PSP Emulator 2008-03-01 proof of concept now out

Posted Mar 1, 2008 at 10:47PM by QJ Staff Listed in: Homebrew Emulators Tags: Soywiz

Those keen on collecting handheld emulators for the PC (including this nifty Nintendo DS emulator) may be glad to know that homebrew developer Soywiz is working on a PSP emulator, and has in fact released a Proof of Concept for the emulator. Soywiz built the PSP emulator for the PC using a debugger, with D programming language and DFL library.

For now, the emulator can run only a few instructions, but that's a start, yes? If you're interested in keeping tabs on the development of this program, then better prepare a sandwich since the changelog is a pretty long read:

2008/03/01:

Partial (and buggy) lighting support.
Some cleanups.
Starting gui for breakpoints and gpu (not working yet).
Corrected callstack.
Some fixes; more homebrew demos supported.
Temporally skinning broken.
Temporally shaders disabled.
Updated binaries.
Reduced size of the font used in dissasembler and memory viewer.
Allowing reduce dissasembler window size; now imports won't overlap).
Initial support of opening files (not working fine yet).
Threading support currently disabled (I have to fix some issues).
mstick and reflection demos not supported yet

2008/02/24:

Buggy skinning support.
Implemented guLogic

2008/02/23:

Now using shaders (opengl >= 2.0).
Very fast clut.
Now I will be able to emulate sprite behaviour (sprite.pbp) with vertex shaders.
And probably hardware morphing and skining.

2008/02/22:

cleanups
clut support
y-axis correction.

2008/02/21:

more 3d support and more fpu instructions supported
texture mapping

2008/02/20:

Now can run a lot of integer instruction and some of the FP ones.
Also emulates a little of the GPU with new opengl support and support more library imports.
Fixed some bugs.
I found mips specs so it will be more easy to implement cpu (except for allegrex-specific instructions).

2008/02/14:

First Attempt (Buggy)

If you want to give the emulator a shot, then go ahead and download it from the link below, for your use on your PC. Don't be too excited, though, since all it can do for now is to perform some instructions and a few BIOS calls. Enjoy!

Download: PSP Emulator 2008-03-01

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Comments

# cool — Binary 2008-03-01 18:35

Be nice if he can get a firmware working soon.

be like "OMG my battery still full" lmfao

# eh — Binary 2008-03-01 20:29

Go ahead drop me to 0 stars yall bunch of a--holes

# lool! — geekboy2007 2008-03-01 21:11

lool!

# Cool — M33 User 2008-03-02 03:12

This is a ok lookin' poc. Keep up the work.

# happy face — iamback(unregistered) 2008-03-02 05:34

I gave you a happy face, just to be contrary.

# this is awesome if... — majorbb100 2008-03-02 08:13

dude keep up the hard work, dont give up PLEASE!!! this will be so cool when its finished and flawless.

# nice job — WACOMalt 2008-03-02 08:51

Keep up the good work, what does work, works well.

You should make a name for the program though. My mind is blank for suggestions though.

# .. — Binary 2008-03-02 14:31

If he does do firmware support then it will help us of not draging our psp out and hook the usb cable to test a homebrew game/app or prx.

# HO SHEET!!!! — bottmint 2008-03-02 15:22

its going to be really awesome if he implements a toggle between a fat and a slim psp.

# uh? — Metal Jody 2008-03-02 15:50

this is a PSP emulator?? ;D

# Now Im testing some app — SolidXnake 2008-03-03 09:31

My Counting App works perfect! Just a little slow on the flipscreen() so it can be smooth! Very nice! Just what I was waiting for. I countnt make one myself ! Thankz

# ok... — Foolmonkey 2008-03-03 14:16

what good would that do?

# um.... — Toy Machine 2008-03-04 00:57

what does ur psp have to do with it if it's PSP emulator for PC?

# NO — Binary 2008-03-05 10:24

Its a remote control of your mom.

# ^^ — SolidXnake 2008-03-05 14:32

For Devs it would get much more easy - instead of loading the game in the stick all the time to test you can just load up the emu and test the games there. Also PSP on PC is all about PSP! LOL

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