PCSX-Redux
A PlayStation 1 emulator forked from PCSX, built with debugging and reverse engineering tools.
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About PCSX-Redux
PCSX-Redux is a fork of the PCSX PlayStation emulator, and the core of a wider project of tools, research, hardware designs and libraries for PlayStation 1 development and reverse engineering.
It is aimed more at homebrew developers and people taking apart how PS1 games work than at players who only want to run a game. The repository is actively developed, with more than 7,500 commits.
Strengths
- Debugging tools for PS1 development
- Part of a wider project with libraries and hardware research
- Actively developed
Limitations
- Aimed at developers more than casual players
- Documentation is spread across the project
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source.
- License
- GPL-2.0
- Developer
- Grumpycoders
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- PlayStation 1 homebrew developers and reverse engineers
- Categories
- Emulators, Developer tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
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DuckStation
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Mednafen
Command-line multi-system emulator covering Saturn, PlayStation and more.
Mednafen covers PlayStation alongside Saturn and other systems, but it is driven from the command line with a text configuration file instead of a debugging interface.
PCSX-ReARMed
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PCSX-ReARMed is another PCSX fork, optimized for ARM handhelds and low-power devices, and is mostly distributed as source or through frontends rather than as a desktop app.
BizHawk
A multi-system emulator built for tool-assisted speedrunning, with rewinding, frame stepping, memory search and input recording.
BizHawk adds memory search, frame stepping and input recording across many systems, though it runs only on Windows and Linux and its cores are less accurate.
RetroArch
One front end for dozens of emulators, with unified settings, shaders and a controller setup you only do once.
RetroArch runs PlayStation through downloadable cores in a unified front end with shaders and controller setup, but it lacks PCSX-Redux's PS1 development tools.
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