README.md

hello-world-psp

A hello world like app for the Sony Playstation Portable handheld videogame system (PSP).

Prerequisites

Setup pspdev toolchain, see docs.

You can use Docker image of pspdev. There's helper script that uses aliases this container in this repo:

sudo cp pspdev-docker /usr/local/bin

How to build

• Clone this repo and cd into the repo folder.
• If you used the docker alternative, run:

psp-docker make

You should see an output similar to:

psp-gcc -I. -I/usr/local/pspdev/psp/sdk/include  -D_PSP_FW_VERSION=500   -c -o main.o main.c
psp-gcc -I. -I/usr/local/pspdev/psp/sdk/include  -D_PSP_FW_VERSION=500  -L. -L/usr/local/pspdev/psp/sdk/lib -specs=/usr/local/pspdev/psp/sdk/lib/prxspecs -Wl,-q,-T/usr/local/pspdev/psp/sdk/lib/linkfile.prx   main.o /usr/local/pspdev/psp/sdk/lib/prxexports.o  -lpspdebug -lpspdisplay -lpspge -lpspctrl -lpspsdk -lc -lpspnet -lpspnet_inet -lpspnet_apctl -lpspnet_resolver -lpsputility -lpspuser -lpspkernel -o Tutorial.elf
psp-fixup-imports Tutorial.elf
psp-prxgen Tutorial.elf Tutorial.prx
pack-pbp EBOOT.PBP PARAM.SFO NULL  \
        NULL NULL NULL  \
        NULL  Tutorial.prx NULL
[0]        316 bytes | PARAM.SFO
[1]          0 bytes | NULL
[2]          0 bytes | NULL
[3]          0 bytes | NULL
[4]          0 bytes | NULL
[5]          0 bytes | NULL
[6]      86842 bytes | Tutorial.prx
[7]          0 bytes | NULL

How to run

• You can either run it on an emulator like PPSSPP
• If your PSP is modded to run homebrew software (e.g. runs on Custom Firmware), you can copy paste the EBOOT.PBP file to your PSP memory card, following a path like: PSP/GAME/<some-name-of-your-choice>/EBOOT.PBP

End result should look similar to this:

Resources

• hello world on psp-dev.org
• psp dev forums c programming tutorials
• pspdev github page