Net Yaroze

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The Net Yaroze (ネットやろうぜ, Netto Yarōze) is a development kit for the PlayStation video game console. It was a promotion by Sony Computer Entertainment to computer programming hobbyists which launched in June 1996 in Japan and in 1997 in other countries. It was originally called Net Yarouze, but was changed to Net Yaroze in late 1996. Yarōze means "Let's do it together". The official Net Yaroze online community and servers were officially shut down by Sony Computer Entertainment in mid-2009, ending over 12 years of official support for the hobbyist platform. Conceived by PlayStation creator Ken Kutaragi and priced at around $750 US, the Net Yaroze (DTL-H300x) package contained a special black-colored debugging PlayStation unit, a serial cable for connecting the console to a personal computer, and a CD containing PlayStation development tools. The user has to provide a personal computer (an IBM PC compatible or Macintosh; NEC PC-9801 was also supported in Japan) to write the computer code...

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