General PSP homebrew discussion.

[Josh]

If yours looks like mine, which is a launch unit and therefore doesn't have TA-082, then I would guess that you have the TA-86 mother board.

My PSP UMD Slot

I would recommend using Dark_Alex's firmware. I have version 3.10 OE-A, and I play PS1 games and emulators on mine.

3.10 OE-A Installation Guide

[MondayHopscotch]

Im pretty sure that my psp is an old version, there is no number on my mobo like the TA-82's are said to have. My box(that my PSP cam in) has no Letter on it that indicates the preinstalled firmware, so i think its probably a launch unit.

With Dark_Alex's firmware, can i set up SNES emulators and other things of that kind easily?

Wait -- In the picture of your UMD slot, can you see the motherboard? Because from the picture it all looks silver. In mine i can see the green color of the motherboard but there are no numbers on it.


Sorry for asking so many questions, i just want to make sure i know exactly what i have and what im doing being as i paid 250 bucks for my psp.

[MondayHopscotch]

well long story short, i said f**k it. My psp is now FW 1.50 and i think all is good.

[Sprung]

well long story short, i said f**k it. My psp is now FW 1.50 and i think all is good.

Now you can have any firmware you want I was only on 1.50 for a day or two, then I went to 3.10 OE-A (I think that's what it's called )

[MondayHopscotch]

For the time being, im gunna stick with 1.50.

But are there any SNES emulators that work with firmware 1.50?
Ive found 2, but i couldnt get either to work. Both Just said that "The game could not be started. (80020001)"

[Sprung]

is 3.10 OE-A as compatible with homebrews and emulators as 1.50 is?

What are the pros/cons of 3.10 OE and 1.50?

For me, 1.50 was too buggy. I had some ISOs that would work, others wouldn't. It could have been my inexperience with it, but after I upgraded to 3.10 OE-A, everything has worked perfectly. It adds back in the Web Browser and different colored themes, and is just better in my opinion

[MondayHopscotch]

Well i have everything figured out for the moment. Thanks to everyone that helped me

[Josh]

Welcome to the land of owning a hacked PSP. I hope you enjoy your stay.

[MondayHopscotch]

so do i...

but thanks again to those who helped me

[MondayHopscotch]

I left for a road trip thing the day after i got the emulators working on my PSP(thank god). I never really got bored thanks to super nintendo classics like Super Mario World.

But the emulator i currently have, Snes9X TYL 0.4.2, barely runs games that are bigger than about 1 MB. I have to turn off sound emulation and dumb all the settings down to make them work half decently. I was wondering if there are any better SNES emulators out there that can run big games well.

[Kazekage Gaara]

I left for a road trip thing the day after i got the emulators working on my PSP(thank god). I never really got bored thanks to super nintendo classics like Super Mario World.

But the emulator i currently have, Snes9X TYL 0.4.2, barely runs games that are bigger than about 1 MB. I have to turn off sound emulation and dumb all the settings down to make them work half decently. I was wondering if there are any better SNES emulators out there that can run big games well.

Thats something even I would like to know coz Super Mario World is listed as NUMBER ONE on my list of games that am going to play on my PSP when I get it (six days left ) AFAIK, I read many people saying SNES emulation on the PSP is 100% near-perfect.

Edit:

so do i...

Dude thats some miserable feeling for owning a hacked PSP Ya ain't happy with it or did you just end up using the wrong smiley

[MondayHopscotch]

Thats something even I would like to know coz Super Mario World is listed as NUMBER ONE on my list of games that am going to play on my PSP when I get it (six days left ) AFAIK, I read many people saying SNES emulation on the PSP is 100% near-perfect.

well as far as i could tell from the 18 hours i was on the road this week, SNES emulation is really good. Its just that games like Super Puyo Puyo 2, Super Mario RPG, and Donkey Kong Country run terribly(i think the size of the game has something to do with it).

Super Mario World Runs nearly perfect except for a few places like when you fight that "Reznor" thing ->
the game runs slightly slower.

I just want to be able to play Super mario RPG really bad because I never got a chance to beat it and being able to play it while im on the road and things will make it that much better.

[Josh]

I left for a road trip thing the day after i got the emulators working on my PSP(thank god). I never really got bored thanks to super nintendo classics like Super Mario World.

But the emulator i currently have, Snes9X TYL 0.4.2, barely runs games that are bigger than about 1 MB. I have to turn off sound emulation and dumb all the settings down to make them work half decently. I was wondering if there are any better SNES emulators out there that can run big games well.

Most SNES games run very well for me. I usually keep the autoframe skip option on. Sometimes the game will get slightly jumpy, but most of the time it runs great. I have played through most of Super Mario World and Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past on mine. I have also played a lot of Chrono Trigger. Make sure you set the PSP clockspeed to 333Mhz and not the default 222Mhz. Your battery will drain faster because of the higher clock speed, but the games will run a lot smoother.

[MondayHopscotch]

are you using the same emulator as I am?

Im using SNES9X TYL with these default settings:

Video:
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Engine - PSP accel + accur. soft
Video mode - zoom 4/3
Smoothing - yes
Speed limit switch - yes
Speed limit fps - Auto
Frameskip - Auto
VSync - no
Render PAL as NTSC - yes
Gama correction - 0

Sound:
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Sound mode - emulated, output
Output frequency - 22050Hz
APU Cycles ratio - 100%

Misc:
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PSP Clockspeed 333Mhz
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If you are using the same emulator with similar settings as I am, try playing Donkey Kong Country or Super Mario RPG and tell me how it runs.

[SegNin]

Try disabling sound, if that's an option.