1. Ryujinx is an open source Nintendo Switch emulator for Mac that offers solid performance and precision when it comes to emulation, all on an intuitive and well-designed interface. The emulator is programmed in C#, thanks to which it's also compatible with other operating systems like Windows and Linux.
2. Created by Linux, PCSX is an emulator for the first PlayStation games that allows you to use CDs from the legendary Sony console on your Mac OS X. However, you can not use CD images on PCSX so you'll have to burn them to disc first.
3. Mac OS X Snow Leopard PlayStation Emulator, PCSX-Reloaded: Hello there, A while back I released an instructable on getting PCSX up and running in Snow Leopard, I have since found a more stable/ and quite frankly all round better program, PCSX-Reloaded. In my case, it has been alot more reliable and easier.

PCSX2 is an open source Playstation 2 emulator for Mac. This program run a great majority of the games, and there are no important issues that could possibly be fixed without requiring major modifications to the emulator. The emulator is incompatible with PlayStation games.

PlayStation Portable is one of the best portable gaming consoles developed by Sony. Considering the fact that Mac OS X has very few games that could be played onto it or the meager number of games available for Mac OS X, it makes good sense to use PSP emulators on Mac OS X. PSP Games like Naruto, Tekken 6, God Of War, GTA are really good and playing them on Mac OS X is pretty smooth and awesome experience!. Here, we will cover the Best 3 PSP Emulators for Mac OS X to enjoy PlayStation portable games on your mac.

Top 3 PlayStation Portable PSP Emulators for Mac OS X

PSP Emulator # 1 – Open Emu

Open Emu is perhaps the best retro gaming console emulators available for Mac OS X. Though it itself is a collection of “cores” or libraries of other gaming emulation projects, it works flawlessly.

Open Emu uses the core of PPSSPP for the emulation of PSP and runs PSP games via the same.

Open Emu PSP Core has features such as –

• Memory emulation (Memory card emulation)
• Save game & load game support
• Gamepad & Joystick controller support to play Games

PSP Emulator # 2 – PPSSPP

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Though, PPSSPP is the original PSP emulator product, while testing on our Mac OS X it did cause a game to stop in-between.

But nevertheless, it’s really a fast PSP emulator which will let you play your PSP games on your Mac without a hustle.

Unlike, Open Emu which is like install & ready to play, PPSSPP requires you to install SDL 2 on your Mac OS X, which can be summarized as follows –

1. Open the Terminal app.
2. Paste this into a Terminal: ruby -e “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)”
3. Follow the instructions, and wait for the installation to finish.
4. Paste this into a Terminal: brew install sdl2

Now, download & run the PPSSPP emulator from the below link to play PSP games on your Mac OS X with Game controller support.

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PSP Emulator # 3 – JPCSP

JPCSP is a good alternative to PPSSPP for Mac OS X, like PPSSPP JPCSP too provides a separate PSP emulation library. To top it off, JPCSP is written in Java and hence has a common library for its Android & Windows version too. This makes JPCSP a regularly updated PSP emulator.

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However, we encountered some issues while running the Java-based emulator on our El Capitan & Sierra machines, but the emulator works fine on Mavericks & other previous Mac OS X versions like Snow Leopard, Mountain Lion etc.

So, these are the 3 Best PSP emulators for Mac OS X which will let you enjoy your favorite PSP game iso / ROM on your Mac OS X device, and thus making your Mac a really good gaming companion.