PPSSPP

This article is about the emulation of a console or deprecated PC platform on Windows, macOS (OS X), or Linux.

Key points

Emulator for the Sony PlayStation Portable.

General information

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Official website		Paid Gold Edition also available.

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\memstick\PSP\SYSTEM\^{[Note 1]} %USERPROFILE%\Documents\PPSSPP\PSP\SYSTEM\^{[Note 2]}

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\memstick\PSP\SAVEDATA\^{[Note 1]} %USERPROFILE%\Documents\PPSSPP\PSP\SAVEDATA\^{[Note 3]}

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Some games depends on 16:9 aspect.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Toggle with `Alt`+`↵ Enter`.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Resolution render up to 10x PSP from being emulated.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Resolution scale up to 5x from being emulated.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS		30 FPS cap depends on the game. See Framerate.
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)		No HDR in PSP.
Ray tracing (RT)

In some games depends locking 30 FPS, simply use a cheat to unlock 60 FPS.

Instructions

Go to the PPSSPP forum for 60 FPS cheat games list and copy the cheat code text.
Enable cheats in emulator options.
Open the game in emulator.
Create a new cheat in cheats emulator options.
Paste the cheat code text and save the file.
Enable the created cheat code in emulator options.

Notes:

Might crashes the emulator from creating the not same game developer, it's incompatible in some games.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Keyboard on emulator
Mouse acceleration		Mouse used from being emulated remapping in controls.
Mouse sensitivity		'Analogue limiter' from being emulated.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support		Emulator UI can be used over direct controls.
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity		Depends on the game. Analog stick only in game and a option from being emulated.
Controller Y-axis inversion		Depends on the game.

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

PlayStation controllers
PlayStation button prompts
Light bar support
Adaptive trigger support
DualSense haptic feedback support
Connection modes

Generic/other controllers
Button prompts

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Depends on the game. Audio volume only from being emulated.
Surround sound		Depends on the game.
Subtitles		Depends on the game.
Closed captions		Depends on the game.
Mute on focus lost		Depends on the game.

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English				Depends on the game. The language is on emulator UI.
Arabic				The language is on emulator UI.
Bulgarian				The language is on emulator UI.
Czech				The language is on emulator UI.
Danish				The language is on emulator UI.
Croatian				The language is on emulator UI.
Finnish				The language is on emulator UI.
French				Depends on the game. The language is on emulator UI.
German				Depends on the game. The language is on emulator UI.
Simplified Chinese				The language is on emulator UI.
Traditional Chinese				The language is on emulator UI.
Hungarian				The language is on emulator UI.
Indonesian				The language is on emulator UI.
Cantonese				The language is on emulator UI.
Italian				Depends on the game. The language is on emulator UI.
Dutch				The language is on emulator UI.
Latin				The language is on emulator UI.
Korean				The language is on emulator UI.
Spanish				Depends on the game. The language is on emulator UI.
Latin American Spanish				Also castellano language is on emulator UI.
Lithuanian				The language is on emulator UI.
Malay				The language is on emulator UI.
Norwegian				The language is on emulator UI.
Polish				The language is on emulator UI.
Portuguese				Depends on the game. The language is on emulator UI.
Brazilian Portuguese				The language is on emulator UI.
Romanian				The language is on emulator UI.
Russian				The language is on emulator UI.
Swedish				The language is on emulator UI.
Turkish				The language is on emulator UI.
Vietnamese				The language is on emulator UI.

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
↑ Location when run without elevated privileges.
↑ Location when run without elevated privileges.