Devkit Picture

Post by **ooPo** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 12:47 pm

Hey look everyone! Here's a PSP devkit picture!

( http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/images/psp_dev_kit.jpg )

retro · Post by **retro** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 10:17 am

And let us not forget what all good authors do... QUOTE YOUR SOURCE!

Here, I'll do it for you:

www.assemblergames.com/phpbb2

Still, at least you copied the pic to your own server... I'm sure Yakumo wouldn't appreciate bandwidth leeching!

Interesting there are so many views and no replies. Still, this is dragged up from the end of october over at ASSEMbler - its old news to us ;-)

Post by **ooPo** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 11:21 am

My apologies... I figured the big watermark across the middle of the picture would be sufficient. As for copying it, this isn't my server so I wouldn't have the access.

I'll change it to a link instead, but I hardly think the (now) 572 hits put much of a dent into gizmodo's server bills. :)

J.F. · Post by **J.F.** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 12:27 pm

That's not a PSP devkit, that's the standard PS2 devkit with a PSP stuck in the foreground. Probably cobbled together on Photoshop. :D

boomint · Post by **boomint** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 9:42 pm

J.F. wrote:That's not a PSP devkit, that's the standard PS2 devkit with a PSP stuck in the foreground.

Really? So what's with the UMD logo on the beige box?

Saotome · Post by **Saotome** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 10:14 pm

J.F. wrote:That's not a PSP devkit, that's the standard PS2 devkit with a PSP stuck in the foreground. Probably cobbled together on Photoshop. :D

you should have read the thread at www.assemblergames.com:

About the PS2 Tool. That's in the picture because it was one the desk next to the UMD box. Nothing to do with the PSP I've been told. It's there because it was too much trouble to move it for the picture.

J.F. · Post by **J.F.** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 3:42 am

Sony has had UMD for a long time. I'm sure I've seen the beige box in photos with the PS2 devkit. If you look closely, that PSP ISN'T in the same environment as the rest. It's been added to the picture digitally.

Saotome · Post by **Saotome** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 4:50 am

and you're an expert for digitally manipulated pictures?
i dont see where the psp doesnt fit in the "environment" of the rest (i've been looking very closely). you can see the cable coming from the ps2tool controller port reflected in the psp-display for example.

but then again, i dont really care if its real ;)
just wondering why you think its not

Post by **ooPo** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 5:11 am

Actually, now that you mention it... the TOOL and the UMD box seem to be sitting on the table at different angles. Hmm.

Saotome · Post by **Saotome** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 5:27 am

oh no, now oopo gets paranoid too? O_o

;)

Post by **ooPo** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 5:37 am

Well, the UMD emulator may be real, its just the way the picture is put together that looks wrong... the PSP isn't even hooked up to anything, btw.

Post by **pixel** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 6:24 am

In case nobody noticed... if this is a photoshopped picture, the guy was really good: he even put the reflect of some wires on the psp's screen, as well as perspective reflect of the table on the screen. Very very good photoshopped indeed...

Post by **mrbrown** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 7:09 am

I'm with J.F. It's a fake. The front panel of the PSP isn't even that reflective. Plus it just looks like it doesn't belong. I have no idea if that's a dev kit but I don't understand why it has UMD written on it with no indication of a UMD drive on the machine.

bigboss · Post by **bigboss** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 8:23 am

official dev kit from GDCE 2004...

J.F. · Post by **J.F.** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 4:47 pm

Okay, that one is quite a bit more believable. :)

Of course, he could be hiding the fact that the cord isn't plugged into the PSP. ;) We need a movie file of it in operation. :lol:

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 5:46 pm

[That link is REALLY slow loading from ps2reality. Can we turn it into just an http link ?]

Btw, does that external unit emulate a UMD disk drive or something ?
That is no USB cable, and the only other thing then that makes sense is a UMD emulator.

FreeFighter · Post by **FreeFighter** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 3:31 am

On the first pic i see the PS2 tool with 3 cables attached to:
USB (grey glitter)
grey one (network maybe)
Controller
On the UMD kit you see 2 cables, seem to attatch to eachother. But the picture is cut short to actually see where that damn cable seems to go.
And there's still a wire behind the USB cable looking a lot like the one that guy has in his hands (second pic).

Though the reflection of the cable in the PSP seems a bit off.

Cogboy · Post by **Cogboy** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 10:05 am

Heres another pic of the devkit for you.
http://www.1up.com/media?id=1347180

Paulo · Post by **Paulo** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 1:26 am

Just to clear some things up. All the pictures are of real dev kits. However aparently they arent of the latest model of dev kit around.

Also Many of you have been saying about the UMD erm logo on the front of the kits.

You can see in another picuture that there seems to be a square cut around the front. Well what happens is you push on it and it pops out. Allowing you to insert a UMD disc much like in the PSP itsself. Also ive been told by a very reliable source that there isnt actually a UMD writer given to developers...

Paulo

FreeFighter · Post by **FreeFighter** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 6:18 pm

Some more updated pictures: http://www.assemblergames.com/phpbb2/vi ... php?t=4199

Post by **ooPo** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 12:26 am

Wow. Very very nice.

gbrother · Post by **gbrother** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 4:44 am

if you look at the 4th pic, the one with the psp and the cable.
you see that it is a special psp, because it has NO umd slot.
no open button.
http://picserver.student.utwente.nl/vie ... erver.jpeg

uspual · Post by **uspual** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 5:02 am

gbrother wrote:if you look at the 4th pic, the one with the psp and the cable.
you see that it is a special psp, because it has NO umd slot.
no open button.

They don't call it a PSP but a CONTROLLER.
It's just an interface for devkit.

PSPMASTER#45 · Post by **PSPMASTER#45** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 12:53 pm

WHAT IS A DEVKIT

Post by **Drakonite** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 2:31 pm

PSPMASTER#45 wrote:WHAT IS A DEVKIT

I'm afraid you are on the wrong site.

TheFluffyOne · Post by **TheFluffyOne** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 8:37 pm

PSPMASTER#45 wrote:WHAT IS A DEVKIT

Box with flashy lights that lets clever people make swooshy blippy stuff.

HTH.

fobbio18 · Post by **fobbio18** » Sun May 01, 2005 5:21 am

Only someone clearly named PSPMASTER could ask such a hillarious question. Laugh on ladies and gents.

Thanhda · Post by **Thanhda** » Sun May 01, 2005 5:55 pm

more pics

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000090038848/