{"id":673,"date":"2006-12-28T17:06:33","date_gmt":"2006-12-28T09:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2006\/12\/28\/psp-now-721-more-fun-than-before\/"},"modified":"2006-12-28T21:06:01","modified_gmt":"2006-12-28T13:06:01","slug":"psp-now-721-more-fun-than-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2006\/12\/28\/psp-now-721-more-fun-than-before\/","title":{"rendered":"PSP now 721% more fun than before!"},"content":{"rendered":"

PSP just added about 2,000 games to its library of just under 300, making it just about 721% more fun than before. Yes, PSP can now fully emulate 99% of all the PS1 games out there and at full speed with hibernation support.<\/p>\n

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All you have to do is to upgrade your firmware 1.5 to the hacked 3.02 OE-B firmware<\/a> and convert the ISO image of your PS1 game into a PSP-bootable EBOOT.PBP file using the bundled tool.<\/p>\n

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3.02 OE-B also allows you to boot UMD ISOs directly from the Memory Stick folder under Games, bypassing the need for Devhook. And of course, it also identifies itself as 3.02 and thus supports all PSP games that are currently on the market.<\/p>\n

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The first game I tried out was FFVIII because I happened to have it lying around.<\/p>\n

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Basically the official 3.00 firmware introduced the Playstation Network<\/a> feature that allows you to download emulated PS1 games through your PS3 and play them on your PSP. The catch is that the selection is very tiny right now and the games cost 5.99 USD each.<\/p>\n

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Someone realized that the official PS1 downloads are actually the compressed ISO images wrapped with a fully functional emulator and cracked a copy of Hot Shots 2 to accept other ISO images. And It worked.<\/p>\n

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So now you can emulate any PS1 games on your PSP with the hacked firmware. Of course you need the downloaded copy of Hot Shots 2 from the Playstation Network in order to extract the required emulation files, but there are ways<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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Basically what this means is that, licensing issues aside, Sony is trying to charge people 5.99 USD for every single PS1 game downloaded, even though no extra work is required on their part to release more emulated PS1 games for the PSP since they have already created a fully functional PS1 emulator that works with all games.<\/p>\n

Free money?<\/p>\n

But of course we are all dirty pirates with no PS3s so it doesn’t matter. Ironically, I probably own more original UMD games than most PSP owners in this pirate-happy country. (The average being close to zero…)<\/p>\n

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To Sony’s credit, the emulator works very well. (Well duh, they were the ones who made both consoles…) R2 and L2 functions are assigned to either the d-pad or the analogue stick depending on your preference, which is sufficient for most games but not all. (e.g. fighting and maybe FPS?) Can’t be helped I guess.<\/p>\n

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Screen size is of course not ideal. You can choose to play at the original 320 x 240 resolution (leaving lots of ugly black space), stretch to maximum while maintaining aspect ratio (leaving two ugly black bars) or stretch to fill (ugly distorted graphics). Then again, so many PSP games are ports from other consoles that I’m sure that PSP gamers are all used to this dilemma by now.<\/p>\n

Here’s a video of the emulator in action.<\/p>\n

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Why wait for Sony to release PSP ports at full retail price when you can play your old PS1 games on the go for free?<\/p>\n

PSP-Hacks<\/a> has everything you need.<\/p>\n

I need to get myself a 4gb MS DUO so that I can carry all four discs of FFVIII<\/strong> and four discs of Tokimeki Memorial 2<\/a><\/strong> around with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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