Playstation Emulator for the PSP WIP News

***wraggster*** · July 14th, 2005, 18:35

<a href="http://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.php?t=2631" target="_blank" >PacManFan</a> has posted some great news of his attempts to port the Playstation emulator PCSX to the PSP console, heres what he posted:

<BLOCKQUOTE>Howdy everyone, PacManFan here.

I've been hacking away for the past 2 days on the open source PCSX Playstation emulator, trying to get it to run on the PSP.
I've finally had a little success.

Here's a bad screen shot of a demo running.

Before anyone says anything about the pitch being off, I know, I'm still figuring it out.

Before anyone asks:
1) it runs at about 1fps in the emulator
2) No, I haven't put it on my PSP yet, I'm still at work.
3) No, I haven't tried Game XYZ on it yet.
4) No, there is No sound, No controls, No way to specify roms yet.
5) After a little cleanup, I'll make the code available

Here's a todo list:
1) Find some volunteers to work on this with me.
2) put in a microwindows rom selector
3) put in mapped controls
4) add sound
5) Code a new recompiler for the r4000 chipset, right now there is the x86 and sh4 chipset <- this is a big one!
6) optimize the H3ll out of this.

Comments? </BLOCKQUOTE>

and also this

<BLOCKQUOTE>I've got the byte pitch figured out, and I've put in a control handler to map buttons and the directional pad. I haven't put in the analog controls yet. I've verified that the program runs fine on a PSP, and I've got optimizations turned on.
For the demo, I get about 4-5 FPS </BLOCKQUOTE>

sounds interesting

**Amiga** · July 14th, 2005, 18:48

From small seeds grow great oak trees

**Cross** · July 14th, 2005, 18:50

GREAT!!! Valkery Profile on my PSP...heheh and FF, Chrono Cross... lol I will help in any way I can just let me know!!!!

**parabolee** · July 14th, 2005, 19:07

impressive work, has a long way to go yet.

I would be very impressed if you get PS1 games running at a playable speed on PSP.

**dgbbad** · July 14th, 2005, 19:41

1 word.....castlvania.....i would crap my pants if i could play sotn anywhere.......omg......whoever gets this emulator figured out is my god.

**shadowprophet** · July 14th, 2005, 19:59

Eat that everbody who ever said it couldnt be done !!!!
I never doubted for even a micro seconed !!!

**Zephyroth_drgs** · July 14th, 2005, 20:17

omg just great, Final Fantasy Tactics Any where, hope this emulators grows and gets good enough to play fully games XD, gj, good going!

by the way.... anyone knows what happened to the VBA for psp? any update?