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Two-Player Pong Homebrew Arrives On PS3

Posted by timothy on from the overqualified dept.

Croakyvoice writes "Dragula96 has released the first 2 player Homebrew Game. Using the Blue Disc Java runtime on the PS3 and the Minimal BD-J (Java) Devkit, this will run on any PS3 on any firmware — Pong finally arrives on PS3."

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  1. Gah.... by Akir · · Score: 5, Informative

    As typical on Slashdot, anything that relates to technology in a game system is attributed to the game system itself. BD-J is Java for Blu-ray disc players. It's not PS3 homebrew - It's Blu-ray homebrew.

  2. Not really the first homebrew game... by ranulf · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is hardly the first 2-player homebrew game on the PS3.

    I released my Puzzle Bobble clone pubble almost a year ago. That actually supports 2-5 players.

    What's more, it's open-source and written in Python using my PS3 2D sprite library, python-ps3 which has a good library of SPU-accelerated sprite and alpha-blending routines, wireless sixaxis support and rumble support on a dualshock 3. I'm currently working on 3D rasterisation too, although that will be some months off yet...