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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."
does it run Linux?
to having an actual psp emulator.
i predicted on my site that we would have one before the year is up. will my prophecy ring true?
I'm going to buy one of these PSP's solely to play gameboy games!
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.
The PSP is 5 months old. Give me a couple of weeks and I can write a Gameboy emulator. A couple of days tops to port an existing one.
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!!!
First these cocksmokers who can't hack their way out of a paper sack use a fucking browser as a crutch for "homebrew", and now they use the official Codewarrior SDK? I have a feeling this is going to turn into another XBox scene with a bunch of lame coders that don't know how to make legit tools and libraries. Wake me up when there's some REAL homebrew. Bunch of talentless fucks.
I don't really think it's all that surprising. After all, things like the Virtual Boy Advance have been around for a long time. Granted, the Virtual Boy Advance doesn't run on the PSP, but my point is that the GBA hardware is well known and well emulated. It's been done time and time again.
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So how long until the NIAA goes after PSP users for being criminals?
It's crazy enough to just might work.
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.
Sony should be encouraging "home brew" apps for the PSP as much as possible. I believe that much of the early success of the Palm Pilot was due to the community of developers that flocked to the device.
:-)
There are *free* roms available for GBA so I guess the GBA emulator isn't TOTALLY copywrite infringment facilitating software....
Cheers,
_GP_
When are they going to make a PSP emulator for the original Gameboy?
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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In Soviet Russia, PSPs emulate you!!
Or...
In Soviet Russia, Gameboys emulates PSPs?
Man, i'm not sure anymore.
It's about time the PSP got some worthwhile games.
Honestly. That's what I read at first. "What the heck, cowboy emulator on PSP? Why? CowboyNeal?"
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?
...In the meantime, I will stare at my USA-purchased 1.5 firmware PSP and wait.
:)
I'm not sure when that will be cracked. I do look forward to it, though.
I refuse to update my firmware any more though, for sure.
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http://www.dslinux.org/
Reminds me of a post a couple of days back when they got linux to load on a Gameboy.
... that is progress!
Would really like to see a psp running a gameboy emulator running linux. Wrap that with wine and guess what, we'll have quake on a PSP.
Wowie
If the PSP's screen resolution is 480x272, and the GBA's resolution is 240x160, then why does the image look so incredibly small? Sure, this thing is still in beta (right?) but for this, I might as well just keep carrying around my GBA. Maybe they shoulda finished the thing before showing it off so much.
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The japaneese 1.0 firmware isnt available to the masses, and really wont be, expect Sony to make SURE this wont happen on later revs.
I bought a PSP SPECIFICALLY to run "HomeBrew" apps , but the truth is for the Current version its pretty far off, there was a hack for the 1.0 that let you boot off memory , this IS NOT the case for later versions.
Assuming they ever get this to work on the 1.5 ROM, this would be extremely useful. I own about 10 GBA games, and I am pretty sure I could fit all 10 on a 1GB memory card with plenty of room to spare. That's going to be really handy when I take international flights.
I do realize, unfortunately, the potiential something like this has to encourage piracy... but with so many emulators for the GBA already in existance I don't think one more is going to hurt.
Given the amount of high quality open-source emulation programs, these homebrew apps have a great head start. No, I'm not knocking the talent of the authors, I'm merely pointing out this is a benefit of having code open-sourced. Even if one doesn't take that code as a basis for their project, they have a great guide to use for reference/study.
I am both ridiculously amused by this, and also deeply saddened. While the DS is not particularly great right now, at the least it had the 'Full library of GBA games' to go along with it. Now the PSP does too. Nintendo's made some pretty dumb moves with the DS, but if they let something like this slip pass their radar, I'll have lost all hope for them. I don't expect this to last very long with both Sony AND Nintendo gunning for it.
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This old saying is very, very true: A lot of stuff is only free if your time is worthless. I am now an adult, I have a job and a credit card, I am happy and willing to trade my money in exchange for not having to waste my time searching for low quality or buggy crap on the net. Guess what, if it takes me two hours to find those ROMs, or those MP3s, well that is $50-80 in wasted time. So if companies charge less then that, it is not only more convenient, it is in fact cheaper for me to just pay them. Duh. And yet there is nothing, so I guess I just don't have any sympathy. I don't think it can be equated with any type of theft or moral ill to copy something when there is no economic price to it, and it doesn't deprive anyone of anything. It would be like finding some never printed book buried in an abandoned building somewhere, the author dead, and being sued for putting the text online.
This is the number one reason that I don't own one yet.. unlike the GBA, I am unaware of any open non-$$$$.$$ compiler chains.
Has someone gotten gcc linking PSP programs yet?
..don't panic
I think this is ironic. The PSP's killer app is illegally playing Nintendo games. I think it is pretty telling that fans would need this additional library... (Yeah yeah, roms are legal if you already own the game... But who really does that? Maybe 30 percent of emu users?) I am biased of course, I am a bitter Nintendo fan who wants the PSP to burn in flames...
I wish there were a way to use my familiar Linux development environment to crank out networked multimedia apps on PSP. The PS2 at least had a version of Linux that ran on it, for some development action. What does it take to port a small Linux game to PSP?
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make install -not war
Check out this rebutal.. http://www.hellogamer.com/2005/04/01/nes-emulator- running-on-psp/
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But when will it run PS1 games?
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as long as i can take out my roadrage on NFSU2 when i get to work, and take out my workrage on counterstrike source at home (with an occasional smathering of super metroid on my snes emulator), i'm kewl. :)
It takes just a moment and an action to destroy. It takes some time and thought to create.
But, beep, beep.
If Sony doesn't care, then why exactly did they allow PSPs to run applications off of memory sticks at all? Why does the PSP have so many extra little features?
I've talked about this before. I suspect that Sony wants to generate an underground development movement with the PSP to help draw people to it. Handheld platform competition is brutal, but the hackability of the PSP really makes it stand out compared to the DS (and previous consoles).
Sony will still make money with licensed games, the UMD format is closed (albeit hacked) and the physical media is difficult to reproduce. Their model is safe, while at the same time allowing for an underground community to exist.
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Finally I can play all my old Gameboy games on a portable device.
No, hang on a second...
++ Say to Elrond "Hello.".
Elrond says "No.". Elrond gives you some lunch.
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!!!
There are many gameboy emulators out there, written in C, and fairly easy to port with a little effort. It has not been written from scratch.
homebrew apps- n. Slashdot speak for pirated games (see also Warez).
I hope this isn't redundant, but is there a guide to safely Flashing the firmware down to 1.0 (and a place to download it)?
Home brew... Right.. Sure.
*nods*
Sony had nothing to do with this im sure.
"Comedy's a dead art form. Now tragedy, that's funny."
Personally, I think overall the DS has the best library-- not because of the native DS titles, which I consider to be disappointing, but because of the machine's ability to run GBA titles very well. Better, in fact, than a GBA SP, because the DS's screen is much, much better. I have both a PSP and DS. I like the hardware of the PSP more, and between PSP and DS native titles, I like the PSP native titles more, but the truth is I play the DS more because of the excellent GBA library. Now, not everyone is like me and can have fun with Super-Nintendo technology era games. But right now, the overall library of the DS+GBA games is better than the PSP library, imo. Though I will agree with you that the native PSP titles are better than the native DS titles.
according to some guy's signature on psp-vault.com (ie. http://www.psp-vault.com/module-pnForum-viewtopic- topic-190.psp)
WWW.PSPHACKER.COM is hacked daily...thats fucked up dudes:(
guess psphacker just are on a different league when compared to website hackers.
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Paint Shop Pro can now emulate the gameboy?
That joke is so 2000. Remember when people compared the PS2 to an old IBM computer (which didn't last) or its keyboard and mouse (which did last)?
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).
Where did you pick up these flash cables and such?
Lik Sang no longer carries GBA flash equipment due to an injunction, but these shops that do are reviewed.
So it depends on if the GB games are encrypted at all on the cart.
Game Boy and Game Boy Advance ROMs carry no encryption whatsoever.
is it really so awful if you can pickup all the old SNES games you loved, about 15 years after the console was released?
(If you're to believe Disney) Yes, because you're off by 80 years.
It might be possible. Gamecube was powerful enough to run an N64 emulator, which Nintendo used to port the N64 Zeldas to Gamecube. PSP is roughly as powerful as Gamecube, and DS is roughly as powerful as N64. A large Memory Stick Duo Pro is big enough to hold a DS game or two. PSP's controls duplicate DS's button set, and PSP's analog stick could sort of function as DS's touchscreen, like a notebook PC's thumbstick. PSP's screen may be big enough to display both of DS's images, albeit with scaling. Overall it would be akward, but it could work.
Nintendo is probably already losing a lot of handheld marketshare to PSP. Imagine how they'll react once PSP owners start downloading beta versions of DS games onto their PSPs.
Just wait until someone realizes how to emulate a GBA, then the flames will go sky high!
Go ahead MOD my day!
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If I recall correctly, Nintendo has a patent on emulating Gameboy and Gameboy Advance hardware on portable platforms, so expect them to have a say about this..
Wow a hack/app for psp that does not use the web browser!
Taco?
and according to that mythical EULA you agreed to when you opened the package, you are not allowed to install or use third party programs with the system, in addition to the technical restrictions put in place.
aint copyright and it's evil brothers grand?
and when the new consoles with 3 cpus each and massive computing power show up, you can't install/use your own programs on the hardware you paid for.
i wonder why they can get away with this clear violation of PROPERTY laws....
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The PSP is not getting the full library of GBA games. In fact, it's not likely that this will affect the DS at all.
There is an updated version out you can find at http://www.psp-hacks.com/
If by "already" you mean in less time than it too to emulate a completely different platform on the PSP, then maybe I'm impressed.
Every machine is hackable. The PSP seems especially so. That's what's making it stand out.
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The same guy is making a SNES emulator right now as well. There is a screenshot here: http://www.psphacker.com/