PS1 Emulator for PSP?
 

Zxello's Challenge of the Day!

I'm looking for a PS1 / PSX Emulator for a PSP. I really want a PSP but a deciding factor is if I can find an emulator so I can play my final fantasy and vagrant story on the move!

If anyone can help me find this stuff, hook it up, I will be most greatful!

As of this moment there are no fully capable PSX emulators for the PSP. There is a PSX emulator out there in development but in the meantime we can only wait.

If you want to play emulators or homebrew on your PSP, the longer you wait the worse off you'll be. If you're in the US or Canada you need a PSP with firmware version 1.50 (not 1.51, not 1.52, 1.50 period end of sentence.) which are quickly becoming harder to find; you may only be able to find a 1.5 PSP at a shop where they sell used systems.

If you're in Europe, you're outta luck, only 2.0 PSPs are available across the pond, unless you find somewhere that will import PSPs.

Also if you want to play emulators, games are coming out now that REQUIRE the 1.51+ firmware (Namco Battle Museum and Burnout Legends notably).

So in the end it's a tradeoff. If you want to play your NES, Atari, Genesis, etc. games on your PSP you may have to do a little bit of work to get it (it's still not an easy plug-and-play type thing either to put homebrew on your PSP), and if you want to play any of the new games coming out, you'll be out of luck on homebrew. The 2.0 firmware is great though, with the web browsing capabilities and background changing abilities too. Oh, and it's only a matter of time until 2.0 is hacked (there's already a small exploit for it right now, it shouldn't be long until executable code can be... executed.)

If/when you get a PSP feel free to contact me, as tutorials to PSP homebrew are a little thin. But here are some good sites to get started:
www.psp-hacks.com
www.pspupdates.com

only a matter of time.....I love my 2.0 but it sucked losing the emulators when i upgraded. Something will come out soon.

check www.ps2dev.org there was a member (pacman fan) who was working on a PSX emulator for the PSP

Ok, wtf does all that shit mean on that page 'Nothingx' ? Im excited as hell, im prepared to go buy a PSP tomorrow when i wake up if thats a working emu..... INFOZ PLZ OMG! <3

I know about the Hello World thing for the 2.0's thats what I meant when I said something will come out soon once they fix it so it isnt capped at 64 Kb.

Wow, that was quick - http://www.psp-hacks.com/2005/09/26/...homebrew-game/

This just in... Working 2.0->1.5 downgrader. Obviously if you really like the 2.0 firmware, this won't be big news to you... but those of you that got stuck buying something 1.5+ now have a choice.

Woaaah, simmer down! :) As far as I know, there are no working PSX emulators... trust that someone is working on it though. If you went out yesterday and bought a PSP, you wouldn't have been able to run any kind of emulator on it because Sony had started putting out firmware that would not allow you to run whatever you want on your hardware. Today though, that is now possible, which is good news for people that want that option.

It bothers me that you pay all that money for a machine, but yet you don't own it. Sony's protective firmware is like selling you a car with the hood welded shut.

Well the deal with homebrew is the licensing - Sony just wants money, just like any other company. If there are free games out there available to download, why would you buy Sony's games, especially if they're all $49.99 USD? Not only are they losing money that way, but licensing fees as well - any games for the PSP are licensed, not a single piece of homebrew is licensed.

In all honesty, until today (bought the Family Guy UMD), i haven't owend a single UMD game or movie for my PSP since I got it back in July. I've been playing NES emulators this whole time.

Apparently there is an emulator that runs playstation demos at 5 fps.

Well until they can run GBAs at more then 4 frames per second, I doubt you'll get a decent working one.

One can hope, although.

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if you have a version 1.50 psp you can update it to firmware 3.52 m33 it allows you to play ps1 games i had one with 1.50 but i did a stupid mistake i updated it but i didn't know there was a certain thing called custom firmware now i have version but 3.71 but theres still hope for us i heared sonys making a offical emulator and games sold for 15$ on they site !:confused: it not sure yet

way to resurrect a really old, dead thread. Well for your information, there is a thing called Pandora Battery now that can help you downgrade to version 1.50 and then upgrade to any custom firmware you need/want. This is as long as you do not have a PSP Lite.

http://pspupdates.qj.net/

search there.