What's the sexiness verdict on this Blue Tool compared to the Black ones? I think the standard ones look better..
Quite frankly the PS2 PA is phenomenal. Without a shadow of a doubt the pinnacle of my collection, when I owned one. I got some fantastic output from mine and I can also confirm that you don't even have to put unsigned material into the PA to get huge amounts of data back. Someone asked the price of a PS2 PA. Mine sold for approximately £1000 over a year ago now, back into the loving arms of a development team. Looking back, I wished I'd A) kept it and B) taken it over to Paris and let UJ try it out. I think we'd have discovered a lot more about the inner workings of the PS2 Tool and PA than my mere tinkering ever could have hoped to achieve. I pulled all my images a while back, but if anyone is interested I can probably dig them up again. Sorry for taking thread off topic. Fantastic find Kevin and I wished you were in the UK as I would take one off your hands in a heart beat. Remember folks, PS2 Tools do not travel well! If you are buying one, then pay Kev a whack for packaging as he really will need to ensure they are enshrined in bubblewrap! It's not a piece of equipment to take half measures with. ;-)
The nice thing is that most of them arrived working 100%. This is one great chance to get a WORKING ps2 tool. I also pack very well.
Listen to the above men, hell me too, the TOOL is a looker and certainly my favourite-looking development kit of all time - and that's saying quite a bit from someone who's a nintendo dev collector primarily. The price is incredibly good as well for such fine functional units. If I lived in the US I d certainly buy another one again.
They're not other then both being mips but even still. Slow code in the non platform specific parts of an engine can be optimised on any platform. It's just the PA tool does an AMAZING job that any little optimization we make, made a sizable gain back on the PSP. It was just so much easier to pin point bottlenecks with a PA. =P I guess it's something you'd have to see in person to understand better. Also on a side note, the PA we used wasn't blue like the picture posted, it actualy looked the same as normal tool. Which made me ask the question in the first place.
http://www.research.scea.com/research/pdfs/GDC2003_Intro_Performance_Analyzer_18Mar03.pdf is your friend for more on the PA.
don't suppose there are any dtl-t14000 emu boards in that stockpile that you'd be willing to part with? :\
