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A lot of people are going to call me stupid and tell me to go somewhere else and leave other unsupporting angry answers, but here i go.

im a noob, ive been trying to figure things out alone but it is hard. i need a little push. i have a high IQ(not bragging by any means) but the tutorials here confuse me sometimes. I would appreciate a "down to earth" tutorial explaining how to play homebrew games on an unmodified ps2.

.. what do i exactly need to do with homebrew after i download it?(noob language)
..i have dvd burner, cd burner, nero, ps2 ethernet adapter, usb cables, a crap load of psx games, ps2 and psx mem cards but i dont have money:(

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Chase wrote:A lot of people are going to call me stupid and tell me to go somewhere else and leave other unsupporting angry answers, but here i go.

The people here are incredibly helpful of people who need help. However, they do not necessarily respond well to certain topics or approaches to asking for help.

If you are expecting non-judgemental support, you came to the wrong place. :)

However, if you want the best support you can find for homebrew activities, you came to the right place. :) You just need to be willing to accept some attitude, and understand the basis of that attitude.

I make no apologies for this situation, nor do I think anyone necessarily should, so long as the rudeness level doesn:t go beyond the "Canadian Maximum Rudeness Acceptance Standard".

The problem tends to be that you often get newbies who write "I've never programmed before, but now I've got a book on C and a network cable. Tell me how to write DOOM3 for the PS2 in three easy steps!" People here usually have years of experience on various computers in all sorts of fields. No advice is going to take the place of years of experience.

Most of the people I see who show up here need to go program on a "normal" system like the PC or Mac for a couple years before attempting to try programming the PS2. While Windows, Linux, and MacOS are rather well documented with thousands of examples, the PS2 is still very much a work in progress. It requires moderate to high-level experience in programming and the use of command line tools.

Now don't let what I write discourage you. Just realize that experienced programmers in a tough field will be a little kurt towards people who have no practical ability and wish someone to hold their hand in learning to walk. You will be expected to not just be able to run, but be track & field material to get the most from a site like this.

Think of it this way - you rush into a major university advanced calculus class and anounce that you just picked up a book on fractions. Will someone show you how to solve partial differential equations through eigen-function expansion? Expect a lot of cold shoulders.