I agree on the tool aspect (not many people bother to make specific editors for newer games), but the lack on information is just a big, huge misconception. There have been official docs for pretty much all newer systems floating on the net for YEARS, with even entire SDKs used for commercial games. If those aren't info I really dunno what else they could be.

I'd have to say your phrasing was perhaps inviting some hostility. The first time I read it, I considering a similar response. Your post was filled with potentially loaded generalizations from start to finish. Suffice to say there's apparently a large group of people who see no reason to move on to new frontiers at this time or they would have done so. From my personal vantage point, there's plenty of good games left on the older consoles and there's no reason to move until they're done.  So, you see, saying something like 'we need to do x' is really a loaded generalization. Your conviction is equally met in contrast.

So many people like to use lack of tools and documentation as an excuse for not hacking PSX or other consoles. While tools certainly play into it (no debuggers make things more painful), I hate seeing documentation used as an excuse. All the concepts are the exact same no matter what you're hacking for the most part. The difference maker isn't the platform, it's 2d versus 3d and ROM vs. file systems. That's really the only real difference between hacking any consoles. Beyond that, the concepts are all the same. You may have the need to learn some assembly or some hardware details for the individual platforms, but that information is out there already. So many just don't make the connection. They think current documents are useless.

There's got to be some reason why so few are writing new documentation. I'd link it to few new concepts come up and there are still so few hackers that have moved on to new frontiers for whatever their reasons.

To be honest, I've always attributed the lack of post-snes-era translations/documents (fallacy or not) to the fact that all of the Final Fantasy games since then (and most of Square's other RPGs) have been officially translated and released.

In more general terms, the majority of the good post-snes RPGs were officially translated and released.  There simply aren't as many untranslated gems for newer consoles as there are for older consoles.

Personally i think there're many! Especially on the saturn and ps1, they're just not as well known.

There are SO many lesser known PSX games (mostly rpgs and sims) that haven't been translated that I'd like to play in English it isn't even funny.