DuckStation
DuckStation HD PS1 PSX Emulator
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Android App Analysis and Review: DuckStation, Developed by Stenzek. Listed in Arcade Category. Current Version Is 0.1-8969-g611bb8fb4, Updated On 02/05/2025 . According to users reviews on Google Play: DuckStation. Achieved Over 3 million Installs. DuckStation Currently Has 16 thousand Reviews, Average Rating 4.3 Stars
DuckStation is an simulator/emulator of the Sony PlayStation(TM) / PSX / PS1 console, focusing on playability, speed, and long-term maintainability. The goal is to be as accurate as possible while maintaining high performance.A "BIOS" ROM image is required to start the emulator and to play games. A ROM image is not provided with the emulator for legal reasons, you should dump this from your own console using Caetla/Unirom/etc. Games are NOT provided with the emulator, it can only be used to play legally purchased and dumped games.
DuckStation supports cue, iso, img, ecm, mds, chd, and unencrypted PBP game images. If your games are in other formats, you will need to re-dump them. For single track games in bin format, you can use https://www.duckstation.org/cue-maker/ to generate cue files.
Features include:
- OpenGL, Vulkan and software rendering
- Upscaling, texture filtering, and true colour (24-bit) in hardware renderers
- Widescreen rendering in supported games (no stretching!)
- PGXP for geometry precision, texture correction, and depth buffer emulation (fixes texture "wobble"/polygon fighting)
- Adaptive downsampling filter
- Post processing shader chains (GLSL and experimental Reshade FX).
- 60fps in PAL games where supported
- Per-game settings (set enhancements and controller mapping for each game individually)
- Up to 8 controllers in supported game with multitap
- Controller and keyboard binding (+vibration for controllers)
- RetroAchievements in supported games (https://retroachievements.org)
- Memory card editor (move saves, import gme/mcr/mc/mcd)
- Built in patch code database
- Save states with preview screenshots
- Blazing fast turbo speeds in mid to high end devices
- Emulated CPU overclocking to improve FPS in games
- Runahead and rewind (do not use on slow devices)
- Controller layout editing and scaling (in pause menu)
DuckStation supports both 32-bit/64-bit ARM, and 64-bit x86 devices. However, due to it being a more accurate emulator, hardware requirements can be moderate. If you have a 32-bit ARM device, please do not expect the emulator to perform well - you will need at least a 1.5GHz CPU for good performance.
If you have an external controller, you will need to map the buttons and sticks in settings.
Game compatibility list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1H66MxViRjjE5f8hOl5RQmF5woS1murio2dsLn14kEqo/edit?usp=sharing
"PlayStation" is a registered trademark of Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Limited. This project is not affiliated in any way with Sony Interactive Entertainment.
Duck icon by icons8: https://icons8.com/icon/74847/duck
This app is provided under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives International License (BY-NC-ND 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
Games shown are:
- Hover Racing: http://www.psxdev.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=636
- Fromage: https://chenthread.asie.pl/fromage/
- PSXNICCC Demo: https://github.com/PeterLemon/PSX/tree/master/Demo/PSXNICCC
We are currently offering version 0.1-8969-g611bb8fb4. This is our latest, most optimized version. It is suitable for many different devices. Free download directly apk from the Google Play Store or other versions we're hosting. Moreover, you can download without registration and no login required.
We have more than 2000+ available devices for Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, Oppo, Vivo, Motorola, LG, Google, OnePlus, Sony, Tablet ... with so many options, it’s easy for you to choose games or software that fit your device.
It can come in handy if there are any country restrictions or any restrictions from the side of your device on the Google App Store.
What's New
- Multi-threaded rendering.
- Merging of multi-disc games in list/grid.
- Custom game titles/regions.
- Texture cache and replacements.
- New enhancements.
- New patch code system.
- Game compatibility improvements.
- Updated UI.
- Merging of multi-disc games in list/grid.
- Custom game titles/regions.
- Texture cache and replacements.
- New enhancements.
- New patch code system.
- Game compatibility improvements.
- Updated UI.
Recent Comments
Joseph Schreiber
Amazing emulator! Easy to configure and lots of options for advanced users. It still have one problem I haven't found a solution for, same for the PC version: there is no music in games where it is on the CD like a regular Compact Disc; at least on the ones I've tried so far like Darkstone and others.
Laura Reed
Singlehandedly the best PS1 emulator I have ever used. It has enhancements for anyone, and while I personally prefer a mostly vanilla look to my games, there's a lot of value to this. There are no features missing on the Android version from what I can tell, and honestly the UI on this version is better than on PC.
Yoda The
The app plays games great, but I started really playing on the app today and now it's causing the phone to restart about once after every hour play session Edit: I found the problem, I had to uninstall and reinstall the app. After doing so I've had no further issues. It's too bad about memory card saves being gone, but, luckily I hadn't played too much
Ricky Ray
Definitely one of the better PSX emulators. It has handled every BIOS I've used on it with no problems. It has, also, run several patched ISOs without crashing, too. Edit: the update definitely did this app dirty. It's not totally unplayable, but it's not good any more, either. I get that you'd have been unlisted without switching to API31, but still...
Elechain
I love this emulator. Simple UI and easy to navigate, no ads from what I've been seeing, and emulation runs great. I had an issue before where things were too quick and registered twice, but I realized that was my bad and I overclocked the emulation to 200%. If you're using bin and cue files, open the cue files. I'm pretty sure isos will just open normally. Love your work, maybe if you have detected a rom the first time itll stay on the main page, but I just press play anyway.
Elliot Torres
So, I've tried multiple PS1 emulators, with varying degrees of quality in games. Vagrant Story has always given me issues with graphics and audio. Until I tried Duckstation. Ran flawlessly with default settings. Running on a Samsung A53 5g, low to mid-range device as of last year. Not sure about some of the low ratings. Easy to set up, though it does take little software knowhow to do so. Lots of features, and - free.
ChronosSage (ChronosSage)
This emulator works well but I'm having a problem with analog control. My phone is an s21 fe and I've tested 3 controllers. The razer Kashi v1, the gamesir usbc, and a sn30pro and all of them have problems with diagonals on the analogs. I tried changing the axis scale so I turned it down to .85 and nothing changed. So I tried turning it up to 1.15 and still nothing. But after that it seems analog broke if I set the scale to 1.00 or less it doesn't work but a scale is 1.01 or greater does.
Zanith Moeun
Great PSX emulator, plays what I want no issues. I can't recommend it on Android 13 though.. All the system files like save data is hidden behind android/data folder for the app. So you won't have access to save files unless you directly connect it to a pc to get it. Third party apps like Zarchiver or FTP cannot access it either. The hassle to backup your saves is a concern. Devs should add option to have save files stored in a more accessible area, also option to edit cheat files. A+ otherwise.