Aquaplus P/ECE

Overview

• Cores:
  • piemu (default)
• Path(s): piece
• Supported Extensions: .pex .pfi .pfs

Piemu does not currently support saved games. This is a limitation of the emulator.

BIOS

The Aquaplus P/ECE requires a bios file that is freely available from their website. It’s strongly recommended that you use version 1.18, as there are many games that do a version check and only recognize 1.1x versions.

To get the bios file, download one of the following software packages. These packages are released as a self-extracting lzh file, so you can either run the exe (if you’re on Windows), or you can change the name to update*.lzh and unzip it wherever you’d like. The BIOS will be in a folder called update, and is named all.bin. Add this file to your AmberELEC bios folder.

Game files

Games for the P/ECE come as .pex files. For many games, this file will be enough to run the game. There are some games that come packaged with a .pfs file. These games have dependencies, and require you to add the .pex file, the .pfs file, and any other file listed in the .pfs file to your games directory.

Piemu also supports loading hard drive images, which are pfi files. These files can be added to your piece directory the same way that .pex files are.

Finding games

The P/ECE is an open source console, made to be community driven, and as such most of the software and games are legally available for free online. Aquaplus hosted a few game development competitions, and all of the entrants can be found on their website. In addition, Aquaplus released a few free games themselves, and various developers hosted games on their own websites.

Below are a few places to download free P/ECE games. Many of the websites and links are older and may have fallen off the internet, so if you see a game you’re interested in with a dead link, please check if the site was archived in the Wayback Machine.