Posted Apr 05, 2006 at 10:49AM by Dan E. Listed in: Firmware, News, Rumors
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Far be it for us at QJ to put up any fake news, but when sifting through the daily sand dune of emails, a nice gem gleamed in the rough. We have received these (very convincing in my opinion) images of the upcoming PSone emulator for the PSP, created by none other than Sony themselves (as Ken detailed himself). The emulator will allow users to download games onto their PSP's memory stick and run them via the "Game" menu on the PSP (which sounds just like what we do already.)

For example, (according to the images,) Gran Turismo 2 will support both ad-hoc (2 players) and infrastructure modes (2-6 players.) The cost on the (I will again iterate convincing) image will be at $15, which although pricey, is much cheaper than current PSP UMD games, and brings us the youthful joy at a reasonable price. But you don't have to take my word for it, I'll let you read the news tip as well and decide for yourself, because we can never be too sure:

"My friend who is a designer at sony gave me these pics, he said that this is what the psone emulator for psp will look like. he said that the games will be downloaded by a program shown in the screenshots and will be played under "game". I think this is true because he showed them to me from his camera which doesn't show ANY edited images."

Thanks for the newstip Al!

Edit: Ok, $15 is expensive, but it's better to pay $15 for a game with probably no loading times and better playability than most of today's UMDs. (Although $5 would definitely be much more reasonable, and to their benefit in sales of antiquated games.)



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   by M2dk - 2006-04-05
 » compliant

Looks great! but will it be for 1.5 or 2.6

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-05
 » shotty awnser

soooooo we have to pay 15 bucks per game
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
ok if these are fake then i feel bad for n(.).(.)bs because they will make so many threds about this
N(.)(.)BS DONT POST ABOUT THIS ONLY IN SPECULATION

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-05
 » Fake

The design is too cheap to come from Sony.
The PSP font is used but that's all.
I can put up fake screens that will look way more convincing than this.

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-05
 » sony is desperate

they are so freakin desperate for $ since now that umd movies are totally out the window, that they are hoping to capitalize on the psone emulator by selling the images at 15$ . wtf, f'u sony . i aint paying 15$ for games that I basically already own, hows about you kiss my ass.... hackers, make sure u hax that emu so we can use our own images, pfft :P

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-05
 » hey this will bhe for 3.00 if you have sence

[QUOTE] 1. » compliant

Looks great! but will it be for 1.5 or 2.6 [/QUOTE]

dude you are dumb 3.00 is going to have ps1 emu but this is mabey a possible screen shot from 3.00 do dont ask stupid questions if it said download here you would know it was for 1.50

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-05
 » hey this will bhe for 3.00 if you have sence

[QUOTE] 1. » compliant

Looks great! but will it be for 1.5 or 2.6 [/QUOTE]

dude you are dumb 3.00 is going to have ps1 emu but this is mabey a possible screen shot from 3.00 do dont ask stupid questions if it said download here you would know it was for 1.50

   by moooooocow - 2006-04-05
 » Hey

Has anyone thought about the button layout on this thing? and whether or not it will support the analog nub? I suppose you could have the button layout as is and just make the L2 and R2 buttons the left and right analog nub direction respectfully. But only time will tell, I think that if these images are true and so close to E3 that Song will release this in a new update during the week of E3 or a week after.

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-05
 » what????????????????

i think 5.00$ is good price but 15.00$ is to much.

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   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-05
 » Cheap????

Hell 15$ is not exactly cheap for games I already played...

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-05
 » cool

i think £5 would be better, so tthats like $7 i think
This looks cool

~Glynnder - Pspro

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-05
 » !

crap now i have to but another psp

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-05
 » gdhjhg

Ah but for 15 $ It would be worth it to play FF7 and Castlevania SOTN on the handheld. There are a few games I would buy for 15$ a piece.

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-05
 » Fakies

Like the other person commented. It's fake simply because of the bad design. Vertical type? Where in the PSP OS is vertical type used? And what is that, Helvetica bold?

Again, what satisfaction do these children get from mocking up fake images and trying to pass them off as real?

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-05
 » a

What a random assortment of popular games, I'm confused why they're are so few, and not many are actually by sony. The first few games should be expected to be game developed by Sony.

   by Casablanca Gamer - 2006-04-05
 » What if we already own the games

What if we already own the games, should we pay again to play them on the PSP ? They should let us burn our psone games and use them with the emulator.

Also wondering what they will do for the lacking L2 and R2 buttons on the psp.

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-05
 » already have um

Dang a 1.5 psp kicks this thing in the butt, the homebrew scene already has doom, doom 2, duke nukem, quake+ad hoc, and quake 2

i laugh in the face of people with a 2.6 and the people willing to pay for such games i mentioned above

i have a 1.5 muahahaha

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-05
 » Totally

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   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-05
 » Ah, hell no.

I can buy a used psp game for less at eB. Sony, you fail.

Show these biches how it's done, homebrewers.

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-05
 » FAKE.




Did you know that it is possible to fake EXIF data from an image?


It's pretty easy, and I'm surprised fakers use them so infrequently...




My two cents here.

   by DigitalFx - 2006-04-05
 » this is a good thing

We know we will figure out on the 3.0 how to run homebrew because if they are using the menu we should be able to be able to decompile and figure out how they are running the software from the game menu. and i am sure there will be an easy way of sharing the games people download... so this can be a good thing after all lol.

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-05
 » probably fake

Sony would definatly have to consider ERSB rating and making deals with each gaming company allowing them to convert the ps1 images into psp eboots. I doubt sony can make a goood enough emulator to play ps1 games, they would need to redo the entire control schemes. Also, It would cause tons of pirating. If someone was able to run the images through a firmware loader, then that would be pirate heaven. I don't think sony is ready to release anything like this.

   by NTXA - 2006-04-05
 » ___--____--____--__

When it publish PLEASE HACK IT

   by thefirstWARLoRD - 2006-04-05
 » f.u.c.k sony

it is out of order makin us pay twice for a game. im hopeing my ff7 clone will work out then i dont even care about this emu

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-05
 » Yup, fake.

I agree with that guy posting it's fake... But it's way simpler:

You just have to edit a XMB screenshot and show the results on the PSP display.

Then you'll have a faked photograph.

Regards.

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-05
 » doom

since when is Doom platformed on the PS and Sony doesnt have the rights to sell id software's games

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-05
 » captainX

Upgrade from my blessed 1.5? Um, maybe, but I want to see if we can run these through a firmware launcher first.

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-05
 » dude

my penis is big and i think this ps1 thing is faker than my penis... this is going to suck my fake penis PENIS!!!

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   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-05
 » I Have a Hard time believing this...

Honestly, im not one to go "OMG Photoshop", but if you look at the bottom 2 pictures, what are the chances that those wavy lines (in the background) are in the EXACT same spots.... I take these pics as a grain of salt because of this or else i would have probably believed this. Better luck next time... =P

-Popson

   by thefirstWARLoRD - 2006-04-05
 » umm no

basicly im gonna have yo but another psp even if i wantted this (providing my ff7 clone willl work if it doies i dont want the emu) but im ot loseing my 1.5fw emus work too well with it

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-04-05
 » GT

Maby the games will be sold at different prices and GT is more expensive than some for some reason. And this is probably fake ill believe it when i see it from sony.



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