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This tutorial is to help you with DuckStation for Android. DuckStation is considered a top PlayStation 1 emulator. All games emulate flawlessly. In addition to up-scaling 3D graphics (a staple feature in all PS1 emulators), DuckStation comes equipped with all the modern PGXP correction features. These corrections fix the inaccuracies that are evident when PlayStation 1 graphics are enhanced.
DuckStation has been around longer on Windows. This Android counterpart is relatively new and still trying to nail down exactly how it should work. Hence, in future releases, you may find that certain menu items or features have been moved around. Or a new icon appears on the main screen offering a new feature.
With all the emulator offerings as of 2024, should you use DuckStation? I suppose I would say yes just because it's free. ePSXe for Android is a good emulator, too. It's more user-friendly than DuckStation. ePSXe works on Chromebooks while DuckStation isn't available for them. But yet, ePSXe costs $4 US. It requires some setup as well.
Multi-system emulators such as RetroArch emulate PlayStation 1 great, too (and it's free). Although multi-system emulators can come off as intimidating if you're a beginner to emulation. Anyway, to wrap this up, 'free' can't be beat so going with DuckStation is fine.
This is important, so I wanted to highlight this. You can find DuckStation's folder in your main root directory: > duckstation. The picture to the right guides you there when using Astro File Manager.
When it comes to downloading PSX ISOs, Android can be a bit wonky. Sometimes, while you're downloading a large file, it might suddenly disappear without warning. Sometimes it'll tell you the download finished, but it didn't. If your Wi-Fi connectivity is spotty, the download might stall and never continue. This can happen in any app, whether using Google Chrome or cloud storage, such as Google Drive or Dropbox.
To workaround these issues, what I recommend doing is to download your PSX ISOs on a PC (or a Mac). Then connect your Android device to the PC to transfer the PSX ISOs by cable. Here's some help with that.
Next, move this zip file to a location where you want the BIOS to be on your device. It doesn't matter where. I recommend keeping everything neatly together, so the following directions will have you place the BIOS where your PlayStation 1 ISO's are located.
The title for this section is slightly misleading. I'm going to show you how to load a PSX ISO. However, there are certain steps that need to be performed to do that. I'm going to show you how to add a game directory, then to perform the final step for configuring the BIOS. These are just one-time steps that you do not need to do again.
Depending on where you downloaded the game, an SBI file might already be included in it. If that's the case, simply make sure the SBI file and your PS1 ISO have the same name. If the SBI file isn't there with your PAL ISO, you can download a collection of all SBI files below.
The Pause menu is important. This is where you'll access all the features and everything DuckStation has to offer. When a game is running, you'll see a pause icon in the upper-right of the screen. Tap it to access the Pause menu.
DuckStation is an awesome emulator, but it's not perfect. You may find that certain 3D graphics are broken. Maybe pieces of the floor are missing or other graphics have disappeared. Fortunately, this has an easy fix!
'PGXP corrections' are the hottest feature of modern PlayStation 1 emulators. The original PlayStation 1 wasn't designed to be up-scaled to high resolutions. So when PlayStation 1 emulators upscale graphics, you begin to notice obvious faults in the 3D animation and 3D texturing.
New to emulation? If you're new to video game emulation, I don't want to confuse you into thinking that save states are what you're supposed to use as the only means to save your progress with DuckStation. Save states are an optional feature. You can still save your game at save points as you would on a real PlayStation 1. In-game saves are loaded at the game's title screen (like on a real PS1) - they're not loaded via the Pause menu.
Pro Tip: If you're playing a game that has in-game saving (such as an RPG) I recommend that you use both save states and in-game saving to save your games. That way you'll always have a backup.
While a game is running, tap the Pause icon then select Toggle Fast Forward. DuckStation will return to the game and it will be running in fast forward. To turn off fast forward, simply repeat the same steps.
This is a little tricky. At the time I'm writing this, DuckStation doesn't have a shortcut to capture a screenshot. It does, however, let you set a gamepad button to capture screenshots when you go to Controller Settings > Hotkeys > Save Screenshot.
This is the 'fun' part. DuckStation doesn't let you edit or delete cheats/patch codes. However, cheats are being pulled from a text file. Hence, editing and deleting cheats is simply a matter of editing the text file.
First of all, make sure you read my directions on preparing ISOs and adding a game directory. Notes about downloading ISOs is also an important read. Don't be impatient and skim through my directions!
Did you download the BIOS from another website? An improper or bad BIOS could cause a black screen. Try the BIOS I offer in this tutorial. To verify that the BIOS is working, you can test it by tapping the hamburger menu then Start BIOS - as shown here .
Find out if this is a game-specific issue or a global issue. Try loading other games. If other games work, then it's clear there's something wrong with your PlayStation 1 ISO. Try downloading the game in question from other sites. If all games load to a black screen, keep reading.
With DuckStation on Windows, a common black screen issue is when people have a BIN/CUE for a game and they load the BIN file when they're supposed to be loading the CUE file . DuckStation for Android, though, auto-detects your games so this shouldn't be an issue. But still, this could be an Android issue if the games you downloaded aren't set up properly for DuckStation. I recommend downloading games from other sites. If that doesn't help... I suppose it's possible DuckStation isn't compatible with your device.
Do all your games load fine, but you reached a black screen during gameplay? That would mean your game crashed. That's tricky to troubleshoot due to the many possible causes. DuckStation is still an in-progress emulator, so it's probably a bug. I hope you saved your game! Crashing can occur if you saved your game near or during a CGI cutscene. Crashing can certainly occur with a ROM hack or fan translation. If you've been tweaking around settings, perhaps something you did caused the crash. Try to undo it. I would also try disabling PGXP corrections. If all else fails, you may need to jump ship from DuckStation and try ePSXe or RetroArch (with the Beetle PSX core).
Thank you for reading my tutorial! If you found it useful, please spread the word that this is an awesome site to get help with emulators and emulation! If you have questions, you're welcome to email me or message me on social media.
DuckStation is a fairly straight-forward emulator to set up. Place your ROMs in Emulation/roms/psx. Place your BIOS directly in Emulation/bios. Read the Configuration section to learn more about DuckStation and its folder locations.
These file locations apply regardless of where you chose to install EmuDeck (to your internal SSD, to your SD Card, or elsewhere). Some emulator configuration files will be located on the internal SSD as listed below.
Paths beginning with Emulation/.. correspond to your EmuDeck install location. If you installed on an SD Card, your path may be /run/media/mmcblk0p1/Emulation/roms/... If you installed on your internal SSD, your path may be /home/deck/Emulation/roms/..
The EmuDeck Compressor will compress your Playstation 1 ROMs from ISO or BIN/CUE to CHD. If your ROM is a BIN/CUE, the Compression Tool will only compress it if you have both the BIN and the CUE files for a ROM. If the ROM is in a zip file or is missing a paired BIN or CUE file, the Compression Tool will not detect the ROM.
M3U files can be used to manage multiple discs for DuckStation. When the time comes to switch discs, use the Left Trackpad Touch Menu Hotkey. A full list of hotkeys and a tutorial on how to use Steam Input profiles can be found here: #hotkeys.
If you do not have access to a keyboard for the below section, use L2 to right click and R2 to left click. Alternatively, remote into your Steam Deck using one of the methods found in the FAQ, How do I remotely control my Steam Deck?.
If the above steps did not work and you are getting an error message along the lines of Flatpak not installed, your Flatpak is likely installed at the system level instead. Select one of the below solutions:
Solution 2: Add sudo in front of the commands written in Step 2 and Step 5. In Step 2, write sudo flatpak remote-info --log flathub org.duckstation.DuckStation and in Step 5, write sudo flatpak update --commit=put_commit_code_here org.duckstation.DuckStation.
Ugh...I downloaded it the other day and never got to pulling out a disc. That's just disappointing. I was hoping I could maybe use that with my gravis pad pro usb controller which is a 100% copycat of the non-dual shock ps1 pad.
I was under the impression that Spyro was one of the many Sony releases that had quite a few security checks in it to prevented it from being burned or played in emulators. Have all the security checks been found and the executable modified so you can play in an emulator without weird bugs occurring (loss of progress, missing impossible to collect eggs, etc.)
I played Spyro using rips I made myself of the Spyro disks I bought in the 90s. As detailed here I used Apple's Disk Utility on my Mac to create CDR images of them, which are basically Apple's version of an ISO image. I did not modify my rips in any way, so things like the mod chip check mentioned in that video must be handled correctly by emulation.
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