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PPSSPP

PPSSPP emulates Sony PlayStation Portable. It reads 4 files, none of them required: it starts games without them.

Run on its own, the app keeps its data in this folder:

<folder of PPSSPPWindows64.exe>/memstick/

installed.txt beside the executable switches to the folder it names, else Documents/PPSSPP, which also serves when memstick cannot be created or written.

Source: Windows/main.cpp:989-1042, Windows/main.cpp:1221-1222
About this profile
Detail Value
Type standalone + libretro
Classification Official port
Source https://github.com/hrydgard/ppsspp
Version v1.20.4-3958-g43a69b1, 3958 commits after tag v1.20.4
Revision hrydgard/ppsspp@43a69b1c84df
Profiled 2026-10-21
Profile YAML, JSON
Cores ppsspp, PPSSPPSDL, ppsspp-sa
Systems Sony PlayStation Portable
Data folder (Windows) <folder of PPSSPPWindows64.exe>/memstick/
Data folder (macOS) ~/.config/ppsspp/
Data folder (Linux) $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/ppsspp/, else ~/.config/ppsspp/
Data folder (Android) Android/data/org.ppsspp.ppsspp/files/
Data folder (iOS) Documents/
Install this emulator's files

For PPSSPP inside RetroArch, EmuDeck or another setup. The installer finds your setup and its BIOS folder, then downloads only the files this emulator reads there and checks each one.

Open the Start menu. Type PowerShell and open it. Paste the line. Press Enter.

PowerShell
&([scriptblock]::Create((irm https://abdess.github.io/retrobios/i.ps1))) --emulator ppsspp
Technical notes

Full HLE emulator. No Sony firmware or BIOS required. The libretro core is built from hrydgard/ppsspp, the tree of the standalone emulator, with its wrapper in libretro/. Libretro core loads assets from system/PPSSPP/ via VFS (libretro/libretro.cpp:1228-1237, 1283) and warns that core system files are missing when compat.ini is absent (libretro/libretro.cpp:1241-1273). Assets include replacement PGF fonts (flash0/font/), game compatibility database (compat.ini), language mapping (langregion.ini), and post-processing shaders (shaders/). Fonts are read from the game disc, then from flash0:/font of the NAND, then from flash0/font/ in system/PPSSPP/ (Core/HLE/sceFont.cpp:1026-1048). Without any of them the font library holds no internal font and sceFontOpen returns SCE_FONT_ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER to the game (Core/HLE/sceFont.cpp:1197-1199), so text a game draws with the PSP system fonts is lost. Without ppge_atlas.zim the system dialogs are not drawn (Core/Util/PPGeDraw.cpp:252-255). A real firmware is optional. The NAND is <memstick>/PSP/NAND (Core/Util/PathUtil.cpp:146-147), which the libretro core places under the save directory (libretro/libretro.cpp:1277, 1281). On boot, a game disc carrying a newer firmware updater than the installed one is unpacked into it (Core/System.cpp:603-606). Its flash0:/font, kd/libmp4.prx, kd/mp4msv.prx and kd/mpeg.prx replace the HLE modules when present (Core/HLE/HLE.cpp:408-446). PSP_DEFAULT_FIRMWARE = 660 (Core/ConfigValues.h:43).

Files

Section titled “Files”

4 files: 0 required, 4 optional.

In this collection: 4 in repo and 0 missing.

Optional

Section titled “Optional”

ppge_atlas.zim optional in repo libretro

PPGe dialog texture atlas for save/load dialogs, on-screen keyboard, system UI

  • Path: PPSSPP/ppge_atlas.zim
  • Logged as an error if missing. System dialogs render without graphics but core continues running. Batocera, Recalbox, Lakka, RetroPie, RetroBat, EmuDeck and RetroDECK install the assets folder where their core reads it.
Packages and source
  • Installed by the platform's own package on: batocera, emudeck, lakka, recalbox, retrobat, retrodeck, retropie
  • Source: Core/Util/PPGeDraw.cpp:252-255

ppge_atlas.meta optional in repo libretro

PPGe atlas metadata (glyph positions, UV coords)

  • Path: PPSSPP/ppge_atlas.meta
  • Loaded after ppge_atlas.zim. Without it, dialog UI has no glyph layout. Batocera, Recalbox, Lakka, RetroPie, RetroBat, EmuDeck and RetroDECK install the assets folder where their core reads it.
Packages and source
  • Installed by the platform's own package on: batocera, emudeck, lakka, recalbox, retrobat, retrodeck, retropie
  • Source: Core/Util/PPGeDraw.cpp:257-263

ppge_atlas.zim optional in repo standalone installed with the standalone emulator

PPGe dialog texture atlas for save/load dialogs, on-screen keyboard, system UI

  • Path: assets/ppge_atlas.zim
  • Shipped in assets/ of the PPSSPP 1.20.4 Windows zip, which the standalone reads it from.
Hashes and source

ppge_atlas.meta optional in repo standalone installed with the standalone emulator

PPGe atlas metadata (glyph positions, UV coords)

  • Path: assets/ppge_atlas.meta
  • Shipped in assets/ of the PPSSPP 1.20.4 Windows zip, beside ppge_atlas.zim.
  • Size: 49.1 KB, SHA1 ab398f667d6f
  • Collection copy: ppge_atlas.meta in the ppsspp-assets data directory
Hashes and source

Profile data

Section titled “Profile data”
Pack structure
  • libretro: PPSSPP

Data directories

Section titled “Data directories”

  • ppsspp-assets: PPSSPP fonts, backgrounds, shaders, lang files

    165 files, as the packs ship them
    165 rows
    File Size SHA1
    Inconsolata-Regular.ttf 99.4 KB 356ae882944ec664d8ec5edf93c76b2cf6633e73
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