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Wednesday, February 7. 2007A sense of communityThere have been times, during the 18 months or so that I've been involved in the PSP scene, when I've despaired of the PSP homebrew community. But then there have been times when the community spirit has really shone through. In the early days, there was a "golden age", when the only people who had even heard of homebrew were typically hardcore, enthusiast developers. Back then, there was genuine excitement over every little step forward, and people were working hard to push back the barriers on all sorts of frontiers. The community was open and friendly, and a great sense of sharing was all around - we were all in it together. Later, came the "mainstream age" - homebrew became known amongst mainstream PSP users, and the non-technical homebrew user became more commonplace. Unfortunately, this also drew a lot of people who were only interested in quick, flashy hacks for their PSP, or worse - just in enabling piracy of UMD games. The worst thing about this period was that it seemed to be characterised by a grasping mentality - a majority of users simply wanted whatever they could get for free, with no concept of community spirit, or the consequences of all the piracy and flaming that was going on. All of this meant that not so long ago, I was becoming quite disheartened by it all, and there didn't seem to be a lot of reason to carry on coding for the PSP. But recently, things seem to have turned around again, and a number of small bits and pieces have restored my faith in the community. For one, the PSP Homebrew Database, which was always intended to be a community project, has continued to grow, with regular contributions from not just a few hard workers (thanks wwsean08, most recently More impressive though has been the response to the "No GTA? No problem!" initiative. I made a post on the QJ.net forums with a suggestion that people who didn't have a copy of GTA could get in touch, and I would arrange a downgrade for them. I also suggested that people in other countries and regions might offer their services, but never really expected it to take off. 6 pages and several continents later, and people all over the world are offering to downgrade, or loan GTA UMDs, to complete strangers. This is the sort of community spirit that really makes me proud, and shows what we can achieve if we put ourselves to one side to help out our fellow man. And another - a few weeks ago the community was bemoaning the lack of innovation and incentive that would be supplied by a coding contest - after the flood of coding competitions in summer last year, there's been a drought since. And so a community contest spontaneously arose - see for the PxP forum for more details. I can only hope that this sort of thing continues, boosting our pride in our community. Comments
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I remember checking out psp updates early 05. This was the time of no kxploit so only 1.0 homebrew. And this was pretty basic homebrew at start but has grown so much. I remember how the snes emulator had a update every day sometimes even a few the same day.
It slowed down a bit cause of all the ISO loaders and what not but the true PSP scene is coming back with great homebrew releases. And it keeps growing today. Comment (1)
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2007-02-09 00:45
yeah man i notice a social void
i only just got a psp i read every thing you write about what i can do with my psp i read every thing bout dark alexes open edition firm ware even the old stuff i also read comments people leave they treat you like gods  but soon as a new person has an idea i posted it on qj.net to ask for opinions i get verbelly bashed granted now it looked like a stupid idea but im think that the homebrewers have developed such a reliance on you that they arnet intrested in new ideas i think you do great work keep it up Comment (1)
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2007-03-16 03:09
The worst thing about this period was that it seemed to be characterised by a grasping (*mentality*)
Hey I got a mention  - But it wheren't in a good way - COWERS!!!  ---------------------------------------- I was one of the newbies to Homebrew but I can see what you where relating to, lots of greddy people with to high expectations and no patience. Was sickening and still is to see good developers get flamed for "trying" and then people telling them what they HAVE to do in the next update, not just requesting but insisting and leaving no room for options, it's disgusting and I think thats why we lost alot of developers. I think all the new people that came to the scene though have found they're place now. DEVS in there place. Pirates in theres. And I do think that alot of the problems where related to that, mixed groups creating confusion. I know you don't agree with the pirate community, but just gettin my point across, the came looking for hacks and exploits for they're games, and when cooky little emulators where coming out and other cool apps, they got distressed when really they only came for one thing. Now they know where to get it, the scene is somewhat back to normal with alot of new fans, none pirates and alike. Comment (1)
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2007-04-02 20:26
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