Christ Centered Gamer

Chozon1 wrote:Deadman, for the record, if you ask a lot of people within the industry, they'll give you polar arguments to what you're hearing from Deep and CCGR on the issue of emulation. Even the copies you make of your own games. It's an age old battle since the Atari, I think.

Deepfreeze32 wrote:Say you're me: An enterprising programmer. Now that I can load programs on the system (And don't have to pay ridiculous licensing fees since I'm not talking about games), I can list myself as being familiar with the hardware and system architecture. That's a potential resume booster.

I did a similar thing with the original Xbox. Hacked it to run a modified version of Ubuntu. I use it on my resume because I now can say I know more about embedded systems than most other people my age.


Now I direct you to my soap box rant:

Deepfreeze32 wrote: I hacked my PSP plenty of times. Wrote some custom code for it (Which has apparently been lost in a recent file migration :/), ripped my UMD's to my memory stick for fasting loading times, etc.

Do you understand that? Flash memory loads waaayyyy faster than the UMD. So by ripping a game from a UMD, I now have a game that loads faster.


Now for ccgr's point: Emulation. Emulation can be a tricky issue in some places. For example, PS1 emulation on a computer can be sticky because to properly emulate the system, you must have a copy of the BIOS (Basic Input Output System). This cannot legally be obtained without ripping it from your console. No ifs ands or buts for this scenario.

HOWEVER. The PSP has the emulation software built into the system. The CFW (Custom Firmware) allows the user to run the emulation software on any PS1 game that they place on the memory stick. The reason why Sony doesn't officially support this is because (And I'm sure ccgr can attest to this as well) the emulation is far from perfect for a lot of titles. Plenty of problems far and wide. Some are minor (Like graphics glitches or audio crackling), but some are huge (like refusing to boot).

DeadManReedeemed wrote:What benefits for hacking the PSP?

Deepfreeze32 wrote:Yes...but remember that the reason is because they're out to make money, and pretty much nothing else. I'm out to learn. most emulation fans are out to experience nostalgia. So if you want to be perfectly legal, go right ahead and don't emulate. Just know that you've probably already broken other more serious laws before anyway.

Also, I feel like I should point out that the Virtual Console is emulation. just because. >_>

And at any rate, you gotta give the people who program emulators credit: Those things are dang hard to write. O_o

ccgr wrote:benefits are able to play PSX games

Nate DaZombie wrote:

ccgr wrote:benefits are able to play PSX games

I've always wanted to point this out!

This is a PSX, the correct abbrieviation for the PlayStation is PS or PS1. (...I have no life...)

Moving back to the conversation, hacking a psp does have quite a few benefits, if you're willing to give up online play.