wraggster
July 7th, 2008, 16:08
The Homebrew and Emulation Scenes span so many consoles now that it is truly amazing to see so many sites and coders and fans worldwide, a natural progression is to see Homebrew and Emulators going commercial in some form. The excellent releases from the Dreamcast Scene especially from the likes of Dan potter (http://gamedev.allusion.net/softprj/kos/scene.php) and in particular Feet of Fury show the full potential of what can be done, the somewhat murky waters come in if the original code is by another coder.
Recently the announcement that a donation when buying a Pandora Console will get you access to betas (http://pandora.dcemu.co.uk/pandora-dev-fund-announcement-117656.html) is also a good idea in General but the problems lie if say someone ports for instance PCSX to the Pandora and they get cash but in all fairness the original coder also deserves cash for the work in coding the emu in the first place.
Moving on from that in the Iphone scene there are some coders who have a donation scheme to get beta access to the releases that they are working on. Now yes the coder doing the work to port to say Iphone/Pandora etc deserves some of the takings but shouldnt the original coder deserve some too?
Finally across the Whole Homebrew community theres been some awesome coding contests but when a release is a port or has taken code (no matter how much it changed from the original source) shouldnt the original coder or team get some of the prizes ?
Is the only way forward to have contests with only original coders/work allowed ?
Obviously if you are the original coder then this post means nothing if you port to other consoles or indeed sell as commercial homebrew but its interesting to hear the thoughts of both members and coders thoughts on the items raised.
Recently the announcement that a donation when buying a Pandora Console will get you access to betas (http://pandora.dcemu.co.uk/pandora-dev-fund-announcement-117656.html) is also a good idea in General but the problems lie if say someone ports for instance PCSX to the Pandora and they get cash but in all fairness the original coder also deserves cash for the work in coding the emu in the first place.
Moving on from that in the Iphone scene there are some coders who have a donation scheme to get beta access to the releases that they are working on. Now yes the coder doing the work to port to say Iphone/Pandora etc deserves some of the takings but shouldnt the original coder deserve some too?
Finally across the Whole Homebrew community theres been some awesome coding contests but when a release is a port or has taken code (no matter how much it changed from the original source) shouldnt the original coder or team get some of the prizes ?
Is the only way forward to have contests with only original coders/work allowed ?
Obviously if you are the original coder then this post means nothing if you port to other consoles or indeed sell as commercial homebrew but its interesting to hear the thoughts of both members and coders thoughts on the items raised.