Emulators on PSP
Contents
Multi-System
RetroArch
Core | Game/System | Working? | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
gpSP | Game Boy Advance | ✓ | ~50-60 FPS with dynarec |
TempGBA | Game Boy Advance | ✓ | ~50-60 FPS |
mGBA | Game Boy Advance | ✓ | |
TGB Dual | Game Boy/Color | ✓ | |
Gambatte | Game Boy/Color | ✓ | |
Snes9x 2005 (CATSFC) | Super nintendo | ✓ | ~55-60 FPS on standard games, ~50 FPS on Super FX games |
Snes9x 2005+ (CATSFC Plus) | Super nintendo | ✓ | Same as Snes9x 2005 but with better sound, at the cost of a few FPS |
FCEUmm | NES | ✓ | |
QuickNES | NES | ✓ | |
PicoDrive | Sega systems (SMS/GG/GEN/SCD/32X/Pico) | ✓ | 2D games run full speed, 3D games run about 30 FPS or less. Sega CD games Slow Speed |
RACE | Neo Geo Pocket/Color | ✓ | Least accurate but fastest NGP/C core, Use Mednafen (Beetle NeoPop) instead |
Mednafen PCE Fast | PC Engine | ✓ | |
Squirreljme | J2ME | ✓ | |
Mu | Palm OS | ✓ | |
GW | Game & Watch | ✓ | |
NP2Kai | PC9801 | ✓ | |
Theodore | MO5/TO7 | ✓ | |
blueMSX | MSX/SVI/ColecoVision/SG-1000 | ✓ | |
FreeINTV | IntelliVision | ✓ | |
FUSE | ZX Spectrum | ✓ | |
EightyOne | Sinclair ZX 81 | ✓ | |
fMSX | MSX | ✓ | |
Handy | Atari Lynx | ✓ | |
Atari800 | Atari 5200 | ✓ | |
NXEngine | Cave Story | ✓ | |
PrBoom | Doom | ✓ |
The Gambatte core for GB/GBC works at full speed. The PC Engine emulator is also very good.
Sony
PlayStation / PS1
See PSP Eboots.
Nintendo
Game Boy Advance
TempGBA4PSP or gpSP
UO gpSP Kai UO gpSP Kai v3.4 Test4 Build 230 is the most recent GBA emulator for the PSP and has superior compatibility with most problematic games (Golden Sun, for example).
GameBoy Advance
Name | Version | GB | GBC | GBA | Recommended |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
mGBA* | 0.10.3 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
UO gpSP Kai | v3.4 test 4 build 230 | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
TempGBA4PSP-mod | Git | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
* mGBA Only Available On RetroArch Cores.
Game Boy / Color
RIN 2.0 RECOMMENDED or MasterBoy 2.10 or GeMP 3.3 Final
Famicom (NES) / Famicom Disk System
NesterJ 1.13 beta2 or NesterJ AoEX R3 SP RECOMMENDED
NesterJ AoEX R3 SP is based on NesterJ 1.12 Plus 0.61 RM, so it includes features like rewind mode, cheat codes support, rotated/mirrored screen, sepia palette, support to rare mappers (the pirate bootleg FF7 works on it), etc, but its compatibility is inferior to 1.13 beta2.
Super Famicom (SNES)
Use the s9xTYLme version for best performance on an actual PSP; if on a Vita, use the s9xTYLcm version.
Nintendo 64
Most games are unplayable, but there's a small amount of them that work really well with the right settings (Quest 64, for example).
Nintendo DS
DSonPSP Also known as Desmume PSP Is a Nintendo DS emulator for psp but it is not recommended since most games do not work and those that work are unplayable, with very low framerates or just do not pass of the title screen.
Sega
Master System / Game Gear / Genesis / Sega CD / Pico / 32X
SG-1000
THERE ARE NO EMULATORS FOR THIS PLATFORM.
Saturn
THERE ARE NO EMULATORS FOR THIS PLATFORM.
Dreamcast
THERE ARE NO EMULATORS FOR THIS PLATFORM.
Other Consoles
PC Engine / CD / SuperGrafx
PC-FX
THERE ARE NO EMULATORS FOR THIS PLATFORM.
Neo-Geo Pocket / Color
WonderSwan / Color
e(mulator) v082f (multi-emulator)
Arcade
NJEMU (CPS1, CPS2, Neo Geo MVS / CD)
Other Consoles (retro)
Atari 130 / 800 / 5200
PSPAtari or Atari800 (800 only)
Atari 2600
Atari 7800
Atari Lynx
ColecoVision
Intellivision
Vectrex
Computers
EmuODD PSP Notes: Executing this emulator several times results in no sound anymore until a cold reboot of the PSP.
Chip8
Amiga
Amstrad CPC
Apple II
Atari ST
BBC Micro
Commodore 64
Commodore Plus / 4
macOS 0.x
DOSBox
DOSBox 0.71, DOSBox Navigator 1.51 (W/ DOSBox 0.71) or DOSBox EasyNavigator.
DOSBox 0.71 is an old version and doesn't run that well with the more demanding games and Windows 9x on the PSP. The DOSBox Navigator packs linked above are for easy navigation through the DOSBox menus on the PSP screen.
NEC PC 98
NP2 for PSP & NP21 for PSP are ports of Neko Project II and Neko Project 21/W, respectively, by Hsusori. Unfortunately hasn't been updated since 2011.
ScummVM
ScummVM (PSP package).
MSX / MSX2 / MSX2+ / MSXturboR
Sinclair ZX81
Sinclair ZX Spectrum
PSPectrum