IT EMULATES PRINTING MONEY!!
by JC Fletcher 
{ Aug 13th 2007 at 9:50AM }
Japanese homebrew genius SofiyaCat has achieved the spectacularly pointless: DS games running on the PSP. The blurry image above demonstrates a PSP running the homebrew game GeoWars. The emulation is slow, the compatibility is apparently terrible, and, of course, the PSP lacks a touchscreen, but we should let the poor thing have its day. Now somebody needs to get to work figuring out a way for us to play the Dracula X Chronicles on the DS.
We don't advocate piracy, but there's no harm in testing some homebrew games on a PSP. Give it a shot!
[Via Exophase]
We don't advocate piracy, but there's no harm in testing some homebrew games on a PSP. Give it a shot!
[Via Exophase]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Verde @ Aug 13th 2007 10:16AM
You have to wonder what the overall goal of the emulator is. Do they know something about a touch screen PSP that we don't!?!? (Joking)
At this stage I think it's safe to assume it won't help piracy at all. Hopefully it stays that way!
hvnlysoldr @ Aug 13th 2007 11:20AM
Pirates wore eye patches for night vision. It felt like forever since I last used that. Yeah so this really sucks and pointless but totally makes a point and rocks.
Someone @ Aug 13th 2007 12:07PM
Yeah, so maybe the PSP can't emulate DS games very well? Can DS emulate anything at all? Sure the PSP doesn't have a touch screen, but who needs it? It's one of the only features DS has at all. Can you play music, video, RSS, Or browse the internet. (Easily Or Effectively?) There are a million other things like custom backgrounds, that I could go over with the PSP, but I don't have time.
ssuk @ Aug 13th 2007 12:17PM
Theoretically, you can get the DS to send print information to a WiFi enabled printer, most of these printers use their own non-open source drivers, so making an application which sends data correctly to the WiFi printer is difficult... But if you get a printer with WiFi and can find source for the drivers it uses, it would be pretty easy to send data to that printer, more specifically, a image of a dollar bill. Then we can litterally say the DS prints money.
Ghaleon @ Aug 13th 2007 12:20PM
Any PSP owner who feels the need to immediately bash the DS upon reading this news is an insecure retard. FLAME ON.
Yes, the DS can emulate stuff easy. LucasArts adventure games especially win. And many DS games don't need a touchscreen, so there would be a bunch easily playable.
Random @ Aug 13th 2007 12:29PM
lol @Ghaleon
you kind of sound like the insecure one. The PSP has a huge homebrew community, this is just another thing they can do, this doesn't really affect DS fans in anyway, I own a PSP and my brother owns a DS they are both great. So please can't we all just... get along? :D
Potent1 @ Aug 13th 2007 12:39PM
No we can't get along. I agree with comment #3. PSP is better in every single aspect. You can do alot more with a PSP. and were was the rebuttal about music, video, RSS, and internet. (Easily and Effectively.) DS can't argue with those we beat you guys there, big time.
Al Deezy @ Aug 13th 2007 1:02PM
The psp definitely has more capabilities then the ds, but i don't care as long as Both come out with great games ( I own ds, ds lite, psp and going to get the slim psp), because that was the main reason they were made to play games on the go, everything else is a nice bonus.
Covarr @ Aug 13th 2007 1:25PM
Of course it won't help piracy. The only games that would be playable like this wouldn't be enough fun to be worth the trouble.
MisterL @ Aug 13th 2007 1:25PM
You can play music and video on the DS (moonshell anyone?), and the DS has the browser along with homebrew browsers that handle RSS. The DS can emulate some NES and SNES games as well as some other old systems. Also, the DS has no need to emulate anything because it has a massive library (check the number of software out for the DS) of games that people actually play. I don't see the point of this "rebuttal" because it's quite wrong. Either you don't own a DS or you didn't bother to get to know it well enough. Wait, what's that sound? Oh, it's sounds like Sony's dick in your mouth. (Gabe says it best).
As an owner of both systems, it irritates me to no end when people spout ignorant shit. Sour grapes...
RagolSlayer @ Aug 13th 2007 1:59PM
Geez, why can't we just admit that both the DS and PSP are great portables and leave it at that?
Is it really that important that one has to be better than the other? I thought people played games, not consoles. >_>.
Anyways, about the news: Don't really see the point of having a DS emulator on the PSP, but you have to give SofiyaCat props for attempting to do so.
hardlyworkin @ Aug 13th 2007 2:04PM
Homebrew goes to PSP. Great games goes to DS. The End
pixelator @ Aug 13th 2007 4:34PM
Sorry to see DS bashing trolls here at DSF. Guess it happens to both Fanboy sites after all.
While it's certainly fallacious to say 'homebrew = PSP and good games = DS' (since the DS can do somehomebrew and the PSP is most certainly not lacking good games), it's downright pathetic when people feel compelled to rag on a device just because they happen to own something else. It's pointless. The PSP and DS, while both gaming handhelds, are about as different as game systems can be - in form, function and approach.
Someday maybe both camps will live in harmony. Until then, try to ignore the Someones (and their aliases).
Chrono404 @ Aug 13th 2007 4:37PM
@3
The Nintendo DS Has a Version of Linux made for it. It also can Emulate SNES Games, Someone also Emulated MacOs on it. Google for DS Homebrew and you will see people are doing some cool stuff for the DS. The PSP Homebrew Scene is alot bigger. The PSP hardware can do alot. But I havn't turned on my PSP in forever.
So to be sure both handhelds have there strengths. the PSP is a "Walkman of the 21st Century" where the DS has millions of awesome games.
van @ Aug 13th 2007 5:59PM
My PSP has a wallpaper that reads, "my other handheld is a DS" I made 2 versions of this for black and white ds lites. If anybody wants one, I can post links.
I got the PSP because my friend was selling it at a great deal, but the DS is by far a better gaming device. Try to sell the PSP as a gaming device and it wont work. Everyone goes, "oh you can't play mp3's on a DS." Big deal. I bought the DS for games, not as a crappy mp3 player.
Pizza Pasta @ Aug 13th 2007 6:46PM
Haw haw.
Ratchet the Lombax @ Aug 13th 2007 9:22PM
Well as far as my opinion(and it's just my opinion mind you)on the whole DS vs PSP thing goes I own both systems and I like them both for different reasons. I will admit that I love my PSP for it's ability to let me play pretty much any emulated system out there from Atari to N64 and Arcade games, even the PS1 games that I rip from my own discs are great. It brings back alot of good memories and it's like having a whole gaming room in your pocket. I don't use either system for music or video Since I have an iPod nano for music and I don't really want to watch a movie on a small screen like the systems have.
Also as for games the DS has a larger library true but given the choice if a game is on both systems I will choose the PSP version because of the graphical superiority of the PSP version. The burnout and need for speed games are a great example.
Now the DS has alot of the types of games that I like too such as Mario, Zelda and Metroid and I'm really looking forward to the new Contra game coming out. These games are not likely to come to the PSP atleast not until I can go snowboarding in hell. And I'm always on the lookout for some of the weird games that make use of the touchscreen and stylus in an interesting way.
I don't really fault the fanboys/girls because it is just natural to be proud of and defend something you love be it a gaming system or sports team or what have you.
jimmygotsmack @ Aug 14th 2007 12:43AM
This might be a bit late.
@ 3. & 7.
"Can you play music, video, RSS, Or browse the internet. (Easily Or Effectively?) "
Can you on the psp?
LOL the internet, yes, scrolling sites on the psp couldn't be more annoying, and yes you can do it on a DS. Videos, I have to wait 20 minutes and up, to convert most of my videos , so thats not really effective now is it.
RSS, you dont even know what that means do you....
Yes, you can play music, and videos on the DS. You buy a cheap adapter, and there you go, still cheaper then a psp. You also don't have to convert anything.
So playing an mp3 on something that last 15 hours vs something that has trouble getting to 6 hours....
Touch screen is also kind of important in a lot of games. So I would image YOU would need it to play them.
You could do a little research before just posting random crap you heard from other people. It could save us all a lot of time.
Shane @ Aug 14th 2007 5:39AM
jimmygotsmack,
The six hours for the PSP seems low when just playing MP3s. I can push a lot longer than 6 with just listening to music.
Movies and games still kill the battery pretty quickly. I need to get myself one of the longer life batteries.