My PSP Had a Sex Change (or : How I Learned to Love My PSP)

The games on the Sony PSP platform never really did it for me - the PSP always felt a bit like a miniature Playstation 1 (which it is, so that makes sense) and that vibe doesn’t really cut it for me no more. So I never really played with it a whole lot..

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..until I found out about Amiga emulation on the PSP. The project is called Ubiquitous Amiga Emulator and its great, I figured I’d share my experience with it here. Someone told me about this a while ago, I just never really found time to play with it yet (the first version of PSP UAE dates back to 2005).

The installation procedure isn’t completely harmless apparently, so at first I wasn’t really sure if I should do this at all since the process can potentially ‘brick’ (screw up) your PSP completely, although I read somewhere that there is tricks to ‘unbrick’ it again. It also does a fair bit of overclocking (sets the CPU speed to 333mhz). I believe there isn’t really a lot of knowledge on if this overclocking business is actually harmful to a PSP.

It took me a few hours to install the emulator - My PSP is from 2005 and ran on version 2.81. Which meant I had to upgrade it to v3.50 in order to be able to downgrade it to v1.50 again. I could find all the tools and tricks trough google - ‘its all there you just have to find it’ (pasting the links in this post is ‘breaking the law’ I think?)

Anyhow…

A few hours later I was looking at Turrican II - running smooth and looking mighty fine on the mint PSP screen:

Maniac Mansion, Zak McKracken, Indy; The SCUMM adventures all run great as well - only the sound is quite broken.

Some observations:

If you don’t really fancy this old-school retro gaming stuff, there is more emulation going on for the PSP, like DeSmuME - emulating the Nintendo DS. Nice.

September 23, 2007 | Tagged Gaming 

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