The Humble Homebrew Collection

[The Central Scrutinizer]

About "The Humble Homebrew Collection":


The Humble Homebrew Collection is an initiative that aims to convince Sony to provide us with a legitimate and official way to create homebrew applications for the consoles that we own.

We are providing you with a free homebrew game that aims to be polished and look professionally made which includes 33 very good and addictive puzzle games. We've tried to make this homebrew games collection as good as possible so that even the anti-homebrew purists will be jealous of it.

Homebrew does not equal piracy, and this is proof of it. These games are all free and are released under the MIT license.

You are free to download these games for the platform of your choice, whether it's on a jailbroken PS3, Linux, Windows, Mac or Android.

This Homebrew game collection is a port of Simon Tatham's Portagle Puzzle Collection to the Playstation 3 system and it includes 33 puzzle games. More games are being written and this collection will only increase with time.

This is one of the first homebrew games that are released on the PS3 which are above the "proof of concept" status and is not yet another backup manager, FTP server or a port of an existing emulator.

This homebrew game is still in active development and will continue to receive regular updates. The TODO list has many items on it and it will continue to improve for your enjoyment.

The main purpose of this website it to serve as a petition against Sony's unjust behavior towards their customers. You are encouraged to sign the petition, donate to the developers or you can simply download the games. The choice is yours.

If you wish to do so, you may also donate to the developers of this homebrew application, as well as to the EFF, which helps defend our rights in this digital age.

It is time to vote with your money, boycott Sony, request your legal homebrew and request your freedom and let them know that they have much to gain by giving us access to the homebrew that we deserve.

Let Sony know that, as a customer, you want homebrew games, you want to see the real purpose of the Copyright Law used properly: To encourage creativity and innovation. Let them know that, as a customer, you are willing to pay for quality homebrew and that if they wanted to, they can get a share of that money. After all, all they care about is money!

Thank you

Source And Download: http://humblehomebrew.com

News Source & Pictures: [Release] The Humble Homebrew Collection – The Ultimate Homebrew Game

Thanks to PSX-SCENE member tthousand for the news submission!

[VictorKruger]

This is a very cool idea, but I'm not too sure if it will actually change anyone's mind over at $ony. But one can hope.

[xPreatorianx]

While I appreciate what they are trying to accomplish, it's never going to happen. People have always petitioned, emailed, or requested a legal way to do homebrew on all of the consoles that don't require hacking it and the companies level listen. They know exactly how much money they can make but their too busy worrying what could happen if they give us an SDK that even remotely has code from them. Companies that are in the console business will always treat us as potential criminals, or potential security risk for their products and will never release a sanctioned way to do homebrew.

But I'll still enjoy playing the games. Also thanks goes to the developers for releasing these. It's not what we all expected and I guarantee you will hear whining throughout this thread about that very issue. But to be quite honest, I'm glad for any release in this scene. So I wanted to say that before all the whiners about CFW cloud this thread.

[Ryu]

sony has been bundling ps2s with yabasic all this time, so what makes you think it will be so difficult to get them to rerelease something that allows for homebrew on ps3s.

[xPreatorianx]

sony has been bundling ps2s with yabasic all this time, so what makes you think it will be so difficult to get them to rerelease something that allows for homebrew on ps3s.

What is yabasic? I have never heard of them releasing anything in regards to homebrew and I own a PS2 as well.

EDIT: NVM it was on a demo disc and m8, a basic interpreter of basic is far from an SDK for real homebrew. We're not talking extremely basic text based games that those types of interpreters make. We're talking about real homebrew like some of the games in this scene and the one in this topic.

Also did you just crawl out from under a rock? We've been asking Sony for an official SDK for a long while. It hasn't happened yet, or have you not figured out why this thread, site, and project exists now? I have plenty of reasons to doubt Sony when it comes to releasing an SDK. Which is why I said what I said. Some of the reasons are outlined in the petition on the site.

[Ryu]

It doesn't allow you to completely utilize the ps2s hardware but you can do a lot more than run just text based games.
Check this out for example: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lx0-scSwXk]YouTube - ‪PS2 YaBasic F1 game.‬‏[/ame]

I doubt homebrew is ever going to result in games that are much more graphically intensive than this. Usually they're just 2d platformer and puzzle games.

[xiaNaix]

Don't forget the Net Yaroze program on PSX (PsOne). I think Sony's arrogance has evolved to the point where they will never support homebrew again, though.

[mathisgod]

All of those suck and definitely won't get Sony's attention to even consider allowing homebrew on the PS3.

I applaud the effort though. Definitely a better approach than what geohot or graf was doing.

[grasshoppa420]

All of those suck and definitely won't get Sony's attention to even consider allowing homebrew on the PS3.

I applaud the effort though. Definitely a better approach than what geohot or graf was doing.

And being the self-proclaimed hypocrite that I am...

What exactly have you EVER done for the scene? Except bash the people who are keeping it afloat??

[sicmofo]

Considering how the news of L.A Noire being playable on 3.55 garnered 30 times the attention of this particular homebrew release, I think its safe to say that the vast majority of users jailbreaking their consoles are in it just to play backups.

Although we dont see it on this site, a high percentage of jailbroken ps3s have warez running on them. No matter what we do or say, opening up the path to homebrew will eventually pave the way for piracy and that is why Sony will never give us that freedom.

I very much appreciate the multitude of efforts by talented ps3 devs put into all homebrew. They make the ps3 into something much more than a console for playing video games. But by reading the first paragraph of my post you can understand that Sony sees the bigger picture and will never allow this to happen.

Although I disagree with Sony's methods in attempting to curb piracy on their system, I understand their plight. No matter how we look at it, Sony still gives us the best games available on the market (I'm not talking just about ps3 but countless classics on the psp). Especially with the recent unveiling of their PSP Remastered series, I only look forward to the future of gaming that Sony will take us to.