PPSSPP Gold - PSP emulator

Play PSP games on your Android device, at high definition with extra features!

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4.63 (Rating count: 26,966)

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Pros
  • High compatibility with most devices and games
  • Smooth performance and customizable controls
  • Support for external controllers
  • Great user interface and organization
  • Nostalgic experience for PSP fans
Cons
  • Occasional crashes during gameplay
  • Issues with control input on certain devices
  • Lack of features compared to the free version
  • Intrusive ads appearing unexpectedly
  • Need for better analog stick control customization
Most mentioned
  • Smooth performance
  • Support for external controllers
  • Nostalgic value
  • Crashes and bugs
  • High device compatibility
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All time rating average: 4.63
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Date Author Rating Comment
2024-04-12
Brion Fallon
EDIT: STILL the best! The best emulator available for any system. PPSSPP is the most robust, organized, and efficient console emulator, and I have them all. It runs on 98 percent of phones. If you have a mid range phone or above, you can easily go 2 or 4 times resolution and use upscale image options too. Often a game can look like a PS3 title, when using these features. auto-loads metadata for titles including artwork. No bios files required. Buy the GOLD. Developers have earned your money.
2024-03-22
Andrew Chan
Thank you so much! This psp emulation experience was amazing! It brought back so many old memories from my PSP days. I still have my original PSP-1000 and I remember all of its quirks. The UMD sluggish spinning disk, the poor battery life, and the dimly lit screen and more. Amazing! This app even fixes the magic cast stuttering issue in FFT! And just for that alone I decided to buy Gold. My only wish was that Gold provide extra features over the free version. Thank you.
2023-12-17
A Strange Box Snake
Incredibly good, but at the moment I'm livid because I've been using this app for years on all sorts of devices and I noticed they added a option to move your main PPSSPP folder on the android at some point, wanted to move it to the top layer of my phone so I could add/edit files on the fly. The app gave me an option to move all the files over, and I selected it! It did not move any files. Instead, it created new empty folders, and deleted all of my data. All of it. Years of game data just gone
2023-09-29
Eric Egenes
Even though the free version is the same, it works so good I wanted to support the dev. Great job! God of War, Liberty City, and Gran Turismo work great at 6x resolution on my Pixel 6! Every controller works, including Stadia's (RIP). One tip: I map the R3 button for the menu since it doesn't exist on the PSP, and because I keep hitting the trigger by accident. I haven't tried mapping the triggers to the bumpers yet, because those would be easier to hit in gameplay. Easy to map too.
2023-03-15
Cedric C
Love this emulator. Very nice interface, user friendly, and it just run games smoothly. I wish it can emulate the psp bios. The start up sound reminds me the good old days, and I am pretty sure many other users would feel the same ☺️ A sincere thank you to the PPSSPP team as I can imagine they must have spent a lot of time and effort making this excellent emulator.
2023-02-01
KiloWhisky Forge
I use the 8bit-do controller and haven't had many problems reconfiguring controls. My device ain't best and it works well, but I just recently had an issue where the speed/processing of the game was really good, and something I did (on my phone perhaps) tanked the performance. I couldn't pin it to any one thing so I'm redownloading but getting gold instead to support the dev. Truly a great emulator that worked flawlessly despite my phone's performance, now I need to fine tune the settings.
2022-09-13
Matt Brown
If your phone has the proper specs than every PSP ISO will run flawlessly. If your phone is a pre-paid Android than it's hit or miss. 2 years ago I installed this emulator to my phone then deleted it. However, once I upgraded to a more powerful phone more ISOs run either perfect or much more improved with minimal slowdown. Now, if I can only figure out if my laptop can handle this amazing emulator. If you loved PSP back in the day this app is a MUST have!!!
2022-08-22
Ace Yagami
I'm going to be honest. This is an awesome emulator. It's great, but it's not perfect. The reason? While I'm playing my games during the first level, the emulator itself crashes. It's been happening constantly! If you could fix this issue, I'd really appreciate it. This emulator is fantastic, but the constant crashes during the first level, are killing the experience. Thanks, Alex.
2021-08-08
John Fowler (JahnTheMan)
Works super smooth (on my device anyway) touch controls work super smooth and are highly customizable; works with external controllers (I use 8Bitdo+ pro) not sure what more exactly you do with the gold version, but it worked so well I wanted to support the devs. Save states are so nice because those games that make you "get to a save point" are no longer. Just save the state and come back exactly where you left off.
2021-04-12
James Thao (Jreamer)
Absolutely my favorite emulator but unfortunately it has a pretty big problem with some phones. The D-pad and analog controls wouldn't work on my Pixel 3a. Apparently it's a problem with Android 11 and the way the emulator reads control input. A temporary fix is to go into your Accessibility settings and disable some settings.
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