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It is currently impossible to get hold of free codes to distribute for people to review. I think this is incredibly important - as it is a good way to get people to hear about your title, as people on the most part are not going to pay to review a game... It would be great if we could get codes to distribute in all of the stores that we provide to.

This is regarding the developers who have already paid the 100$ for a developers license. I'm personally not interested in a refund of any sort, in fact I'm very glad Sony is actively looking for ways to increase the size of the PSM development community. 

I do however feel that existing developers should at least have their license expiry date extended from the period of the free PSM license which would be September 2014. 

Developers could just sign up for a second account to get the benefits of an extension (2 accounts) but I would much rather have only one PSM account that's also tied to my primary PSN account. 

I tried going to the psmdev site to "re-register" in hopes it would extend my expiry date but that didn't work. 

Is the PSM team considering this issue? Will there be an annoucement soon in regards to how the recent free PSM release affects existing PSM developers who have paid a license fee?

PlayStation Mobile SDK support for C/C++ as it is the game developing choice of language by developers.

Just like the other platforms.

LiveAreaの装飾や制御も多少設定できるようになると嬉しいです。

When you're game gets approved, you have no idea how long it will take between 'preparing for release' and being on the store. This really hurts; how can I promote my game/patch if I don't know when it will be out?

Remove the requirement to purchase a $99 yearly license just to test a game on a physical device.

• 自動スリープの制限(動画再生中やニコニコ動画アプリ、Youtubeアプリのように)
• PSボタンの制限(押しても反応しないようにする)
• PSMアプリケーションからホーム画面などへのPUSH通知

などを、できるようにしてほしいです。

これらのことができれば、アプリのアイデアや活用の幅も広がります。

また、ハイレベルUIのパフォーマンスも改善してほしいです。

初回の操作で反応があるまでにラグがあるのが気になります。アプリ起動時にロードしておいてほしいです。

やり方が悪いのかなと思いましたが、SONY Degitalのダイエットアプリなどを購入して試してみても同じだったので改善を希望します。

I want use the logo of the PlayStation Mobile at my website.
I hope that you provide image files and guidelines to us.

PSMのアプリを紹介するホームページでPlayStation Mobileのロゴを使用したいです。
利用可能な画像ファイルやガイドラインの提供をお願いします。

I am using PSM SDK 1.11.01.

I would like to see a constructor for Sce.PlayStation.Core.Imaging.Font that takes a byte array instead of a filename.

File IO characteristics are undefined, especially for instancing the same TTF multiple times with different size and FontStyle parameters. This could be especially bad for large fonts.

フォーラムとは別に、バグID・カテゴリ・概要・詳細・対応状況といった項目でリスト化したBug Trackerサイトを作って欲しい。

• どのようなバグがあるのか？
• 対応状況は？
• 対応を待たずに回避する方法はあるのか？

そういった情報をまとめて閲覧したいです。

現状のフォーラムではバグ報告をしてもそれが開発チームに伝わっているのかもわかりません。

Hello PSM Team,

IS it possible to make the keyboard take part of the screen instead of whole, In the application I am developing it is important that the screen shows slightly.

Thank you very much!

In this interview http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-oddworld-vs-playstation-vita it is mentioned that optimal performance on the Vita required offloading rendering commands from the main thread to worker thread(s). To me this isn't much of a surprise (doing this on Windows and XBox 360 is definitely a win where possible) but it underscores the need for a way to do this in PSM. Currently all the Graphics APIs seem to require you to call them from the main thread, which means you can't even create a 'graphics thread' that is off the main thread and responsible for all your rendering - it has to happen on the same thread as your input.

If any of the existing Graphics APIs are thread-safe, please document that clearly in the SDK so we know we can safely use them.

In addition to this, please consider adding either the ability to change the 'graphics thread' so that it isn't the main thread, or allow use of certain APIs from other threads - we don't need the ability to use the graphics APIs from multiple threads at the same time, just the ability to offload work.

In particular, I think the following operations would be big wins if we can offload them to worker threads safely, even if it prevents use of the graphics device from other threads:

Texture uploads

Vertex/Index Buffer uploads

Framebuffer readback (ReadPixels)

SwapBuffers

And in particular being able to call SwapBuffers on a thread will be a big win since you don't let us disable vsync. Doing that will make it trivial for a game to start running logic for the next frame while it's waiting for vsync.

At present both the 'unsafe' keyword and the GCHandle class are disabled in the PSM Simulator and on-device runtime. This is a mistake, and here's why:

Without access to 'unsafe', certain forms of IO are impossible to perform efficiently - for example, loading an array of any type other than byte[].

Without access to 'unsafe', tight computation loops to do things like fill vertex buffers or procedurally generate textures suffer the cost of additional array bounds checks and multiplications for each index.

Given that this is a platform targeting mobile devices, it is unacceptable to waste customers' time (by making them wait for slower non-unsafe C# implementations of algorithms) and waste their battery as well just because this feature is disabled.

Turning these features on will not compromise the security of the PSM platform or the devices running these games; if you doubt this you need merely look at XBox Live Indie Games - games built for the XBox 360 were able to use unsafe and all related features to get maximum performance on the XBox 360 and this never resulted in a single compromise of their security architecture.

Hello, please add in NFC Support for Android Devices and PSN Message/Near Support for Vita so we can have players transfer different things (such as high scores or custom made content) to each other.

Also, right now, does PSM block the use of NFC if we implement our own code for it? We are making a rhtyhm game in Unity and hope to port it to PSM later this year, we promised Sony Mobile we'd make an Android build they could show off NFC with so we're hoping PSM won't block this or make it too difficult.

There is currently an event to use to be notified when the game is restored from a minimized state, but no way to no when the game is minimized in the first place.

This is important to allow the game to save data in case it is terminated later.