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IRC On The PSP

Posted by timothy on from the limited-range dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Volksport has created a new script that allows PSP owners to access IRC from the PSP. The script requires the use of the Wipeout Pure Web browser hack in order to get the PSP online. Once that is done, all you have to do is access this Web page (as the script is server side), and you will be able to chat on the official PSPIRC project IRC channel. Users are currently limited to the PSPIRC chatroom. The script also features virtual PSP keyboard support."

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  1. I would find this useful... by FireballX301 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If it weren't so godawful to type on the PSP.

    At least let it be a standard keyboard interface where you move a cursor, instead of that horrible dialpad.

    1. Re:I would find this useful... by MBCook · · Score: 3, Interesting
      I agree, it's a pain.

      That said, if you use this hack for the ZipIt Wireless device, you could use IRC, on Linux, for about $100, and it is wireless too. Cheaper than buying a PSP (but then again anyone who buys a PSP to run IRC through a hack in a game must not be poor).

      Love my PSP, but I would have rather had a "normal" soft-keyboard (or even just press up/down to select the next/previous letter in the alphabet, left/right to select the next/previous blank). I don't know what they were thinking with that. Text input on cell phones only works because you have those twelve buttons. Without the twelve buttons, that becomes about the most anoying text input method I've seen.

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    2. Re:I would find this useful... by DannyiMac · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I totally agree! I hate the PSP's keypad and I believe it would be a good idea if Sony allowed one to choose between a keyboard or the keypad. (An option in the System settings would be nice).

      I guess they thought it would appeal more toward people who text message all the time. Though, it's not the same as using a phone since you have to navigate the cursor to the button with the letter or number you want. It's way more tedious and annoying than text messaging.

      Ultimately, it's a shame the PSP doesn't have a touch screen... The NDS beats the PSP for data input any day. (Man, if it did have a touch screen, Nintendo would be fuct!)

      Though, I have heard that there are keyboards in development. Oh boy, there will be some more crap to buy for the already expensive PSP.

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    3. Re:I would find this useful... by Mozk · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Have you ever played Killzone? It's a bad game, but the way you input your name on there is pretty interesting. It's a 3 by 3 grid, with four characters in each box arranged in a diamond. You select the box you want with the d-pad and choose the letter with the corresponding symbol (x, square, triangle, circle). It's a great system that I think would work very well on the PSP.

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    4. Re:I would find this useful... by Mozk · · Score: 5, Informative

      Since that was a fairly bad explanation, here is an image (I'm too lazy to finish it). That would be holding left and pressing square. Some combination of chars in each box could be like abcd, efgh, ijkl, mnop, qrst, uvwx, yz12, 3456, and 7890. You could have puncuation and other things with L1 and R1, but you know nobody uses puncuation on IRC anyway.

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  2. Re:Why buy the PSP? by kryogen1x · · Score: 3, Insightful
    It doesn't weigh as much.

    I'm no Sony fanboy (in fact, I'm more of a nintendo fanboy), but that argument was ridiculous.

    However, you can try this.

  3. It occurs to me... by Darth+Yoshi · · Score: 4, Interesting
    How long will it be before Bittorrent (or one of the other file sharing/downloading programs) is ported to the PSP. Sony will be so pleased.

    Anyone want to start a pool?

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  4. oh no by FidelCatsro · · Score: 5, Funny

    The thing has no Keyboard , i can imagine it now
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    hv u plyd rdgrcer
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    knw ne cht cod
    xyxyx

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    1. Re:oh no by TomHandy · · Score: 5, Funny

      Hrmm, and how is that different from the typical IRC experience?

    2. Re:oh no by FidelCatsro · · Score: 5, Funny

      .... um they have an excuse this time

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  5. Bullshit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is "IRC on the web server". It's HTML on the PSP.

  6. Not to be too much of a curmudgen by jockm · · Score: 4, Informative

    but this is just an IRC proxy page. It is neat and cool, but it is no different than any other page I might visit via the browser redirect trick. It would be much more exciting if someone had actually written an IRC client that ran on the PSP

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  7. Infect PSP with Viri by DigiShaman · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm feeling evil. But I would love to see a virus jump off the IRC network and infect the PSP just to see if it can be done. Why not? The worst that would happen is you lose your saved game data.

    *grin*

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  8. Re:Wow by prockcore · · Score: 4, Informative


    When you think about how much has been done in the first month, It's exciting to think about what people will develop for it given some time. Kudos to the developers of this.

    Except that this isn't developing *on* the PSP. It's an IRC proxy via the web. The hacked web browser for the PSP lets people do pretty much anything a web browser can do.. but it's not really PSP development.

    Give the DS a webbrowser and you can run every one of these "psp hacks". Except that you'd have a much better input system.

  9. Re:Does PSP have USB? by jockm · · Score: 4, Informative

    USB devices are not peers. There is a USB host and a USB client. It takes far less hardware (thus cost) to be a USB client. This was part of it's advantage over firewire in getting adopted (lower cost and hardware complexity). As far as I know the PSP can only act as a USB client. Thus it cannot use arbitrary USB peripherals.

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  10. A simple solution: by shigelojoe · · Score: 5, Funny

    To aid a large majority of IRC users, the following IRC shortcuts could be implemented:

    Circle = "lol"
    Triangle = "rofl"
    Square = "wtf"
    X = "stfu"
    L1 = "brb"
    R1 = /leave #pspirc

    Typing would then be accomplished by using the D-Pad and joystick to approximate the semaphore flag signalling system. The difficulty of typing in this setup could be rationalized by the fact that very few IRCers could not express themselves fully by using the six shortcuts listed above.

    1. Re:A simple solution: by IANAAC · · Score: 3, Funny
      And don't forget the combo:

      L1/R1 = "OMGLOLU2??!!"

  11. Official browser by rasty · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Hope this helps making Sony realize people is interested in using the PSP to go online and make them release an official browser...!

  12. Re:Does PSP have USB? by Yeldarb-7 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes and no. Yes, the PSP does have a USB port, but it is not usable by peripheral devices yet. So far, the PSP is only able to run as a device, no host support has been uncovered yet. The only way to enable power to the USB port is to do a "USB Connection," which essentially turns your PSP into a media card reader. The only thing you can do is transfer files to it from your computer. Hopefully a firmware update will enable OTG [On the Go] in the future so that we can use it as a host in the future.

  13. Re:Game Machine? by IANAAC · · Score: 3, Informative
    Maybe Sony should have realized that no one really wanted to play games with the PSP, and released a PSP that includes a Linux OS, and has the ability to work just like a standard computer, only smaller.

    Someone else already did, in Japan - Sharp, with their Zaurus C3000.

    An excellent handheld, BTW.

  14. Re:PSP sucks by IANAAC · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Number of original game experiences on PSP... 0 Whoops, better stick to my laptop for the airplane and my mp3 player for walking around.

    Yes, because they're not original titles, everything sucks.

    Good grief. So you don't like the PSP. We get it. Seems there are plenty of people out there who do, though.

  15. Using your own DNS with Win2003 Server by digitalexpl0it · · Score: 3, Informative

    Little howto to use your own dns for the psp http://daemonprojects.com/dnspsp/

  16. Re:Does PSP have USB? by larryj · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A PSP keyboard has been announced, but I don't think a release date has been set.

    http://www.gameseek.co.uk/productdetail/PSPfhyaqce 6he5x223r/

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  17. PSP Keyboard by eples · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here - a PSP Keyboard

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