Homebrew Community Blends Gamers and Hackers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday July 8, 2006 @10:23AM from the do-it-yourself dept.

MSNBC is running an article on the gaming homebrew community. They examine the 'do it yourself' attitude of the folks that make mods, knockoffs, and emulations possible. From the article: "So lively is the homebrew scene that some PSP fans -- it's impossible to say how many -- say they don't buy or play new games because they don't want to upgrade their gadgets and lose their homebrew software. There's even a circulating joke slogan: 'Friends don't let friends upgrade their PSPs.' Unable to break through recent versions of the Sony software, PSP homebrewers have moved on to another trick: downgrading their PSPs to earlier versions."

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Not just PSP by Megane · 2006-07-08 10:31 · Score: 3, Insightful

It should probably be pointed out that PSP is only one of the many systems that can be homebrewed for. There are many other systems, such as the Atari 2600, Atari 5200, ColecoVision, with a pretty strong homebrew community, and within the next year or three, the NES and Sega Genesis will probably see a rise in homebrew programming.

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