Mame Working on the PSP 118
An anonymous reader writes "The PSP Wiki site has posted a release of Mame the arcade emulator for the Sony PSP, heres an english site with Screenshots of the Emulator in action." I guess I won't need to go to such great lengths to play Pac-Man next time.
Great... (Score:2, Insightful)
Any news on a way into the new PSPs?
How akward will Sony be about homebrew on PSP? (Score:5, Insightful)
Do you think a console manufacturer is ever going to embrace homwbrew software, or will they always do their best to stop it?
wow, a good reason to buy a PSP! (Score:2, Insightful)
my hopes (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:How akward will Sony be about homebrew on PSP? (Score:2, Insightful)
1) If you buy the hardware only to run homebrew games then you're not putting the money into the 'system' the way that you're supposed to. Even now that MS is breaking even or making a little profit on each XBOX sold, the amount is nothing compared to the licensing fees on EVERY game that's sold or the profit on first party games. It's a losing proposition for them. But even more important is the fact that
2) The same methods that allow you to run homebrew software on a system also allow you to run pirated, published media. In a shareholder-centric company there's no way that you can do anything that jeapordizes your ability to make a profit by enforcing copy protection. If someone could solve this problem it would likely go a long way to making a hardware manufacturer more homebrew-friendly.
Re:What the hell is wrong with Sony (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Don't get all excited (Score:3, Insightful)
Kudo's on the insightful, not to mention original, post. If more people thought like you, people still wouldn't use wheels, because v1.0 kept rolling away.