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PSP emulates DS games at whopping 4fps
The PSP scene continues to develop new and exciting ways to use the PSP. Recently, a Japanese homebrew developer by the name of "SofiyaCat" has ported the Nintendo DS emulator DeSmuME to PSP. However, don't expect it to offer anything playable. Framerates are stuck in the single digits in this early, unoptimized code. We're not exactly sure if a virtual touch-screen will be offered in the future, but it appears that this is more a display of coding prowess, rather than an attempt at making something the masses can truly embrace.We're no advocates of piracy, though. Although we're impressed by this effort, we can't say that this will render our DS systems obsolete. Besides, we have a lot of widescreen, non-touching games to play in the coming months.[Via Joystiq]
IT EMULATES PRINTING MONEY!!
Japanese homebrew genius SofiyaCat has achieved the spectacularly pointless: DS games running on the PSP. The blurry image above demonstrates a PSP running the homebrew game GeoWars. The emulation is slow, the compatibility is apparently terrible, and, of course, the PSP lacks a touchscreen, but we should let the poor thing have its day. Now somebody needs to get to work figuring out a way for us to play the Dracula X Chronicles on the DS. We don't advocate piracy, but there's no harm in testing some homebrew games on a PSP. Give it a shot![Via Exophase]
DeSmuME DS emulator hits the PSP
While the DS and PSP aren't without their squabbles in the past, there's the fact that no matter how much you compare the two, there are certain obvious differences in approach that make it a bit of an apple to oranges scenario. That's why it's so intensely awkward to look at the screen above -- a DS emulator on the PSP. It's running a DS homebrew game, GeoWars, and running it pretty slowly at that, but still. DS on a PSP. The DeSmuME emulator was ported by Japanese homebrew developer SofiyaCat, and while we really can't imagine many DS titles that would benefit in any way from playback on the PSP, the sheer triumph over logic on display here has made us total fans of the effort.[Thanks, zshadow]
