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Can a PSP emulate a PS ISO?

  • 13-11-2005 10:15am
    #1
    Mr Rivers
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    Before I buy one I just wanna know can it emulate a PS?


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  • #2
    Ronan|Raven
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,148 ✭✭✭Ronan|Raven


    Not that im aware of.


  • #3
    Mr Rivers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭Mr Rivers


    Any chance of it in the future? It cant be too hard, would they not be pretty closely related right now?


  • #4
    Cake Fiend
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,335 ✭✭✭Cake Fiend


    I'd bet that someone somewhere is working on it!


  • #5
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 52,408 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Mr Rivers wrote:
    Any chance of it in the future? It cant be too hard, would they not be pretty closely related right now?

    Unfortunately it isvery hard. The PSP isn't closely related to the PS1. PS1 emulation on the PS2 was easy due to the PS1 chipset being integrated into the PS2 hardware. The PS1 hardware isn't on the PSP. Therefore the emulator will have to be written from scratch. If you consider how long it took for a PS1 emulator to appear for the PC you will get a picture of how long it will take. Some one will be working on it but don't expect a working one that plays games at a decent framerate for the next 3 years. The PS1 is a far more complicated machine to emulated that the other machines that are currently emulated.
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  • #6
    Tank Top Fever!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 632 ✭✭✭Tank Top Fever!


    As retrogamer said it's a long way off at the minute. I have my doubts as to whether it will ever happen. The psp still has trouble emulating some SNES games, let alone ps1.

    It struggles with Mario Kart, Starwing, Pilotwings and the like


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  • #7
    ninja 101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 69 ✭✭ninja 101


    I'm not really familiar with the psp,but how do you get snes games to run on it?Also what consoles can the xbox emulate?


  • #8
    Placebo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,070 ✭✭✭Placebo


    only hardware apart from pc that ever can or did emulate ps games was dreamcast [rip :) ]


  • #9
    silverlining
    Closed Accounts Posts: 425 ✭✭silverlining


    ninja 101 wrote:
    what consoles can the xbox emulate?
    nes, snes, megadrive, amiga, neo-geo, arcade (mame), all the early ataris (2600 etc), amstrad CPC, commodore64, loadsa weird handhelds and early home computers and.....playstation 1!

    but not PS2 or dreamcast


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