How far can the PSP go, in terms of emulation power? We have seen alot of progress in the emulation of various PlayStation Homebrew platforms, we have seen recent progress in the PS3 dynarec (see here), we have seen progress with the PS Vita with n64 and dreamcast and even the PS2 has seen its share of improvements to emulation. Since, the hack has been progressing, scene developer Markus95 has recently released instructions and files for playing various emulators (libretro cores)via the RetroArch (PS2) port on the PS5 / PS4 through the Mast1c0re hack, Now in v1.1 the developer has now added support for 10 of libretro core's (emulators).

While these are not the true PS4 or PS5 ports for those console's its the RetroArch-PS2 version, but is still very useful for various Retro Emulation, the hack does also provide support for your PS2 backup collection as well, The hack is very useful on the PS5 and also PS4's that have not been Jailbroken as you can run Ps2 homebrew through the PS2 Emulator, giving you the ability to run some homebrew and in this case Retro Emulation. Update v1.1 - Add support / instructions for 4 additional libretro core's: Handy (Atari Lynx) / Atari800 (Atari) / Mednafen_Wswam (Wonderswam) / Prboom (Doom + mods)Īs the Mast1c0re hack matures, we are seeing some PS2 homebrew appear for the Hack that is progressing on both the PlayStation 5 (PS5) (6.50 firmware) and also the PlayStation 4 (PS4) (10.01+ firmware), the Mast1c0re hack is an exploit within ps2 emulation on both the PS4 and PS5 that has remained unpatched at the time of writing.

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