Emulators... I love emulators!

[PsychoSync]

Since i first saw Nesticle on a friend's PC about 11-12 years ago, i've been amazed by emulators.

Well i was looking on the web to find emus that have not been ported to the PSP yet, here are some:

- vMac

vMac is a Macintosh emulator that currently emulates a Motorola 68000 based Apple Macintosh Plus.

The source is available for multiple patforms so it would be great to run old mac apps on the PSP, and this emu only emulates very old macs so a decent speed could be achieved.

Source: http://www.vmac.org/download/download.html


- QEMU

QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer.

Well i have a feeling this one would be hard to port but its only a suggestion, i am no programmer... But still that would be great cause QEMU can emulate a lot of stuff.

Source: http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/download.html


- DOSEMU

DOSEMU stands for DOS Emulation, and is a linux application that enables the Linux OS to boot any DOS and run DOS programs - including DPMI applications.

I know there already is 2 DOS emus for PSP but they're not being worked on... Maybe someone can give a shot at this one?

Source: http://www.dosemu.org/


- Acorn Archimedes ArcEm

ArcEm is a Acorn A400 hardware emulator that is highly portable, it currently runs on Unix (X Windows), Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, the GP2X handheld, RISC OS and Amiga OS 4.

This is a great machine, should be ported.

Source: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=36764


- MESS : Multiple Emulator Super System

This is BIG! So many emus inside one.

Source: http://www.mess.org/download.html

[acn010]

interesting..............

[Welshboy]

You know the Dos one? is it possible to launch applications through it that were intended to be run through Dos on the PC? say Duke Nukem? or Rise Of The Triad?

[Kichigai Mentat]

Since i first saw Nesticle on a friend's PC about 11-12 years ago, i've been amazed by emulators.

Well i was looking on the web to find emus that have not been ported to the PSP yet, here are some:

- vMac

vMac is a Macintosh emulator that currently emulates a Motorola 68000 based Apple Macintosh Plus.

The source is available for multiple patforms so it would be great to run old mac apps on the PSP, and this emu only emulates very old macs so a decent speed could be achieved.

Source: http://www.vmac.org/download/download.html
If someone could code in support to emulate the PSP's WiFi chipset so that the emulated OS thinks it's the Mac's own ethernet device, it could be truly fun. The only worry is the keyboard.


- QEMU

QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer.

Well i have a feeling this one would be hard to port but its only a suggestion, i am no programmer... But still that would be great cause QEMU can emulate a lot of stuff.

Source: http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/download.html
Bochs was already ported. I've used Q (the OS X native build of Qemu) and it's performance is far from super-amazing, but useable... on a 1 GHz PPC G4. It would probably be quite painful to use on a 333 MHz MIPS.


- DOSEMU

DOSEMU stands for DOS Emulation, and is a linux application that enables the Linux OS to boot any DOS and run DOS programs - including DPMI applications.

I know there already is 2 DOS emus for PSP but they're not being worked on... Maybe someone can give a shot at this one?

Source: http://www.dosemu.org/
We'd need CPU emulation as well as a way to emulate certain keys on the keyboard to the PSP, as well as changing on the fly. Could be interesting, depending on how program launching is handled.


- Acorn Archimedes ArcEm

ArcEm is a Acorn A400 hardware emulator that is highly portable, it currently runs on Unix (X Windows), Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, the GP2X handheld, RISC OS and Amiga OS 4.

This is a great machine, should be ported.

Source: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=36764


- MESS : Multiple Emulator Super System

This is BIG! So many emus inside one.

Source: http://www.mess.org/download.html

Yeah, but aren't most of them already emulated on the PSP?

[Gizmo356]

WOW this is so emurific!

[psiko_scweek]

I think we should worry about other emulators as well.....

VirtualBoy emulation would be possible, it is written in allegro (which the PSP toolchain doesnt have a port of just yet) and it would have to be rewritten, but it would be a fun system to have (and we could say we have more Nintendo Emus on our PSPs)

PocketStation emulation I think is something that people should really do. I doubt it would be that hard to emulate, the only issue is the fact taht the only emulator i can find for the system isnt opensource

Pokemon Mini - Another little homebrew machine like the PSP, the pokemon mini has a small following and it was ported to the Dreamcast and the Xbox, surely it can be ported to the PSP! The source is available and it is written in DirectX, which obviously needs to be rewritten.

Phillips CD-I - I think would be a great emu to have simply for novelty sake. There are two emulators as far as I know, but neither of them are open source. It would be interesting to finally play the two Zelda games on this console though, and just like NeoGeoCDZ, it should be possible to emulate the CD rom without a problem.

Sega Saturn - Now with its 8 processors I understand that this would be a task to emulate. But looking over the specs, a majority of the processors dont need to be emulated fully or at all, and should be able to be hard coded (such as for peripherals) now is it possible. Dont know. would it be cool. yes.

Game.com - Now why would I mention Game.Com? Because its another handheld that was released. Granted it really did suck and it never went anywhere in terms of game production or anything, it was still something and had some games for it. As far as I know, MESS support its, MESS is opensource, and perhaps the Game.Com support could be rewritten to be stand alone?

N-Gage - The Nokia N-Gage was a 3d phone/console thing. It had limited sucess and I think emulation of it would really be hard for the PSP to do, but it would be cool to think about.

I think if we had those, the PSP would basically have all the emus you could ever want/need

oh yeah someone needs to re-write that jaguar emulator to make it faster.

Psiko.

~psiko

[Kichigai Mentat]

NOW we're talkin'

I think we should worry about other emulators as well.....

VirtualBoy emulation would be possible, it is written in allegro (which the PSP toolchain doesnt have a port of just yet) and it would have to be rewritten, but it would be a fun system to have (and we could say we have more Nintendo Emus on our PSPs)
This would be interesting. The only real problem is dealing with the left-right display, but I suppose that could be handled with red/blue glasses, much as it is on the PC.

PocketStation emulation I think is something that people should really do. I doubt it would be that hard to emulate, the only issue is the fact taht the only emulator i can find for the system isnt opensource
Fun, but what would make it cooler is if we could get it to work with POPS's PSX save-files, then you can play the PocketStation games right out of your PSX game.

Pokemon Mini - Another little homebrew machine like the PSP, the pokemon mini has a small following and it was ported to the Dreamcast and the Xbox, surely it can be ported to the PSP! The source is available and it is written in DirectX, which obviously needs to be rewritten.
I take it you mean the little Pikachu virtual pet thing?

Phillips CD-I - I think would be a great emu to have simply for novelty sake. There are two emulators as far as I know, but neither of them are open source. It would be interesting to finally play the two Zelda games on this console though, and just like NeoGeoCDZ, it should be possible to emulate the CD rom without a problem.
Well, two big problems. First, I can only find a single emulator for PC, and it doesn't even seem to be complete. Second is finding the disc images. I agree, playing those two old Zelda games night be fun, but if we can't find 'em, or an emulator...

Sega Saturn - Now with its 8 processors I understand that this would be a task to emulate. But looking over the specs, a majority of the processors dont need to be emulated fully or at all, and should be able to be hard coded (such as for peripherals) now is it possible. Dont know. would it be cool. yes.
This seems, in my opinion, beyond possibility for the moment. Yabause (http://yabause.sourceforge.net/) is barely functional on modern PCs and Macs. I'd hate to imagine how poorly it would run on the PSP. Perhaps in the future, but right now trying to emulate the Saturn is too much work, even on a full computer.

Game.com - Now why would I mention Game.Com? Because its another handheld that was released. Granted it really did suck and it never went anywhere in terms of game production or anything, it was still something and had some games for it. As far as I know, MESS support its, MESS is opensource, and perhaps the Game.Com support could be rewritten to be stand alone?
Has anyone even tried emulating it before?

N-Gage - The Nokia N-Gage was a 3d phone/console thing. It had limited sucess and I think emulation of it would really be hard for the PSP to do, but it would be cool to think about.
Now this would be interesting. The N-Gage actually has a small cult following with some table-top RPG-based games, even a version of Settlers of Catan. Trick is, like the CDi, finding games for it.

I think if we had those, the PSP would basically have all the emus you could ever want/need

oh yeah someone needs to re-write that jaguar emulator to make it faster.

Psiko.

~psiko
I agree. The trick is finding people to code it all.

[HomerSp]

I'm gonna have a look at some of those.
I did find a Pokemon Mini emulator, but it didn't seem to work very well with some roms I found (for the comp that is).

[kharaboudjan]

i would love to see a VirtualBoy emulation on the psp :D

[Zombo]

Sorry for bringin up an old thread but we need a Better MAME!