Developing for PS3 through Pc

phelaphant · Post by **phelaphant** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 2:28 am

Hey all,

For a university module I along with another colleague have to develop a small game for the PS3! So I have a few questions!

I own a PS3 so am going to download Yellow dog and develop from there. However my colleague does not have a PS3 so I need to know how you can develop from Pc so we have a similar work flow. For example could he install Ubuntu, install an IDE such as Bloodshed dev c++ on to Ubuntu and then code our application in this environment? Using this work flow would I then be able to take his application and test it successfully on my PS3?

I have not been able to find anything on this matter so any help is much appreciated!

firimari · Post by **firimari** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 2:45 am

You just need to install IBM's Eclipse and Cell SDK.

If you're going all out, you can also install the Cell Simulator, but it's a whole lot faster to run things on an actual PS3. Things can be compiled on the PC and copied over to run on the actual hardware quite easily.

ETA: IBM's SDK download site:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/power ... loads.html
You probably should stick with Fedora Core 9 if you want the least hassle in installing things.

IBM's Full System simulator:
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/cellsystemsim
This is a lot more complex to get into, but if you don't have a PS3...

rapso · Post by **rapso** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 11:08 pm

you can run remotely binaries on a ps3 started from eclipse. you just need to give your friend an account on your ps3. on start it copies everything needed to the user's tmp folder and deletes it on quit.