The folks at the PSP Homebrew Community have announced that the PSPHDC (PSP Homebrew Developer Conference) is right around the corner. It will happen This Saturday, April 6th, at 6PM UTC* (5PM UK; 2PM EST).
The PlayStation Portable turns 20 year old this year so this year’s PSPHDC is kind of a big deal. Looking at the lineup for the conference, it’s exciting to see that people are still very much active on this device (the PSP, PS3, and Nintendo DS to me still represent the “apogee” era of console homebrew), but also all that’s been accomplished on the device, whether it’s on hacks, homebrew games, or features nobody thought would be possible.
What’s the PSPHDC (PSP Homebrew Dev conference)
As the name implies, the PSPHDC is an event where Homebrew Developers for the PlayStation Portable will discuss some of their recent work for the device. This year’s lineup looks very promising:
- Kurohyou Translation Project (Team K4L); The story behind a fan-translation for the Kurohyou series of PSP games.
- Project Aether Engine (IridescentRose); The evolution of game engine design into a purpose-built cross-platform game engine.
- TOTP4PSP Authentication (arcyleung); A homebrew project to use the PSP hardware as an offline authentication token generator. A quick overview of the development process.
- ARK-4 (Acid_Snake); The latest and most awesome PSP custom firmware!
- SSL with cURL (Bucanero); Getting secure TLS1.2 networking on PSP with cURL + mbedTLS
- PSP Toolchain (davidgf); A walkthrough of the PSP Toolchain, progress, updates, and exciting new prospects!
- SDL2 (wouter); A talk about getting into porting games to PSP using SDL and other common tools!
I’m personally very excited to hear about SDL2 porting on the PSP, having worked in the past with SDL and SDL2, which I think is a great multi-platform “engine”. It’s also quite surprising and cool to see that the toolchain is apparently still getting updates on a regular basis!
Anyway, if you’re into retro gaming and development (yeah, sorry to break it to you, the PSP *is* a retro console now), do not miss the event!
Everything will be here: https://www.youtube.com/c/PSPHDC
You can also join the PSP Homebrew discord server here: https://discord.gg/bePrj9W
* That unfortunately means 3AM here in Japan but oh well, I’ll catch up on Youtube I guess ;). Also note that a bunch of countries are right in the middle of Daylight Saving changes!
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