PSXperia PC App Converts Any PSX Game to Work on Xperia Play

Category: Console News By: PS3 News - (http://yifan.lu)
Tags: psxperia psxperia pc app converts psx games xperia play yifan lu psxperia psx

37w ago - Recently freelance developer Yifan Lu has released PSXperia, a PC App that converts any PSX game to work on Xperia Play - the PlayStation Certified Sony Ericsson Android mobile smartphone for gamers.

Download: PSXperia v1.0 / PSXperia Beta 2 / PSXperia Source Code / PSXperia Wiki Guides

To quote: After two hard weeks of decompiling, reverse engineering, graphing, and coding, I'm proud to announce PSXperia, a set of tools to extract, patch, and repack the Crash Bandicoot game that comes with all Xperia Play phones to use any PSX game (that you legally own).

In addition to allowing you to play any property ripped PSX game, you can also set a custom icon and the game will show up in the phone's Playstation Pocket app, so you can quickly access it when you flip the gamepad out.

I've converted and tested 8 games with this tool and they all run flawlessly, but if things don't work out so smoothly for you, submit your issues to GitHub.

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13 Comments

#13 - rdurbin - 37w ago

if you testing out crash bandicoot, I don't think you can directly just put it on your phone. use the program to insert another psx game so it can build the correct files. the program will create a small file (apk) and the bigger file which will go in android/data folder, these files are in your output folder after you created a new game. you also need to make sure your android device can install files from 3rd parties, its in settings.

#12 - Duff Man - 37w ago

well, a quick update. the files, that rdurbin suggested, and are linked above, ARE the crash bandicoot files needed for the trick, however they don't seem to be the software that will let you play it (play now, i think). So when I try to install crash bandicoot it tells me the install was unsuccessful. Unfortunately I'm rather time poor at the moment so maybe if someone is interested they can track down the 'play now' apk and try to get it running.

In short, the files will only help someone with an Xperia play (so far), however, if you have that phone, then you also have these files on it.

on the arc the app is 'playnowclientarvato' and it's 131.39k, it would be interesting to see if the app is different on the play (located in /system/app)

#11 - rdurbin - 37w ago

it doesn't appear the Sony emulator has touch controls other than setting L2 and R2 to touch screen since the xperia play only has L1 and R1. they let you choose between 6 different control configurations, similar to how the psp psx emulator works. So even if this works on other devices it may only be playable on xperia play, but I am not 100% sure. It may detect that its not running on xperia play and offer touch screen controls or keyboard controls if your device has one.

#10 - Duff Man - 37w ago

Thanks rdurbin, really appreciate the info... Now I'll just have to find somewhere to download them... Hmmm any thoughts? Before I explore every avenue google has?

Ok well found them... Not sure about the linking rules anymore, so if someone wants them they can be found here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=W8P2V2UZ

Enjoy

#9 - rdurbin - 37w ago

you need the apk and zpak, here are the names of the files extracted from my xperia play us.

com.sony.playstation.ncua94900_1.apk 5.04 MB (5,290,747 bytes)
NCUA94900_1_1.zpak 525 MB (551,463,148 bytes)

the files names may vary slightly depending on region, i guess.