It can even upscale textures that would otherwise be too blurry as they were made for the small screen of the original PSP.

Even on modern Android phones and tablets, you can often run at double the original resolution.

Features

  • Play in HD resolutions and more
  • Play on a tablet for big-screen mobile gaming
  • Customize on-screen touch controls or use an external controller or keyboard
  • Save and restore game state anywhere, anytime
  • Crank up the anisotropic filtering and texture scaling
  • Continue where you left off by transferring saves from your real PSP

PPSSPP is an open source project, licensed under the GPL 2.0 (or later). Anyone is welcome to contribute improvements to the code. Partly thanks to such contributions, PPSSPP's compatibility is steadily increasing, letting us all play our PSP games on the devices of our choice.

What's New

(Note: 1.14.1, released on December 20, fixes a black screen bug on older Android devices, plus some other odds and ends). (Additionally, 1.14.2 and 1.14.3 fix some additional bugs and hangs.)

This is no ordinary release - a lot of work has gone into fixing up long-standing rendering issues, such as the water in Outrun or characters clipping through the background in Kurohyou 2, smoke showing through walls in Ratchet & Clank, there are new VR builds for Quest and PICO, and many other things! A quick overview of changes:

  • Graphics fixes in Burnout Dominator, Kurohyou, Ratchet & Clank, Outrun, Ridge Racer, Spongebob: Yellow Avenger, Cars: Race-o-Rama, Hunter x Hunter, many others
  • Performance improvements: Killzone now runs at playable speed, Juiced 2 performance fixed, lighting ubershader optimization
  • Many software renderer improvements, both performance and accuracy.
  • Brand new VR builds for stand-alone devices: Quest & Pico thanks to the work of Lubos!
  • Some input handling fixes, IR interpreter fixes, and so much more.

There will be a couple of blog posts with a lot more detail about some of the changes early next year when the new website rolls out. Anyway, enjoy!

Note: As usual, the Android version will be rolled out gradually, you'll see it in the Play Store within the next few days.