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PSP homebrew meets the rest of the world |
Listed in: News, Site News, Opinions & Analysis Tags: Firmware Emulation, Genesis, PSP-DEV
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The PSP scene has been around and thriving for more than a year now, we have all been there to witness its dark genesis to our shores (PSP debuted to US with the then-dubbed "invincible firmware 1.50"), to its phoenix-like rebirth (when a group called PSP-DEV first come up with the swaploit and paved the way for the now "golden firmware 1.50"). After a few dark days of the dreaded updates, causing the scene to become somewhat a bit slow, the PSP is once again alive and kicking thanks to the series of breakthroughs (discovery of kernel access, creation of downgraders, and firmware emulation) we've all been lovin'.
With these newer developments, the PSP's life is quickly revitalizing. That's why we've been noticing more and more newbie beginner questions, which are actually a good thing because it shows the interest is growing. It is then not surprising to see T3, considered as every gadgeteer's bible, featuring the perks of having a PSP in its July 2006 ish'. They even covered a full-feature story that serves as a walkthrough for those who are new with PSP homebrew.
The T3 story, all graced with blurbs like "There are hundreds of homebrews (non-commercial home-made applications) out there for the PSP" and "The homebrew scene has created everything from universal remote controls, Wi-Fi signal sniffers, PDA applications and, of course, emulators" runs a step-by-step process on how to install emulators on a PSP.
DrNicket tipped us that there was an article in the latest T3 magazine with PSPUpdates in it, so we went to buy a copy and check it out for ourselves. Let me tell ya, we were all smiles, not because PSPUpdates was in it, but because homebrew is finally getting more exposure -- a sign that the technology we all love is getting the recognition it deserves from the public.
The appreciation just doesn't just go out to the developers who worked so hard to bring us all these homebrew games, applications, emulators, and expolits, to the sites that spread the word about every development, but instead to the whole community as well. Yep, that includes you, my friend. PSP homebrew being publicized to a bigger population means more opportunities and possibilities for everyone. It informs more people, and with more people the broader our horizons will be.
Those currently developing could add creating programs for PSP to their resume (hey, if more people starts to recognize it, it'll get more respect), prompting more outside coders to take interest providing us with fresh ideas and creations. It'll also attract more interest from even those who are beginners to all of this, giving us more opportunities to rear future Fanjita, Edison Carter, Ditlew, Nem, Booster, Dark_Alex's etc. Add all of that up, and what do the rest of us get? A whole lotta load of more homebrew!
We here at QJ.Net definitely welcome this trend, as much as we welcome those who are new to the world of PSP and its currently limitless ever expanding possibilities. We are ecstatic that the media are spreading the word about what was once considered taboo, meanwhile we have to ask what your thoughts on this subject are. Let us know in the comments!
Via dcemu
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im fed up with the crapE ports of consoles games
i think the homebrew scene shud stay underground where it belongs
feck the mainstream
p.s. lol internet you 1st post joke is getting real old now (you'll see him type it below)
what a smeg head
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But again im not surprised they didnt release a new f/w. I think the ability to have homebrew on the PSP(making it so versatile) will only boost the sales and popularity of the PSP. It would be unwise of Sony to try to lock down the PSP further.
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a Golden Age,
much like the period
of Enlightenment in the 1700's,
or the Renaissance, if you will.
We should all deeply appreciate
the efforts of each and every developer;
They have helped us reach this amazing
milestone of magnificence in this
individual iconic trapeze in time,
allowing us to ascend the amazing
sequential steps they caringly created
in order to reach the fervently fascinating
heaven of homebrew.
You may call me S.
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It's a good thing that there are a handful of mean ass developers breaking outside of the norm to bring people like me something fresh to utilise on my PSP.
I gotta give it up for these people.
Like anything ancient with foundation PSP is fast becoming its own complete culture.
...language, protocol, lingo, audio, visual....it wont be long till you can yell out to you PSP to pass you some toilet paper when it's all gone, or make you a hot chocolate.
Peace,
Draw2
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time and time again sony have refused to view homebrew as a sign of a thriving fanbase.
I simply pose this question:
If sony supported homebrew and really busted open the true potential of the psp to keen homebrew developers, wouldn't it stand more of a chance against the DS?
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Do you have a website?
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most psp games are shockingly bad (have you seen the reviews of late)
remeber its suppose to be a handheld not a console
and dont even get me started on the load times and sonys lame firmware updates
bring on more unique PORTABLE games for the psp like loco roco, exit, and lumines etc etc
not more generic racers and dodgy rpgs
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Keep up the fantastic work homebrew scene for better or worst this is actually a good thing for sony and congrats to PSPupdates for being part of that issue cheers!
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This is more than great news people. If your so proud to show your SNeS emultaor to your friends, why wouldn't you want to share it with the world?
A community says it all: A diversity of people working together for a common goal. We can not limit our selves to whom we allready have... we need to explore new horizons, and recruit people to gain different feed back and knowledge.
Their are probably great developpers arround the world who don't even know the possibilities of the PSP. By getting more exposure, the possibilities are endless (and moving foward for that matter).
If we want Sony to aknoledge the homebrew scene, we need more support and popularity from the rest of the world... The bigger the better I say!
If you don't want noobs to overflow the forums / comments with simple questions... simply re-enforce the QJ members with seperate forums... or add seperate options... or a noobs section with moderators to help them.
Therefore my opinion is that these kind of publicity are excellent for all of us. And by the way, if your scared of the ISO issue... don't worry about it. PSPUPDATES is one of the only sites with moral values toward the PSP... I'm sure Sony respects that!
Peace
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I'm willing to give you a link to my site.
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the following line is false,
the previous line is true
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I was planning on posting a similar comment
about it myself, but you beat me to it.
I must say I'm glad you did,
you expressed an opinion
extremely similar to mine quite well.
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Anyways this is a big step for the HB scene... I'm glad it's all coming together and just summing up well with the whole world.
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, the psp homebrew scene is getting coverage in magazines.
what next, Radio/television/local newspapers!!
+ to #9
I think the Nintendo DS HAS FAILED in trying to keep up with the PSP homebrew scene.
the nintendo DS is really poor quality.
fair enough i do love a gr8 game of mario kart sometimes.
but otherwise I really think i have wasted 70GB£ on this silver piece of SH1T3.
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i reckon it could help sony with business, if they just stopped 'paying attention' to emulators etc (they're not allowed to endorse them) then they'd sell more psps and more mem sticks... that would mean more umd games and vids would be bought.
they don't make money selling the psp unit itself, but if they let it get out that you can do other stuff then people will probs buy a few games for it once they've got their psp for homebrew's sake.
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(And by we, I don't mean myself, truthfully, I'm a shoddy coder =P)
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That's not a good statement, that this is "...one of the ONLY sites...".
Doesn't that tell you that as knowledge of homebrew extends, people are going straight to google and probably taken to a number of PSP sites that tout the ISO loading features of homebrew.
They are still losing money on consoles. If this kind of thing leads to a surge in people buying PSP's and whacking emulators/videos/iso loaders on them, without buying any games, it'll only hurt Sony.
That's why they need to develop new firmware, the magical world people talk of with freely flowing homebrew apps is a legal nightmare for the companies producing the hardware. Besides, the new features are occasionally cool.
insa8ne2k4, there's no need for unfounded abuse on the competition, surely you must be fed up of receiving it, shoving it back in their faces firstly isn't really much given the library of the DS, and second just isn't the best way to handle things. Then again you're probably 12.
DS homebrew scene (whilst not as exciting/large as the PSP's) is actually quite interesting. If it didn't cost so much to get it running I'd dabble in a bit of that, using my friends', and the ScummVM emulator with point and click, I think it could really go somewhere.
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There will always be "noobs" you were one once, we all were. Do you wish you never heard of Homebrew? I thought not. Don't be selfish and hoard. That only kills it. The more people know, the better off we are. Like many have said, for every group (pick a number) we take in, there's a fanjita, ditlew, zx-81, edison carter, mph, danzell, etc., just waiting for their chance to contribute a fresh perspective. Noobs are good! mmm fresh meat! SERVE THEM UP I say!
#36 - To Japots:
"ironic that this was taken from the "competition's" website"
Not really. DCEmu are dedicated to reporting the news. They may not be keen on showering QJ.net with attention, they won't snuff it because of the mention. PSPUpdates didn't just repost the same info as DCEmu, they didn't just write up a blurb about it, and they didn't just steal the scan from the forum thread creator, they went and bought the mag and scanned it themselves. Supporting honesty and integrity in journalism, and saying thank you to T3 by supporting their mag with a purchase. Now I realize you weren't putting anybody down by your comment, if anything you thought it was cool thaty they were pushing a story about PSPU (though it was just one of their forum members). I just used this as a springboard for my little rant. If you read this far, thanks. If not... oh well I'll try not bore you next time. 8^)
#37 - To Bob Biscuits:
"...they make more money selling software not hardware."
That may be true, but I'll bet you the majority of PSP owners that do use homebrew still buy legit PSP games and accessories. So, as long as the PSP is in active use, there is a target market sor Sony and their supporters to make game and accessories for. Don't you think?
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But something we all KNOW is that none of the PSP users ignorant of homebrew are running pirated games.
Any system that's had piracy/homebrew come easy to it has never been a success to the company producing it. The dreamcast failed for many reasons, but the flurry of pirate games that worked on any unmodded DC with no effort didn't help Sega's sales whilst they were going down with the ship.
Yet that system is still loved by many of the underground homebrew scene. Masses ruin things like this.
You may be able to trust a handful of people you know who still support Sony by buying UMD-games, but I guarantee you know far fewer who support UMD-movies rather than use a handy homebrew video converter, and when you widen the circle to this entire site, I guarantee you no small percentage of users (maybe not regular forum posters) load ISOs from memory sticks, when you expand the knowledge of homebrew to say, half the PSP-owning population, the numbers get very dangerous for Sony.
You just can't trust people by the thousand.
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A vast quantity of people know about tricks or mod-chips for nearly every system under the sun that has them and still I'd bet that the majority don't use those methods (likely though to the cost, risk and extra steps/skill/W.H.Y.). The PSP Homebrew scene (good & bad) is spreading so fast because it's so easy (at least with the right firmware). Drag & Drop is all it takes. That's the aspect of homebrew that scares Sony and likely threatens them the most. It's just too easy.
UMD movies were a bad idea from day 1. The practicality isn't there. You can't sell them super cheaply because money has to be made by many people and the media is NOT as cheap to manufacture compared to CDs and DVDs. So the cost isn't conducive to the nature of a portable device like the PSP.
You speak of: "a handy homebrew video converter" - A homebrew converter is not necessary to bring videos to your PSP, hpme computer software utilities for PSP I would not put in the PSP homebrew pot. Programs like PiMPStreamer would be. They're available but not neccesary. Not every PSP owner has a wireless router at home anyway. So computer-side software is all they have. (ignoring the Homebrew players).
IMO they should have considered an iTunes-like alternative and setup an online store with media downloads. Things like trailers, commercials, certain TV shows (pilots?), movies (royalty free?) and music videos (promotional) could be free, but TV shows, movies and other similar natured videos would be available for paid download. Allow owners to interact more with the world around them using their PSP.
Another point, is the more non-PSP owners that learn of this, the more that will buy one. I'll grant you (it's been said already), that the hardware isn't where the money's made, but it'll still expand the market for legitimate sales of the "Money" products. It was already too late for the Dreamcast by the time the homebrew community developed for it. Sega was doomed around the time the Saturn was released.
I may be an exception rather than the rule, but despite my use of original homebrew (apps/games) AND emulators, I still purchased UMD games, the odd UMD movie, mem sticks, a case, and more. I will continue to do so for as long as I love my PSP and those things are available. I'll have to buy a new case soon as I'm wearing out my original one (Logitech Playgear Pocket).
I wish there were looser legalities for profitless ventures such as what most would consider legit homebrew (from scratch software that contains elements of games and such). Dream on I guess. Where there's money to be made and lost... they'll never bend.
It's late, I'm tired and I'm starting to lose my focus to fatigue.
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I wanna see the news reporter not know how to pronounce Fanjita lol.
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