Google engineers modded a PlayStation Portal to emulate PSP games<p>The <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="
https://www.engadget.com/playstation-portal-review-a-baffling-handheld-for-no-one-but-sony-diehards-201558485.html">
PlayStation Portal[/url] has turned out to be a bit of a surprise hit for Sony. The portable peripheral is often out of stock and hard to come by, even though it does just one thing: stream games from your own <a data-i13n="cpos:2;pos:1" href="
https://www.engadget.com/tag/ps5/">
PlayStation 5[/url]. The device does not run games locally — unless you find a way to modify it to do so.</p>
<p>Two Google engineers claim to have done just that by getting PPSSPP, a <a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="
https://www.engadget.com/tag/psp/">
PlayStation Portable[/url] emulator, to work natively on the Portal. A photo shows
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories <a data-i13n="cpos:4;pos:1" href="
https://twitter.com/theflow0/status/1759627938910089575">
running on the system[/url]. Andy Nguyen, one of the engineers, <a data-i13n="cpos:5;pos:1" href="
https://twitter.com/theflow0/status/1759636325932638248">
says[/url] that no hardware modifications were required to make the emulator run and that the project took “more than a month of hard work” to see through.</p>
<span id="end-legacy-contents"></span><div id="ae4c71debdaf400b9a38aa16bd6e1f19"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">After more than a month of hard work, PPSSPP is running natively on PlayStation Portal. Yes, we hacked it. With help from xyz and
@ZetaTwo pic.twitter.com/AXuRROo6Ip</p>— Andy Nguyen (@theflow0)
February 19, 2024 </div>
<p>Nguyen has discovered PS4 and PS5 exploits in the past, as <a data-i13n="cpos:6;pos:1" href="
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/20/24078024/sony-playstation-portal-hack-mod-psp-emulator">
The Verge[/url] notes. It’s not yet clear whether Nguyen will detail how to get PPSSPP working or release a jailbreak so that other folks can install the emulator on the Portal with relative ease. “There’s no release planned in the near future, and there’s much more work to be done,” Nguyen <a data-i13n="cpos:7;pos:1" href="
https://twitter.com/theflow0/status/1759634540501565586">
wrote on X[/url]. However, Nguyen <a data-i13n="cpos:8;pos:1" href="
https://twitter.com/theflow0/status/1759704465630753136">
hinted at[/url] posting some videos this weekend to show the emulator in action.</p>
<p>The Portal is clearly popular and it’s evident that players yearn to be able to do more with the system. As things stand, they can't even stream games from Sony's cloud gaming service. Perhaps these factors might be enough to convince Sony to give many fans what they truly want: a proper handheld successor to the PSP and the <a data-i13n="cpos:9;pos:1" href="
https://www.engadget.com/sony-playstation-vita-10th-anniversary-favorite-games-200013083.html">
Vita[/url].</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at
https://www.engadget.com/google-engineers-modded-a-playstation-portal-to-emulate-psp-games-152256608.html?src=rssSource:
Google engineers modded a PlayStation Portal to emulate PSP games
