trademark91 Wrote:

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:The PSP was never meant to be a PC...

true... but isn't the whole point of modding to make something something else? isn't it to make things different, better? Plus if you look at the system capabilities of a PSP, especially the 2000 series, an early version of windows (3.1, 95) could be easily run...

Unfortunately, not true.

Firstly, the PSP and PC have different CPU architectures.  This means that a PC » PSP emulator needs to decode/translate PC instructions to the PSP, which is typically a slow process.  There are also other components which need to be emulated across.  Recall that the SNES is a 3MHz machine with 256KB RAM, yet the PSP cannot emulate it at full speed (probably could if written up from scratch for the PSP, rather than a port, but that should show that emulation is generally a slow and difficult process).
The x86 (PC) architecture, especially, isn't the easiest to emulate, since, well, it's not the best designed (with all these extensions).


Modding can extend capabilities, but typically, can't make a particular machine act like a completely different one unfortunately.

Hope that helps.

(This post was last modified: 10/10/2008 07:34 PM by ZiNgA BuRgA.)