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PSX-P Alpha 2: PS1 Emulator Released

greg | November 19, 2006

Controversial developer, Yoshihiro, has released PSX-P Alpha 2, the Sony Playstation (PS1) emulator. It remains unplayable; yet some tremendous progress has been made with advancements to graphic rendering. The downfall — it’s still very slow and lacks sound. Nevertheless, a great improvement thus far.

If you’re really looking forward to PS1 emulation on the PSP, and you’re not too concerned about homebrew, I suggest waiting to see what Sony has in store for us come the release of FW 3.0.

In the meantime…

Download:
PSX-P Alpha 2
PSX-P Alpha 2 Source Code

- source: pspgen.com

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47 Comments »

Comment by DJB
2006-11-19 19:45:57

Looking forward to giving this a good test :)

 
Comment by Tetsuo
2006-11-19 19:54:10

so… when is fw 3.0 being released?

 
Comment by God
2006-11-19 20:06:24

Computability list for PSX-P
007 Racing - Black Screen

Ace Combat : Elektrosphere - Sends back to XMB
Air Combat - Black screen, turns off
Aqua - gets to loading screen and stops at end of load
Armored Core - Loads, won’t get past sony computer entertainment screen
Asteroids - Black screen but PSP doesn’t shut off

Batman Forever - loads fine and plays
Battle Arena Toshinden - Boots Up and gets into game but no player graphics in game
Beyond The Beyond - Freezes after the “Sony Computer Entertainment America” screen
Biohazard: Gun Survivor - Works but hard to play without gun.
Blasto (NTSC) - Gets to “trademarks of Sony Computer Entertainment…..” message, then shuts off the psp
Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain -ISO, doesn’t even boot. Freezes on game seection screen.
Bloody Roar - doesn’t load, turns off psp
Board Game: Top Shop (NTSC) - Gets to the “Press Start” screen. After that, black screen and power off
Brave Fencer mushashi - works slow
Breath of fire 3 - crashed the psp
Breath Of Fire 4 - “Capcom”, then crash
Bushido Blade - works slow
Bust A Groove 2 - starts then goes black
Bust A Move 3 - Works
Bust a Move 4 - works but runs really slow

Castlevania Sotn - Black Screen, PSP shuts off
Chrono Cross - shwos first screen then crashes
Circuit Breakers - Loads, Game doesnt start
Clock Tower 2 (NTSC, img file) - returns to XMB
Colin McRae Rally (PAL) - Black Screen after Codemasters License
Command & Conquer Red Alert - black screen
Command and Conquer Retaliation - Blank Screen
Cool Boarders 3 - black screen
Cowboy Bebop - freeze the psp after start menu
Crash 2 - Black screen, PSP shuts off
Crash 2 - works only if its the 3-in-1 iso
Crash Bandicoot - works
Crash Bandicoot 3 - Black Screen
Crash Bash - works[/color]
Crash Team Racing - doesnt load
Croc (Legend of the Gobbos) - Works, albeit slowly.
Cyber Sled - black screen

Darkstalkers 3 - crashes instanly and turns off psp
Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX (NTSC) - Black Screen
Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX Beta (NTSC) - Works Slow (2-5 Fps, some nearly unnoticeable graphical glitches)
Dead In The Water - goes through a couple of in game screens then crashes
Dead or Alive - Shut down after Character Select
Deception - loads to Tecmo intro screen and then shuts off
Deception 3 - runs real good until the loading screen after selecting the characters name, right before the story cg starts. Freezes.
Destruction Derby 2 - Black Screen
Die Hard Trilogy (PAL) - Crashes after Fox and Probe Logo before Main Menu
Digimon World3……crashes after main screen
Discworld - works slowly
Dragonball Final Bout - Shows anti-piracy message, then black screen and PSP shuts off
Driver - works but maybe freeze at Memory card screen

Eternal Eyes (NTSC) - Shows Loading Screen, then turns itself off

Felony 11-79 - works but words are screwed but read-able
Final Fantasy 6- doesn’t boot
Final Fantasy 7 - Crashes upon loading new game
Final Fantasy 8 - shows “Square Electronic Arts L.L.C.” & Main menu, Game freezes when new game selected
Final Fantasy 9 - crashes after “Published by Square Electronic Arts”
Final Fantasy Tactics - shows Squaresoft screen, then turns black, shuts off
Front mission 3- was loading for about 5min, then I gave up
Futurecop LAPD - gets to first screen then crashes

Ghost in the Shell - doesn’t load. Freezes on game selection screen
Grandia - runs opening logos slow; you can skip them by pressing Start; after you select New Game, it shuts off
Gran Turismo - Gets to Sony computer entertainment screen then crashes
Gran Turismo 2 - crashes after “Cars included in this game may be different from the.. screen”
GTA 1 - Works
GTA 2 - Gets to Loading Screen then Crashes
Guardian’s Crusade (NTSC) - shows Loading Screen, then turns itself off
Gunship - Black Screen, Shuts off

Harvest Moon - freezes at emulator menu
Hogs Of War - Loads title screen, crashes
Hugo Black Diamond Fever - Works
Hydro Thunder - working but real slow

Intelligent Qube - Shows SCEA logo, then black screen
International Karate - work but slow
International Superstar Soccer - exits menu to a black screen and stays there
International Superstar Soccer Pro - works!! but fuzzy writing and slow

Jammer Lammy - Game doesn’t load, black screen.
Jumping Flash 2 - Shows anti-piracy message, then black screen and PSP shuts off

King’s Field - Won’t load, just crashes
King’s Field II - Won’t load, just crashes
Klonoa - Gets to title screen
Knockout Kings 2000 - Dont load
Koudelka disk 1 - crashes and shuts off psp instantly
Kula World - Don’t load, psp don’t crash

Legacy Of Kain Soul Reaver - Crashes
Le Mans 24 Hours - Working
Lemmings - Black screen, PSP shuts off
Libero Grande - Works
Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete - Black Screen, PSP Shuts off

Magical Tetris - Crashes
Marvel Vs Streetfighter - Crashes
Mat Hoffmans Pro Bmx - Crashes
Medal Of Honor - works slow
Medal of Honor Underground working then crashes after a few min in game play
Medievil - Black screen, PSP shuts off
Metal Gear Solid - Doesn’t boot.
Metal Gear Solid : VR Missions - turns black, psp shuts off
Metal Slug 1 (JAP) - Works Slow, Enemys weird Colored/disappear, Fonts Weird, wont continue after 1st Mission, Blood Missing
Metal Slug X (JAP) - Black Screen
Megaman Legends - Game loads, capcom intro screen, then some graphical errors, then freezes
Megaman X4 (PAL) - boots up, garbled graphics, psp shuts off
Megaman X5 (PAL) - boots up, white screen, psp shuts off
Megaman X6 (PAL) - boots up, white screen, psp shuts off
Megaman Legends (PAL) - displays copyright message, slowly plays first 2 FMV’s (there garbled), freezes, psp shuts off
Megaman 8 (PAL) - boots up, displays copyright message, black screen, psp shuts off
Micro Machines V3 (PAL) - Dont Load
Micro Maniacs - Loads title screen, crashes
Monkey Magic - Crashes
Monster Rancher 2 - Gets to the ‘Now Loading’ screen, and stays there, don’t crash
Mortal Kombat 3 in 1 (Unofficial game) - Gets to the 2nd title screen and freezes
Mortal Kombat 4 (NTSC) - Black Screen after License
Mortal Kombat Trilogy - got to the copyright screen, it went black, then crashed
Mr Domino - Takes you back to the XMB
Mr Driller - Works, screen flashes 5 times when you drill
Music - Crashes

Naruto - stais in the main and load screen but doesnt start
Nascar 2003 - starts then crashes
nba in the zone 2 - works slow, garbled text but readable
Need For Speed 5 - Crashes
NFL Blitz - works quite okay but the players are invisible and only their shadows are visible
NHL 98 - doesnt work, goes straight to xmb
Nightmare Creatures 2 (NTSC) - Shutdown PSP after Konami Logo

Ogre Battle - Apears “Now loading” a little scrambled then PSP turns OFF
Omega Boost - Doesn’t work, crashes after Sony copyright

Persona - Shows loading screen, then black screen and turns off
Persona 2: Eternal Punishment (NTSC) - Memory stick light flashes, then PSP shuts off.
Porsche Challenge - crashes at start up
Power boat vr racing - black screen

Quake 2 (PAL) - Black Screen after Licenses before Main Menu

Raiden Project - Works slow
Rapid Reload - Works
Rayman - doesn’t get past Ubisoft logo
Resident Evil Directors Cut - Send me back to XMB.
Resident Evil 2 Disc 1 - Shows, “Contains explicit scenes of gore and violence,” then gets garbled and shuts off
Resident Evil 3 Nemesis (NTSC) - Black Screen after Warning and Capcom Logo
Return Fire - doesnt work
Ridge Racer - Works slow
Ridge Racer (with movies removed) - plays slowly
Ridge Racer 4 R4 - black screen
Ridge Racer Revolution - Black Screen, Shuts off
Rising Zan - Loads the the Agetec intro screen and then crashes
RPG Maker - Black Screen
R-Type Delta - Shows Loading screen
Rockman 2 - Black screen/PSP shuts off

Saga Froniter - freezes at squaresoft
Saga Frontier 2 - Black Screen/Turn Off
Scrabble (Usa) - Loads title screen, crashes
Shadow Madness - Don’t work
Shockwave Assault - Won’t load, just crashes
Silent Hill - Shows graphic images warning, shows Konami logo, then PSP shuts off
Silloutte Mirage - crashes and shuts psp off instantly
SledStorm - Black screen
Soul Edge - Freezes menu when selected.
Soul Reaver - doesn’t load, turns off psp
Soviet Strike - Black Screen, Shuts off
Spyro the Dragon - Black Screen/Turn Off
Spyro 2 - Sends me back to XMB
Spyro the Dragon (PAL) -boots up, black screen, psp shuts off
Spyro 2 - loads up to the sony entertainment black screen and just freezes
Star Ocean 2 - Black Screen/Turn Off
Street Fighter EX 2 - works slow

Suikoden 1 - works fine but slow, text is a bit hard to read though
Suikoden II (NTSC) - Works, but is a little slow. Text Garbled
Suikoden II (PAL) - Loads, turns off after konami logo
Super Pang Collection - Black Screen
Surf Riders - black screen
Syphon Filter - Doesn’t boot.

Tactics Ogre - Turns off
Tekken 2 - works but slow
Tekken 3 - works but slower than tekken 2
Tenchu - loads and shows the ant-piracy screen then goes black and shuts off
The Adventures of Lomax in Lemmingland - Works! Takes forever to load though
The Game Of Life (Usa) - Crashes
The Misadventures of Tron Bonne - Capcom screen loads up, shows loading main menu screen, then freezes
Threads Of Fate - Works! Intro scene is loooooong and not skippable but game plays
Thrill Kill (Usa) - Don’t load, green light has been on for 5 mins now, not crashed.
Time Crisis - working slow
Tokimeki Memorial Drama Series Vol. 2 : Irodoro no Love Song - throwing me back to XMB
Tokimeki Memorial 2 Substories Vol. 3 : Memories Ringing On - Crashed
Tomb Raider - Eidos logo shows, then gets garbled and shuts off
Tomba 1 (Usa) - Works
Tomba 2 (Usa) - Works
Tony Hawks Pro Skater (PAL) - Black Screen
Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2 (NTSC) - Black Screen
Turbo Prop Racing - crashes
Twisted Metal 3 - Black screen, Crashes PSP
Twisted Metal 4 - Black screen, Crashes PSP

Umihara Kawase Shun - Emu crashes

Vagrant Story - Crash after Squaresoft
Valkyrie Profile (disc 1) - worked! (fonts awful) Very slow
Vigilante 8 2nd offense - Black screen
V-Rally 2 - loads up untill language selection, then shuts down

Warhawk - Loads “Produce by Sony Enteractive Studios”, garbled graphics, then crashes
WCW Mayhem - exits menu to a black screen and stays there
Wild Arms - Reloads XMB
Wing Commander III - Disc 1, Won’t load, just crashes
Wing Commander IV - Disc 1, Won’t load, just crashes
Wipeout - doesnt work
Wip3out (3) - goes black, then switches off
World’s Scariest Police Chases - black screen
Worms Armageddon - goes back to XMB
Worms (original) - works great, just slow
Worms World Party - Black Screen
Wu-Tang Taste the Pain (PAL) - Dont Load (Freezes at Rom Selector like MGS)
WWF Attitude - Dont Load

X-Com UFO Defense - Black Screen, Turns off
XenoGears - Black screen, crashes

 
Comment by SuMdOoD
2006-11-19 20:26:20

Not to be ungrateful but this program is a peice of shit!

 
Comment by srfhgsh
2006-11-19 20:46:25

LMFAO at #4…I agree!!

 
Comment by Stellar
2006-11-19 21:07:47

oh yeah thats right, its a total piece of shit right… that’s because you can make one better? or at all? pfff, bitch please… mabey one day if you kiss Yoshihiro’s ass enough, he’ll try to teach you how to do this stuff. then again, probly not, your not even japanese, probably some stupid american….

 
Comment by rolandrd
2006-11-19 21:53:44

Nice Update Alot Great Speed Improvement

 
Comment by andy
2006-11-19 22:13:19

#4 #5 you’re a bunch of useless ungrateful dumbfucks.

 
Comment by Batman
2006-11-19 22:44:30

I’d imagine that this will get running as soon as someone updates to 3.0 or makes a dump of it to find out how Sony is making all these games runable, and which we will then be able to use that code to make a homebrew emulator.

 
Comment by ??????????????
2006-11-19 22:59:48

@ #4

let’s see you make this emulator any better

@ #5

go suck #4’s dick u fagfucker. ur probably gay for #4. go back to france with the rest of the faggots u queer.

 
Comment by tp5com
2006-11-19 23:12:17

i dont think itll ever be near 100%, but if it was, id upgrade my 1.5 just for a psx emulator if i had to

 
Comment by Ryder
2006-11-19 23:33:07

Yo does anyone know how to use the memory cards to save?

I’m playing Digimon and LOVE IT!!!
But I cant save, so if I cant use the memory cards, how do I use the save state option?

Thanks to anyone that can give me answers!!!

 
Comment by shinigami
2006-11-19 23:56:29

this doesnt work great….jaz wait for 3.0 and maybe somewill be able to emulate it make something out of it

 
Comment by barfinfarfin
2006-11-20 00:16:19

that list is wrong… castlevania sotn sooo works… slowly tho

 
Comment by DARK_ALEX
2006-11-20 00:57:32

Yous Are All Fuck Heads

 
Comment by cadaber
2006-11-20 01:14:32

this is off topic but i’d really like to see a region lock hack so i can play american movies on my japanese psp

i mean shit thats been a known problem since day 1, and nobody can make a nice little flasher to change the region lock

also if you could change region lock i bet you could have p-tv on us psps

 
Comment by Scorpion
2006-11-20 01:17:41

Why don’t you make your own PSX Emulator before Sony does? Because the most of you don’t even know what “Flashing to PSP” means!

You should support Yoshiro…even if he is lazy for improving his application! I mean, he doesn’t earn money, but he still works for it!

That’s not fair!!!

PS: Keep it Up! Plz do it before FW 3.00!!! ^^

 
Comment by Angry
2006-11-20 03:24:30

What did he update now, then? Remove the credits? I thought that prick finally left. -.-

 
Comment by selkan
2006-11-20 03:30:29

What button do you press to start the game from the application program, circle or x?

 
Comment by MIKE
2006-11-20 05:42:54

HAS ANY ONE TRY TO LOAD
Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Tag Force FOR THE PSP I HAVE 1.5PSP AND IT JUST GO TO A BLACK SREEN ANYONE GOT THIS TO?

 
Comment by chrislawrance
2006-11-20 08:23:01

its good to see a ps1 emulator that isn’t by sony. as soon as its up and working well ill use it.

im guessing sony’s ps1 emulator won’t use iso’s. im guessing sony will have a .p1e file or sumthing like that and you will have to pay sony money for games (obviously).

personally id rather have this emulator and keep homebrew.

 
Comment by webman
2006-11-20 10:12:26

Hey Yoshihiro,

I just wanted to say thanks for taking the time to do this. I know its not perfect yet but I’m sure it took alot of time to make it this far.

I think it’s incredible what you and the other developers do to allow us to play things on our psp that otherwise would not be possible.

Thanks for all your efforts.. :)

 
Comment by ZaeX
2006-11-20 11:09:27

#22 ur so right
i hope they upgrade it soon wanna play thrill kill and crash :D

 
Comment by JaveLiner
2006-11-20 12:46:12

This bootup bios sound makes me anxious.

Looking forward to playing FF7 on PSP.

 
Comment by hjhjhj
2006-11-20 13:08:59

yoshihiro stated that he will leave the scene after he releases this.

 
Comment by Ko
2006-11-20 14:29:41

Final Fantasy Tactics and Intelligent Cube on the go?

Verr Nize!

 
Comment by Ass Neck
2006-11-20 15:42:18

#1 thru 26….GHEY!!!!

 
Comment by Snarg
2006-11-20 15:53:22

Ass Neck. What an appropriate name, considering what comes out of your head.

 
Comment by 0073735963
2006-11-20 15:56:00

^^^ agreed

 
Comment by GohanSSJ
2006-11-20 16:12:57

#6

That’s a comment only a idiot writes, it doesn’t matter if someone can do it better or not, because right now this program stinks, that’s the simple fact.
If tomorrow EA brings out yet another shit game, then by your standards you can’t call it shit, because you can’t do it better then they can…

So stop being a ignorant asskisser and accept that this program is crap, and untill you can play games properly on it, then it remains to be crap.

That being said i hope more progress will be made and that we will have a properly working emulator, even though i personally doubt it will happen, because that’s just it, it will be a emulator, what you need is pretty much a loader, i don’t think it can be properly made to emulate it, so personally i think we will just need to wait for 3.0 and hope a person like Dark_Alex knows about a exploit already in the current FW, so that Sony thinks there ain’t any and leave it in for 3.0 so that it can be hacked right away.

 
Comment by TUW
2006-11-20 16:27:13

FF IX almost works!!!!!!
I have used it and the report on the 3rd post about FF IX is wrong
it doesn’t work completely (it crashes when you want to move :D

 
Comment by ballsonya
2006-11-20 17:41:38

progression at its worst

 
Comment by Artie Lange
2006-11-20 17:51:24

#28 & 29 sound like fruits

 
Comment by The Matster
2006-11-20 19:01:42

yeah yeah we can’t progam we know but having said that I’ll steer clear from this one. I’ll get the 3.0 update and the official ps1 one emulator. The rest of you can enjoy this 1-5 fps emulator and pratically no compatibility oh and this isnt his original code he stole the source code. So you little kids can go watch barney now. Well Said #30 GohanSSJ

 
Comment by eddy14
2006-11-20 19:18:10

if we see how to use the cose that dony did for ps1 on the psp and someone tries to take out that part of the fw so that we can use it its going to be illegal but we can learn from them and the ps1 emulator that they made #9

 
Comment by xulap
2006-11-20 19:52:48

this is so gay…just make a list of the games that works,so we can download them.

 
Comment by mmnr
2006-11-20 21:37:11

Everyone stop complaining about his work.
Or else get off your lazy asses, and code a PSX emulator yourself.
You’re all bad-mouthing a program, that, you couldn’t even come close to making something even THIS good.
I understand it’s not all that, but, if all you’re gonna do is complain about someone else’s hard work not being to up to their standards, then just leave him alone, or code one yourselves.

You’re all acting like (if you actually AREN’T) six year-olds.

Act like you got some god-damn sense people,
Damn!

 
Comment by Samaran
2006-11-20 22:56:39

Be patient people when sony release the official ps1 emulator someone will hack it for the homebrew community :) i know this is a little off subject but is the ps3 backwards compatible rite upto the ps1?

 
Comment by Nige
2006-11-21 10:10:07

Great work dude…..BUT you need to re-name this as a BETA………….Alpha is for software that actually works,lol Seriously though,keep working on it cos you have the makings of a fine emulator here.

You could try and get your hands on the code that Sony will be using to emulate ps1 on psp…..should save you a ton of work :)

 
Comment by GohanSSJ
2006-11-21 13:36:56

39, you should learn the difference between Alpha and Beta… you would realise then how stupid your comment sounds then.

 
Comment by MoFaux
2006-11-21 16:10:58

Alpha comes before beta… Douche.

 
Comment by hai
2006-11-21 16:17:53

hail to that

 
Comment by Erana
2006-11-22 06:02:05

Look what I found in the sources.

/* Pcsx - Pc Psx Emulator
* Copyright (C) 1999-2003 Pcsx Team

Didn’t remove the traces of the REAL creator well enough, did you, yoshi? ^_^

 
Comment by hjhjhj
2006-11-22 17:20:48

when is the gamma release?

 
Comment by dopster
2006-11-24 15:56:14

Wow!

Just played the FFVIII demo on my PSP (opening scene and dance scene). Then loaded up FFVII. It worked but was very slow.

Thanks to Yoshihiro, and all those who’ve gone before!

Please keep up the good work.

 
Comment by Bren
2006-11-25 03:32:31

DOES THIS WORK ON 2.81? COZ THATS WOT I GOT…JUST WONDERIN IF I COULD AT LEAST TEST THIS ON MA PSP? THANX PZ REPLY TO

skull_monkey2005@hotmail.com

or int he forum…but email is better!

 
Comment by ooio
2007-04-08 07:22:30

great

 
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