Is it possible to play Virtual Boy games on PSP? Well no, not really. But it is definitely possible to see them crawling through the screen at a few frames per second, for anybody curious enough to try the experience.

The ‘shells’ mentioned here have nothing to do with sea shores, oil companies or tax dodging. Shells are apps for PSP that seek to replace the XrossMediaBar - the GUI that is at the heart of the system. These applications generally try to mimic a well known interface, and may try to market themselves as OS - operating systems.

The RE:Start! PSP Game Jam took place in October 2022.

Not a lot of people know about this, but it is possible to play Famicom Disk System games on a PSP. And it can be done with any old NesterJ version.

The rediscovery of the PSP port of the Mednafen emulator is as good an excuse as any to revisit all the options for emulating Megadrive games on the go.

Emulating a handheld on another handheld seems like a good idea - cheaper than a screen mod for the original at any rate. Just like the case of the Game Boy though, the wider aspect ratio of the PSP’s screen sort of gets in the way. Which emulator can negotiate this restriction best, and provide the best PSP experience for this Sega handheld from the 90s?

After the Japanese PSP Adventure, here’s another collection of homebrew game reviews which must have been overlooked by English speakers.

Injecting PC Engine CD games into the official emulator on PSP is not hard. Just very time-consuming.

After the two articles last year about homebrew games (see parts 1 and 2), here’s another list based on a FrameRater video. The guy is the only Youtuber to pay any attention to the PSP scene since well - the invention of Youtube?

Here’s a brief overview of the language options available to would-be PSP programmers.