PPSSPP - a fast and portable PSP emulator

Created by Henrik Rydgård

Additional code by many contributors, see the Credits screen

Originally released under the GPL 2.0 (and later) in November 2012

Official website: https://www.ppsspp.org/

No BIOS file required to play, PPSSPP is an "HLE" emulator. Default settings balance good compatibility and speed.

To contribute, see the development page. Help testing, investigating, or fixing is always welcome. See the list of issues.

For the latest source code, see our github page.

For build instructions and other development tutorials, see the wiki.

For game compatibility, see community compatibility feedback.

This hackish branch add's:

• frame profiler and simpler frame stats as a normal option,
• adhoc between multiply instances on same pc,
• some other ini-only options exposed in UI,
• functionality of some additional hotkeys: W-Lan, Vol+/-, note(mute on/off), screen(accesses display layout editor),
• different default settings personalized for my liking,
• simple UI ~ an option to hide most rarely used options,
• new awful compat hacks to deal with just as awful regressions and other problems,
• guardband-culling branch as compat hack(activated for some games listed below),
• some cwcheat workarounds of mine included in separate import-ready database,
• a few more post process shaders,
• texture replacement info from ge debugger(experimental aka usually works, but it might be done badly, available from right click menu),
• ultra high render resolutions and render screenshots,
• some mp3 improvements(volume clamping and reverse of a bad hack),
• separate sas and atrac/mp3 volume sliders,
• realtime gpu texture scaling by aliaspider(new methods are mostly bad, but xBRZ variants are pretty nice for otherwise un-scallable textures),
• some untested/optional hack to avoid stutter on NVidia hardware/bad drivers.

To list some game compatibility improvements here:

• Armored Core and Bleach: Soul Carnival series(freezes),
• Auditorium(black screen),
• Bijin Tokei Portable(miniatures),
• Driver '76(glitches),
• DTM Race Driver/TOCA Race Driver/V8 Supercars games(glitches),
• Evangelion Jo(most text in menus, note that it still requires pauth file;p),
• Heroes Phantasia(flashing/z-fighting),
• Hokuto no Ken: Raoh Gaiden(depth problem),
• Nascar(glitches),
• Nayuta no Kiseki(minor glitches),
• Patapon 2(menu speed),
• Resistance Retribution(some of the crashes),
• Sangokushi IX with Power-Up Kit(black layer),
• The Warriors(videos),
• Mighty Flip Champs DX(bad sound speed),
• Edge(bad sound speed),
• N+(bad sound speed),
• and more via included patches.

Also includes a really awful hack for MOHH2 multiplayer(MOHH1 works fine without it;p).

~ LunaMoo

What's new in 1.5.4

• Bugfixes and crashfixes!

What's new in 1.5.0

• Full Vulkan support, also for Android now. Very fast on supported devices. (#10033, #10049)
• Smarter graphics state management, reduced CPU consumption on all backends (#9899)
• Android: Support for Arabic and other scripts we couldn't support before
• Fix Android widgets, screen scaling (#10145)
• Fixes to video dumping
• Geometry problems fixed in Medal of Honor
• Implement immediate draws, fixing Thrillville (#7459)
• Software rendering improvements, speed and accuracy
• Hardware tesselation of PSP Beziers and Splines (used by a few games)
• Partial sceUsbGps and sceUsbCam support (Android)
• Android "Sustained performance mode" to avoid thermal throttling (#9901)
• Linux controller mapping fixes (#9997)
• Assorted bugfixes and compatibility improvements

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