PlayStation Portable emulators
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| Developer | Sony |
|---|---|
| Type | Handheld game console |
| Generation | Seventh generation |
| Release date | 2004 |
| Discontinued | 2014 |
| Predecessor | PocketStation |
| Successor | PlayStation Vita |
| Emulated | ✓ |
- For other emulators that run on PSP hardware, see Emulators on PSP.
The PlayStation Portable (PSP) is a handheld game console made by Sony. The system was released in Japan on December 12, 2004, in North America on March 24, 2005, and in the PAL region on September 1, 2005. It was retailed for $249. It had a MIPS R4000 CPU at 333 MHz with 32 MBs of RAM. Later revisions of the PSP came with 64 MBs of RAM, allowing for faster load times.
Emulators[edit]
| Name | Platform(s) | Latest Version | PSP to PS2 |
PSP to PS3[1] |
Ad-Hoc | Texture enhancement |
Retro Achievements |
FLOSS | Active | Recommended | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PC / x86 | |||||||||||||
| PPSSPP |    
|
Dev Builds Dev Builds (Artifacts) libretro core[N 1] 1.14.4 |
✗* | ✗* | ✓[N 2] | ✓[N 3] | ~[N 4] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| JPCSP | 
|
SVN | ✗* | ✗* | ✓[N 5] | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ~[N 6] | |||
| cspspemu |
|
git | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | |||
| jspspemu | 
|
git | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | |||
| PCSP |
|
0.5.5 | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | |||
| Potemkin |
|
1.00 Alpha | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | |||
| PSPE |
|
0.9b | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | |||
| Mobile / ARM | |||||||||||||
| PPSSPP |       
|
Dev Builds Dev Builds (Artifacts) 1.14.4 0.1 Pyra libretro core[N 1] |
✗ | ✗ | ✓[N 2] | ✓[N 3] | ~[N 4] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| PSPe+ (PPSSPP fork) |
|
3.2.1 | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ? | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | |||
| Console | |||||||||||||
| Adrenaline | 
|
6.61 | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| PPSSPP |     
|
Switch Xbox 360 Xbox One Wii U libretro core[N 1] |
✗ | ✗ | ✓[N 2] | ✓[N 3] | ~[N 4] | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | |||
| PSP PlayStation®Portable REMASTER Launcher |
|
v2.0 | ? | ? | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ? | ✗ | ~ | |||
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 This build using upstream repo for libretro from now on.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Supports multiplayer on the same network and multiplayer over the internet but no support for XLink Kai at the moment.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 PPSSPP Texture Packs
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Only libretro core supports RetroAchievements at the moment. RA feature request for PPSSPP standalone version.
- ↑ XLink Kai: JPCSP PSP Tutorial
- ↑ Unlike PPSSPP, JPCSP does support XLink Kai and partially running the PSP menu (XrossMediaBar & XMB) and UMD movie/video decoding.
Comparisons[edit]
- PPSSPP (compatibility, AdHoc compatibility, AdHoc compatibility#2)
- Released in November of 2012. Compatibility is higher than JPCSP and games runs significantly faster. The emulator is currently capable of playing the vast majority of the PSP library, with 2907 (83%) out of 3519 reported titles can be played from start to finish.
- JPCSP
- Requires the Java Runtime Environment to be installed, which has a history of security issues. Because it uses Java, it is also much slower than PPSSPP. JPCSP was built around debugging and was never really meant to be a standard emulator. They made it so they could understand the PSP's inner workings better. And thanks to the JPCSP team, and other PSP homebrew teams, PPSSPP developed at breakneck speeds. Both teams communicate a lot and contribute with each other.
