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Mame Working on the PSP

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the oh-glorious-day dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The PSP Wiki site has posted a release of Mame the arcade emulator for the Sony PSP, heres an english site with Screenshots of the Emulator in action." I guess I won't need to go to such great lengths to play Pac-Man next time.

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  1. Great... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Now if only I had an original japanese PSP...

    Any news on a way into the new PSPs?

  2. How akward will Sony be about homebrew on PSP? by Omega+Xi · · Score: 5, Insightful

    From what I read here about firmware (it's about the height of my knowledge on how PSP works) I'm guessing Sony is already trying to make it fairly difficult to run unlicensed software on the PSP. Personally I reckon that if there wasn't so much software availabe for x-box it wouldn't have sold nearly as well as it has (though I could well be wrong).

    Do you think a console manufacturer is ever going to embrace homwbrew software, or will they always do their best to stop it?

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    1. Re:How akward will Sony be about homebrew on PSP? by jfaulken · · Score: 2, Insightful

      In all honesty, the number of people that actually go out and buy the hardware simply to run homebrew, even XBMC, software is extremely small. The problem for the manufacturer is two-fold:

      1) If you buy the hardware only to run homebrew games then you're not putting the money into the 'system' the way that you're supposed to. Even now that MS is breaking even or making a little profit on each XBOX sold, the amount is nothing compared to the licensing fees on EVERY game that's sold or the profit on first party games. It's a losing proposition for them. But even more important is the fact that

      2) The same methods that allow you to run homebrew software on a system also allow you to run pirated, published media. In a shareholder-centric company there's no way that you can do anything that jeapordizes your ability to make a profit by enforcing copy protection. If someone could solve this problem it would likely go a long way to making a hardware manufacturer more homebrew-friendly.

  3. wow, a good reason to buy a PSP! by inteller · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If they do a good job I'll be in line to get one. So sad they could never get one for the Xbox.

  4. my hopes by ehershey · · Score: 2, Insightful

    keep getting raised by these stories, yet they're meaningless for most psp owners

  5. Re:What the hell is wrong with Sony by fr0dicus · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As a disappointed owner, I have to disagree. It doesn't have a single killer title yet.

  6. Re:Don't get all excited by gartogg · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I agree; just like linux was only written for PC's, and so only runs on them, and didn't have support for almost anything at v1.0, so too I will assume that the somtware devolpers on this project have suddenly decided that they have better things to do than continue developing the program, and we will never see a version that's useful.

    Kudo's on the insightful, not to mention original, post. If more people thought like you, people still wouldn't use wheels, because v1.0 kept rolling away.

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