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These can sometimes perform better and with less bugs than the dr...<br />Read more » </div> </a> </div> <div class="nav-link-container"> <a href="/docs/reference/custom-background-music" class="nav-link"> <div class="title">Custom background music</div> <div class="direction">On the PSP, some games have support for playing MP3s that you put on the memory stick as background music, replacing the default music that comes with the games.<br />Read more » </div> </a> </div> <div class="nav-link-container"> <a href="/docs/reference/disc-streaming" class="nav-link"> <div class="title">Disc streaming</div> <div class="direction">With the disc streaming feature, you can stream games from one device to another on your local network. This can be useful for testing a large variety of games on a mobile device, for example, without...<br />Read more » </div> </a> </div> <div class="nav-link-container"> <a href="/docs/reference/homebrew-store-distribution" class="nav-link"> <div class="title">Distribution terms of the content in the homebrew store</div> <div class="direction">Some of these may or may not be available on iOS, depending on the license.<br />Read more » </div> </a> </div> <div class="nav-link-container"> <a href="/docs/reference/front-end-integration" class="nav-link"> <div class="title">Front end integration on Android</div> <div class="direction">If you need this you know what it is, most others won't need to bother. This is here to be google-able.<br />Read more » </div> </a> </div> <div class="nav-link-container"> <a href="/docs/reference/how-to-update" class="nav-link"> <div class="title">How to update PPSSPP</div> <div class="direction">New versions are released from time to time. Depending on the platform, upgrading is usually pretty easy, but there are some concerns to be aware of.<br />Read more » </div> </a> </div> <div class="nav-link-container"> <a href="/docs/reference/rewind" class="nav-link"> <div class="title">How to use the Rewind feature</div> <div class="direction">You may have noticed that in the Settings > Controls > “Control mapping” screen, one of the actions to map a key or button to is called “Rewind”. It’s between Pause and Save State on the lis...<br />Read more » </div> </a> </div> <div class="nav-link-container"> <a href="/docs/reference/whygold" class="nav-link"> <div class="title">PPSSPP Gold - the what and why</div> <div class="direction">PPSSPP and PPSSPP Gold have everything you'd want in a PSP emulator:<br />Read more » </div> </a> </div> <div class="nav-link-container"> <a href="/docs/reference/legacy-edition" class="nav-link"> <div class="title">PPSSPP Legacy Edition for Android</div> <div class="direction">Read » </div> </a> </div> <div class="nav-link-container"> <a href="/docs/reference/websocket-api" class="nav-link"> <div class="title">PPSSPP Websocket API</div> <div class="direction">PPSSPP has a built-in websocket API that you can use to do various things.<br />Read more » </div> </a> </div> <div class="nav-link-container"> <a href="/docs/reference/ios-support" class="nav-link"> <div class="title">PPSSPP for iOS</div> <div class="direction">Sometime in April-May 2024, Apple changed their App Store policy to allow emulator apps in the App Store. This finally made it possible to release an official iOS version of PPSSPP!<br />Read more » </div> </a> </div> <div class="nav-link-container"> <a href="/docs/reference/mac" class="nav-link"> <div class="title">PPSSPP on macOS</div> <div class="direction">You can now download PPSSPP as a regular .dmg file, which you can just open, and then drag PPSSPP to Applications, the way you install most normal Mac apps. The operating system might warn you that it...<br />Read more » </div> </a> </div> <div class="nav-link-container"> <a href="/docs/reference/process-hacks" class="nav-link"> <div class="title">PPSSPP process hacking</div> <div class="direction">If you want to search the memory of the emulated PSP using external tools by attaching to the PPSSPP process' memory space in Windows, you're gonna need a pointer to the base address.<br />Read more » </div> </a> </div> <div class="nav-link-container"> <a href="/docs/reference/psp-custom-firmware" class="nav-link"> <div class="title">PSP Custom Firmware resources</div> <div class="direction">There are many things you might want to do on a PSP that requires installing custom firmware, also known as CFW. For example, to turn your UMD files into ISO files that can be loaded in PPSSPP.<br />Read more » </div> </a> </div> <div class="nav-link-container"> <a href="/docs/reference/plugins" class="nav-link"> <div class="title">Plugins in PPSSPP</div> <div class="direction">PPSSPP doesn't support traditional PSP plugins, because those often have a far too tight relationship to the PSP OS kernel to work in an emulator that only pretends the kernel is there.<br />Read more » </div> </a> </div> <div class="nav-link-container"> <a href="/docs/reference/retro-achievements" class="nav-link"> <div class="title">RetroAchievements - setup and use</div> <div class="direction">RetroAchievements are similar to Xbox achievements or PlayStation trophies, except that they're created and defined by a volunteer community. Just like other retro consoles, the PSP itself has no nati...<br />Read more » </div> </a> </div> <div class="nav-link-container"> <a href="/docs/reference/strange-games" class="nav-link"> <div class="title">Strange games</div> <div class="direction">These are a list of games that tend to cause questions, or do questionable things.<br />Read more » </div> </a> </div> <div class="nav-link-container"> <a href="/docs/reference/interesting-links" class="nav-link"> <div class="title">Test Drive hacking by TAbdiukov</div> <div class="direction">See this link, and the neighboring pages: https://github.com/TAbdiukov/PPSSPP-patches/blob/master/guides/TDU-tp-islands.md<br />Read more » </div> </a> </div> <div class="nav-link-container"> <a href="/docs/reference/android-release-process" class="nav-link"> <div class="title">The Android release process</div> <div class="direction">You may have noticed that within the first week after a new official release, your update still hasn't arrived.<br />Read more » </div> </a> </div> <div class="nav-link-container"> <a href="/docs/reference/custom-game-configs" class="nav-link"> <div class="title">Using custom game configs</div> <div class="direction">Sometimes, you may find that you want to use different settings for different games.<br />Read more » </div> </a> </div> <div class="nav-link-container"> <a href="/docs/reference/use-texture-replacement" class="nav-link"> <div class="title">Using texture replacement packs</div> <div class="direction">If you're looking for information on how to create texture replacement packs, see here.<br />Read more » </div> </a> </div> <div class="nav-link-container"> <a href="/docs/reference/key-bindings" class="nav-link"> <div class="title">What are all those key binds?</div> <div class="direction">Bind this if you want to control the analog stick with a digital controller like a keyboard, and you want to be able to move the stick only halfway out from the middle. 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