gpSP v0.5 (beta) Status: Compatibility Tests

It was only a really short while ago that we released the beta test (v0.5) of Exophase’s gpSP GBA emulator for our beloved PSPs. The response since then is overwhelming! Many of you guys have tried gpSP out on some of your favorite games. Some games you’ve tried ran like a dream at full speed; others managed to get through with a few hitches. And there were some games that didn’t load, or crashed while attempting to load.

Thanks to MonkeyBoy1916, Kyubi Naruto, SeikenZ, and all the helpful people at the comments and forum pages for the gpSP release/compatibility, we do have a rather long list of games that worked perfectly, games that worked (more or less), and games that so far didn’t work when tried with the beta gpSP.

Please remember that both gpSP and this compatibility list are still a work in progress. And both need your help, the help of the PSP homebrew community. If there is a game you know that isn’t on this list, give it a try on our own copy of gpSP and tell us the results! Tell us how the game ran on our PSP – how fast or slow (and at what points in the game), framerates/frameskips, sound issues, load/saves, the whole works! Detailed explanations will help the development process on this emulator.

Post your responses and suggestions in the release compatibility forum thread, or here at the comments page. We’re sure Exophase will appreciate them.

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The full list awaits after the jump!

Post your responses and suggestions in the release compatibility forum thread, or here at the comments page. We’re sure Exophase will appreciate them.

Okay, what we did was post (unedited) the four lists we’ve collated from MonkeyBoy1916, Kyubi Naruto, SeikenZ, and from the comments page from the release coverage (thanks bled (unregistered) for sorting through the comments for us!) right here. It will be a really long list. There will be duplicate titles across the four lists, but we decided to keep them because:

there are cases when a game would work perfectly for one tester but would have a few hitches (or would crash) when tried by another tester (for example, Pokemon Emerald seems to have mixed results across testers);
some testers do give rather detailed comments, especially cases where a game would slow down or crash at certain points in the game; and
some comments do sound very interesting. Kyubi’s little remark about needing CPR after seeing FFI/II run at full speed made us spill our drinks laughing!

Hopefully we at QJ will be able to sort through the list and produce a better-collated menu for the community. That will depend on the quality and helpfulness of responses you post here and the compatibility forum.

Oh, and MonkeyBoy, Kyubi, SeikenZ, and bled, we here at QJ can’t ever thank you enough for your collations! You’ve certainly helped us (and Exophase) with what you’ve contributed!

MonkeyBoy1916’s list:

DragonBall Advanced Adventure – Full Speed with no errors
Naruto Ninja Council – Full speed with no errors
MegaMan and Bass – Crashes psp after rom loads
MegaMan Zero 4 – Probably about half speed with no errors
Tony Hawks American Sk8land – Crashes psp
PokeMon Emerald – Works but goes around 20-30fps
FullMetal Alchemist – Works but 30-35fps
Yu Yu Hakusho Spirit Detective – Almost full speed, very playable
Hagane no Renkinjutsushi – Omoide no Soumeikyoku ( Fullmetal Alchemist 2 ) – Works but slow like other one
Grand Theft Auto Advanced – Crashes psp after rom loads
Sonic Advance – Almost full speed with no errors
Zelda Minish Cap – Almost Full Speed
Mario VS Donkey Kong – Slow with minor sound errors
Mario Kart – Full Speed with minor sound errors
Beyblade G Revolution – Full Speed
Astro Boy Omega Factor – Full Speed
Dragonball Z Buu’s Fury – Crashes psp
DragonBall z SuperSonic Warriors – Works but slow, like 30fps
Dragon Ball Z – The Legacy of Goku I & II (The Combo) – Loads to selection menu, then when you choose a game it will crash
Kirby – Nightmare in Dreamland – Crashes psp
Snood – Almost Full Speed with minor sound errors
Teen Titans – No Video, only sound, but great quality
Super Mario Advance 4-Super Mario Bros 3 – Crashes psp
Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga – FullSpeed with no errors on 1 frameskip
Donkey Kong Country 3 – Freezes at White Screen
Dogz – Full Speed at 1 frameskip with minor sound errors
PokeMon Pinball Ruby & Saphire – Almost Full Speed with minor Sound errors
Breath Of Fire – Almost Full Speed with Minor Sound errors
Danny Phantom The Ultimate Enemy – Almost Full Speed with Sound Errors & Shadow Errors
2in1 Ms-PacMan and PacMan World – Almost Full Speed with medium sound errors
Need For Speed UnderGround 2 – Slow with Major Sound Errors
V-Rally 3 – Gets to Atari Screen, then crashes psp
Yu Yu Hakusho Tournament Tactics – Full Speed with Minor Sound Errors
RayMan Advance – Crashes psp
2in1 Crash and Spyro Superpack Volume 1 – Almost Full Speed with Major Sound Errors
Game & Watch Gallery Advance – Too Many individual games to test, but alot will crash psp
Gundam Seed Battle Assualt – Almost Full Speed until Gundam Select screen, Crashes psp
Mario Party Advance – Crashes psp
Namco Museum 50th Anniversary – Crashes psp
MegaMan Battle Network – Loads but Freezes up at Main Menu
Wario Ware Inc – About 30-40fps, minor sound errors
MegaMan Battle Chip Challange – Medium Speed with Medium Sound Errors
Doom II – Crashes psp
Ed Edd & Eddy – The MisEdventures – Medium Speed with Major Graphical and Sound Errors
Fire Emblem 6 – Seems FullSpeed with Minor Sound Errors
PokeMon Chaos Black – Half Speed with minor sound Errors

Kyubi Naruto’s list:

Final Fantasy I & II: Dawn Of Souls (after i saw it was full-speed i fainted and had to be reanimated thru mouth-to-mouth )
Final Fantasy 4 Advance
Pokemon Sapphire
Dragon Ball Z: Legacy Of Goku 2 (Works but has a bug in the main menu — can anybody help me with this?)
Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World (doesn’t work )
Golden Sun: The Lost Age (Doesn’t Work)
Golden Sun 9.0/10 (Some sound glitches)
Sword Of Mana 1.0/10 (Boot but when u r supposed to start the game it crashes)
The Legend Of Zelda: The Four Swords 9.0/10 (Weird sounds, lol)
The Legend Of Zelda: The Minish Cap 9.9/10 (Seems perfect)
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 8.0/10 (menu doesn’t appear otherwise game works fine with some sound glitches)
WWF: Road To WrestleMania 10/10 (PERFECT)
Naruto RPG – Uketsugareshi Hi no Ishi 9.5/10
Dragon Ball Z: Buu’s Fury (Doesn’t Work)
Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones 9.0/10
Fire Emblem (Doesn’t Work)
Yu-Gi-Oh! Worldwide Edition (Eurasia Team) 8.5/10 —> Good speed bad sound
Yu-Gi-Oh! The Eternal Duelist Soul (MODE7) (Crashes psp)
Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance 9.5/10 (no glitches that i noticed)
Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (32mb ROM won’t even load)
King Of FIghters EX: Neo Blood 9.0/10 (can’t tell if this sound is right
Super Mario Advance 3: Yoshi’s Island 7.0/10 (good speed worse sound i ever witnessed, LOL)

Unedited comments from the release coverage, collated by bled (unregistered):
“Final Fantasy I + II: Dawn of Souls (Full Speed)
Final Fantasy IV Advance (Full Speed)
Fire Emblem VI: The Sword of Seals (Full Speed, minor graphical glitches)
Fire Emblem VII: The Blazing Sword (Crashes after pressing Start during intro movie)
Fire Emblem VIII: The Sacred Stones (Full speed ingame, menus slightly slower)
Pokemon Emerald (Freezes after loading rom, white screen)
Pokemon FireRed (Almost full speed, frame skip 2-3, Charmander’s Growl crashes emulator. I’m guessing other attacks will as
well)
The Legend of Zelda – The Minish Cap (Full Speed)”

“Zone of the Enders is running full speed! YAY!
Games I Tested:
-Megaman Zero 4 (Not Full Speed But Good So Far, just change the Frameskip of your likings)
–Metroid Zero Mission(Not Full Speed But Good So Far, just change the Frameskip of your likings)”

“-Metroid Zero Mission (crashes when you get out of platform where you start)”

“- Zone of the Enders: working full speed
– Megaman Battle Network: it crashed
– Golden Sun (ITA ver.): it crashed
– Final Fantasy Dawn of Souls: workin fine, but not full speed. Hey, it’s a 16 megs rom after all…”

“Save works fine on Advance Wars.”

“RAN POKEMON EMERALD AT FULL SPEED WELL DONE!!!!!
sound a bit choppy btw a great start”

“Minish Cap works at full speed with a frameskip of 1”

“crash bandicoot doesnt work hanging on loading screen”

“sma 2, crashed near start up, bad sound, good speed.
minish cap, great speed, good sound, awesome with 1 frame skip. crashed right after you receive the hyrule map.
final fantasy tactics advance, good speed, ok sound, crashed while reading the book at the beginning.
superstar saga, pretty much perfect, doesn’t need frame skip, sound pretty good too. froze when met bowser, no crash.”

“Prince of persia sands of time pretty good. Haverster moon great.
Dynasty warriors great.
Spliter cell runs well with frame skip set at one.
Baulders Gate works great. [Baldur’s Gate]
GTA Advance crashed.
Kindom of harts will not start for me anyways could be bad rom. [Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories]”

“Golden Sun crashes”

“Pokemon Emerald Rom is 16.0MB and it will not work..
Zelda Minish Cap works fine.”

“Metal Slug Advance, sound a little off and about 95% of full speed.”

“Pokemon fire to load but when i try to save it says an error occured, please change the back-up memory.”

“[Pokemon] emerald works
it works. i first downloaded emerald and it didnt owrk so i downloaded it frm a diffrent site and it worked”

“Minish caps works for me, try downloading a different rom dump”

“Zelda minish cap FuLL speed ( even tho the sound lags a tiny bit)”

“SUMMON NIGHT AND IT PLAYS PERFECTLY!!!”

“mario kart works well with 1 frame skip
advance wars works fine
final fantasy 1 and 2 seems to work fine
my one fire emblem didn’t work, not sure whichi one.
metroid fusion was perfect til it crashed on an elevator.
advance wars 2 is a little slow.”

“Super Robot Taisen Original Generations RUNS AT FULLSPEED WITH ZERO, I REPEAT ZERO FRAMESKIP! And, Yes that is WITH
sound and NO choppiness.”

Collated and/or tested by SeikenZ at the release compatibility forum thread:
Games that run perfect or near perfect

Alien Hominid [Frameskip set to 1. Great speed and sound. No reported errors.]
Castlevania: [Aria of Sorrow Frameskip set to 1. Nearly perfect sound. No reported errors.]
Castlevania: Circle of the Moon [Frameskip set to 1. Nearly perfect sound. No reported errors.]
CT Special Forces 3: Navy Ops [Frameskip set to 1 or 2 to improve performance. No reported errors.]
Digimon Battle Spirit [Frameskip set to 0 or 1 to improve sound. No reported errors.]
Digimon Battle Spirit 2 [Frameskip set to 0 or 1 to improve sound.]
Dragonball: Advanced Adventure [Frameskip set to 1. No reported errors.]
Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors [Frameskip set to 0. Great sound. No reported errors.]
Guilty Gear X [Frameskip 0 or 1 for improved sound. No reported errors.]
Gt Advance Championship Racing [Frameskip set to 1. Near perfect sound. No reported errors.]
Kirby & the Amazing Mirror [Frameskip set to 0. No reported errors.]
Lego Star Wars [Frameskip set to 0 or 1 to improve sound. No reported errors.]
Mario Kart Super Circuit [Frameskip set to 1. No reported errors.]
Mario Pinball Land [Frameskip set to 0. Near perfect sound. No reported errors.]
Metal Slug Advance [Frameskip set to o or 1 to improve sound. No reported errors.]
Naruto: Ninja Council [Frameskip set to 0. Perfect sound. No reported errors.]
Sonic Advance [Frameskip set to 1. No reported errors.]
Sonic Advance 2 [Frameskip set to 1. No reported errors.]
Sonic Advance 3 [Frameskip set to 1 or 2 in certain levels. No reported errors.]
Sonic Battle [Frameskip set to 1. No reported errors.]
Street fighter Alpaha 3 [Frameskip set to 0 or 1 to improve sound. No reported errors.]
Summon Night: Swordcraft Story [Frameskip set to 0. No reported errors.]
Super Mario Advance [Frameskip set to 0. Perfect speed. Near perfect sound No reported errors.]
Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation [Frameskip set to 0. Great speed and sound. No reported errors.]
Tekken Advance [Frameskip set to 0 or 2/3 to improve performance. Minor sound problems. No reported errors.]
Wario Land 4 [Frameskip set to 1. Great speed. No reported errors.]

Games that run with problems and could crash early on

Final Fantasy I and II Dawn of Souls [Frameskip set to 0 in towns or 1 on the World Map. Severe sound problems, changing frameskip to +/-10 improves sound however..]
Final Fantasy IV [Frameskip set to 0 in towns or 1 on the World Map. Sound problems when in airship on the world Map.]
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance [Frameskip set to 2 for better results. Minor sound problems.]
Fire Emblem VI: The Sword of Seals [Frameskip set to 0 or 1 to get perfect sound. Minor graphical glitches. Freezes every End-Turn for 1-2 seconds to access memorystick for some reason.]
Fire Emblem VII: The Blazing Sword [Crashes after pressing Start during intro movie.]
Fire Emblem VIII: The Sacred Stones [Frameskip set to 0 or 1 to get perfect sound. Minor graphical glitches. Freezes every End-Turn for 1-2 seconds to access memorystick for some reason.]
F-Zero [Frameskip set to 0 or 3 for better sound. 1 known graphical glitch, not posing a real problem.]
James Bond 007: Nightfire [Loads but crashes after a few seconds during first level.]
Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap [Frameskip set to 0 or 1 when sound isn’t correct. Blue screen crash when given Hyrule Map at Hyrule Castle.]
Lufia: The Ruins of Lore [Black screen after selecting new game, you can hear sound and music but you cant see anything. Near perfect sound in-game with frameskip set to 0.]
Mario & Luigi: Superstar saga [Frameskip set to 1. Near perfect sound. Crashes after intro movie or during battles.]
Mario Vs Donkey kong [Runs slow. Severe sound problems. Might crash on start-up.]
Megaman Zero [Doesn’t run full speed. Severe sound problems. Almost solved when frameskip is set to +/-10, but it’s not really playable at frameskip 10.]
Megaman Zero 3 [Doesn’t run full speed. Severe sound problems. Almost solved when frameskip is set to +/-10, but it’s not really playable at frameskip 10.]
Metroid Zero Mission [Frameskip set to 1. Minor sound problems. Crashes after obtaining the Morphing Ball upgrade.]
Metroid Fusion [Frameskip set to 0 or 1 in darker locations. Near perfect sound. Crashed after entering first elevator.]
PokÃ©mon Emerald [Frameskip set to 0. Might crash when certain PokÃ©mon attacks are executed. Turning off battle animations may solve the problem.]
PokÃ©mon Fire Red [Frameskip set to 2 or 3. Might crash when certain PokÃ©mon attacks are executed. Turning off battle animations may solve the problem.]
Pokemon Ruby [Frameskip set to 0. Might crash when certain PokÃ©mon attacks are executed. Turning off battle animations may solve the problem. Might crash later in the game as well.]
Super Mario Advance 2 [Crashes when you select a save slot.]
Super Mario Advance 3 [Crashes when trying to play the first movie.]
Super Mario World [Crashes at Main Menu.]
Sword of Mana [Crashes at character select screen when trying to name your character.]
Tales of Phantasia [Loads but crashes upon selecting New Game.]
Tony Hawk’s American Sk8land [Loads but crashes after selecting Male or Female character.]
Wario Land 4 [Frameskip set to 0 or 1 in certain areas. Slows down in certain high graphical effect areas. Might crash at first Boss fight]
Wario Ware Inc [Frameskip set to 1. Great speed and sound. Crashes sometimes.]
Wolfenstein 3D [Crashes when trying to acces in-game Menu.]
Zone of the Enders [Frameskip set to 0. Great speed. Sound?Â¿]

Games that don’t load and fail at everything

Donkey Kong: King of Swing [Crashes after Nintendo logo.]
Dragon Ball Z: Legacy of Goku 2 [Crashes at Main Menu.]
Dragon Ball Z: Legacy of Goku 3 [Crashes at Main Menu.]
Golden Sun [Goes into blue crash screen at intro.]
Golden Sun: The Lost Age [Goes into blue crash screen at intro. ]
Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories [Crashes on start-up.]
Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land [Loads but crashes when at intro.]
Klonoa: Empire of Dreams [Crashes on start-up.]
Kuru Kuru Kururin [Loads but crashes after GBA intro screen.]
Megaman Battle Network 6 [Loads but black screen in Main Menu]
Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past/Four Swords [Crashes on start-up]
Mario Tennis Advance Power Tour [Crashes on start-up.]
V-Rally 3 [Crashes on start-up.]

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