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  • > A small PSP kernel. Whatever the game asks of the PSP's operating system is answered by high-level emulation in profile/host

    So this is just an emulator with extra steps. The kind of bad emulator that requires game-specific patches instead of getting the emulation correct to begin with, and is embedding the emulator into a binary together with the game. Absolute slop.

    by anonymous908213
  • I saw one yesterday for GTA 6 it was taken down. Somebody can probably dig up the X link.
    by Onavo
  • maybe i will finally able to play MGSolid saga on a browser on my mac :)
    by lucasverra
  • if you liked this topic, you might be interested in https://thegamingemporium.com/recent/
    by mamonoleechi
  • I remember trying to emulate this game on my i7 laptop a decade ago. It was running like 15 FPS.So for me this look like magic.
    by sigma5
  • AI is completely cracking up the emulation bubble. We're not even emulating things anymore, we're just reverse engineering things and directly porting games. This is an awesome timeline for old game preservation. These fuckers aren't profiting from the games anymore, yet they won't release their IP, or update their old games to newer, more accessible platforms. So I really appreciate the work these kinds of developers have been doing.
    by fb03
  • I wonder how long it'll take until Sony takes this down
    by pier25
  • > PSP games running in the browser without an emulator. The game's MIPS machine code is translated ahead of time into C++, compiled to WebAssembly, and linked against a small reimplementation of the PSP's operating system and graphics chip that draws with WebGL2.

    Feels slightly pedantic to point this out, but this describes an emulation stack. A lot of emulators are already doing some kind of lift+JIT on the target's machine code (just not through WASM)

    by wren6991

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