PPSSPP Emulator Setup Lets Play

PSP Games on Android

Deepak Gupta April 12, 2016 PPSSPP Emulator Setup Lets Play PSP Games on Android2016-0412T16:20:02+00:00How-to-Guides 13 Comments

Do you know that we can play Sonys PlayStation Portables (which also known
as PSP) games on our Android and iOS powered devices?
Well it is right we can play most of them on our current smartphones. And it
doesnt matter on which operating system you are working, you can play them
on your Android, iPhone, Windows, Linux, etc., operating systems.

How it works?
Thanks to PPSSPP.ORG team, who brought PPSSPP Emulator to us and which
makes it possible. Currently, PPSSPP Emulator is most complete PSP emulator
that supports most of Sonys console games at very playable frames.

This PSP emulator is designed very user-friendly and works with most of the
platforms.
In terms of performance, it works very best over PCs even having ordinary
specifications. You could enjoy most your favorite PSP titles over it.
And when it comes to mobile device and tablet, the performance depends
directly to configuration of the device and how you setup/ tune it on your device.
Both the factors affect the performance.
It goes very simple, better performance outcomes better fun and
enjoyment.

Whats on Google?
Well the performance is totally depends on power of your device and secondly
how youve configured it. In this post help you to configure your PPSSPP
Emulator for best performance. If you google best ppspp settings, on very
first page, youll see following results:

Youll see, the very second result is our post, we had posted this tutorial after
having good research on PPSSPP Emulator and brought these settings for
PPSSPP Emulator that have been proven as best and appreciated by most of the
people who have use it.
We had tested these settings on Moto G and they were found to be working very
best and were able to complete many games such God of War, Dragon Ball
Z, etc., at very good frame rate.

Though these settings work best for even low-end device but with few changes
to them can make more enhanced experience if you have powerful device such
as Moto G Turbo Edition.
If youve low-end specification, then our below post will help you to tune
PPSSPP Emulator in best possible manner for best out comes.
Best setting For PPSSPP Android Highest FPS, Tested with God of War and
more!
If you have really powerful devices such as Samsungs Galaxy S5, S6, Moto G
Turbo Edition, Nexus 4 or 4+, and other equivalent device, then go on reading
this post as well show how to tune it for best performance.

It is Free or I have to pay for it?

PPSSPP Emulator comes in two versions, one is free and another one is Gold
version that enables you to play almost all games, comes with extra features
and improvements.
You could download the emulator from here. or get it directly from
Google playstore from here.

Free and Gold version, both offer almost same performance but Gold version
supports more games and good for developers as well.

How to Setup PPSSPP Emulator for Optimum

Performance
Heres the mail part of this tutorial. Setting PPSSPP for best performance is
not a rocket science neither it is simple. If you do you own, it will take good time
of yours to configure it.
DIY Youll need to follow Trial and error method to make best setting on you
own and we highly recommend that as we it might possible that those settings
would work even better from these.
After putting our settings, you could expect very playable performance. Games
such as God of War could be played very easily and enjoyed as well.
These setting were tested on Moto G Turbo Edition and we played God of War:
Ghost of Sparta and game was running at very playable (oh! sorry I mean
very enjoyable) frame rate and we expect the same for you as well.
Lets start with the process, install the PPSSPP Emulator on your device,
Android, iOS or PC, whichever you have and follow the below steps to configure
it for best performance.
Since iPhones come with high-end hardware that offers stunning performance,
you could expect good performance on iOS devices. iPhone 5 S, 6 and 6S would
be best of them!
Note: While testing and making these settings, we were on PPSSPP Emulator
v1.2.2 (the latest one).

Lets do it!
Launch the PPSSPP Emulator application on your device. And tap on settings and
youll first encounter with Graphics settings.

Lets configure it first as it plays most important role and puts major impact on
performance.
Lets configure it first as it plays most important role and puts major impact on
performance.
1. Rendering mode
If youre having power device such as Moto G Turbo Edition or equivalent or
even up, then select Buffered rendering or if youre on low-end Android device
then select Skip buffer effect (non-buffered, faster) mode.
Keep Frame skipping off as it wont help you to get good FPS. Make sure to file
your screen as below mentioned settings:

2. Under Postprocessing shader we selected FXAA Antialiasing. It slightly

improves performance. However for better game-play you could use Bloom as
well (must try). Another thing you must keep is Rendering resolution, keep it
minimal for highest frames.
If you use great device such iPhone 5S or above, Samsung Galaxy S5, S6 or
even Galaxy S7then you could try higher resolution, 2X or 3X for better display
but it will reduce the frames speed.
Keep other settings as mentioned in below image.

3. Dong forget to check Hardware transform, Software Skining and Vertex

Cache. These three features help to run games more smoothly. Keep further
settings as following:

4. Anisotropic filtering, keep it off as does not make any difference in-game play.
But we found that Keeping Texture filtering and Screen scaling filter to Linear
value, it makes little difference in over all game-play positively.

5. Hack Settings
Under these settings we found only Time hack works in all. Also second option
Disable alpha test (PowerVR speedup, artifacts) works very well if
youre on PowerVR powered devices.
Since Moto G Turbo has been powered with Aderno 405, we had kept it unchecked and set Timer hack to works and it worked very well.

6. FPS counter let other settings unchecked as mentioned in images.

For measurement, you could put FPS under Show FPS counter to check the
Frame rate while playing games over it. It helps to measure the success of
settings.
You could put your own settings to improve Frame rate by changing settings
your own!

7. Sounds
Well for now, we keep sound off as sound keeps on cluttering all the time and it
may act as issue while playing games on it.
You could own try and see if sound works for you or not, it depends on device.
So it might worth try to put check on sound and see if it works! Dont forget to
let us whether it worked for you or not!

8. Controls
Set the control as per your requirements. For better performance, just make sure
to un-check Haptice feedback (vibration) as below:

9. Tools.
There is another options that tremendously improve the entire performance of
PPSSPP Emulator, that is Dynarec (JIT). Under tools Developer tools- General,
youll see the Dynarec (JIT).
Make sure to keep it checked, youll see great improvement in all games with
this little option.

10. System
Heres comes another major part of this PSP emulator. Here we can set internal
settings for PPSSPP, how should it execute and run games.
Keep checked Fast memory (unstable) and I/O on thread.
Under I/O timing method, we kept Host (bugs, less lag) and found to be working
best with this handset.
But many users recommend to keep Fast (lag on slow storage) for better
performance. So in this case, you should try both of them and find which works
best for you.

Just compare the FPS for the both settings, it is quite easy. Isnt it?

11. General Settings.

Do not make any changes under this section. It contains very basic things which
should be kept unchanged as following:

12. Cheats.
This options helps to enable cheats for games. Enable it if you might want to try
cheats while playing games over this PSP emulator.

Isnt that easy to set up PPSSPP emulator on any Android device or iOS?
Oh yeah! Finally we did it.
Now we have set up the PPSSPP emulator and now we can play PSP games on
an Android device or iOS, at best frames and performance.

Recommended PSP Games

Since youve already setup PPSSPP Emulator on your device, now its time to
test games on it. We have a list of games, very popular ones and surely youll
loveem all. Follow the below link to visit our list of hand-picked PSP games,
popular titles you can play on your Android, iOS or PC using PPSSPP Emulator.

List of 10 best PPSSPP Games

The Bottom Line

No doubt that the PSP games are/were best amongst all other gaming console
and this PPSSPP emulator provides most convenient way to play these games
over smartphones and tablet, even we could play them all on our PCs.
Ready to get started?
Start playing PSP games on your smartphone and dont forget to share your
feedback and setting with us. We appreciate your efforts and helps, we both
make these settings better after all.
Thats all for this. Enjoy the PSP games. Dong forget #share and #comment!