Why the PSP scene isn't as active as it used to be and why it wont last.

[Tetris999]

All scenes die thats the way it goes

this one will die eventually

[splodger15]

^ ^
Wrong dreamcast seems to be going well

[Baboon]

Well in the past week weve had quite a few new releases: NJ's updated all of his emu's source, 3.02 OE, PSP iR Shell 3.1, the 2.80 kernel mode (proof of concept) exploit, gpsp 0.9 etc ...hardly a sign of the scene thats dead! lol

[Napalm-Death]

The sad thing about people that need help is that they're too damn lazy to just do a simple search.

[dejkirkby]

The sad thing about people that need help is that they're too damn lazy to just do a simple search.

That's not always true.

[Napalm-Death]

Sorry, I didn't mean to say that about everyone that needed help, just a percentage seeing as how people ask how to downgrade, if they can downgrade, how to install x homebrew, etc.

[F9zDark]

I have been holding off on posting in this thread, mainly because I have been too lazy. But aside from that, I have also been too busy.

And that leads directly to my point. Not that all coders are college students (many of them aren't) but for those who are, the past 2 weeks has meant finals. On top of that, its also the holiday season, which people are busy buying presents, making arrangements for heading home, visiting family, etc.

Honestly, I feel this post is rather premature. Yes there has been a decline in the scene as of late. We have lost/not heard from a few titular coders. But is the scene nearing death? Hardly.

In fact, right now the scene has been rather busy, with the frontpage, as of this moment, consisting more of homebrew/hacking than of "Hardware Sales" and other BS topics that I care little about.

As well, hacking is important to the scene. The more PSPs that gain the ability to play homebrew, the more populated the scene will become, thus allowing more coders to trickle down the ranks. Simply because a person owns a 2.8 PSP or a TA-082 PSP doesn't mean they can't code in C or Lua, which, once they have kernel access or can downgrade, they can effeciently begin work on homebrew.

All the fakers out there certainly take its toll on the community, but the scene is far from dying. Its merely experiencing the typical holiday slow down.

[scottyboynow]

And Sony making gameboots Illegal.

[F9zDark]

And Sony making gameboots Illegal.

It wasn't Sony who made them illegal, it was the assholes who stole the software and subsequent license that went with releasing said gameboots.

Sony may not like piracy of their games, but they would have a damn good court case in shutting down all homebrew sites for actively releasing items that were made with software that was stolen directly from Sony themself...

[Wally]

Wow the scene has boosted ever since i posted this.. although i doubt i did anything to make it boost lol