PPSSPP For Linux

PPSSPP is a multiplatform, fast, portable, powerful, easy-to-use, well-designed and open source graphical application implemented in C++ around the Qt toolkit and designed from the ground up to act as a PSP (PlayStation Portable) emulator.

With PPSSPP you can play PSP games in HD (High Defintiion) resolutions, play on a tablet, customize on-screen touch controls, use an external keyboard or controller, save and restore games no matter the platform, as well as to customize the texture scaling and anisotropic filtering.

You will also be able to transfer saves from your PSP device to the PPSSPP emulator, so you can continue your game progress across devices. At the moment it is supported on GNU/Linux, Android, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Blackberry 10 platforms.

The application’s graphical user interface (GUI) is astonishing, well-designed, beautiful, user-friendly, intuitive, attractive and unique, like nothing we’ve ever seen before. It features three main sections, Recent, Games and Homebrew & Demo.

While from the Recent section you will be able to access the recently played games, the Homebrew & Demo section lets users to access homebrew PSP games, as well as demos. However, the Games section is the most important one, as it allows you to quickly browse your file system and load PSP games.

Another strong point of the PPSSPP application is that it offers powerful settings that allow you to tweak graphics, sound, controls, as well as the emulated PSP system. It can be easily accessed from the main screen, by pressing on the Settings button.

You will be able to control the framerate, enable full screen mode, post-processing shader, rendering resolution, mipmapping, hardware transform, software skinning, sound speed hack, on-screen touch controls, and various other experimental, yet cool features.