Is the psp like the god of hacks, homebrews and emulation?

[kyuubiko]

Sorry if this has been asked 100 times.
But, Does PSP have the crown in Hacks, Homebrews and Emulation?
I'm not saying its the strongest and can't emulate anything, but in the world of hacks is it the most supported? any reason for this?

If something can homebrew its all ways put up against the PSP
iPhone VS PSP
GP2X VS PSP
Ect..ect..

[JKKDARK]

Yes, it's the most active system for homebrew stuff

[Eviltaco64]

It's the king of homebrew for handhelds. Hands down.

[JLF65]

Hmm... my impressions on HOMEBREW:

DS vs PSP:
DS - cheaper and easier to hack (just needs one hardware thingy). However, it has little memory and even less power. PSP wins here.

GP2X vs PSP:
GP2X - uses linux and SD cards, so it's easier to program for. However, it's not as powerful as the PSP either in CPU or GPU (no hardware 3D on the GP2X), and the screen's smaller. PSP wins again.

iPhone vs PSP:
iPhone - Apple makes it almost impossible to program on, and even with their SDK, you can't do open source apps because of the NDA they require you to sign to use the SDK. More powerful, but lack of free dev tools and lack of real inputs (a touchscreen is a lousy input all by itself for most apps) means PSP wins once more.

The main thing about the PSP is getting it set to run homebrew. Once you cross that hurdle, it's the homebrew King. Free dev tools are easy to come by, it's relatively easy to program, and you can control almost all the power available (you can use the GPU for hardware 3D, you can run code on the second CPU, you can use the built-in mp3 audio and mp4 video decoding, etc).

[mike_jmg]

Yes it is