This DRM-protected installer survives, and is available here.
To avoid disappointing their earliest customers, the developers released an installer app that would trade the original release for the new one. The digital version included some bug fixes that were missing from the floppy-disk version. If not for the demo, I would never have learned about this game at all.
PSP HOMEBREW STORE 2015 FULL
315 yen would get you the full game.įor the occasion, a free trial version was also released. Starting from October 2005, the game became available for purchase online. The real Homebrew StoreĪfter the Summer 2005 Comiket, the developers of this game pioneered another method of distribution - digital sales. No details are available on the implementation, but it was contained in a file named T2.DAT. The creators had come up with a DRM system of sorts. So, what kept people from copying the game from their computers, and spreading it all over the internet? I couldn’t even find a picture of the disk online.
PSP HOMEBREW STORE 2015 PSP
This is almost certainly the rarest commercial release of a PSP game. I have no data on how many Tsukihi Minty disks were created, but it was most likely a very limited amount. The game could then be transferred via USB to a homebrew-capable PSP - which at the time was a limited subset of all the systems. PSP owners who attended the Summer 2005 edition of the event had the opportunity to purchase the floppy-disk edition (FD版) of Tsukihi Minty. The Comiket is a trade show of sorts for fan works, held twice a year in Tokyo. Comiket releaseĪt first, the only way to play Tsukihi Minty was to buy it at Comiket 68. Out of over 2,000 homebrew games for PSP, this is the only instance of a commercial release. This is the one homebrew game you had to buy. This is a homebrew game, but unlike all the other homebrews of the day, it was not uploaded on some scene website and shared for free. More interesting is how it was distributed. While it is quite well made, and it can be fun for a few minutes, there’s not much that is remarkable about the game itself. The game is based on Quinty for the NES, with the added peculiarity of featuring characters from the 2000 visual novel Tsukihime. Tsukihi Minty (or つきひミンティ in Japanese) is a homebrew game created by the ominously named Lucifer Corporation in 2005.
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