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PSP Hackers Go Retro

Posted by Zonk on from the hi-mom dept.

ByteWoopy writes "Hello World!' That's the traditional phrase that programmers display when they create their first piece of software for an unfamiliar operating system. Owners of Sony's handheld PSP game system were delighted to hear May 5 that a hacker had managed to write a small program that displayed those words on a PSP. They wondered what would be next. As it turned out, it only took hackers five days to go from 'Hello World' to Mario World. On May 10, sites like PSP Hacker reported that a Japanese hacker known only by the name Mr. Mirakichi had developed a program called RIN that let the PSP play software written for the original black-and-white Nintendo Game Boy system.'"

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  1. Here's the current list... by wheresdrew · · Score: 4, Informative
    ...of emulators that'll run on a J1.0 PSP:

    Gameboy/Gameboy Colour - Rin, Rin Unnoficial
    GameGear - SMS PSP
    Genesis (Megadrive) - Megadrive for PSP, Generator/PSP
    MAME (Arcade) - XMame PSP
    Master System - SMS PSP
    MSX - fMSX, Hitbit
    Neo Geo Pocket - NGPSP
    Neo Geo CD - NEOGEO CD
    Nes - InfoNes, Famicontest, Nes for PSP, Nesterj PSP
    PC Engine - PCEP
    Snes - UO Snes9x PSP, Snes9x PSP, Snes9x Optimised
    Wonderswan - Oswan PSP

    They're not all running at full speed, but some of them are great pieces of work. Rin, for instance, is damned near perfect (and getting better with each release). I use it to play the Zelda GBC games and they look (and sound, and play) great.

    The work on them is continuing at a rapid pace - a lot of the emulators are getting updated several times a week - and they're just going to get better.

    The one I'm waiting for (that hasn't shown up yet) is a GBA emulator. I think that's the one that's really going to get people's attention.