PSX4Droid v3.0.0

[The Central Scrutinizer]

PlayStation emulator PSX4Droid that had been pulled from the Android Market early this week a day before the launch of the Xperia Play in an almost Apple-like manner, has now cause the developer to fired back!

ZodTTD has decided to host .apk downloads right on his own website and has also made the APP free for anyone to download!

I am currently unable to publish to Android Market.

In the meantime, I’m exploring 3rd party markets and I have decided to make psx4droid free, based it on the open source software PCSX-ReARMed by Notaz, and made it compliant.

You can download the psx4droid 3.0.0 APK installer package right here:

http://www.zodttd.com/downloads/psx4droid_v3.0.0.apk

Developers interested in seeing the source that drives psx4droid, libpsx, can be found here:

http://github.com/zodttd/libpsx

What’s new in psx4droid 3.0.0? Well it’s based on a different emulator, PCSX-ReARMed. It has a better dynarec (cpu emulation technique) and lands up being much faster in general. It’s using a software GPU for graphics rendering, though I have an OpenGL ES 1.1 GPU made. OpenGL ES 1.1 is hit or miss for this type of rendering on Android devices. Many of these high end devices have slow Adreno 100 GPUs. So soft GPU is the way to go for now, especially with some improvements to come.

psx4droid 3.0.0 should have great compatibility, better performance, though it may be a lil rough around the edges when it comes to the settings panel. If you notice a force close in it, it’s bound to be fixed coming up.

Note that all save states previous to 3.0.0 are no longer compatible. If you have quick saves, be sure to turn OFF quick load before running games in 3.0.0. You should save over the quick saves or delete them before turning back on quick load.

Wish I could put this up on Android Market. This will just have to due for now.

Thanks,

ZodTTD

News Source: ZodTTD

[lenskip]

very awesome, love this emu for android

[TnA]

Was this one of those emus/apps, which were closed source before?

[Dulousaci]

If I remember correctly, Google removed it because of a license violation, not because of Sony (though they may have asked for it). ZodTTD refused to open the source to his emulator, when the license for the original emulator required it.

[SirAwesomeson]

It was removed for a GPL violation. The developer misrepresented someone else emulator as his own code and was making money on it, therefore it was removed via google's terms of service. The other couple PSX emulators are still on the market. The timing is suspicious but that doesn't give people the right to bitch without finding information first.

[Broxin]

so in short: google got what they wanted: ZodTTD released the sourcecode! am i right ?

[TnA]

so in short: google got what they wanted: ZodTTD released the sourcecode! am i right ?

Yepp, this is what I want to know too...
Is the source-link actually the complete source of the emulator?

[Dulousaci]

so in short: google got what they wanted: ZodTTD released the sourcecode! am i right ?

It's not that Google wanted it, but that he was legally required to release it. They could have gotten in trouble if they didn't take it down.

[jalaneme]

this release is terrible, when you select virtual keyboard settings the emulator closes also when you set a rom the whole phone restarts! i never had this problem with the previous release.

[lenskip]

this release is terrible, when you select virtual keyboard settings the emulator closes also when you set a rom the whole phone restarts! i never had this problem with the previous release.

having no issues, playing mortal kombat trilogy, droid 2