PPSSPP

A PlayStation Portable emulator

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About

PPSSPP is a PSP emulator that can run games in full HD resolution. It can even upscale textures that would otherwise be too blurry as they were made for the small screen of the original PSP.

Required configuration

Supports: mouse or touchpad, keyboard, gamepad, touch screen.

Additional information

Project

Developer: Henrik Rydgård
Publisher: Umayr Saghir
License: GPL-2.0-or-later (free software)What this license lets you do
Homepage: www.ppsspp.org
From the project: Report a bug Source code Contribute Help translate Documentation FAQ Contact
Latest release: May 16, 2026 (5 months ago)Actively maintained · 3 releases in the last year
Release history: Last 4 releases
1.20.4May 16, 2026
1.20.3March 15, 2026
1.20.2March 10, 2026
1.19.3July 14, 2025

Install

Size: 34.7 MB
Installs: 5,121,493 on Flathub12,254 in the last 7 days
Available via: Flatpak · Snap (2) · Arch Linux (6) · Fedora · openSUSE · Alpine Linux · Void Linux · Solus · Gentoo · Nixpkgs
All 16 packagings
Flathub (Flatpak), Snap Store, Snap Store (Nightly build), AUR (Bin build), AUR (Git build), AUR (Git · Assets build), AUR (Gold build), Arch Linux, Arch Linux (Assets build), Nixpkgs, openSUSE, RPM Fusion, Alpine Linux, Void Linux, Solus, Gentoo
Flatpak sandbox: Wide access
Runs in a sandbox, but a broad part of it is open — typical for tools that need to manage your files or system. It shows what the app is able to do, not what it does.
What it can access
Reads all your files
Can access all devices, including cameras and USB
Uses the internet
Plays and records audio

About this data

Sources: Sources matched and checked by handSources use 4 different namesSources disagree on the license
Catalog data as of: October 12, 2026

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How each source lists it (21)

Source	Name	Version	Built by	License	Description
Flathub (Flatpak)	PPSSPP	1.20.4	Official build	GPL-2.0-or-later	A PlayStation Portable emulator
Snap Store	PPSSPP	1.12.3	—	GPL-2.0	A PlayStation Portable Emulator
Snap Store (Nightly build)	PPSSPP	1.12.3	—	GPL-2.0	A PlayStation Portable Emulator
AUR (Bin build)	ppsspp-bin	1.20.4-2	Community repack	GPL-2.0-or-later	A PSP emulator for Android, Windows, Mac and Linux, written in C++
AUR (Git build)	ppsspp-git	1.19.2.r189.1f2b4de6c1-1	—	GPL-2.0-or-later	A PSP emulator written in C++
AUR (Git · Assets build)	ppsspp-assets-git	1.19.2.r189.1f2b4de6c1-1	Community build, patched	GPL-2.0-or-later	A PSP emulator written in C++
AUR (Gold build)	ppssppgold	1.20.4-4	—	GPL-2.0-or-later	A PSP emulator written in C++
AUR (Gold build)	ppssppgold-assets	1.20.4-4	—	GPL-2.0-or-later	A PSP emulator written in C++
Arch Linux	ppsspp	1.20.4-4	Distribution build	GPL-2.0-or-later	A PSP emulator written in C++
Arch Linux (Assets build)	ppsspp-assets	1.20.4-4	Distribution build	GPL-2.0-or-later	A PSP emulator written in C++
Nixpkgs	ppsspp-sdl	1.20.4	Distribution build	GPL-2.0-or-later	HLE Playstation Portable emulator, written in C++ (SDL + headless)
Nixpkgs	ppsspp-qt	1.20.4	Distribution build	GPL-2.0-or-later	HLE Playstation Portable emulator, written in C++ (Qt)
Nixpkgs	ppsspp-sdl	1.20.4	Distribution build	GPL-2.0-or-later	HLE Playstation Portable emulator, written in C++ (SDL + headless)
Nixpkgs	ppsspp-sdl-wayland	1.20.4	Distribution build	GPL-2.0-or-later	HLE Playstation Portable emulator, written in C++ (SDL + headless)
openSUSE	ppsspp	1.19.3	Distribution build	Apache-2.0 AND BSD-1-Clause AND BSL-1.0 AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND (BSD-2-Clause OR GPL-2.0-or-later) AND (BSD-3-Clause OR GPL-2.0-only) AND CC0-1.0 AND GPL-2.0-or-later WITH Autoconf-exception-3.0 AND GPL-3.0-or-later WITH Bison-exception-2.2 AND Libpng AND ISC AND IJG AND Zlib AND MIT AND CC-BY-4.0 AND FTL	PlayStation Portable Emulator
openSUSE	ppsspp-qt	1.19.3	Distribution build	Apache-2.0 AND BSD-1-Clause AND BSL-1.0 AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND (BSD-2-Clause OR GPL-2.0-or-later) AND (BSD-3-Clause OR GPL-2.0-only) AND CC0-1.0 AND GPL-2.0-or-later WITH Autoconf-exception-3.0 AND GPL-3.0-or-later WITH Bison-exception-2.2 AND Libpng AND ISC AND IJG AND Zlib AND MIT AND CC-BY-4.0 AND FTL	PPSSPP Qt backend
RPM Fusion	ppsspp-sdl	1.20.4	Distribution build	BSD and GPLv2+	PPSSPP with SDL frontend
Alpine Linux	ppsspp	1.19.3-r2	Distribution build	GPL-2.0-only	PPSSPP - a fast and portable PSP emulator
Void Linux	ppsspp	1.20.4_2	Distribution build	GPL-2.0-or-later	Fast and portable PSP emulator
Solus	ppsspp	1.19.3	Distribution build	BSD-3-Clause AND GPL-2.0-or-later	PSP emulator
Gentoo	ppsspp	1.20.4-r1	Distribution build	Apache-2.0 AND BSD-3-Clause AND BSD-2-Clause AND GPL-2.0-only AND JSON AND MIT	A PSP emulator written in C++

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