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
- WTF: YES
- World Series of porker: Yes*
- World tour Soccer: Yes *
- WWE VS RAW: NO