I’m sure you all know what ScummVM is by now; however, if you don’t – here’s a quick synopsis: ScummVM is an open-source program available on numerous platforms, including the PSP, of course. It allows you to run many old point-and-click classic adventure games, such as [some of the ones I remember growing up]: Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max, Broken Sword 1 & 2, etc… Plus many more. You will require the data files for each game in order to play.

ScummVM 0.9.0 “The OmniBrain loves you” was released yesterday – the PSP port has just arrived today from Joost Peters, Paolo Costabel, and Thomas Mayer.

Import changes include:

• New and improved GUI
• Support for 2 new games – The Legend of Kyrandia and The Feeble Files.
• Reworked detection code for SCUMM games. Now all your fan translations will work out of the box
• Added subtitle configuration controls to the options dialog
• New official Atari/MiNT port
• Much improved WinCE port
• Numerous bugfixes in the SCUMM, SAGA, Simon, Broken Sword 2 and BASS engines

Download ScummVM v0.9.0 for the PSP – includes binaries for both FW 1.50 and 2.00-2.60!

For more details and other resources: binaries compiled for other platforms [Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, etc...], game downloads, extras, and more… check out the official ScummVM website.

The ScummVM PSP port authors (Peters, Costabel and Mayer) have released v0.8.2. This version is merely another bug fix release.

v0.8.2 includes a fix discovered in 0.8.1, which rendered ‘Broken Sword 2′ unplayable.

And once again, if ya don’t know:

ScummVM lets you run these adventures: Adventure Soft’s Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2; Revolution’s Beneath A Steel Sky, Broken Sword 1 and Broken Sword 2; Flight of the Amazon Queen; Wyrmkeep’s Inherit the Earth; Coktel Vision’s Gobliiins and games based on LucasArts’ SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) system. SCUMM is used for many games, including Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max and more.

Download ScummVM-PSP v0.8.2

Enjoy!

Joost Peters, Paolo Costabel and Thomas Mayer have released an update to the ScummVM PSP port. v0.8.1 is mainly a bugfix update, solving many problems discovered in 0.8.0 and earlier.

For those unaware: (quoted from scummvm.org)

ScummVM lets you run these adventures: Adventure Soft’s Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2; Revolution’s Beneath A Steel Sky, Broken Sword 1 and Broken Sword 2; Flight of the Amazon Queen; Wyrmkeep’s Inherit the Earth; Coktel Vision’s Gobliiins and games based on LucasArts’ SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) system. SCUMM is used for many games, including Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max and more.

Download ScummVM-PSP v0.8.1: here

Update: ScummVM-PSP Beta 2 has been released. Changes/fixes include:

• Fixed saving/loading ‘hang’ in LucasArts SCUMM games
• Fixed ‘Invalid savegame’ slots and naming savegames in SCUMM.
• MP3 support (MP3′d CDDA tracks and monster.so3)

Download ScummVM-PSP Beta 2

ScummVM a program that uses free and open source code is a project to enable classic games like: Monkey Island 1 & 2, Day of The Tentacle, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Sam n Max, Simon 1 & 2, Flight of the Amazon Queen, BASS/CD, and Gobliiins among others to work on systems for which they were never intended. Now thanks to Joost Peters, Paolo Costabel and Thomas Mayer the Sony PSP joins those systems. You need to already have these game’s dat files to play them but some of them are available for free at ScummVM.org you can get this program in our PSP downloads section or by clicking here.