Has all development for the PSP ended?

[Metroid_Hybrid]

The PSP, albeit old, is a fantastic handheld. However, it seems that any & all meaningful development of emulators for the portable device has fallen off of the face of the earth for the past 3+ years..

Primarily I'm concerned about the state of SNES emulation on the device. It seems that the most agreed upon "best" SNES emulator for the PSP is the horribly named "s9xTYLme Mod" and it hasn't been updated since 2018... Seven years ago! Which wouldn't be a problem if it were generally "complete;" but it's not.. It has one, huge, gaping hole in it's execution... That is 'Mode 7.' Everything else seems to run great, but the instant any Mode 7 effects show up, everything grinds to an unplayable mess..

For example: Final Fantasy IV. Everything about the game runs great, but the moment it moves to the overworld, it is effectively unplayable. But pull up the menu, enter a town, or a random battle, and everything returns to running like a dream.

Undoubtably this has something to do with the code under the hood. I would assume there is ZERO reason to say the PSP isn't powerful enough to render Mode 7 effects, but here we are..

Is there anything that can be done about this? I would like to help out directly, however I have absolutely no experience coding and would hardly think this would be a very "beginner-friendly" project..

 

[freebie#47]

To answer your question, ANYONE can develop software for the psp. Just like they are doing with nes, gb and other older platforms. Sony is not and will not make more games for it, but they will add old psp games to the playstation store(that they have a license for).

Just remember it will be only unofficial games though. Basically the TENGEN method.

 

[Metroid_Hybrid]

To answer your question, ANYONE can develop software for the psp. Just like they are doing with nes, gb and other older platforms. Sony is not and will not make more games for it, but they will add old psp games to the playstation store(that they have a license for).

Just remember it will be only unofficial games though. Basically the TENGEN method.

Umm...

Did you actually read my post, or at least notice which section I posted it in?? I'm not about to attempt to build an SNES emulator from scratch, with zero programming knowledge..

 

[BigTony]

I saw someone was porting fallout 1 & 2 to it recently

 

[petran79]

You can try PSP version of Retroarch for SNES games