Sony PlayStation Portable homebrew developer Illegal Machine has recently released the PC Engine emulator for the Sony PSP. It's called Turbo Grafix 16 and it does more than just emulate the older game system.

For one, Illegal Machine says that "this (emulator) has the icon.pmf that shows the original Turbo-grafix TV commercial, among other things." It's compatible with the Sony PlayStation Portable Slim & Lite and firmware 1.50.

Running games on it is fairly easy. Illegal Machine tells us to "just place the extracted folder into the GAME folder and place the ROMs in the Turbo Grafx-16 folder not a folder named ROMs." Pop all of these into the same folder as EBOOT and you're good to go. Enjoy!

Download: TurboGrafix 16 (with icon.pmf)

The wonderful e[mulator] has been updated to v0.82e today by developer e. If you've missed this one before or are a newcomer to the homebrew scene, e[mulator] is a multi-platform emulator supporting Gameboy, PCEngine, WonderSwan, Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear, and NES.

It also currently supports Atari Lynx but e has noted that this feature is still quite buggy; although a fix added since the last version should fix it. It is also supposed to support NeoGeo Pocket, but e has pointed out in his readme that it's still very slow and doesn't have savestate support.

Here is the changelog for this version:

• Bug fix to characters that weren't displaying correctly
  
• WS : SRAM retention, state retention and operation verification being completed
• Lynx: Operation of the Lynx part of this emulator should work correctly.
  

Thanks for the tip Byte!

Download: [e[mulator] v0.82e]

Japanese coder E has just released version 0.82d for his PSP e[mulator] as a follow-up for the previous version. At the moment, this emulator supports Gameboy, PCEngine, Wonderswan, Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear, and NES. It also currently supports Atari Lynx but the creator has noted that this feature is still buggy and a new fix should take care of that eventually. It is also supposed to support NeoGeo Pocket, but E has pointed out in his readme that it's still very slow and doesn't allow saved states.

The current changelog reads as follows:

• Lynx added but buggy....
• WS : Color fix , when State Load.
• WS : VBLANK timing fix

Download: [e[mulator] v0.82d]

Now here's a developer we haven't heard from in a while! 'e' has released the first new version of his e[mulator] for the PSP, bringing it up to version 0.81 today. e[mulator] for PSP is an emulator which combines e’s own eSwan emulator with HuE. eSwan is an emulator for WonderSwan on the PSP, and HuE is an emulator for PC-Engine on the PSP. Here's the changelog that has been kindly translated by QJ's very own Jeff Chen:

Overall
- State management fixed
- Thumbnail auto-generation fixed

WonderSwan
- Horizontal scrolling problem fixed
- HBLANK and VBLANK processing fixed

Famicon
- ROM database processing fixed

Now supported hardware
- PC Engine Super Graphics CDROM2
- WonderSwan
- Famicon (modified and used the source code of NesterJ for PSP)
- GameBoy (modified and used the source code of RIN)

Download: [e[mulator] v0.81 for PSP]

"e" has updated his PC Engine and Wonderswan combined emulator for the PSP to v0.80 beta 4. There have been 3 other releases of the v0.80 beta and all have included small fixes as well. This is the most recent of the betas (4) and contains some small fixes and notices. From a rough translation, here are the updated features -

• Name decision final
• Not yet mounted functional large number (?)
• Do not save Swan using in-game functions, use the State Saving that the emulator provides
• Various bug fixes
  

Download [e[mulator] v8.0 Beta 4]

?e? has released a new version of his Turbo Grafx 16 (PC Engine) emulator for the PSP, version 0.70. The Turbo Grafx 16 (PC Engine) is a very small video game console which was very fast and efficient due to the use of its three chip architecture and use of HuCards, credit card size data cartridges. Changes in this release include:

? Sprite bugfixes for F1 Circus 92 and Y?s 1&2
? Incomplete Supergrafx support
? State saving modifications:
Old data cannot be used. There's a high probability that the format will change again.

To do:
? Sound corrections
? Mounting improvement and state saving correspondence

You can get it with source in our PSP Download section [here].
Thanks for the translation Kryptolus =)

Currently, this program will only run on PSPs with firmware version 1.0 or 1.50. If you do not know which firmware version your PSP has, or if you need help installing this program on your PSP, check our Ultimate FAQ.
If you have a higher firmware version than 1.50 on your PSP, please check the information below:
? To downgrade the firmware from a version higher than 1.50, please visit [here].
? If you want to try to run it on a 2.0 PSP, please visit our forum for the latest 2.0 eboot loader, and a list of working program on it [here].

?E? has released a new version of his PC Engine (Turbo Grafx 16) emulator for the PSP, version 0.62pre1. The PC Engine was and is a very small video game console, due primarily to a very efficient three-chip architecture and its use of HuCards, credit-card sized data cartridges. Changes in this release according to admin Jeff include: ?

Changelog
1) Source code refined
2) New key config
function

Misc.
Key config complete.
Barely no improvement on
emulation.
May even have some setbacks.

You can get it in our PSP Download section [here].

Currently, this program will only run on PSPs with firmware
version 1.0 or 1.50. If you do not know which firmware version your PSP has, or
if you need help installing this program on your PSP, check our Ultimate
FAQ.
If you have a higher firmware version than 1.50 on your PSP, please
check the information below:
? To downgrade the firmware from a version
higher than 1.50, please visit [here].
? If you want to try to run it on a 2.0 PSP, please
visit our forum for the latest 2.0 eboot loader [here].

?E? has released a new version of his PC Engine emulator for the PSP, version 0.61 Alpha 2. Changes according to the wonderful translation by lob include:"

"Thanks for all the hard work, PS.PSP" BBS

I've only been visiting PS.PSP so I feel times are changing. Maybe I'll be quitting soon, too. LOL.

- Anyway, this release is in tribute to the end of PS.PSP.
- I stopped since save state files were recognized when the menu was displayed.
- Slow games have been sped up. Games like TATSUJIN and Paranoia should be playable but games like Outrun are not, like always.
- Save data is compressed before being saved now. The size of the data is about 3 MB.
- Support for loading ZIP files has been temporarily disabled.

I received the libmad for playing MP3s a while back from maman directly. I didn't ask any questions on 2ch!

You can get it in our PSP Download section [here].
Thanks for the translation lob, much appreciated =)

 

“E” has just released the latest version of his PC Engine emulator, HuE v0.61 alpha.  Here are the changes in this version:

• Display speed up (almost the maximum limit)
  Sound part still has a way to go until 60 fps
• Vsync startup code bug is handled
• State save not supported
  The save file will be larger than 2MB if I enabled it…
• Using Maman’s MP3 libmad library
  Now, BGM is pretty good to hear
• Thread priority (for those who know what it is)
  Emulation: 32
  MP3 Playback: 33

Caution:
Super graphics soft is not working.
Arcade card’s CD is completely not working.

You can get it from our PSP Download section [here].

PSP-Ita, an Italian community, has released version 3 of their homebrew emulator pack for the PSP. This will only work on firmware versions 1.0 and 1.50. The creators of this pack had this to say:?

This is the third we release,but is the first we want to share outside our community.
Featuring:
? All the most important emulators in their latest
? Sound intro
? BG image
? Logo icons
? Corrupted data hided

Credits:
Pack assembled with puffo83's psp-brew
Credits goes to the peoples who created those emulators,please keep doing this wonderful work.? Emulators include:

Atari 2600 : StellaPSP 0.1
Atari Lynx : HANDY-PSP v0.1
Sega Genesis : Dgen psp v 0.90
fMSX : FMSX v 0.62
PC Engine : HuE v 0.6 b
Neo Geo CD : Neocdpsp-05
NES : NesterJ v1.07
Neo Geo Pocket/Color : Ngpsp_v1.2.1
MAME : Pspmame04 fix
Amiga 500 : Pspuae v 0.31 kbd1
Wonderswan color : PSwan v007
Gameboy/GBC : RIN v1.32
ScummVM : Scummvm psp beta4
Sega Master System/Gamegear : SMS PSP v.04
SNES : Snes9xTYL_0.2c

You can get it in our PSP Download section [here].
Thanks Zero-One for the news =)