGs through its launcher.

- 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/HajDEO/nhl24pc>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/HajDEO/nhl24pc/blob/049925146e5a441a82a61226ffca67a837711bc1/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/nhl24-pc-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/nhl24-pc-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/nhl24-pc-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Windows 10 or 11 x64 and a Vulkan 1.3 GPU.
- **Prerequisites:** A user-provided NHL 24 PS4 base PKG, version 1.00, for CUSA37933 or CUSA37934; the 1.60 update is optional.
- **Testing evidence:** The author reports that European update 1.60 testing remains pending and that rare device-lost crashes occur.
- **License:** GPL-2.0-or-later license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/HajDEO/nhl24pc/blob/049925146e5a441a82a61226ffca67a837711bc1/README.md>

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