Friday, February 6, 2015

PPSSPP 1.0, the Best PSP Emulator for Android

Sony has not been as successful as expected in their jumps to the handheld, dominated with an iron fist since the time of Nintendo Game Boy and only smartphones have achieved part of market. Precisely on mobile phones, and tablets, we can enjoy PPSSPP now, one of the best, or the best, PSP emulator for Android.

PPSSPP has since 2012 allowed emulate PlayStation Portable in Windows and other operating systems, the Android version has now reached version 1.0 after a season in beta. Although the PSP did not show all the potential it had, left a good number of titles that deserves to be played, as GTA Stories or Metal Gear: Portable Ops, you can now enjoy games on your phone or tablet. PPSSPP is free with ads but you can pay to remove them from your display too (Gold version is available in Play Store for €4.99).

PPSSPP also allows the ability to configure the keyboard or external command to your taste, scaling to HD screen. Remember that the PSP had a resolution of 480 × 272 pĂ­xels. Obviously, you hould bring the games in ISO or CSO format. 

It goes without saying that there used to emulate the PS Vita and is only compatible with the first portable console from Sony, although as we said did not have the catalog that many expected seeing what the Japanese company had achieved their domestic and PlayStation has a good number of games worth trying. PSP haf an enviable catalog of the best portables around on the history. Kingdom Hearts, Metal Gear, Final Fantasy. With so many great game, they just do not really need the catalog of Vita.


Finally, there are other alternatives, such as FPSE or ePSXe, although all consume the life of your battery in a few hours. Pitty that smartphones are seen as limited by their battery though. Emulation of 3D consoles in Android is complicated because of the GPU these devices usually have and drivers.

Luckily the PSP is a fairly easy platform to emulate and PPSSPP team have worked tirelessly to improve and optimize to get an excellent emulator on all platforms.

PPSSPP 1.0 requires Android 2.3 and higher versions.
Version: 1.0.0.0 Size: 15M