QJ.NET and Lik-sang Kickoff Summer Homebrew Competition |
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PSP gamers are eager and always on the lookout for new and exciting PSP homebrew applications and games. With the summer upon us, teachers are packing up their bags and calling it quits for a few months while the younger folks have all too much time on their hands. Now is the perfect time to be digging into your pockets (and under the couch) to find that last 37 cents in order to pick up the latest PSP title. But wait, you go to the store and find there are only 6 UMD releases coming out this summer. D'oh!
But don't start considering which boyscout or brownies troop that you are going to join just yet boys and girls. We have been plotting in the QJ Gaming room over the past few months, listening to your ideas and feedback. Our answer is to team up with Lik-Sang in order to create the best PSP Homebrew Contest yet! We know how much you love the PSP, (can we blame you?) but with the lack of game releases on the PSP this summer things may get tense at times. So instead of sitting on your back porch, roasting ants crossing the "Grand Canyon" on the cement, we are offering up hot prizes and the chance for some of that sex and drug ridden fame that rockstars mutter about in their latest song on the radio.
Here's the skinny, we want you, your PSP and the greatest game or application on the planet that hasn't been thought up yet. This is a no holds barred competition, you can use any programming means necessary to create your game; Lua, C, or Python just to name a few. All languages and concepts are allowed (as long as there aren't any animals hurt in the process). Note: For this competition Flash games and applications will not be accepted. We may be holding competitions in the future for flash so keep your eyes peeled.
To top of this forbiddingly yummy looking desert we have gone all out and cherry-picked some of the best accessories to enhance your PSP experience. So without further ado, on to the rules and *gasp* prizes.
- You are allowed to enter multiple entries but only one may be considered for a prize.
- Your game or application needs to display this Splash Screen [ JPG or PNG ] prior or during loading.
- Must be new submissions. Any new version of a previously released application or game will be excluded from the final judging.
After all entries are submitted, the top ten homebrew titles will be selected by our Judges. The developers who have graciously accepted our invitation to act as judges for the competition are; Fanjita co-author of eLoader, tutorial guru and homebrew developer YeldarB. From the list of the top ten submissions, it will then be up to you, our readers, to determine a winner!
Deadlines
First Place:
4GB Datel Hard Drive
3600 mAh Datel X2 Battery Pack
3800 mAh External Battery
1800 mAh Clip-On Battery
PSP Replacement Faceplate (any color)
PSP Replacement Button Set (any color)
Logitech PlayGear Pocket Case
Our first place winner is going home with a sweet package. The reigning king of this prize pack will be Datel's 4GB Hard Drive giving you plenty of disk space for all your homebrew and media needs. Running out of battery power will be a thing of the past with over 6x the normal battery life of the PSP you can run your PSP into the ground like the Energizer Bunny. Hooked up with a nice custom faceplate replacement with buttons, the color of your choice. Don't you forget the Logitech Playgear Pocket. This baby will protect your PSP from all sorts of accidental drops and spills. We swear by these cases here at QJ.
Second Place:
PSP Blaze TV Adapter
3800 mAh External Battery
PSP Replacement Faceplate (any color)
PSP Replacement Button Set (any color)
Logitech PlayGear Pocket Case
Next, our second place winner will receive an awesome setup as well. Not only do they get the custom faceplate replacement with buttons the color of their choice, and the 3800 mAh External Battery, but they also get a PSP Blaze TV Adapter so they can play their PSP games (and even winning homebrew submission) on their TV. Lets not forget that Logitech Playgear Pocket. Print out custom case inserts to style your new protective case.
Third Place:
SanDisk 1GB Pro Duo Memory Stick
Not to fret, we got third place covered as well, thats why we are tossing you a brand new 1 GB SanDisk Memory Stick Pro Duo. This ain't your daddies memory stick, kids! And if it makes it any more illustrious, this stick happen to be pulled out of our E3 grab bag - so while you may not have been able to attend E3, at least you can say your memory stick did.
Competition Update: We have listened to your concerns reguarding time provided for the competition. We want to give all developers ample time to complete their entry to the best of their ability, so we have extended the competition for an extra 30 days. Date changes can be seen above, please take note of the new deadlines!
All contestants who submit a valid entry will be awarded with premium membership with QJ.net. This includes custom options among all the great additional features in the forums, access to the Developer's Dungeon and no advertisements while browsing the site. Just another small way of saying thanks for supporting QJ.net and being a part of the PSP homebrew scene.
So what are you waiting for, get out there and start coding!
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Its Great to see Qj.net/liksang.com are running a comp..thx for rewarding devs.
you guys rock in my book
i wish i could program....
hopefully some great homebrew comes out of this.
w00000t for psp.
That gives me 3 weeks . . . damn my trip to Italy! It gets in the way of more important things!
and btw i RLY think sony should make an official tv adapter. mebe one with a similar connector like the remote. This would be great!
This is a great idea. What better way to jumpstart the homebrew community than by offering a pile of sweet loot?
I've got an idea, but it would be completly online (no single player mode, it would ruin the expirence). Is this okay?
nice prizes, I always love coding competitions cuz they bring out some of the best homebrew games!
Sounds like some nice homebrew will come out of this! Nice work. And Lik Sang are giving out some nice prizes, Kudos to them!
I can't wait for all the new games to start flooding in! And there's a great list of prizes too!
#8 - As long as it isn't against th rules, it's fine.
"Must be new submissions. Any new version of a previously released application or game will be excluded from the final judging."
Please clarify "new version"; ie: if someone made say, another OS/shell (which would likely score badly anyway) from scratch would it be considered a "new version of a previously released app"?
Great job igniting the homebrew scene!
wow! some kicka$$ prizes! a blaze tv and tv adaptor!?!?! M-AZING!! i wonder how much the tv costs itself!
just the adaptor, not the screen
damn!!! i wish i could program.... ahh does prizes are sooooo awesome!!!
Good stuff!! Nice insentive and nice to here people being positive!
#12: From my knowledge of the competition, this means that you can not release a new version/update to a previously made games/applications. This means you can not submit PSP-OSS v4 or anything like that. This was a big issue in previous competitions, not making new games.
Although, you can release a new program, like a new shell, or a new clone of a popular game, just no updates to existing games/applications. Do you get my drift?
lol just today I started my first LUA program so I will have to incorporate that splash screen in and enter my game.
time to learn how to program!
I will be the pwnage :)
do we have to make the program or just give them the idea pleeassse replay ASAP!
Yes, represent PSP-HACKS!!
@ #22 - You will have to make the game yourself. If you do not know how to code, or do not meet the requirements set in the announcement, then you can not/should not participate. This is a coder-only competition.
I think flash programmers should be in this competition so 2.7 users can benifit from this too. What about 2.7 users?????
This is an unrealisticly short time frame for this competition. Especially with no repeat entrys, I don't think there will be many exceptional homebrews.
What are the specific judging criteria? Or is it basically whatever the judges like the most.
yes i agree with #26, if there was more time we would see greater homebrew.
I'm a developer, but sadly I'm not entering. You know why? LOOK HOW SHORT THAT TIME FRAME IS!
can i enter
nocomment
45 days is not too short, we had the same time limit the last homebrew contest and it turned out many a fine program.
I know that im going on vacation for a week during this period so the time frame is even more reduced... coming up with an entirely new program is gonna be tough given the time frame. Still going to try though but not promising anything.
Thanks for the invitation as judge..just read it here;)..of course id love to play the games but im afraid i wont find enough time, sorry..
Im gonna enter, i got quite alot of ideas.
Bye, going to try em out!
--Vaza
This is really exciting. I bet really cool projects will come out of this contest. Good luck to everybody participating!
i whish i could program although i know alot about lua and im writeing a fighting game but not reaslly a professional so good luck for every body wishing to participate!
hmm.. really stupid program contest idea thing here, someone could easy as all send in a program that would brick the judge's psps
i cant see some of the pictures. What firefox pluggin is requirred?
The embed tags should be fixed.
I am having the same problem. Whatever they changed in this post today is causing stuff not to show up and instead it's asking for a plugin.
can you enter a game that you are working on with someone else like both people adding code and graphics and other things
the 4gig hdd is *****ed up, the extension in mine got messed up so now my psp cant read the damn thing and i spent 225 for that *****!
If someone is working on a homebrew for months and haven't released it yet, he can join the competition. But if another one who had just released his homebrew before this announcement, he can't join. It this fair?
Also, for all those exsiting homebrew developers with their great homebrew already released, they can't join. They've already given so much to the community and now they know they can't join this competition with their homebrew only 'cos they're already released it and shared it with us. What kind of motivation is that? Now, if I've a homebrew in development, I'll never release or share it in public. I'll wait for some of these ridiculous competition annoucement.
Just my 2 cents.
Are teams allowed to enter homebrew as a team? If that's so, I think it may be a little unfair for us by ourselves because each member only has to do portion of the work. If each member did similar work to us then their homebrew will be un-matchable compared to us by ourselves. So are there any rules on it? Or will I just have to form my own team?
it would be cool if someone hacks the psp 2.71 using a flash exploit.but yeah that would not happen i guess.well maybe can 2.50-2.60 was thought to be unhackable but gta pwned.
You guys just want homebrew apps and games? What about flash and other content. Why so focused on homebrew when there is flash, html, and javascript? You guys really got to CHANGE the name of this competiton becuase some people are not interested in homebrew but flash.
"homebrew" should be taken out and maybe a word like "projects" or somthing. If homebrew dosen't apply to flash.
It will still be OUR content, sweat, and hard work at the end of this competition right? I seen a lot of things, works, and art snatched in most contests by big players.
first 50 posts! w00t! (or 49 :/)
Eat that posting fools I got 50th post.
well it doesnt matter guys, cause I GoT THE 51st POST!! YEAH,I'M THE DOG 51 51 51 51 51 WOOOOOOOOOT.
lol
Look new firmware is out on the japanese web site !!! http://www.jp.playstation.com/psp/update/ud_01.html
lol
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ya looks like 2.80! not
Hi.I am am currently working on cracking the 2.7 firmware coz no1 else will.I have also made a flash homebrew menu.visit www.geocities.com/HellsPlumber for more info.That count as an entry?=D
This could be unfair for flash users becuase other programming languages can outbeat it and outmatch it in speed.
I think ill have a go at programming lua again, are you allowed to use GFX designers in your project? or must the whole thing be done by one person?
ok...erm im no coding master...so is it allowed to use macromedia flash...im much....MUCH better with that..and besides....i was creating a game for the psp with it...newgrounds would be happy if so
quit *****....
jus make something and have fun
also there was already a flash competition...idiots
I know this sounds dumb, but i was at my grandmas house yesterday trying to figure out how i can mess up the flash chip and downgrade. I made a list.
When does my psp use the flash chip most:
Starting up
Installing update
So i tried restarting my psp. right when it would boot, i would yank the battery pack out. I did this atleast 10 times, but nothing ever happened.
But then i thought, my psp is going to use the flash chip the most when something is being saved to it. When updating, it says do not remove the ac adapter. What if you do. Will it corrupt your firmware? Will it do nothing? What if i yanked the battery pack out. Better yet, the memory card. (Its taking the data from the memorycard) Will we get that message we saw in the 2.0-1.5 downgrade? Will the psp completely restart with firmware 1.0? I'm going to try it when the next update comes out. Anyone else want to try it?
You are so stupid! If you remove the battery pack or turn off your PSP while its updating your firmware you just killed your PSP. Beleieve I tried it...dumbest mistake ever..
if when your firmware is updating you pull the battery it will half install and will not work me m8s plug went dodgy wen he was updating and turned off at 93% it would just show a green light and turn off never working again. sony did send him a new on tho
Can we enter flash for this competition?
I was wondering if anybody would want to trade for my 2.71 psp if anyone does you can contact me through
tomas_bling@hot mail.com
1.5 fo life f*****
should be undiluted platinum
this Faceplate Sucks, coz i bought one of these but the color RED.... samebrand. But Unfortuntly it broke, the Screen of the Faceplate came out.. so Cheap.
Will we see all of them after the end of the competition or are they being released to the main page a little bit at a time? I only ask because the premise of the competition is for players to have something to play with in the midst of the release drought. :)
I HAVE MADE A 2.71 AND A 2.7 DOWNGADER TO 1.5 IT REALLY WORKS I HAVE BEEN WORKING ON IT FOR 4 WEEKS
HOW DO I POST IT IN
G@M3 ! P3@C3 OUT !
am i allowed to submit my gui mod?
even though I released them to the public already.
it will be nice to win something :)
on september 1 school starts again so i dont have much time to use my psp
i entered the flash contest and want to vote but where did the polls go?? help is flash alowed onthis contest becuse ther is a homebrew that runsflash on1.5 its at napoleonhimself .googlepages.com
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G@M3 is lieing
well if u amde 2.71 downgrader u wud know hwo to post it on the site now wouldnt you
why would you even bother to say that hes 'lieing'
i got my cygwin , pspsdk toolchain up and running
and ready to dominate
lol
\m/