[PSP] Homebrew Development!

Enderet · #1 (**permalink**) 05-16-2005, 03:22 PM

For those that dont know yet, there are now several emulators that play on the PSP. :bouncy:

1. Gameboy Color Emu
2. NES Emu
3. SNES Emu!

All of these are relatively new and need some more optimization, but they are a huge step in the right direction. This is one of the reasons why I bought the PSP initialy. Unfortunately, these emulators only run on PSPs with firmware version 1.0, which were never released in the US.

Some of you might be asking how this benefits anybody without a 1.0 PSP and the answer is pretty simple. Now that these are done and are getting optimized, when the time comes and somebody finds a way to make them run on 1.5 PSPs, they will be done already.

At this point it is still hard to recognize Sony's stance on hombrew devs, as the new "forced updates" that have emerged seem to be a countermeasure against piracy. There was some news about Sony releasing a stripped down dev kit, but who knows if that will happen or not. Sony would be stupid to neglect this community that wuld embrace the PSP and make it bigger than anything that Nintendo has had.

CoffeeShark · #2 (**permalink**) 05-16-2005, 03:36 PM

yeah, you would think Sony would embrace this and start hiring developers and doing licensing on these emulators. Seems like a logical extension.

They may have tried and not had any luck with licensing issues with Nintendo. Although I'm not sure why Nintendo wouldn't also take advantage and resell gameboy/nes/snes games for 4 or 5 bucks for these. It's not like they're making money on the older systems/games now.

CrabbyPatty · #3 (**permalink**) 05-16-2005, 03:41 PM

Nintendo would be selling burgers before they ever let sony use legal emulators on the PSP

CoffeeShark · #4 (**permalink**) 05-16-2005, 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by CrabbyPatty

Nintendo would be selling burgers before they ever let sony use legal emulators on the PSP

you're prob right. but everything has a price.

joe · #5 (**permalink**) 05-16-2005, 04:29 PM

Why did I come here looking for beer?

...but on topic, it would seem to me to make business sense if Sony allowed the community to create these mods/devs, as long as they didn't "technically" support it and were in no danger of litigation from other companies. It can only help to increase your customer base. However, I could see an ethical dilemma, and that is what if Sony does not want emulators of their older systems to run on products, they don't have a very good argument against that if they allow a similar thing to occur using their own merchandise.