[gameprogrammer] Re: Question about making Playstation 2 games
- From: Bob Pendleton <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:03:45 -0500
On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 02:14 -0700, Ryan Hanlon wrote:
> I know of SDL, but writing games for PS2 Linux isn't really what I'm
> looking for info on. There seems to be plenty written on that, but what
> seems to be lacking is information on what has to be done to a DVD to make
> a playable game. Anyone come accross anything like that?
Well, if it is anything like the original PlayStation (which I had some
experience with) then you have to get Sony to encode it for the region
you want to distribute it in and then have the result pressed. Usually
that means paying Sony a very large amount of cash. And, of course, Sony
only does this for you if they approve of the game.
I do have a vague memory of their being a development version of the PS2
that you could get and use to develop you own games, but the DVDs
developed for it only worked on other development systems. But, that
could be very far from correct because it is a very vague memory.
Bob Pendleton
>
> Ryan
>
>
> On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Alan Wolfe wrote:
>
> > Heya Ryan,
> >
> > I'm not sure if you are familiar with SDL but it is a cross platform
> > multimedia library that supports many platforms including playstation 2.
> >
> > I was thinking you might try asking the SDL mailing list since there are
> > bound to be people making playstation 2 games/apps there since it supports
> > it.
> >
> > the site is http://www.libsdl.org/
> >
> > I'll bet someone there has the answers your looking for
> >
> > On 9/30/05, Ryan Hanlon <ryan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> I was wondering if anyone is familiar with what it takes to make a
> >> playable Playstation 2 DVD, or maybe knows a good site for info? This is
> >> one of those areas where Google is not your friend (like when looking for
> >> *free* fonts or music). I can find plenty of pages on modding PS2s or
> >> ripping ISOs, which isn't really of interest to me :) But I can't seem to
> >> find any info on compiling and burning a playable PS2 disc. Anyone seen
> >> any useful info about this?
> >>
> >> Ryan
> >>
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