# Mario 64 for PlayStation 5: a Ghostship port

> Mario 64 for PlayStation 5 ports Ghostship's decompilation-based Super Mario 64 application to PS5. It adds console-specific SDL drivers, Vulkan and RADV integration, and patches to the Ghostship stack; the user's ROM is converted into game data on first launch.

- 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/griches/PS5_Ghostship>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/griches/PS5_Ghostship/blob/4cb586e7e5c722ba90fd86f66459569de564fc93/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/ps5-ghostship-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/ps5-ghostship-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/ps5-ghostship-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Supply a supported US or Japanese Super Mario 64 .z64 ROM.
- **Prerequisites:** Requires a PS5 able to run homebrew, with the described title-registration setup.
- **Testing evidence:** The author reports a 60-image-per-second result in tested scenes.
- **License:** The repository as a whole is GPL-3.0 licensed.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/griches/PS5_Ghostship/blob/4cb586e7e5c722ba90fd86f66459569de564fc93/README.md>

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