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Gameboy Emulator Released for PSP
HelloGamer writes "The first real Gameboy emulator has just been released for the PSP. It currently only works with the Japanese 1.0 PSP and doesn't have sound support - but it's amazing how quickly these homebrew apps are being developed."
Thanks for linking to a crap blog. Let's try for some real content: PS2Dev Forum and the PSP Hacker link which contains two QT movies.
Author: Amaterasu
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Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 8:57 am
Post subject: The first GB emulator for PSP was released!
Message:
Ladies and gentlemen, hello. I am Japanese who one of the PSP fans.
GB emulator for PSP was released by Mr. MIRAKICHI in 2ch that was
the most famous forum in Japan a little while ago.
It links with the file.
http://psp.holybell.to/uploader/upload/gbemu1.zip
screen shot
http://psp.holybell.to/uploader/upload/PICT0791.j
Please rename a GAME ROM to ROM.GB and put it to the same folder as EBOOT.PBP. In the firm only version 1.00, operation is confirmed.
Please enjoy it!!!
Don't get me wrong, this is a really neat project...it's always nice to see people doing cool stuff with products that the manufacturers probably didn't intend. And I can see this being really great if you really wanted a PSP to begin with, and just popped on the emulator for the sake of having more games....but...I think I'll just stick with my actual gameboy. It's way cheaper and probably less of a pain to get working properly.
...no two people are not on fire.
the holybell.to guy is the one who made SNES9xJ4U, which is the world's fastest and best SNES emulator for PocketPC. Two thumbs up, highly recommended. :)
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The trick will be getting a ROM legally. Obviously, the person who wrote this will be getting some flack. Also, if the PSP can emulate the GBA, couldn't it be possible that someone will eventually create a console gaming system that has native support for both DS and PSP? And would it be called DSP?
....because it's not a GBA that's being emulated.
It's an original Gameboy. You know, Gameboy Color, monochrome Gameboy - the big carts instead of the smaller ones... four buttons and a d-pad instead of 6 buttons and a d-pad.
Different processor, apples and oranges.
I'm sure that zooming and other things aren't implemented yet, just like sound playback isn't implemented yet. I would consider this emulator an alpha release, at best.
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It is not a bloody Gameboy ADVANCE emulator.
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It is a monochrome Gameboy/Gameboy Color emulator.
Different processor, different emulation method.
You could fit hundreds of GB/GBC carts on a 1GB Duo stick. Many of them are 32K or smaller.
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Actually, GBC and GBA games use two completely different sets of hardware. Most gamers confuse this issue because the GBA and GBA SP systems contain a GBC on a chip for backwards compatibility. This is possible because the GBC hardware is so old that it can now be reduced down to a single chip. Note that the Nintendo DS has removed this feature, so it can only play DS and GBA games, but not GBC games.
My point is that if you can emulate GBA games, it does not mean that you can emulate GBC games. They are two completely different things to emulate. Furthermore, some emulators go ahead and combine GB, SGB, GBC, and GBA emulators into one application, again, because gamers wouldn't understand why each emulator was separated into its own application.
This is a Gameboy emulator, not a GBA emulator.
This isn't a GBA emulator yet.
Plus, this requires people to either do s0m3 qU3st10nAbl3 s0rch1ng to find the ROMs to play on the emulator, or get special hardware to transfer their games from the cartridges, then somehow get the emulator and ROMs to boot. All the while DS' GBA emulation is "just stick the cartridge in, power on, and tap 'Play GBA game' or push down-down-A."
(Okay, DS doesn't play mono-GB or GBC games either. Big deal, I seem to favor new games and I have GBA and GC GBPlayer for those moments I feel I should play the older games...)
Plus, unless you have actual hardware support, or the CPU several hundred to thousands of times faster than the original, emulation isn't going to work properly. I mean, my old P3-600 PC couldn't run VBA at good speed, my *new* XP3000+ PC still has noticeable slowdowns at times... how is PSP supposed to emulate GBA properly??? I've been nourished with hardware-based emulation, I have pretty high standards on what's proper, you know =)
This story is NOT about playing gameboy games on a PSP, or even running this particular emulator on the PSP. The news here is that someone has compiled a piece of UNSIGNED code and has gotten it to run on a CLOSED, PROPRIETARY gaming system only mere WEEKS after the machine was released!!! The XBOX took nearly a year to crack, and required extensive modifications even then!!!
but the hackability of the PSP really makes it stand out compared to the DS (and previous consoles).
Oh really? Look at what homebrewers have already done with the Nintendo DS. And you still get 90 percent of the GBA hacks (the ones that don't require the serial port).
That's actually an add-on which was designed for the GBA, a machine which is most definitely too weak to decode MP3s in real-time. This device just happens to work on a DS, as well, and so they market it for both platformns, though it only uses the DS in GBA mode. Thus, this is *hardly* proof that the DS can't decode MP3s on it's own. In fact, I see no reason why the 66 Mhz ARM9 in the DS couldn't decode MP3s in realtime, with the ARM7 feeding the results to the DS's sound code.