As what should be great news to all PlayStation Portable emulation fans, various developers are taking it upon themselves to port various “inactive” (on hiatus or permanently stopped) classic PSP emulators to the new PSP Slim. dcemu.co.uk reports that at least two emulators have already been ported by someone other than the original author – Snes9xTYL 0.4.2 and NJ’s various emulators.
Archive for September, 2007
Inactive emulator ports
Friday, September 14th, 2007Porting 1.50 applications to PSP “Slim”
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007The ps2dev.org forum has an interesting thread on porting existing applications to firmware 3.60 – though there are reports that many applications already run on 3.60 without any updates:
Development for the Slim and 3.60 is largely the same. Since it’s not 1.50 anymore, you’ll want to set BUILD_PRX=1 and PSP_FW_VERSION=360 in your Makefile. Since the executable is now a PRX, the default heap size will be only 64kb and you’ll want something like PSP_HEAP_SIZE_KB(25000) in your C file to give malloc() a bigger pool. The extra memory is located in a different partition as described here, which newlib isn’t set up to use at the moment.
SMS Plus version 1.2.4 released
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007A new version of SMS Plus is now available. Here’s what’s changed:
- Various bug fixes
- Added animations to the menu UI
- Fixed buffer overflow error affecting units without a battery
Old RSS feed to be replaced
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007The original RSS feed that was used to supply news on new and updated emulators will no longer be updated, and will eventually be taken offline. To keep up with the latest developments, subscribe to the weblog’s RSS feed. Additionally, each emulator now has a separate RSS feed that will be automatically updated each time a new version of the emulator is released.
Custom firmware for PSP 2000/”Slim”
Monday, September 10th, 2007dcemu.co.uk reports that the first custom firmware for PSP 2000 (or “PSP Slim” as it is commonly called) is now available! Installation of the firmware requires another “fat” (classic) PSP and a “Pandora” battery.
Great news for all concerned, to be sure
Atari800 version 2.0.3.2 released
Saturday, September 8th, 2007As promised, new version of Atari800 is now out. New in this version:
- Fixed mislabeled ‘Joystick Right’ control (thanks Robert)
- Updated GUI – menu animations
- Fixed various bugs dealing with controller configuration
- Improved state saving/loading screen
I’m interested to know what folks think of the new menu system – please leave comments below. Thanks!
Atari800 update coming soon
Saturday, September 8th, 2007Version 2.0.3.2 will be released soon. This release will fix several control-related bugs and feature an updated animated GUI, which will eventually be applied to the rest of the emulators as well.
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