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[IbizaPocholo]

The Story of the Sony PlayStation Net Yaroze - The Consumer grade Development Kit that was sold in 1997 and how it brought Indie development to video games for an affordable price.

 

[Benjamin_MFF]

As a kid, I thought the Net Yarooze was the coolest thing. I was definitely geeking out when I saw it in Next Generation Magazine. I learned basic and never progressed in my learning of code (I was a kid). While It would be fun to play around with one of these kits, I think I would be better served in Dreams.

 

[ManaByte]

Coolest PSX period. Sony was nuts for not selling a charcoal color one like that. The blue one was nice too, but this one was

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

I wanted one of these so badly as a kid. Not really for the game dev shit (although, that was cool, too) -- it was mostly because this system looks so damn good in black.

 

[EightBit Man]

Thought the colors of dev. consoles and the Net Yaroze were cooler than the standard retail ones.

I fondly remember the demo disc that came with the Official UK PlayStation Magazine issue with Metal Gear Solid on the cover, which was covered in-depth here:

 

[PropellerEar]

As a kid, I thought the Net Yarooze was the coolest thing. I was definitely geeking out when I saw it in Next Generation Magazine. I learned basic and never progressed in my learning of code (I was a kid). While It would be fun to play around with one of these kits, I think I would be better served in Dreams.

I also read about it on some console magazine and seeing the price of it crushed my PSX game dev dreams.

(I tried YABASIC on PS2)

 

[Benjamin_MFF]

PropellerEar How was YABASIC on PS2?

 

[PropellerEar]

PropellerEar How was YABASIC on PS2?

It had a very rudimentary IDE and some documentation if I remember correctly.
YABASIC and few demos were included on a disc that came with the console.
Had done some basic before so I managed to play with it a bit.

 

[saintjules]

 

[FF:Enhanced_Reality]

Fucking hell that necro bump.

I do own a net yaroze console though.

 

[Mattyp]

The games on the demo discs honestly kept me entertained endlessly when I would only get 1 or 2 games a year before the modchip