Posted Jul 21, 2006 at 03:14AM by Jerico G. Listed in: News, Opinions & Analysis Tags: Firmware Emulation, DrNicket, Swaploit, PSP-DEV, Dark-AleX
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T3 PSP Homebrew CoverageT3 PSP Homebrew Coverage


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!


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   by meh (Unregistered) - 2006-07-21
 » hum...

they should tell people that those who have 2.6 can downgrade to....and those with 1.5 can emulate 2.71 =p

   by lol (Unregistered) - 2006-07-21
 » lol

lolol noobs

   by JustD (Unregistered) - 2006-07-21
 » no comment

if to many people find out about iso loading this could be bad for the future of the psp... psp games are already pretty bad as it is

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

   by lionel007 (Unregistered) - 2006-07-21
 » take that Sony

Im surprised Sony didnt come up with a new FW yet. Or probably this time they will take the time, so really lock down the PSP, and perhaps add some nice features.

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.


   by S (Unregistered) - 2006-07-21
 » A poetic statement I wrote. :-)

Yes, we are truly experiencing
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.

   by pavey - 2006-07-21
 » nubs

id have to agree with JustD this exposer is bad first of all, newbs r gonna think that homebrew has just been discovered meening nubs will be coming onto ther forums saying that they dont know where to put homebrew on the MS and saying that they cant fit the iso's onto there nooby 32mb stick and with that comes asking for isos that fit onto 32mb sticks, so according to the law, stated somewhere in the back of the law it says nubs will be shot

   by johny 5 (Unregistered) - 2006-07-21
 » .....

what amazes me is that the homebrew scene is still strong after a year of the consoles release and hopefully it will stay like that untill sony gives up on firmware updates lol like in 1-2 years

   by Draw2 (Unregistered) - 2006-07-21
 » I think it's great!

Even though you can load ISO's...you still need the space on your memory card to have a good selection of games or a kick ass memory card...or laptop if you wanna carry your ***** everywhere!? when it comes to being able to switch out games all the time do you wanna boot your laptop up everytime you wanna new game, or just press eject and put in a UMD? while ISO's are cool, i'd rather have the originals though. Sony will still make madd cream from PSP! you cant have homebrew, emulators, ISO's without the key ingredient...a PSP.
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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   by World's first 'homebrewer' drinks own beer!!!! (Unregistered) - 2006-07-21
 » Sony = Shortsighted

have to agree with lionel007,
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?

   by capagotks - 2006-07-21
 » SWEET

just like the guy who wrote the magazine artical, i, too, have windows Vista BETA 2

   by Muscrat (Unregistered) - 2006-07-21
 » Idiot > JustD

There are plenty of good games for the PSP, that arent lazy ports. Idiot.

   by LiraNuna (Unregistered) - 2006-07-21
 » to S.

Great poem S.
Do you have a website?

   by rodents (Unregistered) - 2006-07-21
 » bleh

this article is BAD for the community, imagine all those idiots with a firmware higher than 2.0 wondering what the heck to do, and those with a ta-082 boards? its going to bring tons of crappy publicity, barely any of those who dont know better dont have 2.0 still, or even 2.6

   by JustD (Unregistered) - 2006-07-21
 » @ Muscrat

your in denial mate

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

   by Renfeild (Unregistered) - 2006-07-21
 » Nubs

I think pavey should be shot :P. We were all nubs at one time and it was the non-ignorant ones that coached us through our nub issues so remember where we all started Pavey! As little Nubs!

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!

   by cubiCPixel - 2006-07-21
 » Sweet

Great article!

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 :D

   by S (Unregistered) - 2006-07-21
 » To LiraNuna:

If you're willing to give me your e-mail address,
I'm willing to give you a link to my site.

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   by laphn (Unregistered) - 2006-07-21
 » think about it

it is a good thing that more people are being turned on to the homebrew scene. you think developers just spend their time for you or an elite few? homebrew is for everyone, hence the reason why it's free. sure there will be a lot of "what's this how?", but all you have to do is send them to the forums where the guides are. besides if you over specialize you breed in weakness. (GHOST IN THE SHELL) i for one don't want the developers to get bored and and move on to something else. one more thing the developers get something very special too, they get the praise of an entire world.


the following line is false,
the previous line is true

   by S (Unregistered) - 2006-07-21
 » To cubiCPixel:

I completely agree with everything you said.
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.

   by Anday23 (Unregistered) - 2006-07-21
 » Wow

I'm just glad for the fact that T3 uses firefox to do their net sniffing :P

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.

   by insa8ne2k4 - 2006-07-21
 » never see ds with coverage like that

I

   by insa8ne2k4 - 2006-07-21
 » never see ds with coverage like that

Yessssss
, 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.



   by comedy - 2006-07-21
 » it's a good thing

as someone said, homebrew is made by devs for EVERYONE.

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.

   by PSP271 (Unregistered) - 2006-07-21
 » Nice piece

Nice piece Jerico G.

   by beverage - 2006-07-21
 » Awesome

#3, go jump off a bridge, homebrew needs to get out there, if they discover iso loading, that their fault. It's illegal and none of us here support it. "It should stay underground where it belongs" BAH! This is what the PSP is made for. Sony is retarted and they can't get over the face that us small independant developers can work for free to make a little hand held console, the most universal thing ever! Sony just wants us to not have all of this great stuff, they want to make their own version and release it! They can't take the fact that we're small developers, and WE'RE BETTER THAN THEM!!
(And by we, I don't mean myself, truthfully, I'm a shoddy coder =P)

   by RaiderX - 2006-07-21
 » cool, but a bit outdated

musta been writtena while ago since they dont mention 2.6 being downgradable

   by X omega v5 - 2006-07-21
 » Excellent

This is good. We can finally get some frsh ideas and new outloks on the PSP!

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   by mpg182 - 2006-07-21
 » 1!!

THIS THE BEST THING EVER!!!

   by Loi (Unregistered) - 2006-07-21
 » Homebrew is easily abused.... Let the PSP and DS live together in peace

"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!"

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.

   by HomeBoyPiNoY (Unregistered) - 2006-07-21
 » Got Noob?

NOOOOOOOOO NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! NO MORE NOOBS PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! WE JUST GOT EVERYONE COMFORTABLE WITH HOMEBREW NOW 10,000 MORE NOOBS *****!



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