Astro's Playroom on AnyPS5

Screenshots

No screenshot of this game running has been posted in the project's threads yet. Testers who reach a new screen usually post one in the discussion linked on the right.

Where it stands

Astro's Playroom is the free PS5 pack-in game. Several contributors are working on it, and it has driven many of AnyPS5's graphics fixes, so the project is clearly getting closer. No one has posted a screenshot, a menu or gameplay yet.

Most of the early missing pieces are merged: maths helpers, text-line drawing, a few network and voice-chat stubs, and the 'reliable UDP' start call that used to kill the game at launch. One contributor reported the game running as far as its first presentation (the first frame sent to the screen) on Windows with a few local extras. Another reported that a full-screen post-process pass used to abort the game; that was fixed and merged on October 10, and with the fix the screen renders correctly, per the reporter.

The main wall right now is a system library called libSceJobManager (Sony's job scheduler). The game needs seven of its functions and does not ship its own copy, and AnyPS5 does not have it. On plain main the game cannot even load. Two pull requests that add it were closed because the project has paused accepting new PRs, so the work is waiting.

Another tester with a forked build (the report does not name the OS) got past that and reached 'Resident Load end', then hit a crash while preparing a vertex shader (a program that places triangles on screen). A fix exists on a branch but is not merged. Shader math details (how the GPU handles tiny numbers and NaN values) are also still being checked, because this game's shaders exercise them heavily.

What is stopping it

• libSceJobManager is missing, so the game cannot load. The game needs 7 of its functions. PRs that add it were closed because new PRs are paused. Thread
• Crash while preparing a vertex shader: the game passes a copy of the shader header at a different address than the one registered. A fix exists on a branch but is not merged. Thread
• GPU shader maths mode (how tiny numbers, NaN and clamping behave) is set per shader on the console but AnyPS5 assumed one setting. Being fixed step by step; this game's shaders hit it heavily. Thread
• New pull requests are paused by the project, so ready fixes are waiting to be carried by maintainers. Thread

How it got here

1. 5 Oct 2026Missing maths and text helper functions the game imports are added (strtoimax, logbf, float helpers). Source
2. 6 Oct 2026Text-line drawing (libSceFont writing lines) is implemented; the game uses all six functions. Source
3. 8 Oct 2026Voice-chat and reliable-UDP imports stop the loader failing. A tester reports the game running as far as its first presentation with a few local extras. Source
4. 8 Oct 2026A font function the game calls at start-up no longer terminates it. Source
5. 8 Oct 2026Shader float-mode work lands (denormal flushing, output modifiers, DX10 clamp), using this game's shaders as the test set. Source
6. 9 Oct 2026A full-screen post-process draw that aborted the game is traced to reading past a 3-vertex buffer; hardware measurement shows the console returns zeros. Source
7. 9 Oct 2026A Windows user finds the game cannot load because libSceJobManager.prx does not exist. Source
8. 10 Oct 2026Zero-fill fix for the vertex-fetch abort and the sceRudpActivate stub are merged. Source
9. 10 Oct 2026A tester with a forked build reaches 'Resident Load end' but crashes while preparing a vertex shader. Source
10. 10 Oct 2026A working libSceJobManager is proposed, but the PR is closed under the intake pause. Source

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