Emulators on PlayStation Portable

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PlayStation Portable
Original model (PSP-1000)
Developer Sony Computer Entertainment
Manufacturer Sony Electronics
Type Handheld game console
Generation Seventh
Release date December 12, 2004
Discontinued NA: January 2014
JP: June 2014
PAL: December 2014
Predecessor PocketStation
Successor PlayStation Vita
Emulated
For software that emulates the PlayStation Portable, see PlayStation Portable emulators.

The PlayStation Portable (PSP) is a handheld game console made by Sony. For its time it was a powerful handheld with a massive homebrew scene, far superior to the more popular Nintendo DS in both respects. Along with its comfortable form factor, this made it an excellent choice for a handheld emulation machine. In addition to playing the PSP library off a memory stick and running multiple third-party emulators, a hacked PSP could take advantage of the Sony-developed PlayStation emulator to play most of the PS1 library. Most 2D systems can be emulated reasonably well, although users can run into speed and compatibility issues for systems as old as the SNES. Portable hardware has progressed in the years since the PSP, and users will now generally be better served by a newer handheld or even their smartphone, which can usually run a more up-to-date slate of emulators in addition to PPSSPP to cover the PSP library.

The PSP Custom Firmware 6.61-Pro-C2 (installation guide, latest version) will work on all PSP models from the original PSP to the PSP Go and even the E1000, all you need is to be running the official 6.60 or 6.61 firmware to install and use this custom firmware.

Note: on the 15/01/2015 Sony released PSP firmware 6.61, some three and a half years after the last 6.60 update. It's of no benefit to you updating to 6.61 after all this time, however the custom firmware has now been updated to support 6.61.

The specific emulator versions compatible with the Half-Byte Loader can be found listed on the official site. Emulators for OFW are meant to run on unmodified firmware, a list for that is also on the HBL forums.

Multi-systems

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Stable

Nightly

GitHub

Cores

BIOS

Available cores
Cores Game/System list PPSSPP Recommended Working?
Consoles
gpSP Game Boy Advance ? (Blue Screen/Slow)
mGBA ~
TGB Dual Game Boy/Game Boy Color
Gearboy
Gambatte
Snes9x 2005+ SNES ~
Snes9x 2005 ~
FCEUmm NES/Famicom Disk System
QuickNES
Nestopia
SMS Plus Master System/Game Gear/SG-1000
Gearsystem
PicoDrive Sega Mega Drive/Genesis/Game Gear/Master System/32X/Sega CD
RACE NeoGeo Pocket/Pocket Color
Mednafen NGP
Mednafen PCE Fast PCE/PCE CD/SuperGrafx (Blue Screen)
Mednafen PCE (Blue Screen)
Quasi88 NEC PC8801
Neko Project II Kai (猫Project II改) NEC PC9801 (crash)
Mednafen Lynx Atari Lynx
Handy
ProSystem Atari 7800
Atari800 Atari 5200
MAME 2003+ Multiple Arcade ~ (Slow) ~
MAME 2003 ~ (Slow) ~
EightyOne ZX81
FUSE ZX Spectrum
O2EM Magnavox Odyssey 2
FreeChaF Fairchild Channel F
FreeIntv IntelliVision
GW Game & Watch
Theodore MO/TO
X Millennium Sharp X1 (Turbo)
fMSX MSX/MSX2/MSX2+/MSXTurboR (Fast)
BlueMSX ColecoVision/SG-1000/MSX
Frodo C64
M Electronika BK-0010/11
CrocoDS Amstrad CPC
Lutro Lua Engine
Uzem Uzebox (Super Slow) ?
Games Engines
LowRes NX Game Engine
ECWolf Wolfenstein 3D
NXEngine Cave Story
Mr.Boom Bomberman Clone
PrBoom Doom
2048 2048 Game

emulator for PSP

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Latest version 0.82f PPSSPP ~ Recommended

x86 CPUs

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Name Latest version 8086 emulation 286 emulation 386 emulation 486 emulation Pentium emulation Pentium II emulation Celeron emulation Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
DOSBox git Low
Bochs 1.0 Low ~
UniPCemu x.x Low
† Bochs
Windows Operating Systems Supported

PlayStation

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended Required
PS1P Alpha 1 Low ~ BIOS
PSX-P Alpha 2 Low ~ BIOS
PSPSone Alpha ? BIOS

PSX2PSP Official eboots do not work on PPSSPP!

PSX2PSP - Official Eboots

Nintendo

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Game Boy Advance

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active Libretro PPSSPP Recommended
FrogGBA 0.3.3 Mid ?
Uo gpSP kai (Uo gpSP改) † (unofficial) 3.4 test 4 build 230
git
Mid ? (blue screen (fixed)
TempGBA4PSP-mod (based on gpSP) git Mid ? (blue screen)
gpSP 0.91 fix 3
git
Mid (libretro) ? (blue screen) ~
TempGBA4PSP (based on gpSP) 26750221 Mid ? (blue screen) ~
gpSP-J 12/06/16 Mid ? (blue screen) ~
gpSP-mod 2009/07/20
git
Mid ? (blue screen)
PSPVBA 1.2.4 Low
PSPGBA 1.2 Low
GBA Emulator for PSP 0.01 Low

Game Boy / Color

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
RIN (unofficial) git
RX
1.32n1.2
Mid
PlutoBoy git Mid ~
Gambatte-SDL gitSDL Mid ~ ~
MasterBoy 2.10/02
git
Theelf mod
Mid ~
emulator for PSP (core based on RIN) 0.82fgit Mid ~
GeMP 3.3 Finalgit Mid ~
SpiceBoy r2 Low
PSP-gnuboy r1 Low
Cinoop git Low

Nintendo 64

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Vita Recommended
DaedalusX64 git Mid ~ (crash/freezes)
Monkey 64 git Low ?

SNES (Super Famicom)

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
SNES9x TYL Mod (based on Snes9x 1.39) git Mid ? (glitch screen, TYLcm mod runs games on ppsspp)
Snes9x Euphoria R5 Beta 3
git
Mid (freeze when load a roms) ~
Uo Snes9x (unofficial) 0.02y33 Build 34
0.02pd2
Low-Mid
snes9x/1.52.81 for PSP wip/1 Low
Snes9x unofficial 0.2b Low
SNES9x TYL Mod
  • SNES9xTYL(mecm)/cm Mod is a port of SNES9x 1.39 to PSP. Inaccuracies everywhere, especially with sound, but it's the best thing available for PSP for SNES emulation. Use the mecm build where possible, unless you use the PSP emulator on Vita, in which case use the s9xTYLcm build.Use the s9xTYLme version for best performance on an actual PSP

NES (Famicom) / Famicom Disk System

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
Nester-J AOEX r3 SP
0.3 CN
RX Mod
1.12 加强版 0.80
3D
unofficial
git
Mid
emulator for PSP (core based on Nester J) 0.82f Mid
NES for PSP 0.5 Low ~
InfoNES 0.95J Low ~
Famicontest 0.31 Low ~
FCEUltra-PSP (FCEUPSP) 0.3j
0.3
git
Low ~
PSPFceUltra r2 Low
Little John PSP POC Low/poc
Nester-J

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 Beta 2.

Game & Watch

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
MaDrigal PSP 1.0 Mid

Pokémon mini

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
PokeMini 0.6.0 Mid

Nintendo DS

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
DeSmuME PSP V5
git
Low-Mid ~
DSonPSP Beta 0.7 Kayliah Edition
mod
0.1 (unofficial)
Low
NooDS PSP git Low
DeSmuME PSP 2007 Low

Virtual Boy

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
Red Dragon (Experimental) 0.38 Exp. Low ~ (very slow)

Dreamcast

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
nullDC PSP 1.2.1git Low-Mid (Crash) ~ (WIP)

Sega CD / Mega-CD

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
PicoDrive git
1.92.3
1.51b
Russian
Chinese
Mid
Pico-Drive A14 Mid ~

Sega 32X / CD 32X / Genesis 32X

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
PicoDrive git
1.92.3
Russian
Chinese
Mid
Pico-Drive A14 Mid ~

Mega Drive / Genesis

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
PicoDrive git
1.92.3
1.51b
Russian
Chinese
Mid
DGen PSP 1.7b
Chinese
RX
Mid
Pico-Drive A14 Mid
MegaDrive for PSP 0.22 Low-Mid ~
PSP Genesis 0.18cChinese Low
Generator PSP 0.01.0 Low ~

Master System / Game Gear

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active Libretro PPSSPP Recommended
PicoDrive (Master System only) git
1.92.3
Russian
Chinese
Mid
SMS Plus PSP git Theelf mod
1.3.1jp2
1.2
Ad-hoc
Mid (libretro)
MasterBoy 2.10/02
git
Theelf mod
Mid
emulator for PSP (core based on SMS Plus/SDL) 0.82f Mid
Pico-Drive A14 Mid ~
PSPMaster 0.0.9 Beta 4 Low
MMS Plus 1.1 Low
SMS PSP 0.5 Low
emuGG 1.0 Low
emuSMS 1.0 Low

SG-1000

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active Libretro PPSSPP Recommended
blueMSX* libretro Mid (libretro)
SMS Plus PSP git
Theelf git
Theelf mod
1.3.1jp2
1.2
Ad-hoc
Mid

blueMSX is only available as a seperate LibRetro core.

Saturn

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
Yabause 0.9.10 SVN 2599 Low (black screen when start a rom)

VMS / VMU

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
VirtuaMunstaz 1.0 Low ~

Oracle Corporation

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J2ME (Java 2 Micro Edition)

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
PSPKVM 0.5.5 FEgit Mid

Atari Inc.

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Atari 130XE / 800 / 800XL

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
Atari800 PSP 4.2.0
git
0.1
Mid
PSPAtari 1.1.3 Low ~

Atari 2600

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
PSP2600 1.2.0 Mid
Stella PSP 0.2 Low ~

Atari 5200

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
Atari800 PSP 4.2.0
git
0.1
Mid
Jum52 PSP 1.1 Low
PSPAtari 1.1.3 Low ~

Atari 7800

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
PSP7800 1.4.0 Mid

Atari Lynx

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
Handy PSP git High
pLynx 0.9 Mid ~
emulator for PSP (core based on PLynx) 0.82f Mid ~
Handy-PSP 0.01 Mid ~

Atari ST

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
CaSTaway/PSP r006 Mid ~

Atari Jaguar

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Name Latest version CD Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
pJag (Virtual Jaguar port) 0.1 Low ~

NEC Home Electronics

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PC Engine / CD / SuperGrafx 

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Name Latest version CD SG-FX Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
PCE for PSP 0.83UO1 ~ Mid
PSPHuGo 1.3.1 ~ Mid
emulator for PSP (core based on XPCE) 0.82f ~ Mid ~
HuE 0.70 ~ Mid ~

PC9801

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
NP2 0.39 Low ~

Emulates V30 and 80286 CPUs.

PC9821

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
NP21 0.39 Low ~

Emulates an i486 CPU.

PC8801

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
Quasi88 0.6.3 r3 Low ~
Q88PSP 0.7 Low ~

SNK Corporation

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Neo Geo Pocket / Color

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active Libretro PPSSPP Recommended
RACE! PSP git
Theelf mod git
Theelf mod
2.16jp
High
NeoPop PSP git Mid
emulator for PSP (core based on NeoPop) 0.82f Mid ~
ngPSP 1.3.1 Low-Mid ~

Microsoft

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
DOSBox git Low (slow)
DOSBox 0.71 Low ~
DOSBox 0.71
  • 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.

MSX series

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
fMSX PSP 5.4.2
git
Mid
PSPMSX 1.5.1 Mid
fMSX for PSP 0.62b+ Mid ~
uMSX 0.2 Low-Mid ~
HitBit 0.05 Low ~

Bandai

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WonderSwan / Color

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
emulator for PSP (core based on Oswan) 0.82f Mid
eSwan 0.09 Low-Mid ~
OswanPSP 0.2.0 Mid
pSwan 0.07 Low
OSwan 0.01 Low
Cygne 00.0 Low

Watara

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SuperVision

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
Potator git Mid

Arcade system boards

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Name Latest version CPS1 CPS2 CPS3 MVS/AES CD Other Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
NJEMU gitmvs/ncdz theelf mod Mid (glitch menu)
Uo NJEMU mod git Mid (glitch menu)
FBA4PSPmod Psikyo Core Mid ~
PSP-MAME4ALL git Low (crash) ~
MAME4ALL for PSP 4.9 r2 JP Low (crash) ~
PSPMAME 0.97- Repuken2 git Low ~
PSPMAME 0.97- MTK git Low ~
XMAME 0.1.2 Low ~
NeoCDPSP 0.9.1 (unofficial)
0.5 (official)
Mid (vertical and horizontal lines showing in screen) ~
NeoCD/PSP 0.01b Low ? ?

Coleco Industries

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ColecoVision

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
PSPColem 1.3.1 Mid
ColEm PSP 2.6.1 Mid
emuCOL 1.0 Low

Mattel Electronics

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Intellivision

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
PSPInt 1.1.0 Mid

Fairchild Semiconductor

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Channel F

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active Libretro PPSSPP Recommended
FreeChaF libretro Mid (libretro)

Only available as a seperate LibRetro core.

Magnavox

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Odyssey²

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
EmuODD 1.0 Low

• Executing this emulator several times results in no sound anymore until a cold reboot of the PSP.

General Consumer Electronics

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Vectrex

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
PSPVE 1.0.2 Mid
PSP VecX 1.51 Low ~ ~

Commodore International

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Amiga

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
PSPUAE UE 0.90 Beta 5git Mid ~ (Slow) ~
PSP-UAE 0.41 Low-Mid ? ?
PSP UAE4All r1 Low ? ?
Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
VICE PSP git Mid-High ~
PSPVICE 1.2 Mid ~
C64PSP 0.3 Low-Mid ~

VIC20

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
PSPVIC20 1.1 Beta Low-Mid ~

Plus/4

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
PSPYape 1.0.3 Mid
PSPPlus4 1.1 Low-Mid ~

Apple

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Apple II/ll+/lle

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
Apple II Portable 0.1-0173 Low-Mid ~ ~

macOS 0.x

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
Basilisk II git Low ~ ~

Acorn Computers

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BBC Micro

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
PSPBeeb 1.1.0 Mid

CHIP-8

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CHIP-8 / SCHIP

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
PSP-Chip8 1.0 Mid ~
Chip-8 Emulator 1.0 Beta Low ~ ~
DreamChip 4.0 Low

Amstrad

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CPC / CPC464

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
PSPCap32 1.5.1 Mid
Caprice32 PSP 4.2.0.3git Mid-High
CPCPSP 0.1 Low ~

Sharp Corporation

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X68000

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active Libretro PPSSPP Recommended Required
PX68K 0.10
git
Mid (libretro) BIOS

X1 / X1 Turbo

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active Libretro PPSSPP Recommended Required
X1 millennium libretro Mid (libretro) BIOS

Sinclair Research

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
PSPZX81 1.2.0 Mid ~

ZX Spectrum

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
FUSE PSP git Mid
PsPectrum 1.0.4 Low ~ ~
Unreal Speccy Portable 0.0.62 Low ~ ~ ~
PSP Spectrum 0.01 Low ~ ~

Pyūta / Grandstand Tutor

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Pyūta / Tomy Tutor

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
InfoPyuta (Infoぴゅう太) 0.02j Low

Miles Gordon Technology

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SAM Coupé

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
PSPSim 1.2.1 Mid

Thomson SA

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
PSPMO5 1.2.0 Mid

TO7-70

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
PSPThom 1.2.1 Mid

Texas Instruments

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TI99 / 4A

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
PSPTI99 1.0.3 Mid
Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
PSPXTI 1.3.0 Mid

Tandy Corporation

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Tandy Color Computer & Dragon 32 / 64

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Name Latest version Active Accuracy PPSSPP Recommended
PSPDragon 1.0.3 Mid

Hewlett Packard

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
PSPX48 1.1.0 Mid

Game engines

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ScummVM

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
ScummVM 2.7.1 Mid

Open Beats of Rage

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
OpenBOR PSP git Mid

Source ports

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active Game PPSSPP Recommended
AGS Runtime 3.21 r9 Mid AGS Games Runtime Engine ~
Cave Story current Mid Cave Story ~
DDLC-LOVE git Mid Doki Doki Literature Club! ~
Digger Remastered git Mid Digger ~ [N 1]
Doom PSP 1.4 Mid Doom ~
FNaF 1 PSP 1.3.1 Fix 1 Mid-High Five Nights at Freddy's
hode 0.4.9 ? Heart of Darkness ?
Insomnia Proquake Rev 4 Mid Quake ~
Minecraft PSP 3.3.0 Mid-High Minecraft
Minecraft PSP (Lamecraft Mod) 1.3.1 Mid LameCraft mod for Minecraft ~
OpenHCL git High Hydra Castle Labyrinth
OpenTyrian PSP+ +b4 Mid Tyrian ~
PSP Minecraft 3.0.0 Mid Minecraft ~
Spelunky® Classic remake git Mid-High Spelunky
  1. Audio does not work.

Visual novels

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ONScripter

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
ONScripter for PSP 270206 Mid ~

CPyMO

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
CPyMO for PSP git Mid

Game Creation Systems (GCS)

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Digital MZX

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Name Latest version Accuracy Active PPSSPP Recommended
MegaZeux git Mid

See also

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Emulators on consoles(edit)


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