Thinking about buying PSP for emulation (questions)

**Ultimate warrior** · February 7th, 2008, 00:02

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi...2342310&sr=8-1

Is that the battery I'm looking for? Also, you say that games with mode 7 don't run well? DAMN!!! FF games all use mode 7!!!! How bad are the problems?

EDIT: actually could somebody do me a HUGE favor and test out the ROMs I have to see if there are any significant problems or not and to see if Famicom ROMs are supported? I could send it to your e-mail (not this board obviously).

**dwacc** · February 7th, 2008, 00:32

Originally Posted by Ultimate warrior

Sweet but whats the best CFW for me to use? Also, I'm guessing by what you are saying I can use PC emu's like ZSNES, FceULTRA and such on PSP? Or do I need PSP specific emu's? LINK'S PLZ!!!!!

SoulReaver911's already given you the wisdom here, and as you can see - you need PSP specific emulators. Just thought I'd add that for Genesis emulators, you can also consider using PicoDrive, which is both a Genesis and SegaCD emulator bundled into one. Still runs all Genesis games great.

Originally Posted by Ultimate warrior

EDIT: well, I just watched one of the videos and says something about corrupted icons. Does that have anything to do with emu's and ROM's? Also, I have a Sandisk micro SD card that came with a bigger card that says microSD/ Transflash Adapter. Will that work? This all sounds VERY complicated.

It's easier to understand corrupted icons when you've tinkered with homebrew a bit. It happens when you put something in ms0:/PSP/GAME/ that the PSP doesn't understand. It's a minor thing you can worry about after you've successfully gotten your PSP homebrew-enabled.

For CFW; newer versions generally means more functionality and support. For instance, one of the latest CFWs added support for multi-disk PSX games, which is not supported by older CFWs. The backshot is that when new CFWs come out, they're usually a bit buggy, so it's a good idea to wait a little so the developers can add bugfixes in updates.

Kinda like Windows Vista. ^^

I use 3.80 M33-5. (Translation: Team M33's homebrew-enabled edition of Sony's 3.80-firmware. The "-5" means it's update #5, so it's been worked on a while.)

Right now, the newest firmware from Sony is 3.90, and M33 has already released their own edition "3.90 M33". But it's still the first release, so I'd wait a while until maybe "3.90 M33-2" comes out.

You can find them at http://www.dark-alex.org

I'm no expert, but I think MicroSD and SD aren't what you're looking for. The PSP uses "Pro Duo" cards. (Feel free to correct me on this one, anyone.)

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EDIT: I was generally impressed with the SNES emulator; it runs well especially on Slim with Frameskip set to 1. If there are specific games you need to know about, and the whole purchase of PSP is riding on it, I suppose I can check them out.

**DanTheManMS** · February 7th, 2008, 00:46

As far as SNES goes, the PSP has a 333 Mhz processor compared to the 66 MHz one in the DS (the 33 MHz one is left for audio emulation only). Therefore, it has the horsepower to emulate the 3 Mhz SNES in software, whereas the DS has to use hardware rendering to maintain full speed. With the SNES emulators for the PSP, you might still see some lag in a few games, most noticeably the ones with special coprocessor chips. However, from my understanding a frameskip of 1 or 2 is more than enough for nearly all games even when using the most processor-intensive rendering modes.

If I had a PSP myself I could give more targeted advice here.

**Ultimate warrior** · February 7th, 2008, 01:19

Well to be perfectly honest, I'd like if you could test all the ones that I gave in my first post. Not that you have to go through the ENTIRE game, just maybe the first five minutes or something. Though the MOST important is FF4-6 and the famicom games. Keep in mind however, that I'd like all of them to be tested for the first 5 minutes or something, to see if there are any probs. Once again, gimme your e-mail (don't think PM is allowed) and I will send them to you. One last question, when Super Famicom ROMs are changed to .SMC format (so they work on SNES) do they always have problems with them that the originals don't have? Because my FF4 doesn't seem as challenging as everyone says the game is. Just a paranoid thought.

EDIT: Robar810 is the guy I wanna buy off of.

EDIT: Anyone still there?

**kharaboudjan** · February 7th, 2008, 22:24

you can always play the final fantasy games on the perfect gba emulator gpSP! i know its not like playing the original but there will be no lag =)

and use picodrive for genesis Sega CD games. it a fantastic emulator that blew us psp users away some months ago!

**Ultimate warrior** · February 7th, 2008, 22:40

Well thanks for the input everyone. I just bought the PSP with a PRO DUO LOGIC Sandisk 2 GB mem stick. Now I just gotta buy the Pandora's battery and a USB cable.