For the best experience, users should be running within the recommended system requirements. System requirements may vary depending on your hardware configuration. However, Atrac3+ can be decoded automatically on Windows when installing SonicStage. Atrac3+ sound is not directly supported as there is currently no free codec available for this format. The project is still a beta release, but currently more than 600 games are already playable. Problems have been reported with ATI/AMD graphic cards: keep you Catalyst driver up-to-date as new releases might fix issues.
NVIDIA graphic cards are fully supported and Jpcsp can take advantage of powerful GPUs. Even a quad-core can give a small performance improvement by leaving free CPU cores for the Java JIT Compiler and the graphics cache. Jpcsp takes full advantage of dual-core processors, matching the PSP dual-core architecture.
Jpcsp has been started in July 2008 and is developed by a small but active team.Įven though JPCSP is written in Java, it can already reach 100% PSP speed on a lot of commercial games and the emulator performance is constantly increasing. JPCSP is the most advanced Play Station Portable emulator, allowing you to play your PSP games on a Mac (see also Android and iOS version).