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PSP Emulator For Android Released
YokimaSun writes "This may be one of those projects that will get trounced on soon enough like the great Bleemcast Project, but a group of developers calling themselves the PPSSPP Project have released the first PSP Emulator for the Android OS, the emulator lets you play PSP Games with a touchscreen which was something PSP owners had wanted for years. At the moment games that are playable are Puzzle Bobble Deluxe, Puyo Pop Fever & Pinball Fantasies. The emulator has also been released for Windows and BlackBerry."
First of all, the verb "trounce" is never used with the preposition "on". But I'm a Finn, so what do I know?
That said: Android allows side-loading. Just put the emulator on Torrent (where you can find a shit-ton of other Android apps) and Sony can do fuckall about it.
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I've never heard anyone want this. Is this anything like all the people who wanted a non-UMD version of the PSP, and eventually got it in the PSPgo, which promptly fell flat on its face due to lack of actual interest?
Of course, I can always imagine an emulator being popular, if it plays copies of games (regardless of whether you consider this OK or not).
Don't think of it as a flame---it's more like an argument that does 3d6 fire damage
Uh. The PSP is -NOTHING- like the PS3. It's actually also lower spec than the PS2. It's more like a PS1.5.
Nobody cares what the CAPTCHA for your post was.
Utterly irrelevant. A PS2 uses an unusual proprietary architecture and games tend to take advantage of very low-level architecture-specific tweaks. A PSP is a pretty standard MIPS R4000 and a fairly crappy but fairly standard GPU. With high-level emulation, dyamic recompilation, etc, it shouldn't be hard to emulate even on modest hardware. With today's GHz+ CPUs in phones, brute forcing may even be a reasonable option.
Don't think of it as a flame---it's more like an argument that does 3d6 fire damage
That's because the PS2 has a rather complicated graphics subsystem, which is the hard part to emulate. All of the options you can tweak in PCSX2 are because of this.
But the PSP is more like a souped-up original Playstation, with 10x CPU speed, 16x RAM, 100x GPU speed, and an MPEG-4 decoder. I'm going to guess that the GPU is more like modern GPUs than the PS2 was, which would mean that the GPU in the host Android device can be used to do the 3D stuff. This would be like how N64 emulators can use the host's GPU for 3D, and even produce better graphics than the original.
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This is a bit too early for a slashdot post in my opinion. The emulator was just open sourced and it plays only a few games, not very well.
However, like it happened with Dolphin ( http://www.dolphin-emu.org/ ), I'm sure that compatibility will grow as quickly as we gain contributors. Here are the real links:
http://www.ppsspp.org/ and http://www.github.com/hrydgard/ppsspp .
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Henrik
Oh, I have an iPhone. I'll never get to experience this.
Sure you will. Man up and buy a real smartphone.
They're cheaper than the iPhone, so why didn't you just buy a real phone to begin with?
You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.
I bet if you'd ran it on an AMD card instead of an Nvidia you wouldn't have had that problem, Nvidia tends to drop support for older games fairly quickly while AMD don't. I don't have that game to fire up and test but I do have Deus Ex 1, by the same company, and it plays just fine without any tweaks.
As for TFA I'm all for emulators, it quickly becomes a royal PITA to keep up with all the damned carts and consoles, anything that will let me play more games on my device of choice is a plus in my book.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
The only thing offensive here, is your ignorance.
Hey, let's use this opportunity to share some facts person that's obviously jealous of this news for Android.
Not only do Android users have access to pretty much all of the same smudge-screen derived free-to-play social vomit that's been so popular on devices like the iPad, we also have access to pretty much every emulator available; and they can be purchased or downloaded freely -- even from Google's market; which is just one of many places to shop.
And since touch-screens suck ass for most games that weren't derived for this type of input and Android devices generally have USB ports, we can plug in actual gamepads, keyboards, mice, whatever; and yes, there's also Bluetooh.
And Android users don't need to do something strange, like jailbreaking their device if the want to access content like this PSP emulator.
Since moving to Android, I've not hit any lame walls and now have access to WAY more games -- better games -- than what that fruit company has allowed through its locked-down iGate.
Any Turing complete software system can emulate any other implementation.
For one thing, Turing completeness is unachievable because the memory of the universe is not unbounded. (Did you mean LBA completeness, which is the same thing minus the unbounded tape?) For another, Turing completeness or LBA completeness is not sufficient for gaming applications, which has soft real-time requirements.