NES/SNES Emulator for PSP?

[Vedder]

I was wondering if anyone had any experience or knowledge of such a thing? A google search led me to believe in it's existence, but information on downloading and setting up didn't seem to be all that easy to find. A lot of it was out of date.

Basically, I'd like to play games like Tecmo Super Bowl, etc. on my PSP. It's got the latest firmware on it, if that matters at all.

Thanks in advance.

Edit: Also found this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4Jie7TspDc (link in the vid description doesn't resolve to anything)

[Dohorehn]

http://www.psp-hacks.com/category/26

take your pick. I prefer snes9xTYL. Questions, comments, enamoring praise? lol

[The Stig]

I too recommend snes9xTYL.

[Vedder]

OK, found it and copied over to my PSP/GAME directory ... but when I try to start it up (I get the title screen under my games menu), I get a message saying 'The game could not be started. (80020148 )'.

I might be a noob at this >.>, but is there anything else that needs to be done to get this up and running correctly? I have one of the original non-slim PSPs... I didn't really see any special instructions in the readmes, though they weren't all that thorough, to be honest.

Edit: OK, I am a noob. I don't have any custom firmware or anything like that on my PSP, so that's probably the next obstacle to overcome. Haha.

[viperlasson]

yeah you'll need some kind of custom firmware on your psp to run any kind of homebrew apps. What you'll need to put a custom firmware on your psp is something called the pandora's battery (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora%27s_Battery) which you can easily purchase online from here (http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.12472). It will work for fat and slim psp models.

[Rektify]

Don't worry about "being a noob" at this, just about everyone was there when they first started their modifications. I figured I'd tell you the exact things I was wondering when I first got interested in this custom firmware business --

1. Will it brick or otherwise totally screw up my PSP?
A: So far no, I checked my original slim psp like a hawk for weeks after I put it on custom firmware, it has always worked without skipping a beat. Since then I have put CFW's on 3 other PSP's and I haven't heard a thing out of them. (2 phat and 2 slim's total)

2. Is it reversible?
A: I got my battery modded and my memory stick changed by the group of guys at Noob911 and their modifications allow for the process to be completely reversed - i.e. Official Firmware --> Custom Firmware --> Original Firmware.

3. In simple terms, how does this work?
A: It was explained to me in a simplified manner, so I'll pass it along: Basically when a person sends a PSP to sony for fixes or whatnot, sony has a special battery called a "jigkick" battery that puts the PSP into service mode where it can be fixed more easily. A pandora battery is just a normal PSP battery that has been modified into a jigkick battery. When the PSP is put into service mode, then and pretty much only then can the magic memory stick put it's files onto the PSP. After this is completed once it doesn't need to be messed with again - this means you can change the magic memory stick to any other memory stick you have and the same goes for the battery.

4. Anything else?
A: Actually, yes - most types of custom firmwares get activated by holding down the L button when you insert both the magic stick and the P. battery. This takes you to a special loading screen where the change from OF to CFW takes place. Once you get CFW, you can hold the R button down on bootup to access the recovery menu. A bunch of options in here, but they are mostly self-explanatory. If you still get that weird error on bootup with CFW, most likely an option in the recovery menu can fix that.

5. Suggestions?
A: Nesterj is a brilliant NES emulator. The other posters covered the Snes9x and it has never let me down. Other than that there is DGEN - covers Genesis games and the like. Daedalus is a work in progress psp emulator that covers N64 games - it has Mario 64 working at a great clip! My personal favorite would be the Popsloader - it allows you to play PS1 games. Aside from that you could look into the google earth version made for the psp - or the heart rate monitor program.
**Assuming you own the original copy, it is perfectly legal to check out a Rom site that would have the game you mentioned in your post - theoldcomputer (google it) comes to mind.

Anything I can help with or answer better lemme know.

[Reality]

do the emulators run SNES games at full speed now?

[Rektify]

For most games it runs at full speed. The really neat thing about these emulators is that they include a whole bunch of changeable options designed to influence speed. Turn off V-sync, or turn off parts of the background. For most games I don't have to mess with any options though.

Having said that ... it is important to note that some of the best games on the Snes have trouble working - games like Star Fox and Kirby. I think this is just because they used the Snes in different ways from most other games, but fiddling with all those settings hasn't produced a workable game yet. Fiddling with settings did work for Mario Kart though.

Chrono Trigger worked, Zelda: LttP worked, Mega Man X series fine, Contra, Super Mario World etc. Basically, the emulator is near top-notch but not perfect

[fishstix]

I haven't touched my PSP in a while, but I messed around with PSX games on it too. It was pretty fun playing a handheld FF9. I'll probably check out the SNES stuff again.