The Official Sony PSP Emulator...

I heard that developers are privy to a official PSP Emulator that actually works?

" Sony has developed an official PlayStation Portable Emulator that is available to the developers. Apparently it runs on PC and can be used for testing games and applications without the need to burn them to UMD's. Source: PSP-Emulator.com"

Can anyone confirm this?

Any release of this in the wild yet?

 

It exists. No idea if it has been cracked and released (it would need to be as it requires a dongle to function I believe). Rumour was that it was leaked but not widely available.

 

Interesing, would be great to get my hands on it.
However, i wish luck to anyone who has chance to get it, well... i hope there will be someone that could get it.

 

This would truly be amazing to acquire... :nod: :dance:

 

Got a PM about this...from babu in which he says

"Sure there is a emulator for official developers.
But it is now deprecated and havn't been updated for like over two years, and it wasn't really a complete emulator anyway. You had to use a speciall SDK for it and it had lots of limitations."

Basically its not as valuable as we think... However, it might offer those developing emulators some quality information.

 

Sounds like its not much better than the Intelligent Systems DS Emulator (which has been surpassed by homebrew efforts)

 

'Valuable' in terms of what? To sell? No way. But it is a piece of PSP dev history that has value to homebrew coders perhaps. I believe that it was created before the proper hardware was available to test on, although I did not realise it was still being updated 2 years ago. Interesting.

 

major problem with this emu - you need to recompile your app in order to use emu's libs and for sure - many limitations in the features ...

 

Apprantly from another PM

"It was locked to your computers MAC address iirc, and you got some specially made debugging software that you connected to it. It was really meant more as a way to prototype your games."

 

I own a PSP, but would loved to have a fully fuctioning emulator so I can mess with some of the homebrew stuff. Yes, I could just hack my system, but I'm really lazy.

 

I would think that it would be easy enough to spoof the MAC, however the recompile mentioned above would be a bit more work. It would be pretty cool to play around with though.

 

as useful as the Dolphin PC emulator.

 

Or the dreamcast one, which needs a special PowerVR board.

 

I thought that developers used that TEST system which connected to the TOOL, the white one with a DVD drive and stuff.