Now GP2x users will be able to run Sony Playstation games on their GP2x. PDRoms reports that GP2PSX has been released, the first Sony Playstation emulator for the GP2x. This is reportedly an "extremely early release" and very few games run (and very few games are playable) and at slow pace. It is currently missing an auto-frameskip option as well. Below is the feature list reported in the release notes.

- Support for multiple format ISO's (.BIN) including compressed ISO's:.Z and.ZNX These files can be compressed with PocketISO 2.0

- Controls are mapped to the same place the psx controller has them.

- Saving games should work but haven't been tested much.

You can find out more information here.

PDRoms reports that version 1.00 of SXT BFM has been released. SXT BFM is an open source firmware loader for the Sony Playstation Portable. Below are the release notes for this version.

- Loads 2.00 and higher firmwares (decrypted only)

- New module loading method uses drive realocations by unmounting flash0 and flash1 and moint it again to the MS drive

- more stable than the previous version.

- faster to load.

- no need to patch all of the fw modules.

- A lot more ram freed.

- can run eboots!

- The fw believes ms0 is flash0.

- Sources included !!!

You can find more information here.

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This preview adds WiFi functions and Socket functions to the Lua Player!

Note that Lua is for the Sony Playstation Portable, and this news comes from PDRoms. You can find more information here

A new DS emulator has been released! It is quite preliminary, but it can run quite a few demos. The menus and site are in French, here is a translation

Emulator nintendo DS.

- follower 2CPUs

- direct DMA (not on VBlank or other)

- support only mode 0

- support of the sprites

- not of support of the wide pallets. - sorts bgs and sprites

- part of the SWI

- does not emulate commercial plays because mainly of the CARD_REG

- emulates rather well the demo of Weather but small Pb with the mouse (click below the menus)

Here is a picture of it running Gridlock DS

>> Get it HERE (click on the first image)

Results of testing -> HERE