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Ask Slashdot: Are The Days of Homebrew Gaming Over?

Posted by samzenpus on from the say-goodbye dept.

Croakyvoice writes "A few years ago the Homebrew community went from one console to another releasing some excellent software, from the Days of the Dreamcast the first breakthrough homebrew console, to the PSP which gave us the first handheld Nintendo 64, GBA and PSX emulators on a handheld. The last few years we have seen Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony and Apple all bring out means to thwart homebrew development. The app store on both Android and iOS have taken many homebrew devs over to try and break the market. The major consoles have so many firmware updates that the days of Homebrew seem to be numbered, is there a way back for the Homebrew Community?"

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  1. No by clarkn0va · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_Law_of_Headlines

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    1. Re:No by ninjackn · · Score: 2, Informative

      Can we, as a community, get over Betteridge's Law of Headlines? Please? I'm seeing it all over slashdot recently and it really is just the latest incarnation of FIRST POST. While "no" may end up as a valid answer to the headline, it kills the discussion by religiously applying an adage instead of introducing replies to the summary with new facts, anecdotes or questions. Sure the headline might be crap but that doesn't mean we need to reply back with crap.

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  2. Also No by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    There are a number of games made by enthusiasts for the systems that I grew up with. People are writing games for the C64, Atari 2600, etc. Not in the kind of numbers as back in their heyday, but there is still life non the less.

    These systems are well known, fully documented. All of the tricks are there to try out, lots of great sprite editors, assemblers, etc. There is no need to homebrew only on phones.

  3. if there was only a gen purpose personal computer by Dan667 · · Score: 4, Informative

    that did not have any vendor lock-in problems ...

  4. Homebrew isn't over by Nyder · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.wiibrew.org/wiki/Main_Page

    Wii homebrew still gets made, emulators get updated still. It's slowed down, but after we hack the Wii U, I imagine there will be a bunch of new stuff.

    Stuff still gets made for the Xbox 360, the PS3.

    Wouldn't even need to ask the question if you googled the various scenes.

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