Nintendo DS Emulation Hits the PSP - DeSmuME Test Release

[wraggster]

Japanese Coder NekoMiMi has released the first Nintendo DS Emulator for the PSP. This is a test release and based off the DeSmuME Nintendo DS Emulator for Windows.

Heres what he says:

How to use?
"test.nds" is rom image file name. so you must change your own image file what you want to run.
and put it at same directory EBOOT.PBP.

How to compile?
You can find out makefile.psp at src/psp directory.
change directory to src/psp.

type..
make -f makefile.psp

Attention
I do not make input. so it just(only?) look at.

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[Video_freak]

Woah could be pretty sweet!


No PSP to test right now could someone try it out por favor.

[Malksta]

Can someone try this out to confirm that it is real please =P

[SpacemanSpiff]

Haha, thats pretty funny. Though I doubt NDS emulation will ever be at all useful on the PSP.

[xg917]

YESSS yes yes yes. all these retards thinking that it wasnt possible have been proved wronggg!!!

im kinda scared to try it out. wraggy did you try it? or are you busy..

[Exophase]

Posted this on qj.net, posting it here:

"Yeah, someone finally ported DesMuME to PSP and the newbs are just going wild over it. "omg everyone said it couldn't be done but someone did it and we sure showed you!" I could have told you from the start that this could be done - actually, I was nigh certain that someone would eventually do this. Does that mean that it qualifies as "DS on PSP"? Not at all.

Unfortunately no one seems to understand that this will never be fullspeed, and the compatibility will probably remain terrible. People think that porting an emulator is a big accomplishment - well, it isn't. When it comes to this stuff on PSP the accomplishment is in getting it to run quickly, not to get an existing emulator (that struggles to reach full speed on a PC..) to run on it. DS emulation will NEVER run well on PSP, and this emulator in particular will probably never even run a fraction as fast as it could.

To whoever ported this, shame on you. You probably just did it for the blind attention, which you're very much receiving. You should know full well that you haven't actually accomplished anything."

Hopefully no one HERE will be ignorant enough to respond to me "oh yeah? look at gpsp!"

[JKKDARK]

Big news really

[xg917]

at least we know that it can be done knowing that it wont be full speed ever

[wraggster]

as a tech demo its nice but i agree with exophase, you will never see a full speed emu on the PSP, not to mention you cant truthfully emulate the touchpad.

Nice for a techdemo though

[Lodis]

This is not big news at all and since it is a PC port it will never have decent compatibility or run at any acceptable speeds. If someone had been coding this from scratch for ages then I would class it as big news but as it stands, people are falling for the hype and not understanding the fact that it is just a port. Even calling it a proof of concept is stretching it a bit. When will people learn.