BBC interviews Dark_AleX and Fanjita
While the PSP homebrew scene prides itself on being a huge multi-cultured community of people from all over the globe, the big majority of people who own a PSP have never tried out homebrew. Funny as it may sound, it is a fact that the homebrew community is nothing more than a niche area which generally doesn’t receive much mainstream coverage apart from dedicated PSP homebrew sites.
Because of that very reason, we were pleasantly surprised to find a very nice article over at BBC covering the PSP homebrew scene. Now we’ll be frank here. Generally, when any mainstream site/news agency decides to cover the homebrew scene, we tend to read it for entertainment purposes because reporters generally don’t know what they’re talking about. Either that, or they only have statements from the big corporations which means that their “research” is generally biased toward the bigwigs. This is precisely the reason why we found this article a pleasant surprise.
Now rather than trying to describe the article itself, we’ll quote parts of it here:
Fanjita – real name David Court – is very different from the popular hacker stereotype of the socially inept teenaged geek working all night in his bedroom. A married man of 34, he is an accomplished professional programmer who writes server software for large telecommunications companies for a living. He spends an hour or two a night hacking PSP software in his Edinburgh home, and is also a martial arts enthusiast.
Dark Alex fits much more comfortably into the hacker mould. A student from Spain, his hacker moniker derives from his real name, Alejandro, and a liking for all things gothic, he says. His interests are Japanese Manga comics and cats, but PSP hacking is his main hobby.
The article is actually peppered around with statements from Fanjita and Dark_AleX, the two people who’re the faces of the PSP homebrew scene right now. That reason alone is enough to force any homebrew lover to go over and check it out.
Thanks to Reggie for the heads up!
Update: This morning at 07:50 GMT, the BBC World Service Radio had a chance to talk with Fanjita over the phone. The interview was telecast live on radio and the internet. At the bottom, we’ve linked the file so you can download it as an MP3. If you want to listen to the original stream, you can do so from the linked page.
Download: Fanjita’s interview by the BBC (audio)
While the PSP homebrew scene prides itself on being a huge multi-cultured community of people from all over the globe, the big majority of people who own a PSP have never tried out homebrew. Funny as it may sound, it is a fact that the homebrew community is nothing more than a niche area which generally doesn’t receive much mainstream coverage apart from dedicated PSP homebrew sites.
Because of that very reason, we were pleasantly surprised to find a very nice article over at BBC covering the PSP homebrew scene. Now we’ll be frank here. Generally, when any mainstream site/news agency decides to cover the homebrew scene, we tend to read it for entertainment purposes because reporters generally don’t know what they’re talking about. Either that, or they only have statements from the big corporations which means that their “research” is generally biased toward the bigwigs. This is precisely the reason why we found this article a pleasant surprise.
Now rather than trying to describe the article itself, we’ll quote parts of it here:
Fanjita – real name David Court – is very different from the popular hacker stereotype of the socially inept teenaged geek working all night in his bedroom. A married man of 34, he is an accomplished professional programmer who writes server software for large telecommunications companies for a living. He spends an hour or two a night hacking PSP software in his Edinburgh home, and is also a martial arts enthusiast.
Dark Alex fits much more comfortably into the hacker mould. A student from Spain, his hacker moniker derives from his real name, Alejandro, and a liking for all things gothic, he says. His interests are Japanese Manga comics and cats, but PSP hacking is his main hobby.
The article is actually peppered around with statements from Fanjita and Dark_AleX, the two people who’re the faces of the PSP homebrew scene right now. That reason alone is enough to force any homebrew lover to go over and check it out.
Thanks to Reggie for the heads up!
Update: This morning at 07:50 GMT, the BBC World Service Radio had a chance to talk with Fanjita over the phone. The interview was telecast live on radio and the internet. At the bottom, we’ve linked the file so you can download it as an MP3. If you want to listen to the original stream, you can do so from the linked page.
Download: Fanjita’s interview by the BBC (audio)
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