How to Play PSP Games in Linux Ubuntu Systems. Install PPSSPP 1.1 PSP emulator for Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04 and Ubuntu 14.04. PPSSPP is a PSP emulator written in C++, that can run your PSP games on your PC in full HD resolution, and play them on Android too. It can even upscale textures that would otherwise be too blurry as they were made for the small screen of the original PSP.
Not only you can play games in HD resolutions, you can also customize on-screen touch controls or use an external controller/keyboard and save and restore game.
PPSSPP 1.1 is the latest release of the PSP Emulator Software. PPSSPP 1.1 has been released with some major new features:
- Support for ARM64 on Android, for improved performance on new devices. Has some new optimizations.
- Support Android TV, like nVidia Shield TV
- Screen rotation on PC, useful for vertical games like Star Soldier
- Many minor performance improvements and compatibility bug fixes
- GPU emulation fixes like correct depth rounding, fixing text in Phantasy Star
- Other graphical fixes like UV rotation
- Support savestates for homebrew apps
- Simple integrated “Homebrew Store” to download PSP homebrew apps
- Minor AdHoc multiplayer improvements. Still many issues left.
- Disable a dangerous optimization on ARM, causing walk-through-walls in Tenchu
- sceAtrac music compatibility fixes, fixing noise in a few games
- Better texture scaling performance
- Direct3D closer in features to OpenGL
- Works better on BSD operating systems
- Savedata management UI
PPSSPP PSP emulator on Linux
You can also install PPSSPP (PSP Emulator) in Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04 and Linux Mint Systems via CLI commands. Open Terminal and run the following commands in Terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ppsspp/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ppsspp
sudo apt-get install ppsspp-qt
Linux Version Info: 1.0 (i386) | 1.0 (amd64) | Dev-Working (i386) | Dev-Working (amd64) | Dev-Latest (i386) | Dev-Latest (amd64)
Step 1: Install SDL2 via your distro’s package manager
- Open a Terminal instance
- For Debian/Ubuntu and their derivatives: Install the “libsdl2-dev” package.
- For Fedora/RHEL and their derivatives: Install the “SDL2-devel” package.
- For BSD-based distros: Install the “sdl2” package.
- If your distro is not listed here: Try to find SDL2 in whatever package manager your distro uses. If you cannot, then compile it from source.
Step 2a: Download PPSSPP (amd64)
Download PPSSPP 1.0 (zip, amd64)
Download PPSSPP (Dev-Working) (zip, amd64)
Download PPSSPP (Dev-Latest) (zip, amd64)
Step 2b: Download PPSSPP (i386)
Download PPSSPP 1.0 (zip, i386)
Download PPSSPP (Dev-Working) (zip, i386)
Download PPSSPP (Dev-Latest) (zip, i386)
Via http://ppsspp.org/