PSone on the PSP: is it any good? November 23, 2006

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PSOne emulation on the PSP has long been whispered about by salivating geeks, desperate for a slice of Final Fantasy on their shiny portable systems. Well, as you may know, Sony's released firmware 3.0 for the system, and with that comes the mystical PSOne Emulator.

So what's the deal with the emulator? Is it any good? According to one Japanese gamer, things ain't so dandy after all. Click in for more.

Files must be downloaded from the PS3 onto the PSP's memory drive, which apparently, with a 542 MB Tekken 2, took an hour alone just for the transfer onto the memory stick.

More frighteningly, since the PSP doesn't have L2 or R2 buttons, the analog stick on the PSP stands in instead, pushing left being L2 and pushing right being R2. Pushing up does them both at the same time, and possibly sends you into raging panic attacks from sheer confusion, too.

The gamer also mentioned on his blog that there is a fair bit of lag on the system, particularly when changing between the different screen modes, which come in three flavours: original, normal and full.

Here, have a video:

- Tamlin Magee [via PSPupdates