As if we didn't need any more reason to be envious of Japan's Game Archives service on the PSN. The US and European PSN services are just now starting to finally see an increase in actual classics coming to the PSOne Classics service, but it turns out Japan is already so far ahead that they're actually getting games that weren't even released on the original PlayStation.

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)

Atr1 has informed us that Hudson Soft has released a Japanese demo for the PSP remake of their classic dungeon-crawling title Dungeon Explorer. Here's a quick backgrounder on the game in case you haven't come across it yet.

First released for the TurboGrafx 16 back in 1989, Dungeon Explorer for the PSP expands on the game's great multiplayer elements. Gamers get to choose from a variety of playable classes and explore a dark new fantasy setting. The game's randomly generated maps and character customization features also make for some great replay value.

Anyway, back to the demo. You'll need a PSP running on at least firmware 3.51 to play the Dungeon Explorer demo. To run it, download the 5 MB Eboot below and save it in PSP>GAME>ULJM05164.

Download: Dungeon Explorer Japanese demo