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06-19-2008, 09:37 AM
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Spotlight Hogger: Interview with Chilly Willy Part 1
Who-that? He-that!
Y'all should know him, the famous dev who, luckily , is an all-timer in our very own exophase.com. His famous works, including KeyCleaner, IDStorage manager, and recently ports of DOOM and other games, rocks the secene once again. He's great. I mean like dude, we all want to know him better. So I hooked him up an internet interview with the man who saved my PSP (and many others!) -- Chilly Willy! Let's get on: ===== Acerthief: What's your real name (or nickname) and how old are you? Chilly Willy: Joe Fenton, 42. Acerthief: I grew up watching Chilly Willy. (I actually had bad dreams about it) Why did you choose to use this name in the scene? Chilly Willy: I mostly use linux, which has a penguin as its mascot. I also grew up watching Chilly Willy cartoons, so I took it as an homage to the cartoon. Acerthief: Where do you work presently? Ever think of changing your job? (I need a maid currently, and I pay extra) Chilly Willy: I'm currently a contract programmer. That allows me to work from home by my own schedule (within reason). Acerthief: What brought you to the world of PSP Homebrew? Do you program for any other consoles? Chilly Willy: I was doing some traveling a couple years ago and bought a PSP for the media playing capabilities - in particular, playing music as the vehicle I had at the time didn't have a decent radio. About that same time, Homebrew ENabler for 2.71 came out, and my PSP had 2.6 on it. After trying a few homebrews, I decided the PSP had really good potential in the area of homebrew. I had already been doing little things on the PS2, so I was a regular at ps2dev. I knew they had a PSP section, so the next time I was at ps2dev, I went through the PSP sections, reading old threads and looking at what development tools were available. I haven't done anything really major on other consoles besides the PSP - just little things. I do have some plans for something I want to do on the Genesis when I get the time (among other projects). Acerthief: What are/were the motives of keeping you coding? Chilly Willy: Generally, I go by "Is it fun?" If I'm not having fun, I won't be motivated and won't spend as much time on it. When you program for a living, you get where you want the programming you do in your spare time to provide something work doesn't - namely fun. I don't care what others think of what I do. Sure, it's nice to have people post how good they think your latest program is, but that's not really enough to keep me at it if it's not fun. Acerthief: KeyCleaner and IDStorage Manager really rocked my heart. (It even saved my PSP). Tell us why did you decide to put time on IDStorage Programs? Chilly Willy: I used the original software downgrader for the TA-082. I knew there were problems caused by that. USBHOSTFS-Fixer had been released, but had problems. Someone else did an app called idrestore, but it had serious bugs. I was one of many people waiting for it to be updated so we could fix our TA-082 PSPs. However, at some point the author of idrestore got fed up with all the people bugging him to release an update and told folks he wasn't going to. So I read up on everything that was out on the idstorage, did some experimenting, and turned idrestore into idreset. I kept improving the app until I decided it was time for something completely written from scratch that would do a better job. That gave birth to KeyCleaner. At the same time, I was still playing with the idstorage, so I needed something for myself to mess with the keys. I knew other devs might like it as well, so I made something decent that gave developers the ability to mess with the idstorage. That was how IdStorage Manager came about. Acerthief: I see you taking time to port emulators or other games onto the PSP after the KC/IDSM v1.4 release. What brought you into porting all those neat stuff? Chilly Willy: To give credit where it's due, some of the programs were already ported, I was just making improvements. An example is Rise of the Triad. Deniska did the initial port, I just made improvements. My version of Doom was something I ported to the PSP completely myself rather than improving someone else's port. Beyond those games/emulators I ported or improved, much of my work on the PSP has been at a lower level - making libraries and supporting code, or improvements to existing libraries and supporting code. For example, I just recently added TV support to SDL. I also rewrote the SDL_SlowRATE audio sample converter so that games like Duke Nukem 3D and Rise of the Triad would have better sound. Acerthief: How often do you code? What's your time-table like? Chilly Willy: Homebrew generally tends to be done in the evening, and on weekends. I'll normally put a couple hours into it. If I'm really close to being done with something big, I might put a full day into it to get it done. Acerthief: What would you most likely code in the future? Updates of released programs or something new to thrill everyone? Chilly Willy: Improvements to existing stuff is easy and quick (usually), so that tends to be the bulk of my work. But I do have some original stuff I've been working on that will eventually be released. Acerthief: What are your favorite homebrews on the PSP? Chilly Willy: PicoDrive is my current favorite. I really like playing Genesis and SEGA CD games on the PSP. They go really well together. I also like first-person shooters which have exploration as a major part, like Doom. I made my conversion of Doom because it was right after I got my Slim - the existing port didn't work on the Slim, and had some problems that bugged me as well. So I actually did my version of Doom for myself. Y'all just got lucky I was a big Doom fan.  As far as puzzle games go, my favorite is still GoGoGoo. I suggest people try it themselves.
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Someone should hire a Hooter for Chilly Willy. ::Release:: ::Guides:: Installing TimeMachine -+- Guides to Emulators -+-
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06-19-2008, 04:08 PM
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Nice interview
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06-19-2008, 05:39 PM
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06-19-2008, 07:54 PM
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and only then Should go like this: The smilies with the huge smile should go before the winking smilies. It's scientific^^ btw I got another question (not here in PM) Lol now you're officialy a PSP celeb 
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06-20-2008, 02:29 AM
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Every day I come home from work there is either a release, or a really good read, courtesy of Chilly Willy. I probably wouldn't really be into the PSP so much Last edited by B2K24; 06-20-2008 at 02:31 AM..
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06-20-2008, 12:33 PM
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Where is Strmnrm! Daedalus needs that amazing update..
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06-20-2008, 01:48 PM
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Hello chilly , Rob from lan.st here . Cheers
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06-20-2008, 04:15 PM
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I've gotten sidetracked... I need to get on that, but things keep coming up. "This will only take a little while, and I need a break!" Actually, my work on adding TV to PSPGL and SDL was mostly all research in how to make the video support in PSPUAE and B2. The other major hold-up in PSPUAE was that the PSP and GP2X were hard-coded in the code together into a more limited form. I've been converting places where it's GP2X and PSP to just GP2X.
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06-20-2008, 04:33 PM
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Wow Being almost as old as you ,I am seriously looking forward to your future endeavours Current UAE works ok and lets me enjoy some titles , but being greedy , selfish and all that , I want more! Peace out, Rob
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