Forgotten Homebrews Part 1: iR Shell

Joel16

Not much to say, but I'm a guy who's interested in modding/hacking portable consoles/devices.

45 Responses

  1. 110706 says:

    Of course Vita deserves such a great homebrew. Problam is Vita is locked to heck and back. And with it’s amazing popularity (NOT) it will probably be hacked in 6years from now, when it will be a discontinued piece of metal.

    Oh well. Cant wait for Shield tablet.

    • Joel16 says:

      Shield ftw!

      • solidsnake says:

        Nvidia shield is handsdown the best thing ever created ever!

        • Kira Slith says:

          yeah too bad it only took 3 years for the poor shield series to finally get popular, I’ve been porting Gamemaker games to it lately and it’s really a quite fantastic device for testing and developing games on. now if only the “D4S” movement had caught on…

    • ICanHazMuffin47 says:

      ummmm 6? Try 2, buddy from the past! ;D

  2. CPUzX says:

    iR Shell was a revolutionary UI interface back in the day. I remember discovering it at 14 and the first game I ever streamed on it using NethostFS was Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, because I only had a 1gb memory stick at the time. It had so many useful features. Could even play your own music over, while playing a game at the same time.

  3. CPUzX says:

    You’d be wasting more money spending it on a shield than you would buying a PS Vita (if you already own a high-end android smartphone). Plus, the “smartphone” you already have is 99% most likely to be able to send/receive phone calls, more portable, and its not too difficult to hook a PS3 or Wii controller up to it either.

    Don’t know what anyone would think about the PS3 and the Vita though. I feel like a fool; because I recently purchased a PS3 super slim (which isn’t even exploitable) sometime after purchasing a PS Vita, and they’re practically one in the same, right? They’re capable of literally the exact same but in-fact, the vita does everything a lot more efficiently. When I bought the PS3, I already had a flashed Xbox360 slim I did 2 years ago, and an RGH unit I did last year. Really impacting my paycheck, considering I’ve only got a part-time job, but was it worth getting the 8-9 year old PS3?

    • PCM says:

      What? There’s no PS3 exclusives on Vita.

    • Kira Slith says:

      Alright, first half of your argument self-defeats, most if not all of the games on the Vita could have just as easily been developed for and released on the shield just as easy if not easier than on the Vita. People like having a dedicated device (which is what the Vita and shield are) especially with physical controls, much more than 1 device that does it all. your smartphone does not have the battery life for long term use and most high end smartphones are “wall hugger” phones regardless of their manufacturer due to keeping their form factor small with so much power as it is, so extended batteries aren’t helping and a battery pack only defeats the purpose of carrying only 1 device.

      And no, the Vita is vastly inferior to the PS3 in regards to both power and library, as stated before time and again the Vita is comparable to the PS2 power wise. buying a PS3 now is NOT a bad idea, in fact buying the super slim was a rather good idea (so long as you don’t mind missing PS2 and Hax) if you still want to play the latest releases on a budget or simply missed out on being there and want to go back and see what you missed.

      • Setzer Gabianni says:

        Are you sure about the power of the vita?… i really don’t know well but if you ask me the vita it’s on a mid term between a PS2 and a PS3 (tending more to ps3, after all it has a quadcore).
        Just look killzone mercenaries and tell me a game in ps2 that have close graphic quality… no one as I remember and i was (and will be) a big fan of the ps2 but saying that way is almost say that a famicom it’s equall in power as a psx… not even close.

  4. Arash says:

    ahh i remember how i used to mess with everyone and use irshell to turn off tv’s and my cousins houses 😛

  5. Raziel says:

    Loved using the IR Shell to turn off TV’s in the shops when people were hogging the systems

  6. BRS25 says:

    Does iR commander still work w/ 6.60?

  7. DigitalChaos says:

    I did not know the 1k model had a IR thing inside >.> im picking up one next month! i have the 2k model for the tv hook up stuff

  8. stevealexanderames says:

    IRshell is not forgotten, everybody would still use it if it was ported to newest firmwares 😀 its features are just awesome

  9. Stranno says:

    It still have the best RemoteJoy version.

  10. weeman45 says:

    I’ve been using ir remote function heavily ever since my cat managed to pee on my tv remote… IR shell sure has a lot to offer. Basically the only reasin i still got my psp1000 is irshell for my remite obviously and the good old djmax games 😀

  11. weeman45 says:

    sorry for typos btw… phone and drunk but must comment post!

  12. weeman45 says:

    wait what camel rape? dibs on third. how do i edit post?

  13. DQEight says:

    Wish another dev could write a newer version of IR Shell compatible with the latest PSP and Vita CFW.

    I miss usbhost on my pc for backups.

  14. Selbr1 says:

    I used irshell and it’s great, a lot of good time with it… Thinking about daowngrade my psp to get it back with all is features! Irshell and psp display!

  15. jeremymd says:

    I was one of the loyal followers and users of iRshell. it truly revealed and maximized what can actually be done with the psp hardware. multitasking was indispensable for me, being able to jot down notes then switch back to the game with a simple button combination, having a book and a game running at the same time.

    irShell was an ambitious project and it hit its marks. the only limitation was the interface. it’s not exactly user friendly, but if someone would make something like this for the vita, a TRUE MULTITASKING OS FOR THE VITA instead of the dumbed-down XMB we always get with our consoles, i’d commit myself to it in a heartbeat. I still don’t understand why they won’t make an above-mediocre interface for powerusers nowadays…

    • jeremymd says:

      and i almost forgot the crazy ability to run games directly from your hard drive. no more game copying!

  16. asurabp says:

    The best thing for me in iR Shell was disabling the disable magic gate feature that was pretty useful for those who has a fake memory stick or a photofast memory stick. It loads faster than before.

    • jeremymd says:

      i remember back then, there was this homebrew tool to check the actual speed of your memory stick. you’d know if it was sucky before you buy it. forgot the name, though…

  17. seanzscreams says:

    My psp1k was my fav remote control. . Switching off tvs at restaurants and bars was my fav pastime…..now I use mynote 3 and smart remote… soooooo much more fun to kill restaurant tvs with.. i love the servers reactions

  18. Acid_Snake says:

    On the PSP: the XMB sucks, let’s create custom UIs.
    On the Vita: custom UIs suck let’s have the XMB.
    What a bunch of hypocrisy.

  19. CPUzX says:

    It was definitely Peace Walker that I played using iR Shell all those years ago. My PSP has been on 5.50 prom-4 ever since I even discovered that iR Shell existed.

  20. Selbr1 says:

    I bought and offer many psp’s, cause this little machine can do lot! I was waiting for “the last guardian” in order to buy a PS3, frind of mine offered one to me. So disappointed $ony that I have no intention for psvita or ps4…wii u will be my 2014 present

  21. lolwut says:

    Wololo why not change comment section provider to Disqus

    • wololo says:

      Because I want the comment section to be reasonably anonymous and not require a stupid login.

  22. jaym says:

    One of my favorite homebrews. I remember it has limited functionality on v3 mother boards. Then someone made a patch to make it work

  23. decookaaron says:

    I still use ir shell on my PSP for a very long time. I love it 🙂

  24. ivo says:

    what about reversing latest irshell and make a vita-psp-emulator only version ?
    or 660 psp plus vita psp …

  25. SsJVasto says:

    If IRShell is so awesome, why not make a CFW with IRShell as defailt OS instead of a OS with XMB?

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