Newsgroup: it.comp.console.playstation
Titolo: Indie PSX games/Yaroze/Psy-q

This is an open letter to anyone out there who would like to respond:
I recently acquired a couple of Playstation development kits when I purchased
a storage locker here in San Jose that had belonged to American Technos,
who's USA division died off here around a year and half ago, maybe longer.
One of them, I believe is a PSy-q kit, the other is a standard PSX dev kit
with the circuit boards and external Playstation drive, two modified
controllers,miscellaneous connections, a binder of info and three copies of
the technical reference/programming tools two cd sets. I was going to install
them on my PC, but since I just bought my computer and was unaware of the
condition of the circuit boards and such, I didn't want to risk plugging them
into my system.
I plan on buying a spare PC for using them on in the future-I have NO
intentions of selling them, but I do have a couple questions, and
comments/suggestions:
1.) I need the drivers for one or both of these kits, contacting Sony,
Psygnosis (Now dead in the US.) and the PSY-Q company(Metrowerks) and have
not been able to obtain any help whatsoever, I have been given the run
around, bull-shitted, lied to and otherwise been treated with no respect at
all, I keep either getting automated messages/form emails and/or a two
sentence email simply telling me "no, sorry." or something similar. I was
hoping someone here has copies of the drives needed to run the hardware and
would be willing to either sell, send or make me copies and I might be able
to help them out as well. The PSY-Q site has downloadable software, but it's
unacessible without a password-which you need to be a licensed developer with
them to acquire. I also need the instruction and/or documents included with
the kit, I would be willing to pay the costs of copying them and a little
something for a small profit as well.....
2.)Reagarding the Net Yaroze Dev. kit that was released by Sony: Where there
hell are the games? It's been out for quite a while now, what happened to all
the games people bought it for to develop, I would expect people would be
selling CD-r copies of their own homemade games or something by now...or at
the very least, Sony would have made a compilation of the games and paid the
developers a fee...maybe we'll see them when the psx2 comes out...
3.) Remember the Tomb Raider Nude code april fool's trick started by the
editors at EGM2? I thought it was pretty funny and cool, but a bit of a let-
down, what I'm wondering though, is since there's a patch for the PC version
on the net, why hasn't someone developed one for the PSX version on a net
yaroze or full dev system and burned their own copies and leaked them out by
now? Seems like it would be easy, sorta like a skin for a first person
shooter like Quake or whatever,a person would only need to change the hex
code colors or however they do it, for lara Croft's clothing to skin color
and/or add a little, um you know...detail... a TR3 patch would look best
IMHO.
4.)And speaking of Independent game development for PSX, where are the indie
games for Nes, Genesis, Sega CD and SNES, etc.? I see all this stuff still
coming out for Coleco, O2, and the 2600, true it would take longer, but the
cost of eproms for those old systems is alot more exepensive in comparison
than a Sega CD or TurboDuo CDR....
5.)If you have a 3DO test station, let me know, I'm interested in purchasing
it, I already have one and around 70 unencrypted games from when I worked at
Panasonic Interactive Media/Ripcord Games, until we closed last month and I
need a spare in case the one I have breaks(They were very prone to
overheating, or so I've been told.) besides, is you have one and no betas for
it, what's the use? Might as well sell it to someone who can actually use
it..
Thanks for taking the time to read this, if you have a response that you feel
is important, please email AND post it, as I'm new to the newsgroups and might
not remember posting it and/or never check...
Regards,
Geoff "3DOMAN" Smith
Lead Edutainment Software Debugger and Tester,
Lead Customer Service for 3DO Inquiries,
Panasonic Interactive Media/Ripcord Games/Panakids
mr...@hotmail.com
Hardcore Collector of Classic and New Video games,
3DO Muliplayer Expert and Collector
Cult/Horror/Sci-Fi film Buff
Quote of the month: "I... want...ROOM SERVICE!!!"
-Keanu Reeves, Sci-fi film "Johnny Mnemonic"
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