Android and PSP Gaming
Android, playing PSP games with the PPSSPP emulator. I’m going to jump right into it, you will either need a dual core or quad core processor in your phone. I would recommend that it is rooted and use CPU master app to make your device run at top speed to get the best results from the PSP emulator (PPSSPP) on your Android device.
I have tested it on single core phones and it runs too slow, that it’s not even worth it. Dual core devices, with CPU master can do it but gets a little slow on some games even with the sound off. Now the quad core phones I found no issues with of course if you want to see best results then you need to set the CPU at max speed and play with the setting for each game.
The Sound didn’t work on most games with all the devices I tested it on. Some games will play bits and pieces of audio files, but you never hear the background music. I been testing on both machines and low end Smartphone’s. I’ve only found about a handful that work very well on some device’s. I would definitely recommend a high end Smartphone like the Note 2 or Xperia Z but all said and done it works very well and gets updates too. I would say about every 3 to 6 months, so if you buy the gold version from the Google Play Store. You will definitely be helping the developer and at the same time you get a few more options in the app like the graphics and system settings. If you want to use a third-party controller on your phone for the psp emulator there is no settings for mapping the buttons in the regular or gold edition app that you can download from the Play Store.
Free & Open Source
PPSSPP is an open source project, licensed under the GPL 2.0 (or later). Anyone is welcome to contribute their improvements to the code. Thanks to such contributions, PPSSPP’s compatibility is steadily increasing, letting us all play the PSP games we want on the devices of our choice.
PPSSPP now works on jailbroken iPhone and iPad with Cydia. Some people have set up Cydia repositories, updated at various frequencies, look to the right. angelXwind’s repo is updated the most often, however some people are reporting better speed with The Avenger’s. More info on iOS click here: iOS ppsspp and check out the forums for any android build issues http://forums.ppsspp.org/
So far these are the games that I have found that work for me and the PC, Xperai play, G2, Note2 and S4. 90 percent of the games were tested in ISO format. The compact CSO files do work, but I did not test a lot of those. Some games may work better on other PC because of video card and processor speed.
Here is a legend so you know what the abbreviations are by each game.
- Loading time. LT.
- Graphic issues: GI.
- Needs Tweaking: Tw.
- Works great: *
- 300 March To Glory: Yes*
- Ace Combat Skies Of Deception: Yes*
- Activision Hits Remixed: No LT
- Alien Syndrome: Yes*
- Ape Academy 1&2: NO
- Atari hits remixed: NO
- ATV Off Road Fury: NO
- Battlezone: No
- BBoy: yes*
- Bleach 1&2: Yes*
- Burnout Legends: NO LT
- Cars: Yes LT
- COD 3: No
- Coded arms: Yes Tw LT
- Championship Manager: Yes*
- CrashTagTeamRacing: No
- Dragonballz shin 1&2: Yes *
- Dragonballz tagteam: No
- Dave Mirra bmx: Yes TW
- Daxter: No
- Death JR 1&2. Yes *
- Dungeon Siege Thrown Of Agony: yes*
- Dynastey Warriors: Yes TW LT
- Eragon: NO LT
- Everybodys Golf: No
- Exit: Yes*
- F1 Grand Prix: No
- Field Commander: Yes LT
- Family Guy: Yes*
- fifa 07: No LT
- fifa street 2: Yes
- fight night round3: No
- Free running: Yes TW
- Gran turismo: Yes TW LT
- GOW 1&2: Yes GI
- Grip shift: No
- G.R.A.W 2: Yes LT TW
- Ghost in the Shell: No LT TW
- GTA VCS: Yes LT GI
- Guilty gear X: Yes*
- Gundam battle royal: yes*
- Gundam battle tactics: Yes*
- Gunshowdown: Yes LT GI TW
- Harry Potter Order Of The Phoenix: Yes-NO LT TW GI (hardone to get working)
- Hot shots Golf OPen Tee: Yes LT TW GI
- Hotbrain: No
- Infected: Yes
- KAmeleon: No
- Kao Challengers: yes GI TW
- Kazoo: yes GI TW
- Key of heaven: Yes TW
- Killzone liberation: Yes TW LT
- KIngdom of hearts: Yes GI
- Little Big Planet: Yes TW *
- Loco Roco: Y TW*
- Lumines 1 & 2: Y*
- Luxor: Y TW
- Pimp my ride: NO
- Pilot Academy: YES .GI .LT
- Passport to London: NO LT
- Panic bomber: YES
- Outrun 2006: No
- Open season: No
- NFL Street’s Unleashed: No
- NFL Madden 06: No .LT.
- NFS carbon: No .LT
- NBA Live 06: Yes .LT. GI. TW.
- Nascar 07: YES LT
- Nacmo museum: Yes
- Naruto Shippuden Legends Akatsuki Rising: Yes*
- Moto GP: Yes
- MOHH: No
- Midnight club3 DB: NO LT
- Micro machines v4: Yes GI
- Miami vice: Yes *
- Metal Gear acid: Yes TW *
- Mercury: Yes *
- Mega man power up: Yes *
- Mediaeval resurrection: N
- Marvel Nemesis Rise Of The Imperfects: N
- Marvel UA 2: Yes tw
- Tokobot: Yes GI
- V8 Racedriver2: No
- Tigerwoods PGA 07&08: NO
- Thrillville: Yes
- Godfather mobwars: No
- The Con: Yes GI TW
- Tony hawk U2: No
- Transformers: No
- Test Drive unlimited: No
- Tekken Dark resurrection: Yes * TW
- Taitsujin Portable: Yes LT
- Twisted metal head-on: Yes*
- Syphon filter dark: Yes Tw *
- Super monkey ball: Yes *
- Street supremacy: Yes TW LT
- Street fighter turbo Alpha 3: Yes
- Star wars lethal alliance: No
- Star trek tactical assault: No
- SSX on tour: YES TW LT
- Sponge bob square pants: NO
- Spiderman: yes LT GI
- Spaceinvaders EVO: Yes
- SonicRivials: Yes TW
- Snoopy red baron: NO
- Sim2: Yes LT TW
- Shrek the third: NO
- Scooby doo who watching you: NO
- Scarface MPR: NO
- Rocky Balboa: Yes
- Ridge racers 1&2: Yes
- Rengoku 1&2: Yes TW LT
- Reefishing: Yes
- Ratchet & Clank size matters: No LT GI
- Rainbow six Vegas: No GI
- Resistance – Retribution: Yes TW LT
- Puzzle bubble: NO
- Pro Evo soccer 07: Yes*
- Prince of Persia rival swords: no LT GI
- PQ Quotient: No
- Pinball: YES
- Valkyrie: No
- Vampire chronicles: No
- Virtual tennis: Yes*
- Who wants to be a millionaire: yes*
- Winning 11: NO
- ***: YES
- World Series of porker: Yes*
- World tour Soccer: Yes *
- WWE VS RAW: NO
I’ve tried PPSSPP v0.8.1 on PC, it’s still not good at animation. But I believe It’ll be better next version.
try new version 0.9.1
Cool!
I will try it out on my nvidia shield as soon as it arrive 😀
You lucky *** I’m soo jealous 😀
I’ll give this a shot on my S4 and PC, thanks for pointing it out! I want to replay Crisis Core, and it not being Vita compatible is annoying. Hope it works well here!
I had CC on my vita with TN-V eCFW and it plays and look great
I’ve tried Crisis Core on an S4 not rooted. There are graphic issues where it runs slow, but otherwise pre-rendered scenes work just fine.
Dont know how much better it would be if it gets rooted.
Burn out legends works. This was a usa cso copy on the gs4
I was a curator of the PPSSPP topic on 4pda from the earliest alpha.
I tried this out on 3q ts1003t (Tegra 2): Ridge Racer demo was a bit slow, but worked quiet good. (Old emulator version, it may be faster now).
What about Patapon? 🙂
i tried playing patapon 1,2,&3 on the PC version. it just doesn’t sync well. the time difference between the button press and the register makes it hard to get a fever. or even mess up your combo.
Nice little list you got here
wololo, would you mind sharing that “CPU master” you’re using?
i searched the play store and saw a lot of apps named CPU master. and i got scared when i saw “You agree to not hold the developer responsible if anything happens to your device.”
and a tutorial on how to adjust the settings for optimal playability on an android device? if it’s not too much trouble.
thanks for sharing this.
The Cpu master that was used was Antutu CPU MASTER FREE and Thank you, I wrote the article
I wish you would mention that he developed for Dolphin.
I’m going to throw this on my Galaxy S4 right now! Has anyone had any results with that particular phone yet? Notably, I’ll probably try to run the English Patched DanganRonpa. I’ll reply with results.
Plays eboots too, this emulator works beautifully on pc, im running monster hunter 3rd HD ps3 version with english patch! Its amazing, and works on ouya too
So basically the Note 3 is the phone for this emulator?
no… ppsspp is for windows, Ios, blackberry check the website bro ppsspp.org its fun and free
The S4, note 2 or the new note 3 coming soon will work great. Any quad core phone will do just fine. Dual core with tweaking it will play a lot of games still.
if you cant hear the sound, you propertly didnt download the atrac 3 plugin. i using my xperia play and most of the games works fine.
Yes but some game just did have the best audio and I just update the gold version to 0.1.9 and now you can use a controller with it. Plus it fixed a few games with speed etc..
Lost my Xperia P which played Exit 1&2 pretty well.. but lost my phone last week….
So waiting for TN-V release now.. 🙁
hahaha i remember my comment in the other thread about the new vhbl exploit xD …
we can play psp games in pc
Check out the compatibility list before DL-ing any ISO:
http://forums.ppsspp.org/showthread.php?tid=1473
im currently playing:
– naruto shippuuden impact
– persona 3 portable
– God eater burst
– kingdom hearts BBS
my laptop is Toshiba Ultrabook i5 & the graphics awesome
Its a emumator, so you need to convert MIPS commands to something a ARM can read, no ? Its pretty obv. this is super slow. The vita in contrary is also a ARM, I can imagine it beeing allot easier to run that on ‘droid phones …
Yep, I’m with you.
First you need a database of all commands from the psp, then you need to match make those commands to your hardware/software base. Also a lot of those original commands will be much more complex because your hardware/software does not have a similar command, so one command becomes a series of complex commands (eating up cpu and ram). Also you need to figure out what the game wants to do (HLE).
Like glide to direct X, glide was a graphics api before m$ invented directx, it has A LOT of commands which incorporate several processing steps (much faster) at once which directx does not have (so back at that time, glide was superior, n64 and ps1 era).
BTW a perfect example of similar commands and good rerouting is a nds on droid phones due to the fact both are ARM based. I tried drastic with my galaxy s3 and my mario kart dump with orig save works wonderful, but there are a lot of other nds emus for the droid. 😉
The PC Version of PPSSPP works flawless for me. =P I even use 5x upscaled graphics and it runs perfect on most every game i have like Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core, Kingdom Hearts, DBZSB, and more.
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“The Sound didn’t work on most games with all the devices I tested it on. Some games will play bits and pieces of audio files, but you never hear the background music.”
Could that be because of the used audio codec? Getting music on a PC PSP emulator seems to require Sony Sonic Stage installed which comes with said codec I think.
ppsspp(pc and android versions) doesn’t require sonic stage.
you only need a plugin that can be downloaded from within the emulator.
and hackinformer seems to have missed a few more things.
the only difference between the gold and regular versions is the icon and the price, the screenshots are from older versions, and while the play store versions are only updated every few months there are also buildbot versions that are updated several times a day.
there should also be no difference in performance between dual and quad core, only the last few buildbot builds have experimental multi-core support.
game speed(with the right settings) is quite good for many games in the last few versions, and some games have been perfectly playable for months now(project diva series for example)
and sound support is far better than mentioned here, only a handful of games have no sound because of a bug but most games have no issues.
the iReadyGo Much i5 and the JXD S7800 modle B…. nuff said
fujitsu arrows v f-04e phone 128gb android
tegra 3 cup 12 core with ppsspp check word , :d watch video ppsspp and games will update version future
You need to download the sound plugin to get all sounds working in most games. It’s in the settings
Yes without it lots of videos and sounds won’t work. By ‘work’ let’s not expect perfection, to say the least.
Ill try this on my Lg35g single core 800 MHz processor and see how it runs…
Just kidding, lol we all already now the outcome of that, Ill actually try it on my S4 and see how it works. looks intresting 😀
NO Resident Evil??? fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
PSP on android.. very cool… But what would be even cooler? If Vita ever gets hacked and we can emulate android on vita!! 😀
PPSSPP is garbage. I’ve gotten one game to work on a PC, Ace Combat Skies Of Deception, and that’s it. None others work. They won’t get a damn bit of my support until it improves compatibility.
or you’re using wrong settings.
a lot of games work, some just require very specific settings to show anything other than a black screen.
DARIUS BURST
DISGAEA :AFTERNOON OF DARKNESS
HOT WHEELS
Working fine one my Device(Samsung Galaxy Note 3)
Everybodys Golf
Burnout Legends
Disgaea Infinite
Strikers 1945 Plus
Prinny 2 – Dawn of Operations Dood
Battlezone
WW2 – Battles Over The Pacific
Star Soldier
Ape Academy
Tales Of The World
SENGOKU Cannon
All on Sgn3
Burnout Dominator…works on SGN3
Ys – The Ark of Naphistm (SGN3)
Ys 7
Adventures to Go!
(SGN3)
This website was… how do I say it? Relevant!! Finally I’ve found something that helped me.
Thanks!