RetroArch is an open source, multi-platform frontend designed to be a fast, lightweight, and portable multi-system emulator.
RetroArch is currently available for Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, iOS, BlackBerry 10, Raspberry Pi, OpenPandora, PlayStation 3, Xbox, Xbox 360, GameCube, and Nintendo Wii, and soon the PSP. A few months ago (February 12th), the RetroArch team tweeted that they have “wiped the dust off the RetroArch PSP port“ and started development to bring the multi-system emulator to the PSP. On the 13th of February, they tweeted a picture with the description below:
“Progress being made,” by the RetroArch team.
That same day they also mentioned something else:
Something else we’ve dusted off from over a year ago – a RemoteJoy libretro core.
On the 16th of February (My birthday :p), they posted yet another picture entitled “Progress being made”:
“Progress being made,” by the RetroArch team.
From the pictures we can see that they are making some sweet progress after all J
A few days ago (24th May) they made a blog post about their incoming update, v1.0.0.3. This is what they’ve mentioned about the PSP port:
So it’s been no secret that we have been working on a PSP port of RetroArch for quite some months now. Obviously, this right now is the least powerful RetroArch port so far (in terms of CPU power it is about half the speed of a Raspberry Pi), but we’re still striving to make RetroArch a really nice affair on the PSP.
We will need more time to really deliver though when it comes to the cores. Thanks to the great commits of Aliaspider, we have already managed to achieve fullspeed emulation with Gambatte (at the very least), and through some custom PSP code we have also managed to get FCEUmm to run more or les at fullspeed on the PSP as well. It’s up for debate whether we will want to whip out a version of RetroArch PSP in time for version 1.0.0.3 – maybe we should wait until we have more cores behind our belt that are really appealing to PSP users, or maybe we should just get this into PSP users’ hands as quickly as possible and then supply them with lots of regular updates with each new version.
I have some plans at least to look at every great standalone PSP port and deliver a libretro port in some way. At least NJEMU (the CPS1/2/Neogeo emulator) is being strongly considered. Maybe Daedalusx64 at some point as well.
I for one, am pretty excited to see this coming to PSP. We all thought the PSP scene was long gone, once the Vita came out. Haha but it seems like the PSP devs haven’t given up just yet. Be sure to check out their twitter or their blog, for upcoming updates. 作者: zmqzmqzmq 时间: 2014-5-28 10:22
