Framerater's PSP homebrews (part 2)
Written on August 15th, 2021 by Pierre L
Three months later, it’s time to complete the overview of the homebrew games reviewed by Framerater. Read the first part here if you haven’t already.
Rather than messing with the eLoader (as Framerater does in the video) I recommend using the LME custom firmware and the LEDA plugin. It works just as well as the Pro firmware for official games, and offers much better compatibility for homebrews, so I see no reason not to make the switch.
gSquare
gSquare is a puzzle game by Meastnt and Geecko.
Fuzzy’s World Space Golf 3D
Fuzzy’s World Space Golf 3D by Mills. And yes, the Golf came first, Space Ball came out three years later (2015). Space Ball looks like a more polished version of Space Golf, but it was abandoned after only a handful of levels were implemented.
Winnie the Pooh
Winnie the Pooh by Team Atlantis and Andres1408.
PSPMarble: Orchestra Sensation
Mobile Assault
Mobile Assault by Code Tactics. The game eventually became a paid iOS game, after which the devs (unsurprisingly) stopped updating the PSP version. Still, one of the better homebrews available on PSP.
PSPMinesweeper
PSPMinesweeper One of a dozen such games (not quite, I found only eleven so far), this version was created by Ryp.
Dungeons: Assault Run
Dungeons: Assault Run by Charnold. The game looks more impressive when you consider that the dev created his own engine (and editor) from scratch. Charnold was another of many devs who abandoned the scene once the iPhone became popular.
Pong PSP
The Pong game in the video seems to be Pong PSP by Tutos14. Maybe. There are too many such games on PSP, and they all look samey.
PSPcanon
PSPcanon by Arknais_14. Pretty sure the title is supposed to be PSPcañón, since the whole game is in Spanish. The PSP didn’t always play nice with diacritics, so many devs got around the problem by just omitting them.
Left 4 Quake
Left 4 Quake by Ribcaged Entertainment. Another of the many 3D shooters running on a modified Quake engine, as the title gives away.
Laser Survivor
Laser Survivor by Arthur42asse.
Polyon Hockey
Polyon Hockey by Team Zenyth.
Silveredge
Silveredge by AndrewYY.
Jelly Car
Jelly Car was ported to PSP by Drakon - later the creator of Lamecraft PSP.
PSP Rubik’s Cube
PSP Rubik’s Cube. This is another class of homebrews with many nearly identical games. This particular one was made by Exter.
PSPSnake
PSPSnake by Gambiting (Wojciech Musialkiewicz).
Simon for PSP
Simon for PSP - Jeff Zemla made this one.
Dave Gnukem
Dave Gnukem is one of many ports by Denis Televnyy (aka Deniska).
Playstation Pool
Playstation Pool by BlackPhoenix.
rRootage
rRootage is a PC game by Japanese coder Kenta Cho. The game was at the centre of some rather lame scene drama in December 2005, when two developers ported in within a matter of days of each other. Deniska’s port is lost, only the one from MrBrown survives.
Serious Dungeons
Serious Dungeons by Be3f. To answer Framerater’s question in the video, the game runs on charnold’s Dungeons Engine.
Squarez
Squarez is an early homebrew game by Globware.
Super Mario War
Super Mario War was ported to PSP by Percival and last updated in January 2007. The original Mario War was a DOS game! The Internet Archive has a copy here.
RoboTORN3D
RoboTORN3D by AnonymousTipster was one of the earliest interactive 3D homebrews.
Sandbox
Sandbox by PSMonkey. The dev also made Monkey 64, the only PSP alternative to DaedalusX64.
Zombie Crisis
Zombie Crisis by Shotspark Studios. This game seems to run on the PSP port of the Duke Nukem engine.
SQRXZ 2 and 4
SQRXZ 2 and SQRXZ 4. The following few games are multiplatform ports of RetroGuru homebrews. As can be seen from the 4:3 aspect ratio, they weren’t designed from the ground up for the PSP.
Fruit’Y
Giana’s Return
Xump
Tiff exploit Snake
Tiff exploits were the only way to play homebrews on PSPs with firmware 2.00 and above for a (short) time. None of those games are still playable, and nearly all were converted into normal homebrews eventually.
The game in the video appears to be Shine’s Snake by Shine and Gundrosen.
