PPSSPP received a new update this time and bring a ton of new things including Vulkan support. For anyone not up to date, PPSSPP is a Playstation Portable Emulator available for a variety of PC operating systems and handheld devices including windows, mac, linux, ios, and android. This emulator allows anyone to play psp games they can back up from their UMD disc using psp custom firmware tools or even purchased games from Playstation Network.
The latest update adds full Vulkan support as well as a host of bugfixes and improvements. You can learn more about Vulkan graphics from the link below as well as download the latest version of the emulator.
November 29, 2017: PPSSPP 1.5 - Vulkan is here!
1.5 has support for Vulkan, the new faster way to draw graphics. Supported on many modern Android devices, and if enabled (change Backend in Graphics settings) you will see a massive speed boost. PPSSPP 1.5 also has the usual assortment of fixes:
- Full Vulkan support, also for Android now. Very fast on supported devices.
- Smarter graphics state management, reduced CPU consumption on all backends
- Android: Support for Arabic and other scripts we couldn't support before
- Fix Android widgets, screen scaling
- Fixes to video dumping
- Geometry problems fixed in Medal of Honor
- Implement immediate draws, fixing Thrillville
- 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
- Linux controller mapping fixes
- Assorted bugfixes and compatibility improvements
PPSSPP
VULKAN API (wikipedia article)