Is there a Playstation Homebrew scene?

[mezrabad]

I know about the thriving Dreamcast homebrew scene but I'm hitting dead ends when searching for a site that focuses on Playstation homebrews (I keep finding sites doing Playstation 2 homebrews instead)

Is there anyone who can point me to a site they know about and have enjoyed?

thanks in advance

[Swatty]

Looking up "psxdev" on Google yielded a few Playstation 1 development hits.

I found these sites:
http://www.classicgaming.com/aec/css/html/psx_development.html
http://www.upl.cs.wisc.edu/~hamblin/psxdev.html

There even appears to be a psxdev yahoo group.

I haven't done anything on the Playstation but I hope these are a step in the direction you want to go.

[PapaStu]

Well Sony themselves have done a homebrew scene for both systems.... and both have failed.

PS got the lovely Net Yaroze (a development tool for the PS that allowed you to make and create games for the system). In both Japan and Europe there were thriving scenes. Ever play Devil Dice? That was a Japanese Yaroze title. European OPM's for a while had demo levels and such that were Yaroze made and then made available for the masses. However here in America we wern't so lucky. From most of the searching that i've done with Dangerboy much of the Yaroze scene here was very underground even and very dead back in 98/99.

PS2 got the short lived Linux Kit (which allowed you to create games using linux). Problem is that the stuff made would only work with another PS2 sporting a Linux kit so they were basically pointless hardware. At one point Playstation.com was liquidating the units at $50 (well below the former asking price of I believe $150). On ebay they easily pull that now (the $150) but its a very low key group that use them.

[pragmatic insanester]

damnit. just my luck, as the only system i have modded for homebrews would be my ps1. -hasn't tried with his dreamcast-

[geelw]

hey stu!

there were also a number of japanese yaroze demos as well, and a small amount seem to have been made as actual games there. i have a few discs with demos ranging from "wtf is this drunken crap?" to "hmmm, this is surprisingly good". i need someone to help translate a few things though, as my regular assitant guy has gone back to japan for a while, and it takes me ages to get through stuff, lol

g.

[KJN]

Here are a coupple of Yaroze games
Roller (http://www.hermitgames.com/roller.php)
Robot Ron (http://www.hermitgames.com/robotron.php)
Ping ping (http://www.hermitgames.com/pingping.php)
A whole bunch of games (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/sarandelle2/page16.htm)
Just download, burn them and play.

Then there are demos of course, you can find plenty of them here (http://www.pouet.net/prodlist.php?type=&platform=Playstation&type2=&platform2=&type3=&platform3=&x=36&y=10).

BTW, for PS2 I recommend Fren-ze (http://www.fren-ze.com) which is a nice littel shooter.

[Julio III]

i remember playing a few Yaroze games on the demo discs. Some of them were really good. This was round a mates house so i can't remember any names and we didn't play each game for long as we played loads of them

[Flack]

damnit. just my luck, as the only system i have modded for homebrews would be my ps1. -hasn't tried with his dreamcast-

If you're looking for a homebrew scene, fire up that Dreamcast. Tons of emulators and homebrews have been released for that system.

[PapaStu]

hey stu!

there were also a number of japanese yaroze demos as well, and a small amount seem to have been made as actual games there. i have a few discs with demos ranging from "wtf is this drunken crap?" to "hmmm, this is surprisingly good". i need someone to help translate a few things though, as my regular assitant guy has gone back to japan for a while, and it takes me ages to get through stuff, lol

g.

I figured as much considering that games like Devil Dice were picked up and given mass publication world wide. I honestly know so little about the Japanese PS scene (and a fair part was self imposed because I knew I didnt need to get started with imports, my US habit alone has been known as crack enduced) that I'm sure there were even more Japanese Yaroze games that got some level of publication out there.

[mezrabad]

Looking up "psxdev" on Google yielded a few Playstation 1 development hits.

"psxdev"!? crap, I would've never come up with that.

That's why search engines suck for me, I can only come up with the keywords that lead to spam.

Thanks for those hits, they're definitely the right direction.

[Nebagram]

The Yaroze demos were mint. I still have the demo disc which contained, like, 14 in one go. :-D Best of the bunch was undoubtedly Super Bub, a Bust-a-move/Baku Baku Animal clone, although the Sensible Soccer clone (forget its name) was infinitely playable too AND got a release on PC. :)

[The_EniGma]

In my opinion the best homebrew sceenw ill always be the xbox, tons of apps released each day and its full of cool stuff. I was part of 2 teams, ex-teamuix and currently team XDSL (lookup BxN) :)

www.xbox-scene.com if your interested

Now back to the topic, ive seen the yaroze manual and im not sure how you are supposed to use it since you need all this serial cable and old fasioned tech that im not sure about. Also you'll need a ps1 chip to boot the ps side yaroze disk (good luck finding that)

I also found the PS SDK had a few other neat tools for graphics and debugging.

Keep at it!