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PortaPlay - PS1 & PSP Emulator

LiveFrom A Good Boy5 apps · 3.2M installsEntertainmentFree · contains adsIn-app purchases: $9.99 per itemcom.portaplay.emu

PSX, PS1 & PSP Emulator: smooth retro play, cheat codes, save states, filters.

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Total installs
5,368
exact · Play shows 5,000+
Installs / day
+399
since last crawl
Rating
—★
— ratings · — reviews
Released
7 Aug 2026
2mo ago
Last update
28 Sept 2026
v0.2.1 · 14d ago
Countries
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not checked yet

Install history

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Change timeline

1 changes
  1. Installs milestone
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Country availability

Availability has not been checked for this app yet. “Check all countries” looks the app up in about 140 Google Play storefronts and shows where it is live, listed but not installable, or missing — plus any country-specific (custom) store listings.

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App manifest

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Data safety

declared by the developer on Google Play
  • Shares data with third parties Location, Files and docs and 3 others
  • No data collected
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • No way to ask for data deletion

This is the developer's own declaration, summarised from the Play listing. The permissions below show what the app is technically able to access.

Permissions

7 in 3 groups
2 Sensitive1 Notable4 Routine

What this app can do with your phone

  • Read photos, videos, and other files saved in your phone's shared storage
Photos/Media/FilesSensitive1

Access to photos, videos, music and other files stored on your device

  • Read photos, videos, and other files saved in your phone's shared storageread the contents of your USB storage · READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
StorageSensitive1

Access to files, photos and media saved on your phone's storage

  • Read photos, videos, and other files saved in your phone's shared storageread the contents of your USB storage · READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
OtherNotable5

Access to miscellaneous device features that don't fit other categories

  • Keep your phone's processor or screen from going to sleep, which can use more batteryprevent device from sleeping · WAKE_LOCK
  • Check whether you are online and whether you use Wi-Fi or mobile dataview network connections · ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE
  • Connect to the internet to load content and send datafull network access · INTERNET
  • Make your phone vibratecontrol vibration · VIBRATE
  • Check with Google Play that you got this app legitimatelyGoogle Play license check · com.android.vending.CHECK_LICENSE

Sensitive = can reach personal data, location, camera/mic or act on your behalf. Notable = changes how your device behaves. Routine = normal for almost every app. Source: Google Play's permission list for all versions of this app.

Store listing

Full description
PSX, PS1 & PSP Emulator: smooth retro play on Android with cheat codes, save states, filters & HD upscaling. Bring PSX, PS1 and PSP classics into one clean app. PortaPlay is a modern PS1 and PSP emulator built mobile-first for Android — fast setup, clean interface, full controller support. Whether you loved the 32-bit era of iconic platformers, JRPGs, racing classics and survival horror, or the golden age of PSP action-adventure and portable RPGs, PortaPlay runs your favorite retro games at smooth 60fps. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎮 WHY PORTAPLAY PS1 & PSP EMULATOR ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✓ Free to download and play ✓ Full PSX, PS1 and PSP game compatibility ✓ Buttery-smooth 60fps performance on modern Android ✓ Save anywhere with instant save states ✓ Fast-forward for grinding and long sessions ✓ Cloud save sync via Google Drive ✓ Bluetooth controller support (Xbox, PlayStation, Switch Pro, GameSir) ✓ HD upscaling 2x and 4x — sharper than the original hardware ✓ Visual filters: CRT scanline, smooth bilinear, retro pixel-perfect ✓ Built-in cheat code library ✓ Custom touch controls with multiple layouts ✓ Optional Premium subscription for ad-free and exclusive features ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🕹 WHAT YOU CAN PLAY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PortaPlay supports the full PS1 (also known as PSX) and PSP game libraries — thousands of classic titles from the 90s and 2000s: - Iconic 32-bit platformers and 3D adventures - Classic 90s racing and kart games - Legendary JRPGs and turn-based classics - Fighting game classics and tournament fighters - Survival horror pioneers - Portable action-adventure hits - Handheld RPG epics - Retro sports and simulation games - Puzzle and rhythm classics Bring your own game files and play them all in one polished app. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ BUILT FOR ANDROID ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Most PS1 and PSP emulators feel like ports of desktop software — confusing menus, hidden settings. PortaPlay is different. Built from scratch for Android touch users. Clean interface, no tinkering. Install, add your game files, play in under a minute. Looking for the best PS1 emulator for Android with a polished UI and better mobile UX? PortaPlay is built for you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧙 SIMPLE BIOS SETUP ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PS1 emulation requires a system BIOS file. PortaPlay includes a guided BIOS setup wizard that walks you through adding your legally-owned BIOS in seconds — no forum searching, no confusing config files. Get playing fast. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎮 CONTROLLER + GRAPHICS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Works with every major Bluetooth controller: Xbox Series, PlayStation 5 DualSense, PS4 DualShock, Switch Pro, GameSir, Razer Kishi, Backbone, 8BitDo. Smart auto-mapping per game genre. Make classic retro games look their best: 4x HD upscaling, CRT scanline shader, bilinear smoothing, retro pixel-perfect mode, multiple aspect ratios, portrait and landscape. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ☁️ CLOUD SAVE WITH GOOGLE DRIVE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Start a retro game on your phone, continue on your tablet. PortaPlay syncs save states to Google Drive so you never lose progress on your PS1 or PSP games. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ LEGAL NOTICE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PortaPlay is a PS1 and PSP emulator only — it does NOT include any games, ROMs, BIOS files, or copyrighted content. You must legally own and provide your own game files and BIOS. PortaPlay is an independent project. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Sony Computer Entertainment, the PSX/PS1/PSP brand, or any game publisher. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📥 GET STARTED IN 60 SECONDS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. Install PortaPlay PS1 & PSP Emulator 2. Grant storage permission 3. Follow the BIOS setup wizard (for PS1 games) 4. Add your legally-owned game files 5. Tap any game cover and play

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