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  1. Re:Another Rip At Nintendo by freshman_a · · Score: 1 · on Sony Hints At PS3 'Homebrew' Linux Plans


    Now Sony is once again trying to take ideas from Nintendo and incorperate them into their plan.

    You do realize that there was a Linux kit for the PS2, released in 2002, that was supposed to be aimed at the homebrew crowd, right? (Yes, I realize it was a flop.) Seems to me that Nintendo is copying an idea that Sony first tried. (For the record, I'm a huge Nintendo fan who is very anxious for the Wii.)

    IMHO, the only system that ever really had any sort of decent homebrew scene is the Dreamcast, but that wasn't exactly aided by Sega. http://www.dchomebrew.org/

  2. Good News for the Homebrews by eldavojohn · · Score: 4, Informative · on 360 Hackers Claim Full Read/Write Ability
    So there are already sites out there for Dreamcast, Xbox, PS2 and a multitude of other consoles/handhelds. This will make it a lot easier for homebrew execution to get started on the Xbox 360 for those who welcome it. It technically isn't legal since these developers don't have developer licenses but since they don't sell their homebrew apps, they usually aren't targeted.

    What a lot of people are interested in will probably be the porting of older consoles through known emulators to the Xbox 360. I don't want an Xbox 360 but we'll see how well this development takes off. I long for an emulator that plays my old SNES games as it is kind of cumbersome to have many many systems to hook up. A fully functioning Link to the Past on Xbox 360 would make me buy it.

    For those of you looking for free game ISOs to dump from the internet to your Xbox 360, this is not something that will allow this yet as from the article:
    Note: Before people try to launch crazy ideas again: No this does not allow you to copy retail games (signed for XBOX360DVD media only) to the HD and play them. It's a tool that gives you access to the Xbox 360 HD and Memcard from a PC, it does not hack/bypass any security.
    So there's no free games yet. On top of that, you can't shell out the boot sequence from a disc to use it for launching your own homemade application. Hopefully we'll see that in a few more months. I myself am not really interested in "free" games, just want to be able to use my Xbox as a real toy instead of the confines of those who can afford the insane developer's license fee.

    Anyone else notice that this article reads like an advertisement for 360gamesaves? There's three links to it.
  3. Re:Never Owned a Console by mix_MasterMix · · Score: 1 · on XBox 360 Launching Nov 22

    And there's still a huge homebrew community for it: http://www.dchomebrew.org/

  4. Re:Ports by MC+Negro · · Score: 3, Informative · on Sega Dreamcast Gets Rogue RPG Conversion

    Yeah, that's nifty, but where's my original games? Is this the best that they can do?
    Here. Nothing particularly awesome, but still homebrew none the less.

    Of course you know that the Dreamcast can emulate damn near anything, making it ideal for people who play a lot of ROMs. While I personally have never done it, I can imagine that plenty of people are getting use out of the Dreamcast strictly for that purpose.