Ppsspp - An Excellent Cross-Platform Open Source PSP Emulator

PPSSPP

As the title of the article says, Today we will talk a little about Ppsspp which is un open source PSP emulator, licensed under the GPL and written in C ++, which is translates PSP CPU instructions directly into x86, x64 and ARM optimized machine code, using JIT recompilers (dynarecs), which allows you to run the program (and games) on low-spec hardware.

PPSSPP is a cross-platform application and you can even run your PSP games on your PC or on Android in full HD resolution.

In some cases, the program can even upscale the textures to avoid that they are very blurry, for having been produced for the original PSP screen.

The program you can run the PSP ISO file from your PC, and also from the PSP disc, but you need to specify the place of play within PPSSPP.

PPSSPP pYou can even save and restore game state anywhere, at any time, making it possible to continue from where you left off, transferring "saves" from your real PSP.

Before installing and using the program, you must bear in mind that all trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

The emulator is for educational and development purposes only and cannot be used to play games that are not legally owned.

Although many may think, well and that I can play. It is a matter of looking for licenses. Well, such is the case of a console that resurfaced, that does not give the name and under the hood has an open source emulator at its heart, which is PSX.

With this they can realize what can be achieved with an open source emulator.

How to install the PPSSPP emulator on Ubuntu 18.10 and derivatives?

To install the PPSSPP and play your PSP games on Ubuntu 18.10, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and derivatives of these. We can install in two different ways.

The first of them and the traditional is with the help of a repository, with which we can obtain the emulator in its most recent version and be able to receive updates from it, as long as we have the repository added.

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In order to add this repository to our system we must type the following command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ppsspp/stable

Now we must update the list of packages and repositories with:

sudo apt-get update

And finally we can install the application with:

sudo apt-get install ppsspp

They can use the following command to install the SDL version of the program;

sudo apt-get install ppsspp-sdl

The other method to install this emulator on our system is with the help of Flatpak packages.. So we must have the support in our system to install applications of this type in our system.

Already being sure that we can install these applications, we must open a terminal and execute the following command:

flatpak install --from https://flathub.org/repo/appstream/org.ppsspp.PPSSPP.flatpakref

Once this is done they will have to wait for the package to be downloaded and installed.

At the end of the installation they will only have to look for the launcher in their application menu to be able to run the emulator.

If you can't find the launcher, just run the emulator from the terminal with:

flatpak run org.ppsspp.PPSSPP

Now one of the disadvantages is that they will not always have the notification of a new version, so to update the program, when a new version is available, they must execute the command:

flatpak --user update org.ppsspp.PPSSPP

How to uninstall PPSSPP emulator on Ubuntu and derivatives?

Finally, For those who want to remove this emulator from their system, they will have to open a terminal and in it execute the following commands according to the installation method they performed.

If they installed from repository they must type:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ppsspp/stable -r

sudo apt-get remove ppsspp* --auto-remove

Now For those who installed from Flatpak, they can use any of these commands to remove the emulator:

flatpak --user uninstall org.ppsspp.PPSSPP

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flatpak uninstall org.ppsspp.PPSSPP

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