PSP Emulator For Android Released

YokimaSun writes "This may be one of those projects that will get trounced on soon enough like the great Bleemcast Project, but a group of developers calling themselves the PPSSPP Project have released the first PSP Emulator for the Android OS, the emulator lets you play PSP Games with a touchscreen which was something PSP owners had wanted for years. At the moment games that are playable are Puzzle Bobble Deluxe, Puyo Pop Fever & Pinball Fantasies. The emulator has also been released for Windows and BlackBerry."

Re:Yeah right

[Trilkin]

Uh. The PSP is -NOTHING- like the PS3. It's actually also lower spec than the PS2. It's more like a PS1.5.

Re:Yeah right

[oGMo]

I know this is a poor analogy because of all the variables, but to emulate PS2 you need a very hefty PC with a real GPU. Something far beyond the power of a PS3.

Utterly irrelevant. A PS2 uses an unusual proprietary architecture [wikipedia.org] and games tend to take advantage of very low-level architecture-specific tweaks. A PSP is a pretty standard MIPS R4000 and a fairly crappy but fairly standard GPU. With high-level emulation [wikipedia.org], dyamic recompilation [wikipedia.org], etc, it shouldn't be hard to emulate even on modest hardware. With today's GHz+ CPUs in phones, brute forcing may even be a reasonable option.

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[hrydgard]

This is a bit too early for a slashdot post in my opinion. The emulator was just open sourced and it plays only a few games, not very well.

However, like it happened with Dolphin ( http://www.dolphin-emu.org/ [dolphin-emu.org] ), I'm sure that compatibility will grow as quickly as we gain contributors. Here are the real links:
http://www.ppsspp.org/ [ppsspp.org] and http://www.github.com/hrydgard/ppsspp [github.com] .

Thanks!
Henrik