Presumably the one big disappointment with Sony's FW 3.0 PSOne emulator is that you need a PS3 to download the game files to begin with, and those aren't exactly a dime a dozen. Which leaves the stand-alone homebrew PSOne emulators from the scene. This one comes from DCEmu, where Anonymous Coder, through forum webmaster wraggster, has put up his PS1P-Alpha 1 PSOne emulator for the PSP. Not to be confused with the almost similarly-named PSX-P (PS1) emulator by Yoshihiro (now v2), but looking forwards to the same functionality.

Let wraggster's and Anonymous Coder's words speak for themselves:

This release was to be a Single Game release but AC contacted me today and changed his mind so thats great for you all, heres what he emailed me:


The wait is worth it. I'm releasing a version that will run anything. ISO, BIN, Z and ZNX. The rest you know. scph1001.bin and images in the __SCE__ps1p directory.


This version has some compatibility problems which I plan to fix soon, for example the FF7 intro movie doesn't run. You can play the game though, just get past the intro using a standard PC emulator (PCSX, ePSXe, ...) and copy over the memory card file ( mcd001.mcr or mcd002.mcr).


Use L+R+ up/down to tweak the CPU timing. I think L2 and R2 aren't working at the moment too. --A.C.


P.S.: to make things clear. This emulator has nothing to do with PCSX, psx4all or any other emulator already released. The only thing I did was use for the game selection screen, the same font code that psx4all uses--it's from some GP2X demo/app.

Something else to add to the growing list of homebrew PSOne emulators floating around teh intarwebs.