PPSSPP Manager¶

PPSSPP Manager installs PPSSPP, finds your PSP games and puts them in Steam, so a game starts from Steam, also in Game Mode. It also sets PPSSPP's common graphics, audio, controller and display settings, and can rename ISO/CSO files from their game metadata. Use game files you are entitled to use.

Install¶

Install it from the portal (the Gaming tab), or from a checkout of the repository:

bazzite-console/apps/ppsspp/install.sh                         # the app, its launcher, a menu entry and a Desktop icon
bazzite-console/apps/ppsspp/install.sh --no-desktop-shortcut   # without the Desktop icon
bazzite-console/apps/ppsspp/install.sh --uninstall             # remove it; --purge removes its settings and log too

The launcher is ~/.local/bin/ps5-ppsspp-manager; the app runs on the suite's shared Python environment.

Use it¶

The header shows the PPSSPP version, Your games (the games found) and those Available in Steam; Refresh reads everything again. Beside the title stands the app's state. Under the introduction, which links to PPSSPP's release notes and to this wiki, a row of pills does the setting up: PPSSPP Install, PPSSPP Uninstall and Games Rename. Two lines below the pills say where each stands, and then come three tabs: Your games, Settings and Log.

PPSSPP: Not installed. or Installed., with the button to use under it. The tooltip says which release is installed, or what Install takes, and when a newer PPSSPP is out. When another release than the one pinned for this version of the app is installed, the tooltip and the log say so, and Install puts the pinned one in. Uninstall takes PPSSPP out again; its own folder, with your saves and settings, stays.
Game folder: the app looks for games in ~/Games/PSP, and in Games/PSP on a USB drive or an SD card; nothing is chosen or browsed to.

Your games¶

Tick the games you want in Steam and press Update Steam: the app adds them to Steam as non-Steam games and takes out the ones you unticked. The games are in Steam's library under Non-Steam, on the desktop, in Big Picture Mode and in Game Mode alike. The app has no Play button: a game is started from Steam. Change Steam from Desktop Mode: in Game Mode Steam is the session itself and cannot close for the change. Steam artwork… takes a SteamGridDB API key, with which the app takes the covers from SteamGridDB. Steam in the line under the table opens Steam's library, and PPSSPP settings opens PPSSPP's own window, for what the Settings tab does not set.

Games Rename opens the Rename files window, which names ISO or CSO images after their game metadata; PBP files are not renamed, and with no ISO or CSO image found the pill is off. A renamed game that is in Steam needs Update Steam afterwards.

Settings¶

PPSSPP's common graphics, audio, controller and display settings, each written into PPSSPP's own settings file the moment you change it.

Log¶

Everything the app said and did, with the time. The same lines are in ~/.local/share/ps5-ppsspp-manager/ps5-ppsspp-manager.log, which turns over at 1 MB (the three older files are kept). install.sh --uninstall keeps it; --purge removes it.

PSP game compatibility and performance vary by title and are not guaranteed on PlayStation 5 hardware running Bazzite.