Installation
Download Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ppsspp.ppsspp
Setup
The first screen you’re going to see is a decision of where to save your PPSSPP files. You want to keep it as the first option, which is to create or choose a PSP folder because with the other option, you really won’t be able to access anything. So with that selected, click OK on the right.

Now you want to create a folder on the internal storage, and just call it PPSSPP. All of your files will be in this folder for easy access. Click OK after.
Pointing PPSSPP to your PSP ROMs
Now we’re on the home screen of PPSSPP and we want to tell it where your ROMs are. So select Browse, and navigate to the folder that has your PSP ROMs or games.
This guide isn’t going to show you how to get PSP games, you can watch the below video for help on that.
Once you find and select your PSP games folder, you should see them all show up as icons. So that’s great, it found them.
Settings
We now need to change some settings, map controls and all of that. Head to Settings on the right. If you have a powerful device, you could change the rendering resolution to something higher. So if you have a 1080p screen, you can do 4x, or if you’re using a 4K screen, 8x and so on.Â

Scroll all the way down and you can enable FPS counter and show speed if you want to see how your games are running.
Removing on-screen touch controls
Now let’s head over to Controls and if you’re using a handheld and not touch screen, you can disable the on-screen touch controls by unchecking the box.

Mapping Controls
Then you want to head into control mapping.
At this point, I would select Clear all top left and then you just want to go ahead and map controls for a PSP. So click the box next to the control, and use the buttons on your device to map it.

For speed toggle, I like setting that to R2. This is fast forward.
If your device does not have a dedicated menu button, you can map Pause to a combination hotkey so you can get to the PPSSPP menu in-game or L2 also usually works. If you want a combination hotkey, just select Allow combo mappings on the left, and then enter a hotkey for Pause.
Enabling Retro Achievements
Back out after, and you can head to Tools, and here is where you can enable Retro Achievements. Login with your RetroAchievements login and I would also disable Hardcore mode.

Auto Load State & Enable Cheats
Back to System now and if you scroll down, you can enable Auto Load Savestate if you want. This makes it so it boots right into your saved state when loading a game, which saves you some time. However, just be careful with save states as usual. But let’s go ahead and enable cheats so we can add cheats soon.Â
PPSSPP In-Game Menu
Now that we’ve configured everything, let’s go ahead and boot up a game by just selecting it. If you push the Pause button you mapped or menu button if your device has one, you’ll get the in-game PPSSPP menu. From here, you can save state, load state and do a bunch more. For example, you can adjust settings from here if you want.

Per-Game Config
However, let’s say this game doesn’t run great, and you want to change the resolution for only this game, you can select create game config which now makes any changes we make in settings, applicable to only this game.
Otherwise, as far as setup goes, you’re done and you can now go play some PSP games.Â
Cheats
We enabled cheats through the settings, so let’s start with those first. There is an awesome Github with an updated Cheat database that has everything we need.
Download from here: https://github.com/Saramagrean/CWCheat-Database-Plus-
Head to that Github link, click the cheat.db file that you see, and then the Download RAW file button all the way on the right. Depending on how it downloads, it might download as a .txt file, in which case just rename it and remove the .txt. It should read as cheat.db.
Now you need to move that file into the PPSSPP folder we created when we installed PPSSPP, which is just right on your Android internal storage if you followed what I did. So head to PPSSPP/PSP/Cheats and put the cheat.db file right in there.Â
Go ahead and open PPSSPP and if you jump into a game, push the hotkey for Pause, or menu, to bring up the in-game PPSSPP menu and you should see a Cheats tab on the right. Then select Import top left. You should now see a whole list of cheats. You just have to repeat these steps for each game – load the game, Cheats menu, then import to see the cheats. Then obviously, just enable any cheats you want to use and have fun.Â
As with anything cheat related, some can and will break your saves or cause other weird things to happen sometimes, so just be aware of that. It’s the risk you take for having god mode.
60FPS Cheats
Let’s jump into 60FPS Cheats now. First thing you’ll want to check is if the game has the 60FPS patches already in the cheats file that we loaded, as most of the time, it does.
I took a look and seems like pretty much all the games have their 60FPS cheats available if it exists, but, if you want a full list of games with 60FPS cheats, you can check this forum post on the PPSSPP forums.
Master List of 60FPS Cheats: https://forums.ppsspp.org/showthread.php?tid=22800
There’s also a video that shows you how to apply those 60FPS cheats at the bottom, but I’m pretty sure they’re all already loaded in the cheat.db file we’re using.
HD Textures
Lastly, we come to HD textures. Once again, the PPSSPP forums have an HD texture packs section with games and their packs.
HD Texture Packs: https://forums.ppsspp.org/forumdisplay.php?fid=36
Let’s look at Final Fantastic Tactics. Scroll down on that page, and the download is on their Github, so click that. Now you want Releases on the right and download the Source code zip file. I suggest doing this on the device – it’s a large 2.5GB file, so might take some time. Once it’s downloaded, move it to your PSP roms folder, where all your games are.
Now, open PPSSPP and let’s head to Settings, Tools, Developer Tools and make sure Replace Textures is on. Let’s also open Final Fantasy Tactics once and they also state Rendering Resolution has to be set at 4x or above, and they recommend 6x, so make sure you’ve changed that as well. You can exit the game after.
Now in PPSSPP, click Load on the right and navigate to that zipped texture pack and select it. You can now click Install. It’ll take some time so just be patient.
Once it’s done, click back, and open the game. You’ll see texture packs activated at the top to know it’s working and you can now enjoy a high resolution Final Fantasy Tactics.
Not every game will be as easy as this was to install texture packs for, but they all have instructions. For example, let’s look at Persona 3 Portable, and you can see while looking at the post, there’s installation instructions. This one wants us to paste the folder we download from their post in the PPSSPP/PSP/TEXTURES folder. So download the pack, extract it and copy that extracted ULUS10512 folder into that location, easy. Once you do, you can go open Persona and should say textures activated and you’re all set.Â
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