The DCEmu Interview - Question 8 - Whos the Greatest Homebrew Hacker/Coder and Why ?

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A feature i did a few years ago and one im going to repeat now is the DCEmu Interview, a unique idea in which questions are asked by me to the Whole DCEmu Community its a way to learn more about each others and find out what our interests are and much more

Todays Question is Whos the Greatest Homebrew Hacker/Coder and Why ?

Please explain why you think the Coder/Hacker deserves to be the greatest

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[steve520]

Der Dark_Alex definantly greatest hacker.

[JKKDARK]

Dark Alex

[Gizmo356]

I don't agree with this thread at all since alot of this wouldn't be possible with the combined effort of all the hackers.

[mike_jmg]

Dark Alex, because he created custom firmware

[cdc1991]

It has to be Fanjita...
He created some pretty amazing stuff before team c+d, then they blew homebrew wide open with the Pandora battery!
And remember: No pandora - No CFW on slims. ;)

[Jayenkai]

Chishm, for making DS FAT-Based Homebrew a WHOLE lot less of a hassle!
Without him, my poor little Games'n'Music cart would be ridiculed.. Now, it's merely laughed at..

[antman811]

Fanjita

[osgeld]

Fanjita and DAX are a given since theres about to be a new CFW for the psp (why did you ask this question NOW??)

but as gizmo stated theres a ton of people over a handful of systems who all do important work to bring us more and more goodies

[camcorderdoctor]

I'm gonna have to say Dark Alex hands down cause he gave us all the ability to play ps1 games (without the need for a PS3) and created the custom firmwares we have all come to love and use. He is a household name now.

I also have to give cudos to Fanjita as well.

[WhizzBang]

Dan Potter

[ojdon]

It has got to be Dark Alex. I wonder what the psp scene would be like without him...

[one winged angel]

fanjita or dark alex id say cuz both are awesome without them the psp scene would pretty much suck right now

fanjita dark alex you both own:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

[gelon]

ZX81, i just love his homebrew, and he works so hard

:thumbup:

Next Fanjita and Dark Alex

Special mention to: Mr. Mirakichi, NJ, Brunni, Exophase, Yoyofr, Laxer, Rukka and Danzel

[pibs]

For the psp scene I would say firstly SEC for releasing the first homebrew application for the psp (Hello World) then MPH and team for creating the first downgrader for 2.0fws, and Fanjita because he also had huge contributions to the scene. Not to mention Harleyg for creating the first custom firmware, then DAX for popstation.

-also all the great coders who contributed to the scene keeping it alive *too many to name ;)

[royvedas]

All the guys and gals who contributed to XBMP/XBMC. It is the single most important piece of homebrew to me. I use it every single day.

I vote for the "XBMC guys" as a collective.

[maxipower90]

hmm dark alex, fanjita ( sternerm < totally spelt wrong

you cant just choose one, they all are great, like Gizmo356 said this thread is disrespect to all coders who are working hard trying to be remembered as a great coder. im sure sternum dosent spent countless hours on it to be second best

[goity]

I am obviously, but then probably Squidge for his work on basically everything.

[ICE]

Hmm as great as DaX is Fanjita made homebrew possible on all PSP's with his guys so he's got my vote.

[relion]

How the hell can yo give dark alex and fanjita credit with out thanking Diltew, booster, strmnnrmn, DickyDick and Ahman they are all great !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I mean where were you guys during the time of eLoader, Tiff and dehvhook

[DarthPaul]

My favorite coders are NekoGráfico, DimensionT, and Buddy4Point0. :)


But they're not the best![ha you lose guys]

I think the bests are:

- Flash Hacking: Dark_AleX
- Applications Coder: Fanjita/AhMan/deniska
- Homebrew Games: deniska
- Emulators: StrmnnRmn/exophase/NJ

[JKKDARK]

I forgot a special person:

Rand

He was from the Bleem team who developed the first PSX emulator for Dreamcast, in 2001.

[Ayla]

Dan Potter, for his awesome NAVI, And Natrium42.

[Failedartifact]

Dan Potter. His work on NAVI was truely amazing.. though did he finish his work? it seemed like he just left it.

creating KOS aswell.

[Maxime.]

Best hacker / coder is me, because he's me.
Nah seriously, it's definitely Fanjita : greatest coder for greatest exploits and greatest man.

[pas]

Just some great DS ones cause I don't care about the PSP Scene that much:

Dark Fader (the trojan aside ),
chishm (FAT Lib and DLDI),
Dragonminded (DSO FTW !),
0xtob (Pocketphysics and Nitrotracker own!),
Infantile Paralyzer (Moonshell anyone ?),
Stephen Sgstair (Wifi Lib is VERY useful ),
natrium 42 (passme 2 )

and of course !:

Olimar the creator of flashme !

[one winged angel]

hmm dark alex, fanjita ( sternerm < totally spelt wrong

you cant just choose one, they all are great, like Gizmo356 said this thread is disrespect to all coders who are working hard trying to be remembered as a great coder. im sure sternum dosent spent countless hours on it to be second best

youre right you cant choose one but if i were too name all awesome coders ii wouldve to spent like 2hors or something XD

[bigleak2]

i have to say dark alex
he made my old psp the man
but i dont run homebrew on my slim i love it too much lol

[Justise]

Both Dark Alex and the Noobz team!!!

[talonreaper]

I agree with pas.. :) (except for Dark Fader/Dark_Alex, he lost my vote)


Just some great DS ones cause I don't care about the PSP Scene that much:

Dark Fader (the trojan aside ),
chishm (FAT Lib and DLDI),
Dragonminded (DSO FTW !),
0xtob (Pocketphysics and Nitrotracker own!),
Infantile Paralyzer (Moonshell anyone ?),
Stephen Sgstair (Wifi Lib is VERY useful ),
natrium 42 (passme 2 )

and of course !:

Olimar the creator of flashme !

[Nikolaos]

I do not have a favorite coder, hacker or anything. Everybody who contributes to the PSP Scene, or the NDS scene has my vote... you all rock.

[Gene]

I think any coder that has ever contributed anything, are the best coders.

[jamotto]

Every single coder who made the homebrew scene just a bit better.

[Aryn]

Dark Alex for the win!

Sure, others have managed to hack various console systems, but he played a role in the development of the famous PSP Pandora hack and has been creating hacked versions of the latest PSP firmwares so that gamers never have to sacrifice features on their PSPs in order to continue running unsigned code. He also created Popstation (or is it Pops Loader? I forget) so that gamers can play their old PS1 games on PSP systems without having to repurchase them.

[Dull Blade]

Dan potter is omega!!! but honerable mention to bluecrab for his work on porting a saturn emulator to the DC amoung his other accomplishments, and chui for this very professional emulators.

[bah]

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[Veskgar]

Its really hard and maybe impossible for me to pick a "greatest" PSP homebrew & emulation hacker. This is because so much is shared and contributed between developers so its sort of like one big team effort of sorts. This isn't the case for all projects, but certainly a lot of them.

Thanks to all the PSP homebrew developers and coders of past, present, and future.

- Veskgar

[Kazayami]

chrishm, natrium42 for make the DS scene so much easier to code and work with.

[JKKDARK]

Dan potter is omega!!! but honerable mention to blue crap for his work on porting a saturn emulator to the DC amoung his other accomplishments, and chui for this very professional emulators.
lol crap. It's BlueCrab :p

[Bane King]

I don't agree with this thread at all since alot of this wouldn't be possible with the combined effort of all the hackers.

I agree. I'm just a user so I'm totally useless when it comes to contribution but had it not been for everyones' work (that they do in their spare time and give FOR FREE), I'd have no real reason to own a psp. All the psp really is is a glorified portable ps2 with a ps3 interface. Although baddazz, my laptop does everything it does and more AND it does it much faster.

GOOD JOB coders and here's to keeping your stuff free ;)

[badwog69]

Dark_Alex for creating cfw for the psp and Fanjita for the pandora battery

[Dull Blade]

lol crap. It's BlueCrab :p


OMG, thanks for picking up on that one.... **feels like an illiterate retard** Edited.

[matprogramix]

Rafael Vuijk/Dark Father for his NDS hacking! (yes, i know he made a ds bricker but still)

[kjetil1991]

DARK ALEX he showed me the way to homebrew ;)

[VampDude]

Dark Alex, purely and simply because he opened doors what SONY wanted closed.

[Safari Al]

Definately Dark Alex and fanjita because they both gained us access to a realm we probably would've never found without them :p

[cal360]

I can't really say who. All coders and hackers have put all they can into the scene so they all deserve equal praise.

[aznflameboy]

Every1 of them r great since they contribute to this scene, but Booster, Da, and Fanjita ha a huge impact on this scene.

[Basil Zero]

Dark-Alex, because of him, Emulation progressed throughout PSP's lifetime.

[alanparker05]

dark alex is easily the most important person in homebrew he has help from other coders but he can do things that most people would think impossible and just give up on, and wont release anything that's not up to his standards

[alexzander]

Fanjita, BOOSTER and Dark_Alex.

[MHentai]

nowdays dark alex... but for me all the time is the guy which make cps2 machines came back from the death

[firemaster#1]

nowdays dark alex... but for me all the time is the guy which make cps2 machines came back from the death

You mean nj I think he derserves a big mention for allowing us to play the vs., alpha espcially part 2, Darkstalkers, SSF2 series and many others and on the slim you don't even need cache. Also his neogeo and neogeo cd emulation was spot on.

Oh and my favorite are the Kxploit team for even starting homebrew,Fanjita for downgraders and ebootloaer because without it there would be no HEN, Booster for devhook, Team C+D for pandora's battery,Dark Alex andTeam M33 for Custom firmwares and 1.5 kernal for slim , Exophase for gpsp, Ruka for nester j, Mr. Mirachi's rin, Syn-Z for Dgen,Froggies Prods And TiTAN Handheld Division for R Gear (wish it would be update for slim though even in 1.5 in timemachine it dosen't work), PSmonkey for sandbox and other things, and also the person who made Hue, and all the other coders for making homebrew one of the most popular scenes in the world.

[Hotrootsoup]

DragonMinded,or Natrium42.

[pepe55]

Dark Alex - CFW
Booster - Devhook

[freestile]

I think all these guys are the greatest. Without every coder/hacker/developer, there wouldnt even be a homebrew scene.

[Scoe]

I am going for a group of coders/hackers only becase they have made some of the most insanely challenging .wad's & .pwads for ultimate doom and doom 2 ever. That group I am refering too of course is no other than: TEAM TNT