Sony PSP emulator PPSSPP 0.8 for ROSA 2012.1 and cooker

Latest shouts directly from our packagers and call for public testing MIB packages
Post Reply
User avatar
NicCo
Amministratore
Amministratore
Posts: 4765
Joined: 6 December 2007, 19:54

Sony PSP emulator PPSSPP 0.8 for ROSA 2012.1 and cooker

Post by NicCo »

Pulfer wrote:
Some good news here - Sony PSP emulator PPSSPP 0.8 was released today.
And it finally runs games really well. I packaged it for Rosa 2012.1 and Cooker.

Screenshots:
http://forum.rosalab.ru/viewtopic.php?f ... 680#p17680

Screencast:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QQp2X9be9o

Unlike other "modern" emulators (PCSX2, Dolphin etc) PPSSPP is not
really greedy for CPU & memory. But I'm not sure about gfx card,
there's a chance that it works well only with nvidia blobs (I didn't
test it with anything else). I also didn't test x86_64 version.
POST EDIT
Important update. I packaged ppsspp-at3plus-plugin to Restricted
repository for Rosa 2012.1. And patched PPSSPP so it can load this
plugin now.

This plugin mostly adds support for background music in games. So it's
really important for better gaming experience.

Another update is adjusted default controls. Plus possibility to switch
direction buttons and left joystick with hotkey. It's important because
some PSP games use buttons for movement and other use joystick.

New controls:

1. Buttons
UP: w
DOWN: s
LEFT: a
RIGHT: d
A: g
B: h
X: j
Y: k
L: t
R: y
START: z
SELECT: x

2. Left joystick
UP: up arrow
DOWN: down arrow
LEFT: left arrow
RIGHT: right arrow

3. Right joystick
UP: keypad up arrow
DOWN: keypad down arrow
LEFT: keypad left arrow
RIGHT: keypad right arrow

4. Emulator controls
Menu: m or backspace
Quit: Escape
Swap left joystick <-> direction buttons: q
.
--- Professional experience ---
Kernel designer, engineer, maintainer and tester for ROSA Desktop and OpenMandriva Lx O.S.

--- currently I'm playing with ---
LTS Kernels > Linux 4.1.12-nrjQL <<< Linux 3.18.17-nrjQL <<< Linux 3.14.46-nrjQL
EOL Kernels > Linux 3.19.8-nrjQL <<< Linux 3.17.8-nrjQL <<< Linux 3.15.10-nrjQL

User avatar
NicCo
Amministratore
Amministratore
Posts: 4765
Joined: 6 December 2007, 19:54

Re: Sony PSP emulator PPSSPP 0.8 for ROSA 2012.1 and cooker

Post by NicCo »

Updated to new version 0.8.1. While it looks like a minor update, it
really feels like an important update. For example, in Bomberman
game (one of my PSP favorites) now I see some textures that were missing
in 0.8.

The development is really impressive. Several monthes ago PPSSPP
was useless (very slow, couldn't run any games well etc) and now it's
already really good. It takes years for other emulators to reach such
level of quality (PCSX2 or Dolphin, for example). And now, only several
days since 0.8 release, but 0.8.1 is already much better...
.
--- Professional experience ---
Kernel designer, engineer, maintainer and tester for ROSA Desktop and OpenMandriva Lx O.S.

--- currently I'm playing with ---
LTS Kernels > Linux 4.1.12-nrjQL <<< Linux 3.18.17-nrjQL <<< Linux 3.14.46-nrjQL
EOL Kernels > Linux 3.19.8-nrjQL <<< Linux 3.17.8-nrjQL <<< Linux 3.15.10-nrjQL

Post Reply