PSP emulates DS games at whopping 4fps

Posted Aug 13th 2007 6:00PM by Andrew Yoon
Filed under: Homebrew

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]

Tags: desmume, ds, emulation, emulator, sofiyacat

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

8-13-2007 @ 6:26PM

Random said...

lol 4 fps, but the analog stick could be used in the touch screen's stead.

8-13-2007 @ 6:27PM

zoen151 said...

Yea, I've seen this. I'll just wait till it becomes more polished up.

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