Control4Free
Use your phone or PC as a PS4 Virtual DualShock everywhere: The menus, and in every game. A GoldHEN payload with up to four virtual DualShock 4 controllers.
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Details
- External ID
- 1405757769
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- Control4Free
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Oct. 5, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 19
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.46293800539083557
- Tags
- controller, dualsense, dualshock4, gamepad, goldhen, homebrew, jailbreak, playstation-4, ps4, ps4-homebrew, ps4-payload, virtual-controller, websocket, xbox-controller
- Fetched at
- Oct. 6, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 6, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Niche
- retro game ports and emulation tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- virtual ps4 controller for smartphones and pcs
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No This project involves writing low-level C payloads for jailbroken PS4s (GoldHEN), manipulating kernel/system IPC, and emulating Bluetooth/USB controller hardware protocols.
What it would actually take: The stack requires embedded C/C++ compiled against PS4 homebrew SDKs (OpenOrbis/libkernel) running inside the GoldHEN environment to hook the PS4's internal controller input subsystem. It communicates over a network socket with a companion client (mobile/PC web app or binary), translating gamepad inputs into virtual kernel-level DualShock 4 HID packets, requiring deep console hacking and reverse-engineering skills.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 73 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #39 of 74 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 292 days after the earliest competitor.
- AnyPad-PS5 · github · 2026-10-03 · 115 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- GTA Range · ph · 2026-10-04 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- MULTIROADS · ph · 2026-09-18 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Gamepad Pro: Key Mapper · ph · 2026-09-29 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- OmniPad-PS5 · github · 2026-10-05 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- WinStadia · github · 2026-09-19 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- SuperMario3DWorld-VR · github · 2026-09-23 · 38 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- skynet-godot · github · 2026-09-12 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.39
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- No other launches for this product.
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