Console emulation on PSP

The other day, I took from my friend a pocket console from Sony - PSP. Modern games quickly bored me, and I remembered old consoles and long-playing games on them. In the end, I got a kind of Dingoo Digital A-320 . So, if you have a stitched console with support for running homebrew applications, then welcome under cat.

NES / Famicom / Dendy

To emulate this, the most popular console of the 90s, I advise you to use NesterJ ( v1.20beta2.zip ). They promise to support the game via WiFi (Adhoc), but since I don’t have the opportunity to test this feature right now, I won’t say anything. The last beta was released a long time ago (2006/07/9), but it copes with its task, and we don’t have any alternatives.

After the first launch, I could not enter the settings menu for a long time, because I did not think that their call could be assigned to the stick movement. So: we move the stick to the left - we get into the settings menu, we move to the right - we change the aspect ratio of the screen.

Sega Mega Drive / Genesis

The name of this emulator should be familiar to owners of Symbian and Windows Mobile smartphones. His name is PicoDrive ( v1.51 ). Of course, the buttons on the PSP are not located in the best way, but you can play.

If, after launching the game, artifacts and image overlay appear (in UMK3, for example), then try setting the Renderer Accurate field (or drag the stick to the right) in the settings. The emulation speed will drop a bit, but not critical. And: do not forget to save the settings. You can customize each rum separately. After changing the control settings, you need to save them in the section with the other settings. This is a bit illogical, but otherwise everything will be reset.

Super Nintendo Entertainment System / Super NES / SNES

Here Snes9xTYL ( v0.4.2 ) is the port of the original Snes9x (v1.39). Advanced emulator with a bunch of settings.

If you click Start on the Roma selection screen, the word NetPlay will appear in the background. How to use it, I did not understand. The settings window is different from the others - the graphics and all sorts of smooth transitions are used, a clear link under the menu of the PSP itself.

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Game Boy Advance

Personally, I use gpSP mod , but, honestly, I don’t know how it differs from the original: full speed without glitches works, okay =) It requires bios from gba, do not forget to put it in the folder with the emulator.

There is support for save slots, as in the iron console. The emulator turned out to be quite capricious: at first it did not allow screenshots to be taken, and then it was completely bent. As it turned out because of the PSP plug-in, which intercepted some keys.

Nintendo 64

DaedalusX64 is a pretty good, developing (to this day) emulator. If you play with sound, it will slow down (the sound is turned off by default).

To change the aspect ratio of the screen, it is necessary in the list of games to press the left / right triggers (Shifty) and change the corresponding option (during the game itself - no longer change).

Sony PlayStation

The PSone emulator is built into the PSP by default. It is only necessary to convert the iso image into a format that is digestible for the PSP. To do this, you can download ready-made PSX-PSP images or use special converter software , but ideally you can order from the PSN Store (of course for $).

The settings window looks quite nice, in the style of the PSP system menus. Since there are no additional keys (R2, L2) on the portable sone, but there is an analog stick, the trigger can be reassigned to it.

PS

Of course, emulators are much more, but I did not use them and there are no particularly hit games for them. It is a pity that there is no normal arcade machine emulator: on the existing MAME4ALL, Battle Toads and TMNT could not be launched.
Links to emulators have been added to the review (I don’t know anything better ifolder), most Japanese developers => on off sites (which are also hard to find) just get lost.
Perhaps there is a reason to buy a used PSP, not Dingoo. And overpaying to get a good screen, WiFi and support for modern games.

Emulation of old (and not only) consoles on GNU / Linux