PSP Programming Tutorials

A Reader writes "Since its inception, the PSP Homebrew Community has been hacking away at their little jem of a portable console. Its valiant efforts in the fight for open hardware have not been well received by Sony. Regardless, Yeldarb, a homebrew programmer, has released a PSP Programming Tutorial Series. It covers everything from setting up the development environment to writing your first program to sprucing up your programs with a little graphics programming. The tutorial series is a must read for anyone interested in joining the PSP hacking community."

Comments

Re:Fascinating.

[British]

One look at psp-hacks.com, and there are UMD loaders, and other "exploits" for post 1.5 firmware. The exploits posted are just concepts, but nothing concrete.

Almost everything on psp-hacks.com consists of incredibly complicated, sometimes poorly documented, and sometimes confusing instructions. Oh, and it might brick your PSP.

The state of PSP hacking is very very immature IMO. With the risk of "bricking" a PSP, I dare not put my foot in such things, and just stick to emulators.

A little light....

[ReKleSS]

It's nice to see this information collected like this, instead of making prospective developers trawl through the ps2dev forums (where the toolchain development takes place, but it's not really saying much. Framebuffer graphics techniques and libpng aren't PSP specific, and if you can't do that stuff already you're probably going to have trouble getting much further. Take the pspdev FAQ and just look through the samples, that should be more than enough to get you started. And you'll be able to draw stuff the fast way, using the GU, instead of just writing directly to VRAM.

Also, Shine's lua player is an easier way to get into psp dev... but please, please don't go and write another shell.

-ReK

Analogy to PC controls

[tepples]

I believe the PSP has better controls

O rly? Would you rather play a real-time sim such as Starcraft on a tablet PC or on a ThinkPad?

Re:Fascinating.

[KDR_11k]

The PSP won't accept code on the memstick without complaining. At least not if you want to play any of the newer games.

Re:DS: $255

[buffer-overflowed]

Try this:
Nintendo DS - $130
PassMe - $25 or some time and a parts order(plans are freely available)
Compatable Game Card - $0 - $10 (Hunters works and caps out on EBay at about $10 including shipping)
32MB Flash Cart or SD cart - $60
Not having to worry about tracking down previous firmware versions or future games killing your ability to run homebrew - Priceless
ScummVM with touchscreen support - Truly abso-fucking-lutely priceless

It comes out cheaper, it takes less time and aggravation, gets better battery life, and you get a better legit game library that's not a bunch of console games in a portable format at console prices.