Sony Playstation 1 (PSX) on Android working and coming soon!

jim2point0 · Jul 24, 2010

Lol. This is funny. If you've never used a playstation emulator before, I would just get a refund.

The games are typically disc images ripped from actual playstation CD-ROMS. You can rip them yourself if you have the CDs and the software to do it. Otherwise you need to acquire them... some other way that I won't mention here.

You'll also need a BIOS file, just like all playstation emulators. I also probably shouldn't talk about where to get such files here.

trevlynch · Jul 24, 2010

Look man I've got snes and genisoid for my nexus and I can download and play roms flawlessly, I'm not ******ed, but I have not even found a rom that actually works, and I'm tired of jumping through all these freaking good just to download a gd game. I don't want to skene half my night trying to find a rom that actually works then download it them come to find that the file does not work, I'm just asking for done help hee people,i just spent 6 bucks on this thing and it is bringing me nothing but anger.

birthofahero · Jul 24, 2010

trevlynch said:
Look man I've got snes and genisoid for my nexus and I can download and play roms flawlessly, I'm not ******ed, but I have not even found a rom that actually works, and I'm tired of jumping through all these freaking good just to download a gd game. I don't want to skene half my night trying to find a rom that actually works then download it them come to find that the file does not work, I'm just asking for done help hee people,i just spent 6 bucks on this thing and it is bringing me nothing but anger.

Unfortunately due to the TOS we cant talk about where to get these roms. I feel your frustration tho. What exactly is going on when you try to load the rom? What format is the rom in?

Forge94 · Jul 24, 2010

trevlynch said:
Look man I've got snes and genisoid for my nexus and I can download and play roms flawlessly, I'm not ******ed, but I have not even found a rom that actually works, and I'm tired of jumping through all these freaking good just to download a gd game. I don't want to skene half my night trying to find a rom that actually works then download it them come to find that the file does not work, I'm just asking for done help hee people,i just spent 6 bucks on this thing and it is bringing me nothing but anger.

Do you own a Playstation 1?
If so, get some of your old games and follow this guide.
It wont use your data, obviously, and it takes around 10 minutes to rip.
HowTo: Make a PSX iso from a PSX cd - iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad forum - Multi-Touch Fans

hahaha what · Jul 24, 2010

holy crap, this was totally unexpected. awesome. how much space does an average ps1 game take up on the sd card?

Forge94 · Jul 24, 2010

hahaha what said:
holy crap, this was totally unexpected. awesome. how much space does an average ps1 game take up on the sd card?

Around 400-600mb

jim2point0 · Jul 24, 2010

Forge94 said:
Around 400-600mb

Per disc. FF7 (2 CDs) is about 1.3 GB. Chrono Cross (2 CDs) is 1.4 GB. Metal Gear Solid (2 CDs) 1.3 GB. Soul Reaver (1 CD) 600 MB. Castlevania SotN (1 CD) 600 MB. That should give you a good idea.

FF7 runs okay now. Every other game I've tried is still really slow. I expected Castlevania to run faster than FF7. It's freaking 2D for christ's sake... but I can't get it playable on my EVO.

hahaha what · Jul 24, 2010

alright cool, thank goodness the phone came with 16gb sd card. just found my copy of nfs high stakes for ps1 too, wooohoo

Forge94 · Jul 24, 2010

Might as well post it here....
Just a quick vid of the emulator running on my N1.

YouTube - psx4droid 1.0 running on a Nexus One: Crash Bandicoot

Naz927 · Jul 25, 2010

For all you EVOers out there I just installed and played FF VII, all you have to do to get this thing working is set the screen refresh rate to 30 and this emulator flies, it even runs better than snesoid! I am going to try out a couple more games here soon.

mazdapunk87 · Jul 25, 2010

I'm running this on my mytouch slide 3g , runs ok. The sound doesn't quite match with games, I'm playing command and conquer gdi disk , pretty cool tho. Final fantasy tactics is running pretty good on it.

hahaha what · Jul 25, 2010

whipped up a quick vid of need for speed high stakes running on the droid x. um. it could use some work but its def off to a good start

YouTube - Need for Speed: High Stakes on DROID X (psx4droid)

thunder9111 · Jul 25, 2010

would the legend or aria, phones without snapdragon be able to run it?

jmoh · Jul 25, 2010

Does the rom need to be in .bin or .iso? I see some people suggesting it has to be in .img. Can someone give me a quick rundown? I got the bios.

I tried getting NFL BLITZ 2000 to work, but it gets to the start screen then closes

StuartTheFish · Jul 25, 2010

jim2point0 said:
Per disc. FF7 (2 CDs) is about 1.3 GB.

FF7 is actually THREE discs fella.

ari-free · Jul 25, 2010

El Blacksheep said:
Controls are great (using the game gripper at least ^^)

Since the FF7 multidisc eboot failed to load, I'm now xferring over my backup isos. Although I'm curious how this emulator handles save files and switching disks.

edit1: Watching the opening FMV... epic!

edit2: screenshots!

I can't believe we can actually have a game like final fantasy on a phone!

StuartTheFish · Jul 25, 2010

Can this emulator open .cue files or does it have to be .iso? Reason I ask is alcohol 52% will only make it an iso image if there's no CD audio, and the majority of ps1 games have CD audio!

EDIT:
Never mind, just found out that if I make a .cue image, it also makes a .bin and the emulator can read that.

StuartTheFish · Jul 25, 2010

Right, on my desire it works, just a bit sluggish on 3d games like gran turismo 2, more the sound than anything. I half expect this to be because my internal memory only has about 10mb left though, since if it was a cpu issue then the game would run faster with sound emulation disabled...

Also, if I make a .bin image, I don't get any cd audio. Any suggestions on how to keep cd audio? Is it the image format that's the problem, or the emulator just not playing it?

On the plus side it seems some RPG's will run at full speed. Chrono Cross was a bit sluggish with choppy sound, but Alundra was 100% as good as on the playstation! Alundra's all 2d though of course. Not tried the FF games yet as I've already played them all to death over the years on the proper console and then again emulated on pc and AGAIN on ps3, but I'll give them another go at some point, need a bigger memory card first, only have room for one image at a time now... :rolleyes:

zigson · Jul 25, 2010

Hi

Is anyone else just getting a black screen once they've selected the BIOS? I've tried various scph1001's, plus 70004, 10000, 39001, 5000, and 5502. I have to use a task killer to stop the process before trying again. I'm on a stock HTC Desire.

Thanks

Intervenient · Jul 25, 2010

This is absolutely incredible. And chance of an N64 emulator anytime soon?

El Blacksheep · Jul 25, 2010

Intervenient said:
This is absolutely incredible. And chance of an N64 emulator anytime soon?

Maybe not anytime soon, but it's supposedly Zod's next project.

sunwee · Jul 25, 2010

i know psx has tons of good stuff. but maybe we can share what are games that are well suited to touchscreens and virtual keypads.

the app allows for tilt control, has anyone tried using this for racing games? does it work well?

iluvtattoo · Jul 25, 2010

Hi,Guys I have a problem with this..I can't find psx4droid on Android Market,I'm from Croatia and I'm using HTC Tattoo?What's the problem?

PS-Do you need android firmwire 2.xx for this or 1.6 should also work?

Thanks

rtb35 · Jul 25, 2010

Here is a guide to get this working,it was posted in another thread courtesy of ap3604,

Step by step tutorial to getting psx4droid to work... - xda-developers

zigson · Jul 25, 2010

I've rebooted and reinstalled, but still nothing. Sometimes when I select the BIOS it takes me back to the menu, sometimes to a black screen, but never prompts me to load a game

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