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ooPo · Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 12:47 pm Post subject: Devkit Picture

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

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

retro · Joined: 16 Jan 2005 Posts: 1

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 ;-)

ooPo · Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 11:21 am Post subject:

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. · Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 2906

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

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Saotome · Joined: 03 Apr 2004 Posts: 182

J.F. · Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 2906

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 · Joined: 03 Apr 2004 Posts: 182

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
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ooPo · Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 5:11 am Post subject:

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

Saotome · Joined: 03 Apr 2004 Posts: 182

oh no, now oopo gets paranoid too? O_o

;)
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ooPo · Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 5:37 am Post subject:

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.

pixel · Joined: 30 Jan 2004 Posts: 791

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...
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mrbrown · Joined: 17 Jan 2004 Posts: 1536

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.
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bigboss · Joined: 22 Jan 2004 Posts: 27 Location: Sevilla, Spain

official dev kit from GDCE 2004...

J.F. · Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 2906

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 · Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 5:46 pm Post subject:

[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 · Joined: 14 Jan 2005 Posts: 43

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 · Joined: 19 Jan 2005 Posts: 45

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

Paulo · Joined: 04 Feb 2005 Posts: 2

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 · Joined: 14 Jan 2005 Posts: 43

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

ooPo · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 12:26 am Post subject:

Wow. Very very nice.

gbrother · Joined: 15 Jan 2005 Posts: 3

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/view_image.php/PQ32PVNS3W38/picserver.jpeg

uspual · Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 15

PSPMASTER#45 · Joined: 16 Feb 2005 Posts: 6

WHAT IS A DEVKIT

Drakonite · Site Admin Joined: 17 Jan 2004 Posts: 989

TheFluffyOne · Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Posts: 1

fobbio18 · Joined: 31 Mar 2005 Posts: 5

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

Thanhda · Joined: 09 Apr 2005 Posts: 331 Location: Canada

more pics

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