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> using existing open source ones as Sony did for the PS Classic

That’s interesting, I wonder if that is the case the for the PS1 emulator on the PS3/Vita used for the PlayStation Classics titles

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I think that's a proprietary in-house emulator known as POPS. The fact that Sony already had an in-house PlayStation emulator for the ARM-based Vita makes their decision to use something else for the PS Classic a bit strange.

I imagine some third party approached Sony with a "we'll do the work, take the risk, etc. You just give your blessing, tell us who do we need to contact for final approval to make sure the brand is being well represented, and where to send the royalty checks" kind of deal.

Whilst the vita was an arm based system, it also included almost all of the psp hardware for backwards compatability.

They simply reused pops from the psp, with no major changes, so it still ran on a mips system.

This is also how the PSP runs PS1 games - by essentially being a PS1 and loading the game data from UMD or Memorystick.

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