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R.I.P. UMD Emulator, we barely knew ye…

Gary13579 | October 29, 2005

Today is a very sad day for the PSP scene. Humma Kavula has stated that he has stopped production of all programs on all systems, and this includes the beloved UMD Emulator.
Here is his statement

Hi everyone …

long time no talk, and this will even be the last from my side, just came here to inform you peeps … i completely dropped dev’ing on PSP for personal reasons, infact my PSP is already packed and stored deep in one of my boxes of unuseful hardware somewhere … after about 2 decades of coding on everything which has a CPU inside i completely stopped it for now, because i cant find any thrill in it anymore … i wish all people good luck which keep the dev’ing up and running, especially the lowlevel seekers, may the right bits be with you …

- R.I.P. Loader - R.I.P. Humma Kavula -

I will miss you a lot Humma, but if you are going to leave, then I thank you so much for everything you have already done.

To anyone who says “Humma sucks, he can’t make another update so he quit” or anything else along these lines, I will try my hardest to get you banned. This is a place to say good bye, NOT to flame.

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187 Comments »

Comment by The Joker
2005-10-29 15:49:22

Rest in Peace, angel warrior of the PSP-Dev scene.RIP

 
Comment by Young Lucki
2005-10-29 15:58:13

Thanks For Everything. I know how it is when you lose instrest in something.. Stay Up..

 
Comment by Talidan
2005-10-29 16:01:55

thanks a lot for UMD Emulator, have fun and i hope you find something with a new thrill.

By the way, is he planning to release the source so the work can be continued?

 
Comment by Canad3za
2005-10-29 16:02:39

Rest in Peace Humma, you were all for me

 
Comment by Julesno1
2005-10-29 16:04:13

The psp scene is doomed, dooomed i tells ya

 
Comment by 1smurf
2005-10-29 16:08:16

 
Comment by papercut7982
2005-10-29 16:09:55

i will truly miss the umd emulator now i will truly have nothin to do after work any more.R.I.P. Humma good luck with what ever you are going to do.

 
Comment by tak
2005-10-29 16:21:02

thanks you for everything. Please release source so others could continue on with your legacy. You are the legend.

 
Comment by jjkjkj
2005-10-29 16:22:10

good bye

 
Comment by Donppa
2005-10-29 16:23:53

4# He is not dead after all :D

Aw… I wonder how old he really was? OR I mean how old he really IS… Lets not talk in past tense please :P And hey, the UMD Emulator did not go anywhere, the updating just stopped, at least by humma, someone else maybe can continue..? Who knows

 
Comment by STZAfourtyfour
2005-10-29 16:25:46

wow, that really sucks. i wish he’d still code at least one more UMD Emulator, one capable of playing GTA, but you know what he still r0xx0r. R.1.P l337 h4×0r.

 
Comment by PSP
2005-10-29 16:38:33

Dear hUMMA! Großartige Arbeit-wie du sagst über Jahrzehnte. I just want say bIG thX

 
Comment by pepa
2005-10-29 16:39:52

Thanks for all you have done. =)

 
Comment by karmon
2005-10-29 16:40:17

#12, your an idiot. at the beginning, when you first get good at something (in this case coding), you are motivated to make programs and show off your skill, but after a while…it gets boring and you get sick of making updates to a program just to hear shit from people like you. yelling at him saying “i cant get this crappy program to work”. this is typically how open source projects work, but in this case we have no source. so all i can say is #12, if you want something, make it your fuckin self or just shutup. no1 gets paid to do this, they do it in THEIR free time.

 
Comment by Slut
2005-10-29 16:40:25

My dear #12 you will get banned not from here but from this website …

 
Comment by Peeasspee
2005-10-29 16:41:48

Many many thanks Humma !!! Thread closed on maxconsole so i have to thank you here, hope u will read this… Sony can thank u a lot too cuz u have boosted worldwide Psp sales…

 
Comment by Drachenflieger
2005-10-29 16:46:06

AngryPSP: I have no words for how retarded I find that reasoning. Well, maybe two: Ungrateful #¤&#@!

Humma did a great job, and if you read the statement, you can clearly see that he quit coding for personal reasons… NOT because of the “PSP community”. God damn it… he was doing this for free. How can you blame him for stopping, if he doesn’t want to do it anymore? Everything he has done is a personal favour to each and one of us who have used his programs.

WE OWE HIM, BIG TIME. NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND!

 
Comment by Drachenflieger
2005-10-29 16:46:37

I still hope he will release the source though….

 
Comment by CirKuT
2005-10-29 16:57:52

I love how people think they deserve other people’s work for free. By the way #12 what have you done for the scene? oh ya nothing, sorry for asking.
Thanks for everything! R.I.P.

 
Comment by Lalis
2005-10-29 16:58:28

You have blessed us all with many many hours of gaming. Thank you for all your hard work. All of us here appreciate it, and dont listen to those stupid fucks like #12, may his psp get bricked.

 
Comment by BIGGIN
2005-10-29 17:09:52

Thanks Humma, I really appreciate all you did. Best of luck in whatever you do.

 
Comment by Beoriginal
2005-10-29 17:17:27

Damn Humma, i was really looking forward to your work,you were or i mean you are the best out there….we need you man!!!Don’t stay away too long just consider yourself as talking a breather ok,we all hope to hear from you again soon. Best of luck to ya but come back to the scene guy.

 
Comment by Miss U
2005-10-29 17:20:41

Humma Kavula we sure miss you m8. Delivered by the gods and taken by the hands of fate. You where a friend a comrate and inspiration to our cause.

RIP

 
Comment by Fric
2005-10-29 17:21:01

Is the umd emulator source avaliable?

Thanks and RIP

 
Comment by jeff the smart kid
2005-10-29 17:25:25

u had a good run man. tho i never used the emu. things said about it werre nuthing but good. so thank you and goodbye

 
Comment by Tsune
2005-10-29 17:26:02

#12, your a FUCKING idiot. maybe its something else, he said it was personal reasons as well. Damn another good programmer left the scene. I wish you best of luck. BTW, can someone request the source code for all his projects, so we can continue his legacy?

 
Comment by ehwhatwhowhen
2005-10-29 17:29:02

awww this news sux, thx for your hard work fellah

 
Comment by CormaC
2005-10-29 17:35:51

Thank you Humma and good luck.

 
Comment by Dman
2005-10-29 17:36:22

now i have a good reason to kill myself, theres no hope for the future, but couldnt there be thrill in the challenge of gettin past the protection of GTA i mean to me that seams a reasonable enough challenge, maybe some thrill

 
Comment by Hmmm
2005-10-29 17:43:04

Who is this guy??

 
Comment by Royo
2005-10-29 18:07:50

It sounds like this guys so good, i think he should try 2 make his own firmware update like a combonation of v1.5 and v2.0 so it will have internet and play homebrew. But thats if he’s so bored.

 
Comment by Bisnicks
2005-10-29 18:16:27

omg dude. you acted like he died. Big deal. Someone else can just mod his already made programs and can keep this going.

 
Comment by Diver
2005-10-29 18:18:00

thanks for all the work you’ve put in up till now, and best of luck in the future!

 
Comment by appreciative!
2005-10-29 18:29:39

Thanks again Humma, you’ve done a great job.

As I’ve mentioned before, it would be great for the scene if you would release your source code now that you will not be doing any further development on it. That would be a very generous and welcome gesture. Thanks.

 
Comment by snakes67
2005-10-29 18:36:21

R.I.P. Humma thanxs for all the great work. Hope you find the thrill your looking for.

 
Comment by Jaredz123
2005-10-29 18:55:52

thank for your hacking

Good Luck

 
Comment by exdee
2005-10-29 19:04:46

as said above, thanks for everything.

please release the source so that we can move forward without you.

RIP.

 
Comment by Dman
2005-10-29 19:12:03

interesting how this news hasnt been posted on any other site so far

 
Comment by The Joker
2005-10-29 19:17:20

number is the kind of person that deserves to FUCKING DIE AND ROT IN HELL FOREVER. What a fucking douche can if u think homebrew is gay then why the fuck are u here!

 
Comment by Bisnicks
2005-10-29 19:19:19

#42 because I’m from Sony and I think this Website needs shut down.

 
Comment by Mike
2005-10-29 19:19:34

Thank you for all of your contributions to the scene. You will be missed.

I too know what its like. I’ve been programming for a little while (sadly I haven’t had time to learn the psp hardware) but I’ve pretty much lost interest in coding too.

Find something new you enjoy. You’ll always be able to program again if the interest comes back.

Take care.

 
Comment by fullmetal
2005-10-29 19:25:46

Guys this is fake!!!! its just the mods from maxconsole making fake post about humma….ITS NOT HUMMA AND NO HE DID NOT GIVE UP! #43 F YOU biatch

 
Comment by Bisnicks
2005-10-29 19:27:33

Alright fine if you really want this site shut down!!

 
Comment by Jimmysnow
2005-10-29 19:28:17

Great job Humma Kavula have done for the PSP owner. Thanks for your effort and take care.

“after a game of chess, the king and pawn is put in to the same box”

 
Comment by fullmetal
2005-10-29 19:30:20

#46 bisnicks get a life dude

 
Comment by Kastart
2005-10-29 19:35:10

home boy, if you are from sony, you are mad unbusiness-like, and should know by now that these guys know what they’re doing and stopping one site, ten sites, a hundred sites, you’re still losing. |_|53 73|-| P5P 70 175 |_1|\/|17!!! R.I.P. HUMMA, may his crazy skills continue on

 
Comment by turbodtalon
2005-10-29 19:40:46

We are FUCKED.

 
Comment by turbodtalon
2005-10-29 19:49:37

I’d also like to say, Humma, if you’re reading this, thanks for what you did for the PSP scene. Hopefully its in your blood and you decide to contribute to the scene again someday. Best of luck.

 
Comment by puss
2005-10-29 19:53:22

good work on everything humma. i hope many more great coders like yourself continue work along these lines enabling us to steal games lol :)
thanks for ur work so far, and i hope u allow someone to continue it.
good luck with watever u do next and may the umd emulator 0.8 live on in my memory stick :D
thx

 
Comment by turbodtalon
2005-10-29 19:55:49

#42, if you are indeed from $ony, then help us out with this GTA situation! Bitch. Shit, while we’re at it, I am from $ony too!

 
Comment by whosloosin92
2005-10-29 19:57:45

Come on humma. We all love your umd emulater. I was really hoping that you owuld make a GTA emulater but now those dreams are smashed.

 
Comment by Vriend
2005-10-29 19:59:39

Humma Kavula THNX MAN 4 every UMD Emulator.. You don’t have 2 give up. There is a thrill 2 let the game GTA play on 1.50. Hmm.Thnx anyway.

 
Comment by jabberwocky20
2005-10-29 19:59:52

Humma, I hardly knew ya, but thanks for what you gave to the community. Also,I’m glad it’s personal reasons and not jail time, man ;) It’s people like you, in my opinion, that keep these PSPs interesting :D It’s too bad you have no interest in homebrew games, because I enjoy trying out all the new games. I guess it’s the origianlity factor there :P Anyway man, good luck to ya man. And if you come back, I’m sure people won’t mind a bit about the personal reason ;) :)

 
Comment by cranor
2005-10-29 20:02:29

Please ask him sources for us (make it open source ?) or give me his mail. I would like to contact him. I am volonteer for continuing his software assuming all consequences. Thanks

 
Comment by Blue
2005-10-29 20:04:22

We are doomed . Sell your psp’s ;). THN humma !!!

 
Comment by X-ey
2005-10-29 20:13:24

Humma sucks, he can’t make another update so he quit.

:P

 
Comment by talesfromthedark
2005-10-29 20:16:03

Thanks for every thing you have done and every one whishes you the best.We just hope you will sart doing it agin someday.
Best whishes from the psp-hacks community-Talesfromthedark

 
Comment by me
2005-10-29 20:16:10

ok you guys are fucking idiots its obvious he was working with sony to ge the psp off the ground .. so they sacrafice the first bunch of games (most of them were crappy be honest..) now the big games come out and he quits .. I give love and respect to H.K. if im wrong but if not … we have all been duped… just stop and look at the outcome Sony wants to make a mass release they seen what pirated systems did for the xbox so they work it out with their head programmers to make a booter till the sales get rocking then upgrade that no one can crack and the only guy out of 500000 ppl quits … sounds too convienient … at least im not fooled … HE was working with sony … out of 500000 programmers only he was able to make a diecent working product … get real and open your eyes … you can ban me for saying my mind but isint that freedom or speach after all … so now enjoy your psp and 30 + games and now that everyone bought one ….HAHAH you have to do a mysterious upgrade and buy the original game ….and Sony wins. you bought the psp and now your forced to have to buy the originals GOOD ONE SONY :) GO AHEAD HUMMA PROVE ME WRONG AND RELEASE YOUR SORCE CODE… HAHAH BET YOU DON’T
love 2 da scene KW

 
Comment by leo
2005-10-29 20:18:56

thank you for what you done before, you already give us many interest time on psp

 
Comment by Rolando
2005-10-29 20:33:10

Dude, just know that we all appreciate your work and that you’ll be missed

 
Comment by 1smurf
2005-10-29 20:33:50

psp is gay, and sucks balls, im going to go buy a popstation

 
Comment by 1smurf
2005-10-29 20:34:39

and a sandwich

 
Comment by 1smurf
2005-10-29 20:35:29

and a coke…

 
Comment by James
2005-10-29 20:38:50

yo good work man . Its been damm good.

Hey everyone this is aimed at all of you. You got to try and look outside the box for a bit.
All we know is that he just suddenly announced that he is stopping his deving on psp’s. For what reason . For personal ones and that he lost his “thrill” in it.
Well it just doens sound right. All the time you were doing this hobby and now suddenly BAMM full stop. I Tell ya all that aint right. All people who have hobbies as such wouldnt just find a certain time like now and say ” hey how about i quit right now”. No its a long processes . People usually programm less and less till they quit (and maybe even start coding later again).
For me this situation could have many reasons. Maybe he got in trouble with Sony and had to make a deal that he will quit (maybe getting some money from them). I know this sounds bloody stupid . But hell i have seen it happening to 3 communites similiar to this. 2 of them were forced that they died in a car accident. and 1 of them had to make up that all his back ups and hard disks got erased by mistake. Well everyone on the community was also like R,I,P blah blah. Sorry i cant mention the communites though.

_____
well ofcourse he might be tellin the truth . but that was just my thoughts . maybe coz i know from personal experience.

please dont flame me
And Humma . respect for ur great work man

 
Comment by garaa
2005-10-29 20:56:46

No Humma the LEGEND UBER EPIC PSP UMD emulator member quit, DAMN!!! that suck, good luck what you want to do, no one can force the path you want to go, SALUTE!!! =D

 
Comment by fullmetal
2005-10-29 21:04:55

damn it…. stop this is FAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!yeah great work humma wow i thank you for all the money you’ve save me…but guys he is not gone!…its just lies from maxconsole because they are tired of ppl asking for humma and about humma so just stop it!

 
Comment by Koala
2005-10-29 21:05:06

May The Force Be With You

R.I.P.

????-2005

 
Comment by chinoky
2005-10-29 21:09:37

damn his got a girlfriend now!!

Seriously tho. your work has been a great contribution, thanks you ever so much.

 
Comment by James
2005-10-29 21:11:27

^67

“2 of them were forced that they died in a car accident.”
I meant to say that ” 2 of them were forced to SAY that they died”. In both cases a really good friend reported that they died

 
Comment by Dat
2005-10-29 21:14:41

good bye and good night umd emulator

 
Comment by BANENG
2005-10-29 21:45:51

MASSAGE FOR HUMMA : CAN YOU SEND YOUR PSP FOR ME ,INSTEAD PUT IT ON THE BOX.
I HOPE YOUR NOT GO TO WAR …

 
Comment by joe
2005-10-29 21:58:03

better off without him. that way at least sony wont threaten our precious homebrew

 
Comment by HomebrewIsGood
2005-10-29 22:21:15

75, shut up. He was an awesome coder, and he made a great UMD emu. And all you folks wo are all like “BAH! HE SUCKS! HE’S TEH GHEY!” i say go **** yourself. Besides, let’s start focusing on 2.0 homebrew! That way we won’t need a fancy program to play GTA.

 
Comment by okokookoko
2005-10-29 22:32:24

Humma *cry* i love u *sob* good by and good luck *snif*

 
Comment by hey
2005-10-29 22:39:29

SOOOO LONG…………
This is for you man…..

Here lies Humma
I wrote this on his Tomba

 
Comment by AceUpSleeve
2005-10-29 22:49:31

Humma,
Thank you soo very much!You will be missed,but never forgoten!You are a legend in your own right.I don’t care what the reason is that you’re leaving.It’s your life and you are responsible for your own happiness.Good luck in all your endevors.Ever think of giving teaching a try?If you ever do I would be honored to be a student.So,farewell good friend and good luck!We will all certainly miss you.

 
Comment by Bisnicks
2005-10-29 23:03:25

Humma sucks, he can’t make another update so he quit.

 
Comment by cosmic
2005-10-29 23:04:24

bye bye umd emulator 0.9? bye bye GTA

 
Comment by rigurat
2005-10-29 23:08:35

what a disapointment. oh well, move on

 
Comment by .:WOW:.
2005-10-29 23:17:54

FOR ALL THOSE SAYING HUMMA LEFT I HIGHLY DOUBT SOMEONE THROWS AWAY YEARS OF PROGRAMMING RANDOMLY. THIS IS PROBABLY SOMETHING TO JUST SCARE US INTO BELIEVING SONY EITHER PAID HIM OFF, OR JUST TO STOP PEOPLE FROM SAYING STUFF LIKE “HUMMA WE NEED AN UPDATE” I BET HE WILL RELEASE A NEW VERSION, AND I THINK MAXCONSOLE JUST DID THIS CAUSE THEY GOT A TIRED OF ALL OF THE THREADS ABOUT HUMMA, I MEAN LOOK HOW FAST IT SPREAD ON ALL OF THESE WEBSITES!!!

DONT BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU HEAR!!!

 
Comment by kd5tbx
2005-10-29 23:19:55

Good bye Humma and thanks for everything. We will miss you.

 
Comment by fullmetal
2005-10-29 23:25:12

damn it…. stop this is FAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!yeah great work humma wow i thank you for all the money you’ve save me…but guys he is not gone!…its just lies from maxconsole because they are tired of ppl asking for humma and about humma so just stop it!

 
Comment by fullmetal
2005-10-29 23:31:20

THIS IS ONLY A BUNCH OF BULLSH*T FROM MAXCONSOLE BIG F-YOU MAX!

 
Comment by viper1123
2005-10-29 23:58:25

All I can say is humma was amazing. always had the top shit out. whether he’s gone or not will be speculated about, but if he really is gone *sniff* then I wish him/you good luck in all future endeavors. thanks humma

 
Comment by Dinosaur
2005-10-30 00:23:55

Farewell. Sucks that you cant get your jollies off coding anymore. Hope you find a new hobbie, and inspire/help people the way you did with us.

 
Comment by naruto
2005-10-30 01:16:21

Humma TRAITOR, he got hire by sony, now sony going to own our hackers F**K!!! DAMN YOU!!! HOW could this be happening NNNNnnnnnooo!!!!! DON”T LEAVE US HUMMA!!! WE LOVE YOU!!! COME BACK!! DON”T SPRUNG!!! =*(

 
Comment by kingtone
2005-10-30 01:26:17

#58 ARE you really that ignorant. danm you should be on csi.

 
Comment by DaOnE
2005-10-30 02:12:27

To anyone who says “Humma sucks, he can’t make another update so he quit” or anything else along these lines, I will try my hardest to get you banned. This is a place to say good bye, NOT to flame.

Show some real news on the site! Go ahead and ban away this site is so slow on posting news! Its just sad…

Another thing whO gives a shit if he quit’s? Live goes ON………………..

Ps “Humma sucks, he can’t make another update so he quit”

Fuck’in noob

 
Comment by terminalblue
2005-10-30 02:12:45

dude, can i have your psp?

 
Comment by PZP
2005-10-30 02:13:37

58, that actually makes sense. Actually LCS flopped too. so where are all these good games?

 
Comment by Abab
2005-10-30 02:24:44

Well that just stinks. I hope someone makes a patch so gta will run on 1.5 . Maybe a program that fucks with the firmware so it can p