The DCEmu Network Public Interview (Question #9) Is Homebrew Better Than Commercial ?

**PoorWhiteTrash** · April 19th, 2006, 22:08

I have sold all my PSP games. The last one I bought.... Need for speed most wanted.... required me to upgrade to 2.0. so I did. then I played the game, and it sucked. So I downgraded back to 1.5 and sold NFSMW on ebay. Now all I own are a couple of movies on UMD for it.

I am going to say the Homebrew/Emmulator scene is a much richer environment and is superior to the mainstream schlock being sold for $50 a whack.

**Apoklepz** · April 19th, 2006, 22:13

I have to agree with Voltron on the Homebrew APPS and EMULATORS being better, more enjoyable, exciting, & I must add, more resourceful than commercial APPS and EMULATORS.

Commercial Games VS. Homebrew Games? Tough...
A Commercial game will always excel in amazing the public with the latest graphical engine, effects, playability, etc. But every once in a while a team of Devs will sit down and amaze us equally with a beautiful homebrew game that will leave everybody hooked.

Commercially-wise you have to pay to get your enjoyments worth, sometimes ending up in dissapointment. Homebrewilly-wise(I know, it sounds great!!..doesn't it?) you get the same feel of enjoyment or dissapointment(but please if you don't like it, don't trash it...after all there was human dedication put into making it, so at least respect it) but most of the time it's free!

In Conclusion, Homebrew Games, Applications & Emulators are better than Commercial Games & vice versa. Just my two cents.

**felonyr301** · April 19th, 2006, 23:05

homebrew is still fun and refreshing at times and also being easy on the wallet so homebrew all the way also considering that nowadays so many commercial games thats not even worth the money like the good ol days now you have only a handful of choices

**Emulation_Chief** · April 19th, 2006, 23:40

Hello:

This is, indeed, a tough question. The answer, simple. The winner here is homebrew for the following reasons.

1. Freedom. No time constraints; very low or no budget; more creativity. Commercial games spent too much on games that many expect to be good but finally become a dissapointment. Just read those magazine colums.

2. Updating. On PC games, this is the norm. On consoles, Commercial developers has to release a final product. Homebrew is constantly updating their projects in order to give you the best product possible. Commercial games has a chance thanks to Microsoft. The Xbox and X360 has a hard drive that let you download patches and fixes to those commercial releases. Still no match for what homebrew can do.

3. Very cheap or Free. this is the best part of homebrew. Why buy a game that costs $50 or $60 when you can acquire a high quality homebrew commercial release for half the price or less? Even free!

**Eric** · April 20th, 2006, 00:30

Well we all know that homebrew games cant beat out the competition of commercial gaming. I have seen some pretty good homebrew games for the DC sold commercially like Feet Of Fury and thought that was a great game. But to make a good homebrew you need the knowledge for idea making,graphics,music, and fun factory. All of those bunch up into each other and if you are missing atleast one of those you will have problems making a good game.

Commercial is done by professionals they have been to school or have been gaming since there younger years. I think homebrew could be a lot better if people took a lot of ideas from previous games they have played and i'm not talking about making the same game. You can take somethings from just about any game and throw it in to whatever your game going to make.

Well of course it goes commercial for me. Of course i dont hate homebrew cause i play them when i feel like playing a small game,seeing new ideas and of course testing them out and giving my word out to the authors.

Fav Homebrew:
Burger Time Clone: DC
Feet Of Fury: DC
Smash TV Clone: DC

Commercial:
Need For Speed Hotpursuit 2:PC
Soul Caliber: DC
JetMoto 2:PSone

Well theres more games then that, that i enjoy and was told in an earlier post

Commercial is amazing but dont diss out the coders who are trying to make out making homebrew.

Eric

**chrisrulz555** · April 20th, 2006, 01:02

The only good commercial game on psp I found is Tales of Eternia, its only available in pal regions for some reason and it can play on 1.5 so yes I think homebrew is better.

**MaxSMoke** · April 20th, 2006, 01:20

I think the best part of Homebrew are the Apps. They clearly show that the PSP can be so much more then just a game system. I use WiFi Sniffer all of the time to find interference with my wireless network. PSP Radio brings all of the coolness of Shoutcast into the palm of my hand. It's always exciting to see how the PSP will be used next in the hands of creative programmers.

And there are some true Homebrew games that are very well done. They can certainly hold their own against some rather poorly designed PSP games that have reared their ugly head on the system. Better yet, Homebrew games can be updated and made better. What PSP game have you ever seen that features upgradablity? It's not that it's not possible, Wipeout did it, but nobody seems to care enough to bother updating their games these days. I guess it's not economically feasible.

That's one great advantage of a hobbyist game maker, you don't have monitary concerns getting in the way of making a great game. You can do whatever you like, and never have to worry about some VP telling you your ideas are worthless. In terms of creative control and freedom, Homebrew will always rein supreme!

**MaxSMoke** · April 20th, 2006, 01:26

BTW, speaking of good artwork, if anybody needs any 3D models for a Homebrew PSP game or App, please let me know. Send a message with the title "Homebrew" to my E-mail address at "[email protected]". I get alot of spam in that mailbox, so anything not clearly titled gets sent to the trash bin.