Bachata S4 Setup Guide
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Best devices for PS4 on Android
If you’re curious what the best devices are, here’s a few of my top picks:
- Snapdragon 8 Elite Device! AYN Odin 3 – (Review)
- Best All-Rounder Device! AYN Odin 2 Portal – (Review)
- Dual Screen Device! AYN Thor – (Review)
What is Bachata S4?
Bachata S4 is a Sony PlayStation 4 emulator on Android, based on shadPS4 which is the typical PS4 emulator everyone uses on PC.
ROMs & BIOS
Alright, now before we actually start the setup, you’re going to need PlayStation 4 games, of course.
I would suggest simply creating a ROMs folder on your internal storage or your SD card if you’re using one and then a ps4 folder inside of it, as that’s where we’re going to put our PS4 games.
PS4 ROMs are typically in one of two formats:
- PKG
- Game Folders
Installing Bachata S4
Alright, at this point, let’s finally install Bachata S4.
Head to the Bachata S4 Github, and download the latest release.
Just grab whatever the latest is – you can see the Latest tag next to the title if you’re unsure.
Once you’ve installed it, go ahead and open it.
Click the Arrow on the right.
The first thing it wants from us is what Driver to use and this is a complicated subject – you can just click the Arrow to continue if you’re not looking to get too advanced.
For everyone else, it depends on so many factors, and your device, but Snapdragon 8 Elite and Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 devices for example, I recommend using the Turnip mojo-26.1 v2 driver that is built-into the app (as of August 31st, 2026).
StevenMXZ’s and others drivers aren’t currently compatible with PS4 emulation, so you’ll have to stick with the above for now.
Just choose Download & Install on it, and then Select it to use it.
Click the Arrow to continue.
Allow notifications.
Installing Games
Now we have to tell Bachata S4 where your PS4 games are – but one by one, can’t point it to a folder currently.
So select Import Game, and if your games are in PKG, select that and navigate to the game and select it, or if your games are in Folder format, select that and navigate to your Game folder and select it.
An example for a Folder, using Bloodborne as the example, you would select the CUSA00900 folder.
It’ll spend some time Validating package, just be patient – finally it’ll say Importing and whatever game, so be patient again.
Go ahead and repeat this step for as many games as you have – their thumbnails should show when done.
Updates & DLC
Go ahead and click a game, and you should see Updates & DLC.
They need to be in PKG format currently.
Find and select your update or DLC File to install it.
Patches
In the same menu as Updates & DLC, you’ll see Patches.
This can be cheats, but also patches for performance to fix things or improve things.
For a lot of games, you’ll be doing patches quite a bit based on what you find online for how to fix the game.
Options (per-game settings)
Last thing to look at here is Options.
Options is per-game settings – anything changed in here, only applies to this specific game and I highly suggest this is how you adjust games as with PS4 emulation, lots of settings changes are per-game.
In-Game
When you’re in-game, if you swipe up and click the back arrow, use back gesture or use the Back button on your handheld, you’ll get the in-game menu.
You can turn on/off the controller overlay, or show FPS or exit the game.
Finding Settings to get Games to Work
This is going to be the page you want to bookmark.
It’s the full compatibility database for this emulator, and all the settings you need to get games to run properly per-game.