Gaming How well can PSP emulate consoles?

[Awesom3]

I was looking at getting a Pandora but the PSP doesn't seem to be far off for emulation How well can the PSP emulate consoles up to the N64/PSOne generation? Here are some of the main ones that I'm looking at

NES
Sega Master System
SNES
Sega Mega Drive/Genesis
Neo Geo
Sega Saturn
PSOne
N64

Gameboy
Gameboy Color
Gameboy Advance
Sega Gamegear
Neo Geo Pocket (Color)
Wonderswan (Color)

Basically any console/handheld that was decent.

 

[Gore]

On my GoW PSP Slim, 4.01 M33-2...
Gameboy > Color > Advance = All perfect
PS1 = Perfect
NES crashes
SNES is good for some games but lags on others (Kirby Superstar lags.)
N64 is decent I suppose but I don't bother with it.
Genesis is great.

That's all I've tried.
I dunno why NES crashes on mine, maybe I got the wrong emu last time I tried.

 

[Awesom3]

Thanks. From my understanding the newer PSP-3000 doesn't support homebrew... Would the PSP-2000 or 1000 be slightly different compatibility wise?

 

[gigermunit]

The PSP-3000 does not support homebrew because no one has yet found a way of modding and it no drivers are yet extracted to support it's res.

 

[myuusmeow]

On my GoW PSP Slim, 4.01 M33-2...
Gameboy > Color > Advance = All perfect
PS1 = Perfect
NES crashes
SNES is good for some games but lags on others (Kirby Superstar lags.)
N64 is decent I suppose but I don't bother with it.
Genesis is great.

That's all I've tried.
I dunno why NES crashes on mine, maybe I got the wrong emu last time I tried.

NES works fine for me. Try NesterJ.

Other ones no one has said:
Sega CD works great
Neo-Geo works great
CPS1 and CPS2 work great
CPS3 supposedly is ok, haven't tried it myself

 

[War]

The PSP emulates pretty much everything possible for it to emulate, with th exception of N64, DC, and some SNES games.

 

[Gore]

I did use NesterJ, but every time I opened Mega Man 3 it crashed back to xmb.
I downloaded a special version said to work great on 4.01 M33-2, I just haven't felt like moving the NES roms to it yet.

 

[spyke]

whats the progress with the N64 emulation atm? many games running at 100% speed?
if lots of games were running at 100% speed id pick one up.

 

[War]

whats the progress with the N64 emulation atm? many games running at 100% speed?
if lots of games were running at 100% speed id pick one up.

As far as I know, no game is running at full speed, and I doubt any game will for a while.

 

[Monster On Strin]

I was looking at getting a Pandora but the PSP doesn't seem to be far off for emulation How well can the PSP emulate consoles up to the N64/PSOne generation? Here are some of the main ones that I'm looking at

NES-Perfect For Me
Sega Master System-Pretty good
SNES- OK
Sega Mega Drive/Genesis- Perfect
Neo Geo-Good
Sega Saturn-No
PSOne-Great
N64-Meh

Gameboy Color-Practically perfect
Gameboy Advance-meh Its really good for some games
Sega Gamegear-Dont think so
Neo Geo Pocket (Color)-IDK
Wonderswan (Color)-IDK

Basically any console/handheld that was decent.

 

[War]

For GBA emulation, I've found it to be perfect. It has played every single ROM perfectly at full speed, and it even has functioning frame skipping (speeding up) and save states. This is one of the biggest reasons why I play my PSP at all nowadays.

 

[DrYHeLL]

For GBA emulation, I've found it to be perfect. It has played every single ROM perfectly at full speed, and it even has functioning frame skipping (speeding up) and save states. This is one of the biggest reasons why I play my PSP at all nowadays.

GBA upgrade?......

On topic, AFAIK everything up to N64 (With the exception of PS1) emulates 90-100% perfect for me.

 

[double_vision]

would psp run a game like Pokemon snap at full speed?
it not really a big game...

 

[Awesom3]

Is there any other device that can beat the PSP in terms of the range of emulation and the compatibility other than the Pandora? I'm really thinking about getting a PSP so I can use an actual device to play games for my video game blog and not the keyboard.

My blog by the way... can be found here...

http://nsgosg.wordpress.com

 

[GreatFox]

Is there any other device that can beat the PSP in terms of the range of emulation and the compatibility other than the Pandora?

GP2X, but I still recommend PSP because it is cheaper and easier to find. GP2X's are kinda rare, at least in Scandinavia.

 

[Raki]

Is there any other device that can beat the PSP in terms of the range of emulation and the compatibility other than the Pandora?

GP2X, but I still recommend PSP because it is cheaper and easier to find. GP2X's are kinda rare, at least in Scandinavia.

isn't the GP2X worse in emulation than the PSP?...

 

[Originality]

N64 games won't work at 100% speed, however I've managed to get a few games working fairly well (Mario Party for instance). Unfortunately, these games are also prone to graphical glitches. Sometimes it's not much, like in Mario 64, Mario's model is constantly wobbly, but easy to ignore. Sometimes it's much more noticeable, like the heavy artifacting in Zelda: OoT. Naturally, some games just refuse to work at all (I couldn't get to the main screen in Paper Mario).

PS1 has 99% compatibility. For the remaining 1%, there's always POPSloader.
SNES seems to work good for most games, although some games (e.g Kirby's Dreamland 3) do run very slowly.
Never tried any GB related games, SEGA games, or NES.

The thing I regret most in emulated games is the inability to play multiplayer. It would be great if ad-hoc could be utilized to connect PSPs as extra controllers, but that's just not possible it seems.

 

[GreatFox]

isn't the GP2X worse in emulation than the PSP?...

Absolutely not. GP2X was god in handheld emulation before Pandora came out.

 

[Raki]

isn't the GP2X worse in emulation than the PSP?...

Absolutely not. GP2X was god in handheld emulation before Pandora came out.

err...PSP can do PSP near to perfect, Snes, all those Sega ones, NES (surprise

), GBA, GB (yeah surprise again

) and even a little bit of N64 and ok...not much, but a bit of Dreamcast....

the GP2X just featured a 200mhz Arm Proc...ok you could overclock it a bit....but isn't it weaker as the PSP at all? o_o

 

[War]

And there's one thing the PSP can do that no other console can, including GP2X and Pandora.

PLAY PSP GAMES.