I wanted to play a Playstation 1 game I used to play when I was a kid but my PS1 is already broken and I switched my PS2 into a 360, so I decided to go with an PS1 emulator, ePSXe, to play it on something I already have, a computer. I don’t own any USB-controllers though and using a keyboard is just plain dull. But I do have a PSP with a custom firmware on, M33-6. Sure, I could have ran the game directly on the PSP, but it just didn’t work as the game froze when doing various things. So I decided to use a software called pspDisp. Sure, it is made for extending your screen to your PSP using your console as a secondary screen, but it also allows you to map the keyboard and mouse to the d-pad and the other buttons.

Requirements

  • ePSXe – Any version will do
  • pspDisp – v0.5 or later recommended
  • A PSP with custom firmware – I am using 5.00 M33-6
  • Either a wireless router or USB cable for the PSP

Set up pspDisp on your computer. If you are running the 64-bit version of Windows 7 you have to mark the winUSB driver, it’s marked by default. You need to accept all driver enforcement checks and reboot your computer.

Set up the controller in ePSXe like this:

Now download

  ePSXe controls for pspDisp (1.7 KiB, 647 hits)


and place it in C:\Users\*Your account username here*\AppData\Roaming\PSPdisp\control. Or just right-click on the pspDisp icon in your system tray and chose About, then the Control tab and press the first button, and paste the file there.

Restart pspDisp and right-click the tray icon, and chose PSX under Control. Now it’s time to start pspDisp on your PSP. Go to the Games category, chose memory stick and then chose PSPdisp V0.5 (or whatever version you got).

If you gonna use the WLAN mode, you first need to go into the settings on the PSP version of pspDisp, go to page 2 by pressing R, and change the first IP to the IP of your computer (this is not your Internet IP, this is your local IP. It should be something in the theme of 192.168.0.*, usually found by running ipconfig /all in CMD). Also make sure to add both your computers and the PSPs local IP to the firewall on your router (these IPs can be found in the admin panel of your router). I found out that the port pspDisp uses is 17584. This is how my rules are set up:

The easier way would be to use USB mode. This is so easy I wont go into it too much, just put in the USB cord and chose “start using USB mode”.

If you are using WLAN mode, you can stream the video and sound to your PSP and play your game from anywhere in your house.

You should now be able to play using your PSP as controller. If you got any trouble, just comment below.