It seems that Hudson will face stiff competition for their upcoming iPhone games, as we will soon be able to play old Playstation games on it. The emulator named psx4iphone, is currently in pre-beta stages. ZodTTD, the programmer responsible for the program, says that the software could be out within days if enough people donate. ZodTTD had promised that the program will have full sound and memory card support, and will run 75% of the games released. In lieu of the iPhone’s lack of buttons, psx4iphone will use areas of the touch screen to correspond to the relevant buttons.
PlayStation 3-less PSP owners rejoice - the PlayStation Store for PC has been updated, adding Beats ($4.99) and PSone classic Wild Arms ($5.99) amongst a heap of videos and wallpapers.
At least seven new PSP games are in development to be sold via the online PlayStation Store. A source has revealed that the games in development are three action games, two music-based games, one racing title and a shooting game. Sony also plans on releasing 13 classic PSone games on the store.
Though the store is currently only available for PS3 owners, it is due to launch later next year for the PSP, and this winter for PC users. Sony plans to offer PSP users original games, classic PSone titles, demos, additional content for released games and TV content such as trailers, behind-the-scenes clips and interviews. Content for PSPs will be available via wireless or through a PC via USB.
Downloaded games are predicted to be between half and a third of the size of disc based games and offer between two to ten hours of gameplay.
This video apparently shows an unmodified PlayStation 3 console booting a backup of a PSone game, by means of a recently found exploit for the TIFF loading functionality in v1.9 PS3 firmware.
Should this turn out to be more than a convincing hoax, this trick will only work with PlayStation 3 models with hardware backwards-compatibility - so PAL regions are out of luck…but realistically, they should be used to that by now.
Want to make your PlayStation games look like they were made in the Dreamcast-era? Racketboy have posted a quick tutorial on configuring the free ePSXe PlayStation emulator for optimal results with Pete’s OpenGL 2.0 plugin. If only Sony would implement a similar technique for PlayStation emulation on the PS3.
