Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Shawn" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: more documents Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 21:13:45 -0800 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 50 Message-ID: References: <01c3d774$82bfec60$8500a8c0@portable-pal> Reply-To: "Shawn" NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-64-170-55-242.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 I can understand that Sony wouldn't see it as profitable or beneficial to appease the hobbyist community. However, to replace all the boot discs wouldn't be a problem. Simply press some disks and announce it to the Yaroze members and then if they want, they can purchase it for a price (say, price of shipping and pressing at minimum, perhaps 70 pounds at most or more or something (I'm US so I don't know how a EU/Pound coverts to US $$$). Then, Sony hasn't lost much but they have "revived" the community. Since we can't press offical PS CD's anyway they still haven't lost much as we would still require a Yaroze to use them. But from Sony's perspective, all the Yaroze's probly won't be functional by 2008 anyway so they probly don't care as they aren't in the business to please hobbyists. If they did decide to create a new boot disk and extended libraries then offer it as a paid upgrade for those who care (while supplies last) I think people would pay and enjoy it. Thanks, Shawn "Matt Verran" wrote in message news:bttr5j$9g82@www.netyaroze-europe.com... > The problem with providing extra libs is that the hardware functionality is > not linked in with your exe, it's part of the libps.exe file which the > yaroze boot disk puts into memory before you upload your code. To add extra > features to the libs Sony would have to replace all the boot disks. > > "pal" wrote in message > news:01c3d774$82bfec60$8500a8c0@portable-pal... > > Andrew Murray wrote in article > > ... > > > T'would be nice indeed, particularly the multi-tap and dual shock > > > > Hehe, it's been a long time the multitap issue hasn't been raised here ;) > > > > While I would be as happy as anyone here to get more docs/libraries, I > > doubt Sony's going to make that move because even if PsOne is getting > > buried here it may not be useless technology for unexplored territories -- > > although, Sony's exploring China with the PS2 while I would have thought > > them to try the PsOne there first, so I may well be wrong. > > > >