The two are mutually exclusive, and would interfere with each other if you were to try using them together. There are directions for installing SDL if you use Homebrew as your package manager. Things have come a long way.īut you still have to download and install a dependency first: the SDL runtime (Simple DirectMedia Layer), because the developer follows the Linux philosophy of no statically linked libraries (“make it the user’s problem to try to recreate the exact dynamic library setup that the developer used through trial-and-error!”). We no longer have to run the Windows version under a Wine wrapper. At least the main site now hosts compiled binaries for OS X, which is an improvement from not too long ago when the only binaries available were on a third party build site. This fantastic open-source emulator of PSP runs on basically everything, but it’s a little harder to get working on Mac OS X. I had only ISO images, so I had to re-rip a game in cuesheet format in order to successfully add it to my OpenEmu game library.

OpenEmu’s “emulator core” for PS1 emulation is Mednafen, and this emulator requires all games be provided in cuesheet format.The UI doesn’t make it clear that it has done anything with the files, but the lack of warning is your indicator that they have been accepted. Scph5502.bin (EU) (sha1 sum: f6bc2d1f5eb6593de7d089c425ac681d6fffd3f0) … for me, this file was SCPH5552.bin, and had to be renamed.Īfter renaming these BIOS images, it was possible to drag them into OpenEmu and have them be recognized as PS1 BIOS ROM image files. It turns out the filenames were also important, and that I had to rename the files I had to be the expected filenames: But, after I found a set of BIOS ROM images online, adding them this way still didn’t work. Searching around, I learned that you add the BIOS file(s) by dragging and dropping the *.bin files (BIOS ROM images) like you would a game ROM. The UI does nothing to explain how to provide the PlayStation BIOS file.

I tested out PlayStation support, and ran into a few obstacles before getting things to work. The experimental build version adds support for:

The official release version of OpenEmu supports: Wow, it’s actually better than PCSX-Reloaded! Over the weekend I tried out the experimental version’s Playstation 1 emulation.

In my last post about OpenEmu I mentioned the “experimental” build that adds support for many more systems than the official release of the program.

Emulator psp on mac