I now own a Net Yaroze!

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Very pleased with this - I have wanted one since, like, forever

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I'm also fortunate enough to receive the original SDKs and Sony Yaroze documentation. This attempts to explain 3D PSX development to an audience of non-gamedev C programmers, with a bunch of info about PSX internals.

It doesn't have the serial cable, alas. I believe I can re-make one by taking a normal PSX serial cable and adding an FTDI bridge to invert the CTS, RTS, DSR and DTR lines. And to use a 3.3 voltage and not default RS232 12v power. However, I don't intend to do any actual development on the machine - I can use an emulator to do that with much more convenience.

I'm just pleased to own a bit of PlayStation history!
 
Much history, dude! How’d you score that? You going to make some PSX home brews now? ;)
 
Managed to find it on eBay on the cheap! A local seller as well.

I'd love to have a go at some homebrew, but I think the best way to do that is with an emulator. If I wanted to work on the Yaroze I'd need to jury rig a special serial cable. Also the Yaroze only has 2mb memory, not the 8mb of a dev console, so you can't compile with debug symbols ?

However, there is the small matter of me not really knowing C. Well, not well enough to know what I'm doing, anyway. But perhaps this could be a good hobby project for getting my head around C?
 
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