Awesome PSP

A best-effort list for Sony PlayStation Portable and PlayStation Vita consoles for modding purposes. Note: not every project listed here is still maintained and some aren't open-source.

Table of contents

• PSP-related
  • Applications
  • Custom firmware
    • Firmwares
    • Plugins
  • Development
  • Emulators
    • PSP on other systems
    • Other systems on PSP
  • Games
    • Patches
    • Emulators
  • Theming
    • XMB themes (PTF)
    • XMB themes (CTF)
  • Tools
  • Unorganised
• PS Vita-related
  • Custom firmwares
    • Plugins
    • Applications
• Adrenaline-related
  • Games
    • Patches
• PC Tools

PSP-related

Applications

• CMFileManager - An intuitive, Android-like file manager.
• PSP Filer - Advanced TUI-like file manager, it also allows to copy UMDs to the memory stick.
• SensMe Channels - The official music player. It's pre-installed on some models.

Custom firmware

• Firmwares

  • ARK-4 - New, updated, improved and modern custom firmware for PSP and PS Vita's ePSP.
  • Chronoswitch Downgrader - Downgrader for using custom firmwares compatible with older firmware versions.
  • Custom Home -
  • Infinity - The most famous persistent custom for PSP 6.60 and 6.61, every model is compatible.

• Plugins

  • CXMB - Loader for custom themes. These themes use .ctf instead of .ptf file extention, allowing to make custom animations other than icons and wallpaper.
  • Game Categories Lite - Categorize games, applications, music etc in your custom folders.
  • joysens - Plugin for disabling, remapping, changing sensibility and "fixing" analog pads on the PSP.
  • PSP USB Video Class (UVC) - Plugin that lets you stream your PSP screen to your computer via USB.
  • ZeroVSH Patcher - Allows users to customize the console without writing the flash0 (system storage). It also enables the the Go's clock and calendar [2 3 4 5].

Development

• PRXTool - A simple tool to modify PSP's PRX files (.prx).
• pspdecrypt - This tool allows you to decrypt PSP binaries and updaters (PSAR).
• PSPDEV - Main PSP Repo for building the whole PSP development environment in your local machine.
• psplibraries - Automatic builder and installer of libraries for homebrew software development.
• rust-psp - Library for building full PSP modules, including both PRX plugins and regular homebrew apps.
• rust-psp-hello - Rust simple Hello World to run on PSP.
• uOFW - This project aims to reverse engineer the basic PSP kernel & hardware to create an up-to-date technical documentation of the system as well as to provide a free and open source vanilla firmware.
• VS Code PSP Homebrew Template - Visual Studio Code project template for PSP homebrew creation using MINPSP Windows SDK.

Games

• Minecraft-PSP - Fan-made Minecraft recreation.
• Spelunky Classic remake - Spelunky remade from scratch.

• Patches

  • MonsterHunterPortable3rdHDRemake - Repo for a texture upscaling project for PSP's Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD.

• Emulators

  • PSP on other systems

    • CSharp Psp Emulator - An emulator for .NET Core 3.0 made in C# (WIP).
    • Jcpsp - A PSP emulator written in Java, it also supports XLink Kai.
    • jspspemu - An emulator made in TypeScript that allows you to play PSP games on modern web browsers .
    • PPSSPP - PlayStation Portable Simulator Suitable for Playing Portably, an easy-to-use emulator for playing PSP games on Android, BlackBerry, BSD, iOS, Linux, Mac OS, MeeGo, Pandora, Pico, Quest, Wii U, Windows, Xbox Series X/S.

• Other systems on PSP

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Theming

• XMB Themes (PTF)

  • PSP-Themes - Collection of various PTF and CTF themes.
  • pspunk themes - Collection of various PTF and CTF themes.

• XMB Themes (CTF)

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Unorganized

• uPSPD - Unofficial PSP Documentation was a project of making a full documentation for PSP.

PS Vita-related

Custom firmware

• Plugins

  • Framecounter - FPS counter.
  • VitaPad - Turn your PS Vita into a PC gamepad.

• Applications

  • VitaShell - Multi-functional file manager.

Development

• Lua Player Plus Vita - The first Lua interpreter made for PS Vita.
• PSP2SHELL - Utility/remote shell (plugin+client, wifi) to ease the development process on ps vita devices.
• ViBeS - Vita Benchmarking Software.
• VitaDB Downloader - The official client for VitaDB, the first database ever made for PS Vita/TV homebrew.
• vitaGL - OpenGL driver for PS Vita development.

Games

• Android2Vita-Candidate-Ports-List - List of candidate Android games portable to PS Vita.
• Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vita - Wrapper/port of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 originally for Android.
• d3es-vita - Doom 3 port.
• Fahrenheit Vita - Wrapper/port of Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy.
• Neverball - Ports of Neverball and Neverputt.
• Tomb Raider 1 & 2 Classic Collection - Wrapper/port of Tomb Raider 1 Classic and Tomb Raider 2 Classic originally for Android.
• vitaQuakeII - Quake II port.
• VitaQuakeIII - Quake III Arena port.
• vitaRTCW - Return to Castle Wolfenstein port.
• wipEout Rewrite - Re-implementation of the 1995 wipEout PS game.

Adrenaline-related

Games

• Patches

  • GE Patch - Experimental plugin for Adrenaline that allows you to play a few games in native PS Vita resolution (960x544).
  • GTA Native Resolution Patch - This patch allows Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories to run at the native PS Vita resolution through Adrenaline (960x544 instead of PSP's 480x272).
  • Remastered Controls Collection - Collection of dual analog patches for PSP games on Adrenaline.

PC Tools

• ciso - Simple commandline utility to compress PSP ISO files.
• UMDGen (Original archived website) - A great tool for PSP game modding.
• POP-FE - Tool to automate the process converting PSX disk images and install them on various platforms.

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