Mame Working on the PSP

An anonymous reader writes "The PSP Wiki site has posted a release of Mame the arcade emulator for the Sony PSP, heres an english site with Screenshots of the Emulator in action." I guess I won't need to go to such great lengths to play Pac-Man next time.

In soviet Russia...

[Phantombantam]

In soviet russia, Linux.. awe forget it heres my damn link. PSP Linux [psp-linux.org]

Re:Uninspiring

[runlvl0]

I'm pretty sure it can run any mame game.

Per the Fine Article:

"Only works with Omega Fighter at this time. Left and Right on Dpad is OK :)
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[NOTES]
There is no sound. Any games with a bit-depth not equal to 8 will not work. This emulator has the drivers for: omegaf, darius, nova2001, and vanguard."

So, it looks like CmdrTaco still needs "to go to such great lengths to play Pac-Man next time." (Or he can just put regulara MAME on his notebook.)

All well and good but...

[Rirath.com]

These anonymous readers somehow always fail to mention it still ain't going to run on 1.5 - 1.5.2 yet.

Re:On this rate...

[Anonymous Coward]

What people keep forgetting, besides the fact that you can't use these emulators on any PSPs other than the original batch of Japanese PSPs, is that if you have one of those original units, don't expect to play any actual PSP games on it and retain any value, as Sony's announced future games will "require" updated firmware, and install it automatically off the UMD.

Incorrect/trash news post

[dostick]

All PSPs are sold with 1.5 / 1.5.1 firmware witch does NOT support unauthrized programs like MAME.
You can say technically you may run it on PSP only if that psp was made in 2004 with old firmware.

So this story is correct if you talk about 0.01% of PSPs out there.

Forget Alpha PSP Mame, PalmMAME works now

[Anonymous Coward]

If you want a portable MAME machine, grab a Palm (Treo 650 cell phone is what I use) and get PalmMAME:

http://www.pocketdimension.com/PalmMAME.html [pocketdimension.com]

Works with most games that will fit the small screen and fits into memory. The classics pretty much all work as well as some smaller Neo-Geo games.

--Striker

Re:Useless waste of time

[FidelCatsro]

I was playing Mortal Kombat 2 the other day rather well on my 400mhzs g3 with Mame .The reason the ps2 can barely play pacman is simply because the ps2 mame is not refined enough , it ran perfectly on the dreamcast which by all accounts had lesser procesing power .
I would say the psp shoudl be able to handle most mame games rather admirably if its programed to the hardware , it does have alot of power beneth the hood(it can do alot more in hardware than the ps2 iirc , not that that would effect 2d games that much though)

Re:What the hell is wrong with Sony

[Reaperducer]

the US software wouldn't work anyway... Sony love region-locking their stuff.

This is false. I use American games on my Japanese PSP all the time. It's the movies that are locked. If I try to play an American movie in my Japanese PSP I get an unpleasant message.