Nintendo DS Emulation on the PSP (W.I.P.)
greg | August 9, 2007
Don’t piss your pants just yet, it’s far from stable and doesn’t function all that well; however, it’s definitely a major breakthrough in Nintendo DS emulation on the PSP. NekoMiMi, who appears to be the same author as PSPTube, has based his developments on DeSmuME — a DS emulator for Windows.
Tyler Ilg has kindly been providing updates — commercial ROMs don’t appear to run at all, but the good news! Homebrew written for the NDS works! Tyler mentions 3 separate homebrews that load up and run; mind you, they’re somewhat slow. That’s to be expected this early in the game. Nonetheless, awesome news!
Props to NekoMiMi and all the other genius minds.
How to use? Rename your ROM to “test.nds” and place it in the same directory as EBOOT.PBP.
Download: DeSmuME 20070725
- source: nekomimi
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Wow, I never expected this.
Yeh, which homebrew works? Links…
Lol..
”Dont piss your pants just yet”
What coiuld you want to play on psp that’s ds exclusive?
One screen and no stulus…
Another nearly useless app, but kinda fun for the sake of it.
Pokemon? Animal Crossing? Ehh…thats all I can think of. XD
mario kart !!!
METROID !
hey! what about daedalus?
jus wat the PSP need! ;)
good to know, but id wait fora FULL RUNNIN DS EMULATOR ON PSP
if they cant get N64 to run on the psp wut makes them think you can run DS on PSP?
i was just gona say that when i seen this post. haha
maybe because n64 is more powerfull then ds :|
dunno if its more powerful… but N64 is definately easier to emulate…
The n64 has a 64 bit processor, thus n64. To give you a reference point; your computer has a 32 bit processor. So the n64 can compute information at twice the speed your computer can… To get the psp to run a game intended to run twice as fast is quite the feat. The xbox360/playstation 3/nds all have 32 bit processors as well making it much much easier to port such a system to the psp, but of course the graphics cards on the xbox or playstation are far greater and probally’ will not be ported.
i tot theres already an N64 Emulator??
isnt it perfected already?!
Well DS IS running on the PSP thats a start right…
…I talked to a few people based on the development on this emulator and the touch screen is quite easy to code…
The analogue will be used as the stylus and the screen split in 2, gameplay on the right and touch screen on the left. When the stylus moves, using the note button will touch the screen, i know it will be awkward but right now thats the way to go for this emulator…
…Metroid will be IMPOSSIBLE TO PLAY!!! however definately Pokemon, Resident Evil, Nintendogs etc could be considerable to play in the future…
Mic support is easy if you use talkman mic or the camera mic etc, it can be made to run overtime…
…Best of luck to the developers…
that WILL be awkward… PSPs and DSs arent that expensive anymore, you can pick up a lite for 130 and with the new psp, if ur rich, itll be just as heavy as a reg PSP!
wow amazing never saw it comening
This is seriously lame. Just like Allen said, both PSP’s and DS’s aren’t expensive anymore. What’s the big deal about running a DS on the PSP? Nothing, you don’t get the full experience of a DS if you were to plaly it on a PSP.
But you guys waste your time on it if you want. Better yet, get some cash and purchase a DS like I did.
that is so true thank you tell them to WORK ON DEADALUS! lol yea ima buy a ds cuzz u get full experiance and wifi i hate ds :( but animal crossing and pokemon XD (animal crossing addict here)
yup same here
kinda
what you said makes no sense because if it is like that why would you need a snes emulator when you can buy one for 5$ same goes for the gb/gc/gba/nes/snes/n64 it will never be the same as playing it on its original console.
I can tell you’re a pirate thief… You only want apps that can get you free games so you don’t have to pay for them. This isn’t about saving money by using an emulator, this is about hacking a PSP. And that goes for any hack. Hackers dedicate to hacking not stealing. That’s why they did this. If they are smart enough to learn how to code, I think they would have realized they could buy a DS just like you say. But that’s not what they want, do they? Nope, they just want to hack. On the other hand you remark sounds as if you only cared about hombrew that saves you money so you don’t have to go out and buy games.
who gives a shit about money? i own all the n64 games ever made well almost i just want to play the few that are my fav on psp so i dont pirate arrrrr I ISO XD but not n64 N64 BEST EVER!
you own all the n64 games, almost? wow you’re special here’s a cookie
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ROFL ROCKETS!!!
ahah i posted below this lvl
Amen.
Don’t waste your breath with those fools.
o.k. Is’nt hacking a psp just as bad as piracy?
Ok well just let me know when you do something better. Otherwise, take your two cents and shove them.
your face is seriously lame
Nah im not spending some £££ on a brick….
besides…it defeats the purpose for hackers to make emulators…
hell if i can get any of this dudes apps to work pluse if ds emu dont work on a pc with 3000+ processor and 1 gig memmory and 2 120 gig hd why would it run on a psp? but good isea keep this 1 up!!
By any chance… Are you planning to go to FullSail? o.O
o hell never knew bout them idk but thats ez stuff i know what i built into my computer id talk about the 10 thousand rpm hd i want but ppl would get lost after i said 10 thousand XD
I get calls from them almost every week.
pcs arent the same as pc. its as simple as that
lol @ zachary you know fuck all about tech stuff, 2 120gigs hard drives won’t affect performance.
Wow, what a genius. A PSP is a Mini computer of sorts made SPECIFICALLY to play games. While computers are made to do thousands of other things. A PSP is only doing a few things at a time giving it more power to play the games, while a computer is usually doing at LEAST 25 things all at once.
Don’t piss your pants just yet? too late :D
well i thing is cool that they made this i have the ds and most of the time i don’t use the touch screen cause i don’t like it i only bought it because of the games
I was about to piss my pants, then i saw it said not too lol. Well this is cool, atleast theres proof of DS on the psp now.
It is a nice novelty but as has been said before me I would much rather see these talented folks using their abilities for something a bit more practical, such as Daedalius.
Seriously, WTF?
I think you guys are doing a great job. A nintendo can be purchased for $20 at a pawn shop but you people still play the games on the psp. It’s about getting everything in one small package. The PSP is the perfect package for all that and more int future. So I say good job and I’ll be looking forward to future updates. Also you may want to use an external bios not included in the package just to legalize your software.
wtf? show me where you can buy a ds for 20 dollars at a pawn shop…
Your dumb as a door knob. He said you can get a nintendo for $20 not a DS. This makes your the dumbest dufus of all time.
wtf is a “nintendo”? last time i checked they were a game company. didnt know you could buy nintendo for 20 bucks =o
next time…”dufus”, explain more. say NES, SNES, etc…
im very instrested in this.all you douters might be surprized later with updates
Well… Maybe a solution would be to have both screens displayed on the PSP’s one. No stylus, but be it possible for the analog to eventually have a pointer? Highly unlikely, but I know that the NDS resolution is 252 wide, possibly downscaling could work…
Anyway, just a thought.
DS on the PSP is just awsome! Keep up the great work!
Does this mean that you can chat with a DS?
now we can say to ds fanboy’s that psp emulates ds =D
I wouldn’t say that it emulates it. Isn’t emulation supposed to be full speed?
And why would you want to use a PSP to run DS games anyway? It just won’t be anywhere close to being the same, in speed or actual functionality.
Just get a DS and an R4, faggots.
-bigmike
Shove it mike.
lol dongs
-bigmike
While i can understand it from a coders point of view, from a users point of view this is completely useless.
So to the coders: Have fun!
To the users: Don’t bother waiting and either accept you have no DS games, or go buy a DS, it’s actually worth the money as it’s a fun machine.
F**King great idea if u ask me… dont think there will be psp emulator for ds so 1 – 0 to psp and me againast my GF lol
this is kool…i remember there was a psp hacking team making a touch screen for the ds awhile ago on psp-hacks.com…wonder if they succeeded
yeah Liksang was manufacturing them just before Sony bankrupted the company with a massive lawsuit
wow!!!! im gonna wait for this.. COOL!!!!
yes digimon world i cant wait yes
i need a list of compatible homebrew. good, i was kinda expecting this emu today…strangely
dudes, this isn’t for the convenience of playing ds games on the psp, this is just to fool around with peoples heads. Obviously ds on psp will never work, but show a screen shot or gameplay of a ds game running on the psp and you can show your friends your “mad hacking skills” (and please, they crapped in their pants when i showed them gameboy on the psp)
please, please, PLEASE make this more stable + able to run commercial games. I promise to love you forever!
I remember flames over the PSP-DS that it can’t be done, bla bla bla… Owning a DS would rule BUT coughing up an extra 50 smacks would get you GB, GBC, GBA, NES, SNES and PSX altogether… Oh, the memories…
I think it CAN be done ! It may not be the same as with a regular DS touchscreen, but i’m sure a pointer could be coded to work with the analog stick. And by the touch of a button to bring up the second screen in front. I think it’s possible. :) Go devs, go coders, go supporters !
I say go for it. ;)
This’ll be a slap in the face for Nintendo if they can pull this off lol. Then i’d like to see if the DS can emulate psp games hehe.
Doubt it..
Hey, can someone guide me how to download this onto my psp? it’s pretty confsuing.
And yeh i do have the 3.52M33
I’m not against pirating,hacking,etc. I’m just saying that this is a complete waste of time getting to emulate the DS on the PSP. Shoot, just hacking the PSP in general is pretty damn cool. I wish I could do it. But since I own both handheld systems, my point stands (for me), emulating a DS on a PSP is useless.
Agreed.
Well, IMHO, it doesn’t matter if it’s useless. What really matters is that it IS POSSIBLE. That alone is an astounding discovery. It’s still in the early stages, so let’s give it time to grow. And eventually, it MIGHT play games. Who knows….
PEOPLE JUST GIVE ME A LIST OF COMPATIABLE HOMEBREW DS GAMES?!!!
NO1 TELS ME ANYTHING THESE DAYZ *cries*
It will never happen.
ha! now i wanna hear from ds fan that their consoles are better than psp :)
Atleast they don’t need emulation to run ds games or wait for a coder to refine the source code to get the games to run better.
Fag.
That is the most stupid thing I read so far. Why would a DS need emulation to run DS games? For you to say this and attempt to ridicule someone by saying what you said was dumb idea on your behalf. I hope DS owners can be happy with just playing DS games. While PSP owners can play PSP games along with the emulation of GBA/NES/SNES/N64 (nearly running full speed)/GENESIS/CPS1/CPS2/PSX/NEOGEO ROMS/ and etc all running at full speed. Oh how unfortunate that we PSP owners have to WAIT a little to do feats the DS WISHED it could do. Boo Hoo. Don’t worry the DS gots its stylus, I’m sure that could toppel any emulation the PSP could dish.
Nice!
ok ok ok ….until somebody shows me a list of compatible games…i wont get this
there is no compatable game hence the W.I.P
(Work in progress) only ds homebrew work and slow at that.
Some Company could release a psp extension like a touch screen that connects via usd to the psp.
Then you Could play everything….
yes i remember not so long ago they showed us something like that on psp-hacks, but i havent heard from it it ages (prop got flushed)
For all you people whining about
“why dont you just buy a ds” or “this is useless” or “my balls smell” get over it i wouldent even spend my hard earned cash on a plastic brick they call a nintendo ds.
nintendo should be ninshitdo because they have sleezy graphics cheap plastic, look like bricks oh did i mention sleezy graphics….
SAY NO TO NITENDO
SAY YES TO NINTENDO EMULATORS for PSP
Think would you rather have a DS or PSPDS
psp look next gen (alien style) compared to
the ds (stone age). haha (brick age)
My little toe nail has better graphic then a ds
hey did you guys hear we all have high definition testicals COOL ehh
my pubes look better then the NINSHITDO DS
ok ok im done no more comments from me
until next time folks. Whats up doc.
And the psp isn’t a piece of crap without homebrew? Thats like drinking coffee without the water. No one says you HAVE to buy anything, do they? The only worthwhile Nintendo emus have to be SNES, NES, GBA, and eventually N64 once its finished. I just don’t see this as being fully playable.
Just a thought, if Nintendo’s handheld sucks so bad, why is it still the number one selling console in Japan still? And when has the PSP actually outsold the DS Lite? Not recently….
My balls look next gen in your moms mouth. Grow up kids, go watch porn instead of shitting fire on the site.
lol nintendo just got booty raped :D
take that nintendo!!!!!!
Lol..
Love your ideas for making the PSP sound more superior to the Ds.
:D
Lol, thats what i was thinking.
“Ma psp r t3h 00b3r 1337 cuz it r runz0r t3h h0mbr3w !!111!1!one”
LOL
I respect your opinion about the DS. But, the DS does have better official games. The PSP basically fails in the games made by game devs. But, the PSP is better for homebrew. DS just requires to much work to use homebrew. So please understand that both PSP and DS are good in their own way. It’s best to own both, PSP for homebrew and DS for games you buy. Thats what I do. And I’m happy. But the N-Gage suck ass hairs. Whoever buys one of those is a retard.
Ds might be shite but dont dis Nintendo, they have extensive amounts of history
look at this for DS http://sksapps.info/forums/showthread.php?t=4727
good job for porting it…but it is a project in vain, most ALL computers can’t emulate a DS fine…what makes you think a 333MHz ARM processor, with little to no GPU can handle it.
Leave it for the PS3 ;-) We’ll use the EyeToy for the touch function (and mic?).
hahaha, What CAN’T the psp do. :)
Dreamcast, Saturn, Mame (not good/complete anyway), PS2, Xbox, Gamecube, PS3, Xbox360, Wii, or DS emulation (show me true emulation, not 2 fps). It also doesn’t handle linux very well, have a decent web browser, make toast, roll blunts, squeeze oranges, sweep the floors, drive a car, and the list goes on.
not able to play runescape!! >:(
Runescape sucks
your a runescape fag.
not 2 be fool but dis emulator needs alot of worrkk lmao test demos cant even runnn i never expericence so much lagg its more than d2
I remember all the threads people made asking for a DS emulator, and me telling them to go to hell seeing how impossible it would be.
And now this happened.
I still tell them to go to hell because it won’t progress much further. Seriously, look at the PC version….
even if it needs alot of work, this right here alone is a breakthrough, n with full speed(maybe along time from now), we can surely the psp IS BETTER THEN DS BITCHS
Full speed will never happen. Half speed may never happen. Quarter speed most likely will happen but the game library will be extremely limited.
Plzz someone tell me will this work on my oficial psp firmware 3.50
lol fagget
lol wut?
People Said GBA Could Never Run at Full Speed on a PSP,
(1)…..Well Have you Tried Mario Kart on the GBA on PSP, Runs Perfectly…….
(2)…..If a Full Speed Playstation One Emulator is Possible, with Way Higher Specs than the NDS,on PSP Then No Problem, its Only a Matter of Time…..Isn’t it Think About it……….
GB / GBC / GBA / NDS / N64 Games all on The Greatest Handheld in the World THE PSP1 or PSP2
(3) Imagine us PSP Users Emulating Mario Kart DS on PSP & Playing against a Real NDS Owner & Kicking His Arse at his Own Game…….Well & Truely Owned…..;o)
yepp… Mario Kart DS, i gotta admit, is a great game … haha ds fanboys, what a slap in the face!
true.. i guess were just going 2 have 2 wait and see updates 4 it
this is what i would like to see in teh future releases:
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y91/phantasum/Concept%20Art/DeSmu-Concept.jpg
hey yea same here loooks nice
wow. i didn’t think it was possible
This is going to be a big problem for Sony and Nintendo, I cant already fell Sony getting ready to try and crack down on more security updates again. =\
can*
hey kiddo’s
tired of your current firmware?
well check out this AWESOME NEW SONY FIRMWARE!
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OH YEAH! NOW YOU CAN FORGET ABOUT HOMEBREW EVEN MORE!
pfft, what? did you think we SUPPORT fun here at SONY?
GUESS AGAIN!
our better than YOUR update includes THESE
AWESOME COOL NEW FEATURES to the PSP
+Security Updates
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+a picture of your grandma nude as a wallpaper as SOON as the PSP turns on
+ oh and Security Updates
+did we mention ANTI-HAK program?
+Seeecurity Updates
GOLLY GEE, we put the DIE, in DIARHEA
HAVE FUN, SUCKERS!
version 4.0 isn’t out dumbass, and you don’t work for sony so you don’t have a say in this
You win the award for most fucking retarded response ever, busterdragoon.
and you win the award for the most fucking retarded response to a response.
Looks like you were winning before I took the lead again.
I am a PSP owner but…. I do have to agree with you on that one. I was LOL when I read this.
“Pfft what?did you think we support fun here at SONY?
GUESS AGAIN!”
I’m putting that as my quote of the day! Congrats man that was funny!
i told yea so, i agrued this months ago, i knew it would come.
sony…your a sad idiot
i alreday sold my ds now how do i use the touchpen on psp???
Hahaha. You open your PSP as in, unscrew it. Solder your stylus inside and it’ll magically work. Guarenteed.
and the floodgates are open
cool
Waste of fucking time. It would be nice to see a game run, but actually playing it would be ridiculously pointless. Maybe if the PSP was a dual/touch screen system then it wouldn’t seem so retarded.
The thing you just wrote right now was waste of fucking time, waste of reading. The emu is awesome
Replying to his post was a waste of fucking time, retarded, and not worth reading or replying too.
I just have too much time to waste.
The waste is westing so much that I can not waste wastes!
nice work, but really, all ds’s should be molten down and used as sabots…the games can be used to adjust short table leg issues.
hey this is a good idea psp rules ds is wack but nintendo got some original systems owell we can play all of them on the psp hahaha oooo and to that runescape fag u can play it jus search youtube and some program lets you control your desktop of urr computer throught the psp and u see it on the screen i tried the program and it worked but it laggs sometimes if u lik runescape that bad then try it its called “portable vnc”
this will be great if you get it to work fully and proply think off all the ds games out there cool :) keep it up
The award for best comment so far goes to Mexas for not sounding retarded or brainwashed.
This Bud’s for you.
wow DS EMU, Take That Nintendo.
PSP 100x Better Than DS.
im Gay btw
HAHAHAAA! Your mom does kinda look like a dude impostor eternal dark, but I fucked her anyway…
And what is with the gay jokes? Are you hiding some weird fantasy about me or something, cuz I like women, with the exception of your mom (?).
Butch bitches needs the lovin’ too.
This Is Nice, Why Buy A Ds When I Want To Only Play 1 Game, Mario Demo,
wow, looks like this could become a great emu if the programmers work on it, and if they don’t, then someone else’ll just work on the source code, hopefully.
psp can kiss my ass
Psp can rape me in my loose ass Hole!!!
If only there was a way we were able to buy a touch screen, and attach it through the usb on to the psp this emu would be sexy.
wowowowowowo i cant wait till this is fuloly workin think resident evil a psp that is basically every single portable consele and all the older consoles woo keep up the good work