While many of us may view the Sony PSP handheld as a product of yesteryear, that hasn't stopped the PC community – who have announced the latest update to PPSSPP, a PSP emulator which allows you to play classic PSP titles from the comfort of your own personal computer.
The new addition known as v1.0, includes a vast array of new features, improvements and changes to the existing version. According to the developer website, the full list of enhancements includes:
– Many, many bug fixes in JIT and elsewhere, improving compatibility– Proper fix for Zenfone and related devices– Direct3D 9 supported as a rendering backend on Windows, helps on old GPUs and can be faster than OpenGL in many cases– You can now create specific configs per game– FPU rounding modes much better supported, fixes the Peace Walker boss that was undefeatable. NOTE: This breaks saves in Gods Eater – you must turn off the better rounding, load your save game, turn it on and save.– The JIT now uses SSE on x86, improving speed considerably. This does not affect ARM devices, that's for the next version or two.– Improved audio output code on both Windows and Android, reducing audio latency on Windows and on some Android systems– FFMPEG upgraded, fixed some music hangs ("GHA phase shifts")– Some Ad Hoc improvements, coldbird.net is now default adhoc server. Ad Hoc still unfinished and hard to use.– Graphics fixes: Bezier/spline drawing fixes, vertex position fixes, DanganRonpa on Adreno fixed, flat shading fixed, vertex cache improved, some PowerVR blockiness issues fixed, screen scaling filter added, Google Cardboard support– Simulate UMD speed better, fixing hangs in several games– More Atrac3 fixes, fixing hangs– Somewhat better disk full handling– Fixes to dynamic unloading of code, fixing problems in GEB and TRM 2/3– Updated to SDL2 where applicable (Linux, Mac)– Some new features, like analog/dpad-swap hotkey, graphics hack for Phantasy Star, show last bit of debug log in dev tools, etc– No more need for MSVCRT DLLs on Windows
For those who are unfamilar with PPSSPP, it is an open source project that allows you to run old school PSP titles in full HD resolution on your PC. A download link for emulator can be found on the website, available here.
