AnyPlay Launcher

The home of your games on PC. The launcher finds the games you dumped from your own console, unlocks them for AnyPS5 and starts them from a console-style home screen. It also connects you with friends for parties, calls and joining each other's games. For Windows and Linux.

Get it

Download the latest release.

• Windows 10 or 11: AnyPlay-Launcher-<version>-Setup.exe (installer, no administrator rights) or -x64.exe (one file).
• Linux, 64-bit: AnyPlay-Launcher-<version>-x86_64.AppImage or the .tar.gz.

You need your own decrypted game dumps. On first start the launcher asks for your games folder and downloads the AnyPS5 toolkit. Requirements, SmartScreen, checksums and data folders: docs/INSTALL.md.

Screens

Screenshots of the launcher, taken from a release build with a real library.

What's inside

• Library: finds dumps in one folder, reads title, artwork and media from them, and never changes a dump.
• Unlock and play: turns a dump into a copy AnyPS5 can run, starts it, and tells you why it stopped if it fails.
• Controls: reads a game's controls from its own files, with ready-made keyboard and mouse layouts and tuning.
• Trophies, saves, playtime: trophies pop up while you play, saves are backed up before anything risky.
• Per-game settings: window, sync, overlay, language and shader cache, plus recommended settings you apply with one click.
• Online: friends, parties with voice, calls, profiles, a feed and join codes, with an AnyPlay account. See docs/ONLINE.md.
• Updates: signed self-update on Windows.

Status

Released. The library, unlocking, controls and the online area work. No real game plays online yet: the bridge that connects a game to the network is still under review in AnyPS5. Linux has no self-update yet, and starting a game with the bridge is untested there. What is missing is listed in the known gaps.

Build and contribute

You need Rust 1.95 and a checkout of anyplaynet/network at the commit in network.ref:

cargo fmt --all -- --check
cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings
cargo test --workspace

The details for each system and for releases are in docs/BUILDING.md; how the code fits together is in docs/HOW-IT-WORKS.md. Words are defined in CONTEXT.md. Issues and pull requests are welcome; see CONTRIBUTING.md.

Community

Questions, bug reports and other players: the AnyPlay Discord. More about AnyPlay at anyplaynet.com.

Credits, license and ground rules

GPL-2.0, see LICENSE. The launcher began as a port of the macOS launcher by utkuhalis in AnyPS5-ARM (GPL-2.0). Since then it has its own implementation, Windows and Linux integration and the online area. AnyPS5 is by boykopovar. Bundled fonts and icons are listed in docs/supply-chain.md.

Ported files: the Rust files that began as ports of Swift files in AnyPS5-ARM name their source in their first line. They are unwrap, library, unlock, toolkit, settings, controls, trophies, diagnosis and discord in anyps5-core, and app/model, ui/i18n, ui/i18n_table and ui/background in anyps5-launcher. The mapping is in docs/PORT.md.

AnyPlay is a community project, not affiliated with the AnyPS5 maintainers or any platform holder. Only games you own: no game files, keys or firmware are included here, and none will be. AnyPS5 is a compatibility layer, not an emulator.