Sony's Net Yaroze homebrew PS1 development community shutting down

[GSBot]

If you've been feverishly coding away on a PlayStation 1 game for the past, say, eleven years in the hope of becoming the next Devil Dice, you should go ahead and shelve the project. Next month, Sony will finally shut down the European server for the Net Yaroze project.

The Net Yaroze is a special black PlayStation console that allowed homebrew developers to run their own code on the system, interfacing with a computer via a serial connection. The mail-order-only system also included development software. Sony's servers allowed Yaroze users to discuss PlayStation development and even share their creations.








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[fat spartan]

This is the first I'm hearing about it. It would have been fun to try and make something with it. Well, at least I can play around with XNA.