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PSP Emulator For Android Released

Posted by samzenpus on from the time-to-play dept.

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."

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  1. "Trounced on"? I don't think so. by blind+biker · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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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  2. Uh-huh by oGMo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    [...] lets you play PSP Games with a touchscreen which was something PSP owners had wanted for years.

    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).

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    1. Re:Uh-huh by Hatta · · Score: 3, Insightful

      The only additional control mechanism PSP users want is a second analog thumb stick. And maybe another set of shoulder buttons for PSX games.

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  3. Re:Yeah right by Trilkin · · Score: 4, Informative

    Uh. The PSP is -NOTHING- like the PS3. It's actually also lower spec than the PS2. It's more like a PS1.5.

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  4. Re:Yeah right by oGMo · · Score: 4, Informative

    I know this is a poor analogy because of all the variables, but to emulate PS2 you need a very hefty PC with a real GPU. Something far beyond the power of a PS3.

    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.

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  5. Author here by hrydgard · · Score: 5, Informative

    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 .

    Thanks!
    Henrik