Will there ever be an Nintendo 64 & Sega Dreamcast PSP Emulator ?

***quzar*** · July 23rd, 2005, 22:29

Originally Posted by cmelodysax

Yeah. Dreamcast prolly wont be emulated on anything for the next 3 or 4 years. Remember it takes a lot of power to run emu's correctly. I maybe mistaken, but it took a good graphix card and pretty powerful cpu (700mhz plus) just emulate a PSX which was I think 33mhz. So even if this where to hold true for DC you prolly need around like 4.3ghz cpu. If a psp ran that fast it prolly burn your hands. Not only that, YOU NEED STORAGE. I think that the PSP can read up to 1gb memory stix. The DC media was also 1gb. Granted most games didnt fill the disc, but would you want a 800mb file eating up your stick let alone they cost around $100+ a pop. Even if someone got the hands on a umd burner, where would you get the umd's? How much would they cost? It be more cost effective just to buy a DC and crap load of games (for all those who use emulation for what it is). So all in all its really not worth the effort.

I want to learn how to code for PSP. Where do start. rtfm i guess..

So that nobody else says it, the psx was emulated on PCs as low as 400some mhz. Also, it was emulated on the dreamcast. The dreamcast itself has a processor whose capabilites are roughly equal to a 700mhz x86 processor (in floating point operations). The GD-rom of the dreamcast can hold well over a gigabyte of data (not by all that much) but somwhere around 1.5gb max iirc.

***Kaiser*** · July 24th, 2005, 04:18

ePSXe still runs like $#@! on my 2.7 GHz PC. Sound is choppy and will come and go. FMVs run extremely fast with no sound. The Character models look nice but the backgrounds become fuzzy (however I think this is just from the higher resolution). Chris Redfield runs as fast as Sonic too.

My hopes for a PSOne emulator running smoothly on a PSP are fading.

**Tetsuo** · July 25th, 2005, 11:07

HAHA it would be nice but not possible. SHENMUE on psp

**Skez** · July 27th, 2005, 18:38

Think about control aswell
DC/N64 and PSP may have different button numbers
for example, a PS2 controller has 2 analogue sticks, whereas PSP only has one, so it would be quite hard to control