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There was never much of a PlayStation One homebrew or Linux scene though, was there? So it'd be hard to argue that the PS1 device had any useful purpose other than piracy.

Unlike with PS2&3, where for a while there Sony pretty much endorsed alternative uses of the console.



That may improve the moral standing, but I don't see how it affects the legal situation. There's no right to homebrew in the DMCA (sadly).


There was a homebrew community, using things like the Action Replay cart @ caetla/catflap rom, cf: http://jum.pdroms.de/PSX/psxdevstart.html

Also, there was the official Net Yaroze system - which had similar restrictions to ps3 Linux - no cd data, and no good access to the GPU: http://jum.pdroms.de/PSX/psxdevstart.html




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