PPSSPP 1.19 for iOS has been approved, and will be rolling out to devices over the coming week.

After having massive problems getting updates to the iOS Gold version approved, I decided to give up on having a separate app. On iOS (but not other platforms), PPSSPP now is a single app, and you can upgrade to Gold, to support the project, through a simple in-app purchase instead.

Why gold?

How to get PPSSPP Gold for iOS

The separate PPSSPP Gold app has now been retired. I'm looking into ways to transfer users to the in-app purchase in the PPSSPP app, but I haven't yet managed to find a viable way to do it, without being able to update the existing Gold app. I'm sorry about that! If you know a way to do this (or have contacts in Apple that can help), let me know at [email protected].

The PPSSPP project's long-term mission is to preserve the treasure of PSP video games for future generations to enjoy.

Fortunately, with the exception of some multiplayer titles and some yet-unsolved glitches, this has been largely achieved for PSP games. However, on newer platforms, it's a different story.

Stop Killing Games is a petition that warns about how digital distribution and DRM now makes it possible and even common for games to be released, played, and then disappear forever with no way to play it in the future. On modern games platforms it's possible for publishers to retroactively unpublish games.

The petition argues for a stop to this practice, and to require game publishers to keep games playable, through whatever means are necessary, when they are "retired" from the market.

Obviously, we agree with this!

EU citizen? Sign the petition now!

Back in the Play Store!

The appeal against the suspension was successful, as expected. We're back!

PPSSPP temporarily gone from Play Store, OpenGL threading success

PPSSPP (not PPSSPP Gold, for some reason) was suspended by Google from the Play Store for unclear reasons. I am appealing the decision. In the meantime, you can download the APK and install it manually.

In other news, the new OpenGL threading code is turning out to be very fast, nearly reaching Vulkan speeds in some cases. So if games are running slow on your device, and it has more than one core - stay tuned for 1.6! It will still be a while though before the code is fully stable, but it's already showing lots of promise.

Note for iOS jailbreak users - don't upgrade to iOS 9.0+

Do not upgrade to iOS 9.0+ if you want to keep running PPSSPP short term, stay on 8.4 or earlier. The new jailbreak seems a bit unstable as well.

PPSSPP is not officially supported on iOS like Windows and Android, but we try to keep it working anyway - 9.0 is tricky though, at least if you want to use the JIT. There will probably be a solution but probably not soon.