SMS Plus PSP

Sega Master System and Game Gear emulator for PlayStation Portable

SMS Plus PSP is a port of the SMS Plus emulator to the Sony PlayStation Portable platform. It's written in C and uses GU (Graphical Utility toolkit) for rendering.

New Features
Installation
Controls
Compiling
Version history
Credits

New Features

Version 1.2.4 (September 11, 2007)

Fixed buffer overflow error affecting units without a battery
Added menu animations
Various small bug fixes

Installation

Unzip smsppsp.zip into /PSP/GAME/ folder on the memory stick. This should create the following directory tree:

PSP/

GAME/

SMSPPSP/

ROMS/ (game roms)

SCREENS/ (screenshots)

SAVEDATA/ (save states and SRAM)

BUTTONS.CNF (Button configuration file)

[any other files]

SMSPPSP%/

EBOOT.PBP

Game ROM's may reside anywhere (the ROMS subdirectory is recommended, but not necessary). SMS+ PSP supports ROM loading from ZIP files.

Controls

The emulator currently "ships" with the following default key mappings:

During emulation:

Analog stick - Directional pad up/down/left/right
Directional pad - Directional pad up/down/left/right
□ (square) - Button 2
✕ (cross) - Button 1
○ (circle) - Spacebar
L + R - Return to the emulator menu
START - Pause/Start

By default, button configuration changes are not retained after button mapping is modified. To save changes, press Ο (circle) after desired mapping is configured. To load the default mapping press △ (triangle).

Compiling

Emulator's source code is only available via a Subversion (SVN) repository. To check out a particular version, run

svn co http://svn.akop.org/psp/tags/smsplus/version

where version is the release version (for example, 1.2.1). Note that for this to work, you need to have Subversion installed.

To compile the emulator, you will need zlib (svn://) and libpng (svn://).

Version History

Version 1.2.3 (July 20, 2007)

20% speedup in emulation speed with new 8-bit video rendering
Option to turn off FM emulation (an additional 48% improvement in emulation speed - all games now play at 100% speed with VSync enabled)
Various small bug fixes

Version 1.2.2 (July 14, 2007)

Fixed a bug that caused subsequently loaded games to crash
Added an option to use a faster, less accurate sound emulation engine (3-4 fps difference)
Added an option to remove the leftmost vertical column for SMS games

Version 1.2.1 (July 11, 2007)

Initial release

Credits

Charles MacDonald - SMS Plus
Simon Tatham - fixed.fd font on which the emulator's font is based
Gilles Vollant - Minizip library
Ruka - PNG saving/loading code

Thanks

Chris Swindle - for pointing out the reason behind the lag in the source of original SMS Plus PSP

Akop Karapetyan, 2007

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