Equip your USB cable — now connect it and install this round of emulators… PCE (or Turbo Grafx 16) for PSP has been upped to version 0.83a5 and s9xTYLmecm — the Super Nintendo emulator — remains cool like the fall breeze on 091101.

PCE for PSP 0.83a5:

• improved support of multiplayer game via Ad-Hoc.

s9xTYLmecm 091101:

• fixed display of missing line of the screen.

Download:
PCE for PSP 0.83a5
s9xTYLmecm 091101

- source: emu-russia

Over the last week or two you likely saw test builds floating around cyberspace, and now today it’s final: M@x and Sleepper’s PSPKVM v0.5.4. Oh, I should mention Anweifeng and AJ Milne too — they’re new to the PSPKVM team.

PSPKVM is a port of SUN’s phoneME Feature enabling MIDP/JavaME applications on your PlayStation Portable.

Personally I use PSPKVM + Opera Mini instead of the [shitty] PSP NetFront browser. Would you believe ACCESS CO., LTD, the company who authors/maintains NetFront, sicced their lawyers on us for hosting this. That’s some bullshit! Anyway, that’s neither here nor there… Enjoy PSPKVM!

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Update: PCE for PSP v0.82 BETA 4 is out. Get it below.

Serving an alternative means of Turbo Grafx 16 / PC Engine emulation is an unknown/anonymous Japanese developer with PCE for PSP v0.82b3. So should you experience bizarre behaviour with ZX-81’s PSPHUGO, or vice-versa, simply install the other and give it a shot.

I won’t bother attempting to translate the Japanese change log; the read me is a real mess. Rest assure PCE v0.82b3 has improved over whatever earlier version you may have installed.

Download: PCE v0.82b4

This isn’t the scum John Walsh keeps talking about; this is ScummVM — the Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion Virtual Machine. And you’re not limited to just Maniac Mansion; I’m talking Sam & Max, Zak McKracken, Monkey Island… The list goes on and on… Check out the ScummVM compatibility list right here for all those memorable titles.

Quoting the ScummVM Team:

It is the usual stable and supported release so don’t let the name of ‘Release Candidate’ or ‘RC1′ throw you off, however we encourage you to test thoroughly. We have a release testing wiki page, which we would like to see turn into a mass of green indicating successful removal of any issues in the titles supported, and thus we need your help, our dear users of ScummVM. It would be really great to test as many games as possible on all variety platforms our project is ported to.

So what’s new? Well this marks the 1st release candidate for the big 1.0.0.

• Added support for Discworld
• Added support for Discworld 2 – Missing Presumed …!?
• Added support for Return to Zork
• Added support for Leather Goddesses of Phobos 2
• Added support for The Manhole
• Added support for Rodney’s Funscreen
• Added support for Cruise for a Corpse
• Improved GUI vastly: added quick search, introduced per-game options, improved mass-add dialog
• Broken Sword 1 & 2 now run with original cutscenes
• Increased The 7th Guest microscope puzzle difficulty to match original
• Major improvements to PSP, PS2 and WinCE ports
• New port for GP2X Wiz handheld game console.

Please report any issues here.

Download: ScummVM 1.0.0 RC1

- source: scummvm

It’s IRDA season and from Friday to Sunday, ZX-81 has this emulator game on lock. Tonight you just might be playing the ColecoVision with ZX-81’s port of ColEm — PSPColem version 1.3.1. And by now it’s obvious; 1.3.1 features IRDA Joy support. Get down.

Download:
PSPColem v1.3.1 cfw
PSPColem Source Code

- source: ZX-81’s web site

PSPCAP32 isn’t the only emulator sporting the 1.5.1 tag; ZX-81’s got an all new version of his PSP fMSX port too. It’s the same version number, same era, pretty much the same change log — different home computer. PSPMSX emulates the MSX, MSX2, and MSX2+.

For those who have never heard about IRDA joystick project, the goal was to connect your old DB9 joystick (compatible with Atari, Amiga, Amstrad etc …) or a paddle device to your PSP FAT. Buzz has written the driver and designed the PCB and programmed the PIC micro-controller, while I was in charge of emulator enhancements.

If you have the skills and the bills ($20 max.) you can build your own IRDA Joy Box. The schematics and source are available in the PSPMSX archive; check the contrib folder.

PSPMSX v1.5.1 changes:

• IRDA Joystick box support
• Add “IRDA joystick” device support for both DB9 Joystick and Atari Paddle
• Add menu for IRDA joystick settings and keys mapping
• Add option to choose between IRDA devices (keyboard such as Targus or joystick using Buzz device)

Download:
PSPMSX v1.5.1 cfw 3.xx/4.xx/5.xx
PSPMSX v1.5.1 Source Code

- source: ZX-81’s web site

You knew it was coming sooner or later; it’s ZX-81’s PSPCAP32 v1.5.1 — the Amstrad CPC emulator now with IRDA Joystick Box support. Emulate the CPC464, CPC664, and CPC6128 models.

You may find several CPC disk images here. As well CPC game reviews so you know what’s good. Enjoy!

PSPCAP32 v1.5.1 changes:

• IRDA Joystick box support
• Add “IRDA joystick” device support for both DB9 Joystick and Atari Paddle
• Add menu for IRDA joystick settings and keys mapping
• Add option to choose between IRDA devices (keyboard such as Targus or joystick using Buzz device)

Download:
PSPCAP32 v1.5.1 cfw 3.xx/4.xx/5.xx
PSPCAP32 v1.5.1 source code

- source: ZX-81’s web site

A quick look at the title you’d probably expect me to say, “ZX-81 has released a new Atari emulator” next. But nope, not this time. This time it’s Akop — Akop has released Atari800 PSP v2.1.0.1. And not only does it emulate the Atari 800; you get the Atari 800XL, 130XE and 5200 too.

Atari800 PSP is actually a port of this.

Atari800 v2.1.0.1 changes:

• Emulator updated to version 2.1.0
• Added ZIP file support
• PSPLIB updated to latest version: images are now saved under PSP/PHOTOS/ATARI800 PSP; virtual keyboard updated; screenshot previews in file browser

Download: Atari800 PSP v2.1.0.1

- source: akop

Look who’s back, it’s the undisputed champ in the classic console emulation-porting league; you know him, put your hands together for ZX-81. Download PSPHUGO v1.3.1 and you’ll be imitating the Turbo Grafx 16 or PC Engine all proper and stable like. And if you managed to pull one of these off, you’ll no doubt appreciate this version.

PSPHUGO v1.3.1 changes:

• This version of PSP-Hugo supports IRDA-Joystick box designed by my good friend Buzz (see http://buzz.computer.free.fr). Schematic and PIC source code is provided in contrib folder.
• Add “IRDA joystick” device support for both DB9 Joystick and Atari Paddle
• Add menu for IRDA joystick settings and keys mapping
• Add option to choose between IRDA devices (keyboard or joystick)

Download:
PSPHUGO v1.3.1 cfw
PSPHUGO v1.3.1 source code

- source: ZX-81’s web site

Bringing a cellphone-like experience to a PSP near you is M@x and Sleepper with an all-new version of PSPKVM. I’m not talking phone calls or SMS though; I’m talking a port of SUN’s phoneME Feature.

Enjoy countless apps and games designed with mobility in mind. And as I mentioned here — PSPKVM + Opera is a great alternative for portable web browsing. Also — two thumbs up for Vivid Strip Poker.

PSPKVM 0.5.3 changes:

• Bugfix for ‘Default CPU speed setting doesn’t work’ (tracker ID 2812036)
• Bugfix for Sony Ericsson 480×272 profile issue (tracker ID 2812032)
• Bugfix for ‘QWERTY board opens allcaps’ (tracker ID 2806367)
• Bugfix makes available missing top half of Unicode page 0 in built-in font (Adds common accents incl. acute, grave, circumflex, umlaut over Roman characters)
• Added most of Unicode page 1 (Latin Extended 1) to built-in font (Adds less common accents and characters for most languages using Roman alphabets)
• Added clipboard/text selection support to the virtual keyboards
• Added interface so MIDlets can request and receive events signaling raw PSP control state
• Added a semichordal virtual keyboard implementation (fast input, diacritics support). See notes below re use.
• Improved alpha blending for TrueType font rendering–smoother blends.
• Support multi-language in Sony OSK input method

PSPKVM Compatibility List

Download:
PSPKVM 0.5.3 (fw 1.50)
PSPKVM 0.5.3 (cfw)

- source: pspkvm