PS4: PSP Games and Homebrews might come to your hacked PS4 soon
Significant progress has been made on the PS4 scene over the past 3 days, from hackers managing to run PSP games on hacked PS4s. The trick is achieved by injecting PSP Games and homebrew into a PSP remastered game that appears to ship with a full fledged PSP emulator for the PS4.
GBATemp member KiiWii recently realized that the PS4 Remastered version of Parappa the Rapper was actually a PSP image of the game running within a PSP emulator. Fast forward a few days later, and multiple hackers are already able to boot several PSP games (including PSP homebrew) on their PS4, by “simply” replacing some of the resource files included in Parappa.
KiiWii has been posting regular progress over at GBATemp. Just a few hours ago, he showcased Loco Roco running through that trick. Other hackers have shown significant progress on that front as well, with Zecoxao showing the loading screen of Patapon for example.
Darkelement has touted that the psp emulator on PS4 (nicknamed PSPHD, apparently due to its feature that lets it replace the low-res PSP textures with hi-res PS4 ones on the fly) could be made available to the scene soon, sharing the configuration file being used for Parappa.
Last but not least, Z80 shared a screenshot of the basic 3D cube sample code from the homebrew PSPSDK. Pretty much the very first homebrew that any tinkerer trying to create games on their hacked PSP has ever run.
There are of course lots of open questions regarding what this injection mechanism will let us do. It’s unclear how many games will be fully compatible, as the devs have apparently not being able to go past the loading screens in some cases. KiiWii shared a list of “non working” games, which so far is bigger than the “working” ones.
Nevertheless, this wouldn’t be the first time that an internal emulator is “hijacked” this way on a Sony console to run older games. Recently, the PS2 emulator on the PS4 saw terrific progress being made in a similar fashion.
You’ll obviously need a hacked PS4 in order to try these things, once user-friendly methods are published.
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The japanese only Star Ocean 2 is also the PSP version, but since it’s japanese, nobody tried to look into it. It’s not even available for HEN.
that is pretty cool! hopefully a good amount of games can run 😀
Yeah thats exactly what the scene was asking for: PSP emulator for PS4. Imo 1000x better than 5.05 exploit.
using the old psp python and pygame, it’s a way to make something for the big screen
Im gonna inject hiv into your mom aidsymcgree. Good progress on ps4 though.
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I wish ps3 emulation will be also available similarly for ps4.
PS3 emulation will never happen on the PS4. The RPCS3 on PC needs serious horse power just to run half decent. We are talking about i7 8700, gtx 1080, 16+ GB memory. The PS4 processor is a horrible tablet cpu, and almost every mid range PC from 10+ years ago will have a better one. At most you will be able to run a game at 2 fps with no sound…
so if the PS4 processor is just a tablet cpu, that means the PS3 one is less powerful .. so why do emulation needs an i7, 16gb+ ram, gtx 1080, etc to run PS3 games? I never understood that
to emulate something you need something a X times more powerfull, and the ps3 cpu is a mess
Gonna play CSPSP online hahah1!1!!
That’s amazing! Great find and great work, all!
My ccocckk just blew up into a full blown Amazonian mushroom!
Stop the madness! Who cares about this PSP and Game Boy emulators, when you can run them on 20 years old PC? When the real homebrew like Fun Control to make your PS4 last longer, Movian to watch 3D movies in VR, PS3 controller emulator like HID2VPAD on WiiU. No, seriously?
Sound like it works somewhat like the older PS3 PSP Remastered games, maybe this time we can see how replacing the low-res PSP textures with hi-res ones work. Hopefully more games work this time as the PS3’s list is not the best, but what does end up working looks great.