Yaroze PSOne development program shutting down
After 12 years, Sony is about to pull the plug on its Yaroze program, which made console development available to aspiring non-professionals. Through this service, subscribers received access to an online community, development software, as well as a very rare black PlayStation One console that allowed devs to run their own code on the system.
After 12 years, Sony is about to pull the plug on its Yaroze program, which made console development available to aspiring non-professionals. Through this service, subscribers received access to an online community, development software, as well as a very rare black PlayStation One console that allowed devs to run their own code on the system.
But all is not lost. “We plan to make a copy of the site available for our original members,” said SCEE‘s Paul Holman, adding that a get-together of sorts will be held for the development community.
The Net Yaroze project will effectively be canceled in July at a still unspecified date. At any rate, that black PSOne makes a very, very good souvenir.
They could also try Wiibrewing if they want console homebrew:
Via DevelopMag