There was a bit of a fuss recently when popular Android PlayStation emulator PSX4Droid was removed from the Android Market – presumably to appease Sony Ericsson what with the arrival of its Xperia PLAY PlayStation-based gaming phone.
Fortunately for PlayStation fans, the creator of the emulator has retaliated by releasing the PSX4Droid code for free – and you can download the Android APK direct from the man’s blog.
Better still, the new free version is a bug-fixing release. So it ought to be a little better than the one removed from the Market. You’ll need to sort your own game ROMs to make it work though, of course. Thanks to reader Imran for the tip.
HTC’s 4.3″ dual-core Android model, powered by Qualcomm’s all-new S4 processor. It’s smaller than the enormous One X, but is it as nice as its bigger brother? (SPOILER: Yes it is).
HTC is very much B-A-C-K at the top of the Android world with this, its quad-core flagship for 2012. Great camera, huge 4.7″ display and Android 4.0 running beautifully well.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
Mark
/ April 8, 2011Does anyone know how well this works on a Desire? (or how well it works at all?) I’m skeptical about it’s usability and affect on battery life.
mintvilla
/ April 8, 2011yeah, i have a htc desire, and i payed for it off android market, feel like i should now have a refund from google since they took it off? anyways, it psx4droid never really worked that well, most games loaded but ran slow.
FPse however runs near perfect. fighting and racing games are great to see how well games run (as they have a timer so you can see if its running fullspeed) and everything ive thrown at FPse runs great, while psx4droid i had mixed results.
However i have not tried the new 3.0 version (as i have no need)
on a side note ive purchased nds4droid which is the nintendo ds emulator, doesnt run that well on the desire but is half decent already on my advent vega (tegra2 processor) and i emailed the guy and it doesnt support dual cores yet, once it does it should run near perfect aswell.
Mark
/ April 8, 2011Thanks for the feedback :)
Shall bear FPse and nds4droid in mind (i’m likely to be getting a tablet later in the year)
mintvilla
/ April 8, 2011the advent vega is 199 at dixons, is it the best tablet in the world- No – value for money, none is better.
Nick
/ April 8, 2011Dont know if this is true, but apparently its ok to use FPse as it does not use Sony code, where as PSX4Droid used proprietary code which was why it was removed from the market coincidentally a week before the Xperia play launch.
Jake
/ April 9, 2011Could my Pulse do PSX4Droid?
k0zmic
/ April 9, 2011I don’t think so, unfortunately.
mintvilla
/ April 10, 2011Probs not, but its free so your not loosing anything by trying….
egg
/ April 29, 2011so if it’s no longer on the marketplace and now free where’s our refund
?
k0zmic
/ April 29, 2011Contact the developer.