VBA for PSP released

[aseddon130]

whoa ... was that the sound of nintendo turning in its grave ????

[quzar]

bah, we all read that months ago. dosnt say much to any of us, except that nintendo pulled this out of their ass to stop some warez $#@!s from purchasing a gba emulator for the zodiac... IF nintendo raises a finger against this then we will know for sure that nintendo is trying to prevent emulation of the gba on other consoles. can we please drop this before we send 1000 forums novices into the world saying that vba is completely illegal?

just because nintendo doesnt go knocking down the doors of everyone with NES roms does that mean it is any less legal?

[CHUCK67]

ok heres wat i did i downloaded vba for psp then i hooked up my psp to comp through usb i made a folder on mem stick called PSP-DEV i extracted the pbp file for vba using pbp unpacker and saved it in folder named psp-dev then i made another foler in the psp-dev folder named vbapsp i then put the rom pokemon emerald in the vbapsp folder and renamed it rom.gba. i tried and the thing loads and just goes back to the same spot please respond should i put the eboot.pbp file in the vbapsp folder too or what any help is appreciated

[Cap'n 1time]

just because nintendo doesnt go knocking down the doors of everyone with NES roms does that mean it is any less legal?

no im saying that they dont care, thus its a question of morals. me? I guess have no morals. I am not going to go around bitching about a release of somthing just because of some questionable action that accured months that no one has heard from since. why arnt you calling GPF a warez $#@! for porting VBA to DC? It's about the same concept isnt it?

[quzar]

no im saying that they dont care, thus its a question of morals. me? I guess have no morals. I am not going to go around bitching about a release of somthing just because of some questionable action that accured months that no one has heard from since. why arnt you calling GPF a warez $#@! for porting VBA to DC? It's about the same concept isnt it?

their patent applies specifically to handhelds, which makes perfect sense. A gba emulator for the dreamcast isnt gonna put nintendo under, because it would be the same as on PC, but a gba emulator on the psp(or any other handheld device) could have the potential to damage them. To me it has nothing to do with morals (recall the stuff that will sams said), it is strictly a question of it's legality.

[aseddon130]

their patent applies specifically to handhelds, which makes perfect sense. A gba emulator for the dreamcast isnt gonna put nintendo under, because it would be the same as on PC, but a gba emulator on the psp(or any other handheld device) could have the potential to damage them. To me it has nothing to do with morals (recall the stuff that will sams said), it is strictly a question of it's legality.

yea but ... who cares ???

GBA on PSP will be awesome, once its working fully that is. And even then it will not be perfect (i do hope i am wrong) :s

Sony will be saying they're gutted about Homebrew being done on the PSP, but in the consumers' eyes it makes the PSP an even better console over its competition ... hence, more sales so if i was Sony i would be happy

[CHUCK67]

ok heres wat i did i downloaded vba for psp then i hooked up my psp to comp through usb i made a folder on mem stick called PSP-DEV i extracted the pbp file for vba using pbp unpacker and saved it in folder named psp-dev then i made another foler in the psp-dev folder named vbapsp i then put the rom pokemon emerald in the vbapsp folder and renamed it rom.gba. i tried and the thing loads and just goes back to the same spot please respond should i put the eboot.pbp file in the vbapsp folder too or what any help is appreciated

[aseddon130]

read this CHUCK http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=6432 may help ya!

[quzar]

yea but ... who cares ???

GBA on PSP will be awesome, once its working fully that is. And even then it will not be perfect (i do hope i am wrong) :s

Sony will be saying they're gutted about Homebrew being done on the PSP, but in the consumers' eyes it makes the PSP an even better console over its competition ... hence, more sales so if i was Sony i would be happy

me, and the handfull of others who keep this all legal.

so basically you are saying that because it benefits sony it is ok? What if sony were to release an adapter that let you plug in gba carts to your psp? Nintendo would SUE THEIR ASSES OFF. Why? because they own the patent to gba emulation on a handheld device. The only difference here is that they can't really stop this in a court because once it's out it can't be stopped. If Nintendo wanted to, they could cite the same patent and take whoever it is that did this to court.

either way, i've said my piece. nobody has refuted the fact that it is illegal, and has only given the "who cares?" and "it doesn't matter." defenses. I'm not gonna lock this because it was posted by wraggster, but if any other mod here really wants to keep this clean and legal, they'll lock it.

[Omatic]

Well the problem is that Sony HAS to bitch about emus on their system. If not, then they'd look like they were condoning it. If they really, really cared, then this site would be down by now. Notice how torrent sites are being shot down as well as P2P sites. If Sony TRULY didn't want us to have it, they'd be destroying the emu sites left and right.

In my opinion, they're just doing it to look like they don't want it. In reality, they prolly don't care that much.

yea but ... who cares ???

GBA on PSP will be awesome, once its working fully that is. And even then it will not be perfect (i do hope i am wrong) :s

Sony will be saying they're gutted about Homebrew being done on the PSP, but in the consumers' eyes it makes the PSP an even better console over its competition ... hence, more sales so if i was Sony i would be happy