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Homebrew on Consoles Detailed 143

Posted by CmdrTaco from the keep-em-emulated dept.
Yoshi writes "DCEmu have released an article detailing the current State of the Homebrew Scene on all consoles from the PSP to GBA and even to the Next Gen Nintendo Wii, the article explains whats needed to run emulators and games and if its worth bothering for each console."
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  • DS Lite? (Score:3, Interesting)

    by remembertomorrow ( 959064 ) on Sunday June 11, 2006 @09:43AM (#15512633)
    Will there be anything (expected to be) fundamentally different about the Nintendo DS Lite? I have heard so much good stuff about the DS, I may buy one of the Lite's when they're available.

    It's always nice to be able to expand the uses of hardware in ways the developers never intended. :)

    • Re:DS Lite? (Score:3, Interesting)

      by demongeek ( 977698 )
      The DS Lite and the DS are the same consoles with certain improvements. Similar to the advancement between the GBA and the GBA-SP, the DS-Lite's screen is much improved and the case is smaller. And I'm sure, sooner or later, we will start seeing a lot more customized case colours (lots have been released in Japan, but only a few select in NA and Eu.

      • Re:DS Lite? (Score:4, Informative)

        by Kredal ( 566494 ) on Sunday June 11, 2006 @11:06AM (#15512805) Homepage Journal
        I picked up my DS Lite at 12:04 last night at WalMart. It replaces my original DS, which the wife is getting. The screen is way brighter, the case is a bit smaller, the stylus is larger (1cm longer, and slightly thicker) which makes it easier to hold... the microphone moved to the center of the console, and the status lights are now EASILY visible when the case is closed.

        The only minor drawbacks are the new start and select buttons are itty bitty, and require a bit more effort to push accurately.

        It was definitely worth the upgrade.
      • 3 color types are available for DS-Lite currently (original DS have 6 types).
        Based the Amazon.co.jp sales ranking, popular color types are as follows.
            (No1.) Crystal White
            (No2.) Enamel Navy
            (No3.) Ice Blue

    • Yes I think so (Score:4, Informative)

      by SmallFurryCreature ( 593017 ) on Sunday June 11, 2006 @11:48AM (#15512916) Journal
      The DS Lite if I recall correctly requires a newer passkey because they changed something that stopped the old keys from working.

      So it is not entirely true as in the article that Nintendo doesn't care about the homebrew scene. Not suprisingly, PSP commercial games often don't fit on its memory stick but most Nintendo handheld games can fit a dozen to a flash card.

      This makes it a lot easier to pirate GBA/DS games then PSP games.

      The DS had a revision that forced a new key but I am just not sure wether that revision happened to be the DS Lite. For sure the DS Lite is of the new version however so the answer is still yes. If you check the sites you will find some advice on checking wich firmware you got with your DS. Color background in pictochat if I remember correctly.

    • Comment removed (Score:5, Informative)

      by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Sunday June 11, 2006 @01:03PM (#15513088)
      Comment removed based on user account deletion

    • Re:DS Lite? (Score:3, Informative)

      by stonecypher ( 118140 )
      Other than the drastically improved screen quality, better battery life and smaller form factor, they're identical machines. From the perspective of the software, the *only* difference is the ability to control the backlight brightness. In fact, it takes significant effort just to tell them apart without screwing with the brightness register.
    • Yes it will have a brighter display and its case will look different, besides that, firmware rev side etc... no difference, the hacks to open it will still work. The article is right, Nintendo does not really enforce it but also is not as strict as sony, about opening the console. And from a hardware standpoint this thing screams for being opened, you have everything you need for an excellent overall machine, two slots (both being very close to current memory cards so adapters exist) integrated wlan, in bui

  • Oy! (Score:5, Funny)

    by cheebie ( 459397 ) on Sunday June 11, 2006 @09:44AM (#15512638)
    I mis-read the headline as "The state of Hebrew on Consoles", which would have been just as interesting. The right-to-left reading would be a challenge.

    Of course, it's possible this challenge has been met already. Not being a Hebrew-speaker, I never looked into it.

  • Horrible Article (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 11, 2006 @09:45AM (#15512640)
    This article should not have made it to the front page. It's horribly lacking in information and reads like someone wrote it off the top of their head without any research.

    For example, under Nintendo Gamecube it says that you can't run homebrew software without a mod chip. Which is weird, because I've got a port of SNES 9x running on my GC to play old SNES games. No mod chip required. All I have is the Nintendo SD Adapter Card and an Action Replay to boot the contents of the SD card. Not to mention you can alternatively use the broadband adapter with Phantasy Star Online to boot from across the network. This has been commonly known about for some time.

    I can't speak for the other consoles but if they're coverage is anything like his GameCube coverage, this article is worthless. Judging by the lack of options for the other consoles I think it's fair to assume that this is the case.

    • Re:Horrible Article (Score:3, Interesting)

      by kesuki ( 321456 )
      Well I hadn't been paying attention to the homebrew community lately, so i found all the information about the GPx2 to be quite interesting. :) It would be really nice if could find a way to fit one in my budget, afterall I've loved emulation for a long time. I'm glad that some companies have even found ways to make legitimate money off emulation instead of it staying as an 'illegal' undergound kinda thing.

      My keyboard is all screwy, and it took me a long time to type this. sigh. All i wanted to do today wa
    • Comment removed based on user account deletion

      • Re:Horrible Article (Score:3, Informative)

        by Grey Ninja ( 739021 )
        I have GC Linux booting, and running off of an NFS share from my file server. I also hear that the optical drive is accessible from Linux. I'm not sure about regular homebrew, but I would imagine it's not much different. My intention though is to leverage the NFS share for all it's worth, and make my GameCube into a media terminal. I have mostly just been playing around with it though, and haven't gotten it doing anything constructive yet (I'm too lazy to recompile the kernel with the patch for my keybo

      • Re:Horrible Article (Score:3, Informative)

        by billcopc ( 196330 )
        Dude, Xbox.

        I've got a couple dozen emus on my Xbox, with rom sets thanks to a hard drive upgrade. The hardest part is figuring out a button layout that's comfortable on the Xbox controller, once that's set up it's smooth sailing.

      • Yes (Score:2)

        by aliquis ( 678370 )
        There are NES-, SNES-, N64-, Genesis/Megadrive-, GBA-emulators for the Gamecube

    • Horrible indeed (Score:4, Insightful)

      by Mascot ( 120795 ) on Sunday June 11, 2006 @10:47AM (#15512768)
      A well researched and comprehensive article can stand the author being lazy on his grammar and spelling. This thing is painfully inarticulate, cursory *and* inaccurate.

      If accepted submissions had to pass an editor karma check, this article would have been posted anonymously.

      • Re:Horrible indeed (Score:2, Insightful)

        by Osty ( 16825 )

        A well researched and comprehensive article can stand the author being lazy on his grammar and spelling.

        No it can't. The author's lack of spelling and grammar knowledge undermines any other work he may have put into the article. You could have the most well-researched and accurate article ever, but if every "paragraph" is a run-on sentence you're still going to look like an idiot. For crap's sake, at least load the article into a word processor and fix what it complains about (run-on sentences, dammi

        • No it can't. The author's lack of spelling and grammar knowledge undermines any other work he may have put into the article.

          Nothing I can do but disagree. I should emphasise that's on principle, not related to this particular article which had no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

          While the odds are stacked firmly against a poorly written article containing any worthwhile insight, they do come along every now and then. I try not to judge an article solely on its phrasing and grammar, though I'll readily admit i

    • This article should not have made it to the front page. It's horribly lacking in information and reads like someone wrote it off the top of their head without any research.

      Like anyone here is going to read it anyways?

    • Re:Horrible Article (Score:4, Informative)

      by jeremy_dot ( 734236 ) on Sunday June 11, 2006 @12:28PM (#15513009)
      Mod parent up.

      As an amateur Nintend DS developer:
      In the "good old days" one could buy a device called a PassMe (a glorified device that performs a JMP into the GBA cartridge's ROM thus executing unencrypted code. They come in several variations such as the PassMe and the SuperPass). Nintendo was not happy with the PassMe and made all the recent DS systems (after and including firmware 4.0) and made the handshaking between the DS and the DS cartridge a bit more complicated and on a game-by-game basis. Now, one needs a device called a PassMe2 which essentially pretends to be a game. Beyond this, there are "NoPass" devices which don't have to do the handshaking with the DS.

      As it stands you can't use the rumble addon like the article implies, largely because both slots on the DS are taken up with the current state of homebrew (a GBA cart containing the code you want to run and a PassMe-like device in the DS slot). The DS section of this article is misleading. For more information, I suggest DualScene.net [dualscene.net] and MaxConsole.net [maxconsole.net] for information on homebrew games and programs. One can check DSLinux.org [dslinux.org] for information on, appropriately, DS Linux, and one can check GBADev.org [gbadev.org] for information on DS and GBA development.

    • I can't speak for the other consoles but if they're coverage is anything like his GameCube coverage

      What you lack is a frame of reference.

      For example, under Nintendo Gamecube it says that you can't run homebrew software without a mod chip. [...] All I have is the Nintendo SD Adapter Card and an Action Replay to boot the contents of the SD card. Not to mention you can alternatively use the broadband adapter with Phantasy Star Online to boot

      from across the network.

      Read again and compare to the DreamCast entry.

      • in the realm of home console, DreamCast is the only thing that let your run whatever you like.

        That's good for gaming in front of a TV. But which handheld system sold in brick-and-mortar retailers in the United States is the same way?

      • The basic difference is that, on DreamCast, you only need to burn the homebrewed software you need, put it into the DC, and it just-works(tm). Any stock machine is designed in a such way that you can boot anything you want on them. (Maybe it was initially designed so, to enable e-zines to ship CD with their issues.

        Bootable multimedia functions for music CD's. [wikipedia.org]

        Personally, I thought the Atari Jaguar's went out in style (unlike the rest of it's lifecycle). At the pushing of several developers who had games in

      • That's their point : in the realm of home console, DreamCast is the only thing that let your run whatever you like. Other consoles don't. You need to either do obscure trick, or do hard/soft modification that can get you expelled (or void your warranty).

        Expelled? Void your warranty? I doubt either of these are true. I don't really understand what you mean be getting "expelled" anyway. The GC homebrew community has always done everything it could to ensure that what we do is legal fair use of the hardwar

        • Expelled? Void your warranty? I doubt either of these are true.

          On XBox, Microsoft tries to detect non-authorised modification done to a XBox and bans the user. Most people wnating to be able to both play online AND run homebrewed software use a mod-chip with a switch (to switch between XBoxLive compliant BIOS and BIOS for Homebrewed software)

          Soft-mods don't work because most of them rely on subverting the XBoxLive entry on the menu.

          About the mod chip :
          First they didn't say "only".
          Then the action replay is a

    • If I had mod points, I'd mod you down to flame bait.

  • My God! (Score:4, Funny)

    by Monkeys!!! ( 831558 ) on Sunday June 11, 2006 @09:51AM (#15512657) Homepage
    *throws an editor at the article*

    My spelling and grammar are quite bad but the article made me want to gouge my eyes out with a spoon.

  • Wii (Score:5, Interesting)

    by hyfe ( 641811 ) on Sunday June 11, 2006 @09:56AM (#15512667)
    Anybody know if random people will be able to program for it? If we can, I image will see a shitload of cool stuff, as that controller is sooo begging for simple cool games. I mean, just something like pong would be insanely fun :)

    The Wii-equivalent of 'Mount and Blade' would utterly, utterly rock (M&B is a simple down-to-earth fighting game RPG'ish which gets simple fight-dynamics sooo right)

    • The Wii-equivalent of 'Mount...

      Whoa... um, sorry, lost my concentration there. Phew. Do go on.

    • Re:Wii (Score:2, Informative)

      by Simon Donkers ( 950228 )
      I've been looking into the options for this being an indie developer myself. Nintendo mentions on the Wii website [nintendo.com]:

      It also will be home to new games conceived by indie developers whose creativity is larger than their budgets.

      However I've found no information anywhere other then stating all game developers require to negotiate with Nintendo to get a licence and pay a sum per game assuming you even get Nintendo's approval to appear on the system.
      According to rumours dev-kits for the Wii are expected at a m

    • About a week before E3 '06 I emailed NOA about getting a Wii dev kit in the hope that I could distribute indie games over their Virtual Console service. At that point they still had the same answer as they've always had...

      If you're unfamiliar with their stance on indie developers, it's something like, "LOL WTF GTFO NOOB!"

      But yeah, it would be really sweet to be able to write code for the Wii. It's a shame they feel the way they do. Once the XNA Framework is done I might have to go with a 360 if I want to

    • Re:Wii (Score:1, Insightful)

      by Anonymous Coward
      99% sure this will not be an option.

      Nintendo is family friendly. What is stopping someone from making a pornographic Wii game? Or even just use the Wii as a vector for pornography of any kind? Is Nintendo responsible if some hack and gore homebrew game is being distributed on their "Connect24" network and played on their consoles? Or what if I write a file sharing application for Wii?

      Look at Napster/Kazaa vs MPAA/RIAA. Or look at the rediculous ESRB or Christian censorship groups.

      You better believe Nintendo

  • Emulators for DS (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 11, 2006 @10:06AM (#15512686)
    I picked up a DS for Nintendogs and because I could run Sam and Max Hit the Road via http://scummvm.drunkencoders.com/ [drunkencoders.com] ScummVM DS. The rest of the emulator scene, however, is a little hit-or miss.

    The DS benefits because it can also run homebrew that was developed for the GBA, and consoles from the NES and earlier are emulated well. The SNES and Genesis emulators are just in their infancy, however.

    Besides the emuilators, there are a lot of good homebrew games and applications, including most of the usual favorites from linux distributions. Congratulations to the coders of the DS homebrew scene for making such progress on a unique system!

  • I'm interested in a GP2X, but much more for actually running things (emulators, movies, music) than doing development on it. Does anyone have any experience using one to play games and movies? Are the emulators fast enough? Do the batteries last long enough? I'm all for hobbyist coders, and I'm sure people are doing amazing things, but is much of it far along enough to use regularly? Thanks.

    • Re:Anyone actually using a GP2X? (Score:5, Informative)

      by despisethesun ( 880261 ) on Sunday June 11, 2006 @11:29AM (#15512866)
      I've got one, and I'm pretty happy with it. Right now it's got a pretty good number of emulators running at or near full speed (the Genesis emulator in particular is great, and there's a very accurate PC Engine emulator that just hit 1.0 that does most games full speed with sound). Some emulators are still coming along though, which should be expected somewhat with a machine that's only about 6 or 7 months old. There are also some pretty good "interpreters" out for it (ports of Doom, Commander Keen, Quake, and Duke3D are all notable.) Batteries are a bit of a sore spot for some people, but if you can get your hands on some good 2500mAh NiMH rechargeables, you can expect about 5-6 hours per pair. Not great, but better than a PSP's battery life and you can swap them out when they die. Like I said, I'm happy with mine but it's got its quirks so it's not for everyone. Do a bit of googling and find out if it's for you.
      • the PSP will get about 7 hours battery life if all you do is homebrew. Most of the power drain for it is the disc reading, so if all you're reading is memory cards it lasts much longer. You can also get extra batteries to swap, but those are expensive.

  • Misleading (Score:4, Informative)

    by LocalH ( 28506 ) on Sunday June 11, 2006 @10:54AM (#15512778) Homepage
    The "article" (which is actually a forum thread) says, and I quote, "The State of Homebrew On All Consoles", which is a complete lie. What's missing from the forum thread?

    Atari 2600? Check.
    NES? Check.
    Game Boy pre-GBA? Check.
    Sega Master System? Check
    Sega Genesis? Check.

    And there are probably some that I've forgotten as well, but at least I'll admit it.

    "Because we are the only dedicated Homebrew Network on the web covering just about all scenes"? STFU and GTFO, you suck.

    • Can the average person just go online and buy rewritable cards for the Atari 2600, NES, 8-bit Game Boy, Sega Master System, and Sega Genesis? Or is it like a lightsaber in the Star Wars universe, where you have to solder one together yourself?

      • Can the average person do anything with those consoles (not just developing, but running the homebrew titles on them) without going out and buying stuff? I have yet to see the DS PassMe gear on the high street...

        (With the exception of the DC)

        • Even with the Dreamcast, you need to go out and buy blank CDs.

          • Ok if you want to be difficult...

            But I think going to the shop to buy some blank cd's (you can even buy them in the supermarket ffs) is an order of magnitude easier than buying some electronics off a shifty site in Hong-Kong.
            • But I think going to the shop to buy some blank cd's (you can even buy them in the supermarket ffs) is an order of magnitude easier than buying some electronics off a shifty site in Hong-Kong.

              If you want to be able to play handheld video games without any mail order, using only products and services available in a brick-and-mortar shop throughout the developed world, then homebrew may not be for you. Stick to PDA software.

      • Re:NES flash cards? (Score:3, Informative)

        by AKAImBatman ( 238306 ) *
        Can the average person just go online and buy rewritable cards for the Atari 2600, NES, 8-bit Game Boy, Sega Master System, and Sega Genesis?

        You can purchase 2600 and 5200 homebrews here:

        http://www.atariage.com/store/ [atariage.com]

        A 7800/2600 "CuttleCart" (which allows you to play games from a MMC card) can be purchased here:

        http://www.schells.com/cc2.shtml [schells.com]

        You'll note that the CuttleCart3 will be for the Intellivision. There used to be a cart called the "IntelliCart" that used a serial cable, but it's been unavailable fo

        • I don't know much about the NES homebrew scene, but I do know there are a lot of them. Look around and you'll probably be able to find carts for purchase.

          I used Google [google.com], AllTheWeb [alltheweb.com], Yahoo! [yahoo.com], and MSN [msn.com]. All the results were for GBA flash carts to which one can write an NES emulator. The only relevant result from the first page of each search engine's results (ars [arstechnica.com], citing source [ameba.lpt.fi]) was disappointing: "While you can buy the circuit boards from this guy he's pretty adamant about not selling the finished product".

          • "NES Homebrew Carts" got me this article [siliconera.com] about this device [ameba.lpt.fi] as the second result. A bit more looking found me information about the Devtendo [bripro.com]. I presume that saleable games are produced in the same way they are on other systems: By taking an existing cart and resoldering a new ROM chip.
            • "NES Homebrew Carts" got me this article about this device as the second result.

              That's the one I already linked to, for which no finished pieces will be made available for sale. Should everybody who wants to develop or even just run a homebrew NES program be forced to learn to solder?

              A bit more looking found me information about the Devtendo.

              Which also is not for sale.

      • ToToTEK [tototek.com] sell flash carts for the Megadrive, Master System and a few other machines. Gameboy flash carts used to be widely available (and were the reason Nintendo shut down the original Lik-Sang) but I don't know where you can get hold of them nowadays.
      • Can the average person just go online and buy rewritable cards for the Atari 2600, NES, 8-bit Game Boy, Sega Master System, and Sega Genesis? Or is it like a lightsaber in the Star Wars universe, where you have to solder one together yourself?

        I guess this has already been answered.
        As a guy who has his own 2600 homebrew released and sold, I'm glad at least someone here was pointing out the oversight.

        Misconception #552: "Multiplayer console game means split screen."
        Fact: It doesn't.

        Ah but the converse "Splits

        • As a guy who has his own 2600 homebrew released and sold, I'm glad at least someone here was pointing out the oversight.

          So how do I get my own NES homebrew released and sold?

          "Splitscreen"? (not every game is splitscreen, ala Smash Bros, Bomberman) "Couch"? (too general, a lot of singleplayer gaming happens on couches) "Party gaming"? (too specific, now that it's a subgenre ala Mario Party)

          Multiplayer console games that are not split-screen (Smash Bros., Gauntlet, Bomberman) are called "shared-view

          • Don't know how to get your NES game onto hardware, sorry.

            AtariAge and a few other sites have been doing it for the Atari for a long time, including I think 5200. I think they sometimes canibalize old super-commons, as well as take advantage of the way Atari used off the shelf compoments for many things.

            I'm still looking for a single word that means "shared-view or splitscreen" games. I guess you could say that the overall word is "multiplayer" and then the three subgenres are "online" "shared-view" and "spl
      • Atari 2600: Cuttle Cart 2 [schells.com] (although it requires a 7800, it supports 2600 images as well)
        Game Boy (Color): any of the numerous GB Xchanger-type copiers
        SMS: Tototek SMS-PRO [tototek.com]
        Genesis: Tototek MD-PRO [tototek.com]

        As far as I know, the only one of those consoles that doesn't have some sort of flash memory, is the NES. The problem, of course, is mapper support. I do seem to remember someone working on a flashcart with support for the most common mappers, but I haven't heard anything recently. Even then, a common cart containing

        • Game Boy (Color): any of the numerous GB Xchanger-type copiers

          Which are available for sale where?

          I do seem to remember someone working on a flashcart with support for the most common mappers

          That was this [arstechnica.com], but unfortunately, "While you can buy the circuit boards from this guy he's pretty adamant about not selling the finished product".

    • What's missing from the forum thread?

      Hmm, I'll take "systems that don't support some form of game storage that non-EEs can readily make use of" for $1000, Alex.

      Although the fact that people write "new" homebrew NES games may count as an intellectual curiosity, almost nobody runs them on an actual NES.


      "Because we are the only dedicated Homebrew Network on the web covering just about all scenes"? STFU and GTFO, you suck.

      Wow, bitter much? Which emu group do you belong to?

      I'll grant that the FP li

  • Wii Dev Kit (Score:5, Informative)

    by Xistic ( 536149 ) on Sunday June 11, 2006 @11:03AM (#15512798) Homepage
    The Wii is interesting because the dev kit is only $2000. That puts it well within the range of an avid hobbiest. If I had a really good idea come to mind about a game using the wiimote I'd consider getting one.

    It would be interesting to see what kind of legal agreements come with that dev kit. Can a group a homebrew coders get there hands on one and start churning out free games? Will there be an easy way for us to play these games?

    Kyle
    • It sounds like that is what Nintendo is planning for the Virtual Console feature to allow. They have not said anything about posting free games, but they have suggested that smaller games (worth less than a $50 disc) could be posted there by indie (or any) developers. Hopefully, they will allow the posting of free games (most likely they will at least support demos), and they will actually follow through on their talk about wanting to encourage indie developers.

    • Re:Wii Dev Kit (Score:4, Informative)

      by antime ( 739998 ) on Sunday June 11, 2006 @01:31PM (#15513154)
      I very much doubt Nintendo will sell kits to hobby coders. For one thing they won't allow anything to be released without going through their normal approval process (for image reasons, if nothing else). In the past you have had to present a complete business plan when applying for a license, and I don't think that will change. The big difference will be that online delivery means developers won't have to pay media costs (in advance, for Nintendo-set amounts) which means smaller companies can afford the process.

    • Re:Wii Dev Kit (Score:4, Informative)

      by idiot900 ( 166952 ) * on Sunday June 11, 2006 @04:12PM (#15513619)
      The Wii dev kit may only be a couple thousand US dollars but Nintendo really wants to know who you are and that you are a legitimate corporate developer:

      http://www.warioworld.com/apply/wii.html [warioworld.com]

      To even get to the point where they send you an NDA seems pretty tough for the average hobbyist at the moment.

    • in short, no... (Score:3, Insightful)

      by YesIAmAScript ( 886271 )
      The up front fees to become a console dev don't cover the actual cost to the company. The hardware you'll get costs a few bucks, the software costs them a few bucks, and just getting their time so they can get it to you and get you up and running on it costs more than a few bucks.

      When selling one of these kits, N is certainly expecting to see some back-end revenue from the license fees when you sell your game. So giving away a game is probably not going to fit into their plan.

      Additionally, the legal agreeme
  • The article mentions you have to have a modchip to run home brew on the gamecube. Taking advantage of the way Phantasy Star Online uses internet play, you can run homebrew software directly off of your computer using an ethernet cable. I have not tested the method with homebrew games, but linux runs great.

    http://www.gc-linux.org/wiki/Main_Page [gc-linux.org]

    I just picked up a ds lite and hope to check out linux on that too.

    • The article mentions you have to have a modchip to run home brew on the gamecube. Taking advantage of the way Phantasy Star Online uses internet play

      But then you have to 1. buy a vulnerable version of PSO on eBay, and 2. buy a broadband adapter on eBay. Both can get more expensive over time as collectors snap them up, but so can a modchip.

      • No, you don't need to buy the Broadband Adapter from Ebay. For some reason, there has been a common misconception since PSO came out that the Gamecube BroadBand Adapter was discontinued by Nintendo. It has not, and is still available for purchase from Nintendo's online store.
        Really long URL link directly to Nintendo's Online store [nintendo.com]

        PSO on the other hand, is rather hard to get ahold of, although I know that Play-Asia still has brand new copies of the Japanese version of PSO Episode 3 available for purchase,

    • Using PSO to boot is such a pain in the ass that for real work you will want something better.
  • Has anyone even heard of half of these?
    The Ipod is a console?
    I must need to get out of my basement more often
  • I wonder how much Wraggster paid someone to get this posted. I'm sure he can use even more ad revenue.

  • They forgot the atari 2600! (Score:3, Informative)

    by Bender_ ( 179208 ) on Sunday June 11, 2006 @12:28PM (#15513008) Journal
    The granddaddy of all consoles does actually have one of the largest active homebrewing scenes.
    Just a random selection of links:

    http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/user/print/a/4849 [oreillynet.com]
    http://www.atariage.com/2600/programming/ [atariage.com]
    http://www.alienbill.com/2600/ [alienbill.com]

  • Odd that... (Score:3, Informative)

    by Sj0 ( 472011 ) on Sunday June 11, 2006 @12:36PM (#15513020) Journal
    They mention that it's unfortunate that there's no legal SDK for the xbox. This is mistaken, there is. OpenXDK isn't perfect, but I've been using it for a while in my quest to get my favourite compiler to create xbox executables natively.
  • There is some Odyssey 2 console homebrew stuff here [coprolite.com] for those of you interested in that old and often neglected console.
  • "but its also a Pocket PC type device so you get the best of both worlds"

    did this guy bother to check anything at all? The Zodiac ran Palm OS. It says so right on their front page
    • The main problem with most if not all pdas is, they are stylus centric, which works with certain types of games, that is one of the reasons why pdas had mediocre success as gaming consoles.
  • http://www.dcemu.co.uk/ [dcemu.co.uk] is DCEmu UK, while http://www.dcemulation.com/ [dcemulation.com] is DCEmu.

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