Now go solve some crimes. Just don’t look too closely at the NPC faces.

Making work on PPSSPP is a labor of love. It requires tweaking the renderer, mastering the "pause buffer" trick, and accepting graphical compromises. But for the true crime genre fan, there is a bizarre joy in driving a stolen Crown Victoria across a broken, loading-screen-riddled Manhattan while a chopped-up Mobb Deep beat plays from your phone’s speaker.

The PSP version had a basic multiplayer deathmatch. On PPSSPP, Ad Hoc works with zero configuration, but barely anyone plays—expect desync after 5 minutes.