VICE PSP is a port of the Versatile Commodore Emulator to the Sony PlayStation Portable platform.
Table of Contents
- New Features
- Installation
- Controls
- Save State Autoloading
- Known Issues
- Compiling
- Credits
- Thanks
- Version History
New Features
Version 2.1.1 (May 23 2009)
- Initial release
Installation
Unzip vice.zip into /PSP/GAME/ folder on the memory stick.
Controls
The emulator currently comes with the following default key mappings:
| Directional pad Up/Down/Left/Right | Joystick Up/Down/Left/Right |
| Analog stick Up/Down/Left/Right | Joystick Up/Down/Left/Right |
| X (cross) | Joystick Fire |
| O (circle) | Spacebar |
| Start | Run/Stop |
| [R] | Show virtual keyboard |
| [L] + [R] | Return to the emulator menu |
When the virtual keyboard is on:
| Directional pad | select virtual button |
| [ ] (square) | press a virtual button |
| O (circle) | ‘stick’ a sticky virtual button |
| ^ (triangle) | unstick all stuck virtual buttons |
Certain virtual buttons are “sticky” – the virtual button remains held down when O (circle) is tapped. Tapping O (circle) again releases the virtual button. To unstick all sticky buttons, press ^ (triangle).
Keyboard mappings can be modified for each game. Button configuration changes are automatically retained after a mapping is modified. To set a mapping as the default mapping, press [ ] (square).
Save State Autoloading
VICE PSP can be configured to automatically load a saved game whenever a new game is loaded via the Game tab. To do this, specify one of the save state slots as the Autoload slot (Options tab). If a saved game exists in the specified slot, it will be automatically loaded.
Known Issues
Counter will sometimes report frames-per-second information incorrectly – this has to do with the sound rendering routine, which is shaky at the moment. Exiting to the emulator menu and returning will usually correct this.
When frame skipping is in effect, sound will appear “crackling”. This is also, most likely, a result of the above bug.
Compiling
Emulator’s source code is available via a Subversion (SVN) repository. To check out a particular version, run
svn co http://svn.akop.org/psp/tags/vice/version
where version is the release version (for example, 2.1.1). Note that for this to work, you need to have Subversion installed.
To compile the emulator, you will need zlib (svn://) and libpng (svn://).
Credits
| VICE team | VICE |
Thanks
Special thanks to the members of #vice-dev for their help.
Version History
Initial release