Sackboy: A Big Adventure — PS5 emulator

At a glance

Where it stands

Sackboy carries a Stable chip and is comfortable on mid-range hardware. Levels are self-contained rather than streamed, which spares your disk and keeps performance predictable.

It is also the obvious pick for a living-room setup, which is what the night-mode launcher was designed around in the first place.

More than one controller

Local co-op means Windows has to present several pads cleanly at once, and that is where mixed setups get awkward. A DualSense alongside an Xbox pad usually works, but the player order is decided by the order Windows enumerated them, not by who sat down first.

• Connect every pad before launching Vesper.
• Prefer USB for at least the first controller.
• Avoid leaving an idle pad connected and unassigned.

The DualSense how-to covers the case where one pad works and another is ignored entirely.

Setting up for the couch

Vesper can be driven entirely from a gamepad, so once the game is added you need not go back to the keyboard. Output to a TV behaves like any other Windows display.

Add your own copy through File then Add games, after firmware is installed.