LD Chen Working on a Playstation Emu for PSP

September 3rd, 2005, 19:51 Posted By: wraggster

For what must be a couple of months those of the coders and staff who have access to the private coders forum at PSP Emulation News will have known the fact that LDChen is working on bringing his Excellent Playstation Emulator to the PSP, now it also seems that he is thinking of porting to the GP2X Console, with thanks to Joe2339 for finding the news, heres what LDChen posted

"Hello,
I'm following the news for this console from the time it has been announced.
I'm very interested about development for GPX2, especially because his dualcore architecture. As I wrote into other forums, I initially wanted to port my emulator on PSP. For this purpose I completed a (working!) dyna-rec engine for MIPS machines. I started it time ago for making FPSEce working on machine with MIPS cpu and now it's finished. Unfortunately, everything is going worse because:
- Sony is closing all doors to any legal free software and it prohibites the usage of unlicensed software by releasing new firmwares.
- FPSE compiled for PSP doesn't work on the only available PSP emulator.

The GPX2 (until it will change the name) has what I was looking for: it's another great platform and final users and developers will surely have much more support from the Company. ARM support for fast emulation speeds is available. Linux support is work in progress too, since I would like to do a port for the Zaurus. However, I'm a bit worried about asking it as a "free sample".
This isn't a device that costs one euro or one dollar, probably the Company wants some warranties about their investments. At the moment I don't know if I can spend much time on development because I'm searching a new job (that's why FPSEce 0.09.5 is technically almost finished, but still unreleased).
Perhaps I can still write an email to them and talk about my development and my doubts. Afterall, asking for information doesn't cost...
Sincerely,
LDChen."

So there you have it the author of one of the very best Playstation emulators is working on a PSP version but he doesnt have a PSP, so if he agrees and answers this thread i would like to start a donation fund to get a PSP for LD Chen.

PSX Emulation is something we would all like

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