V3N0M
March 19th, 2007, 06:41
Well it seems the harassment from the Halo Zero forums has finally made it to DCEmu. I figured since many public attacks have been made against my team, me, and this project. I may as well respond to this, in a public Fashion. This is to let people know what’s going on and what’s to become of this project. As well as to explain what all happened...
Well as many of you know, I have been working on a project named Halo Zero for PSP. This project originally started out as "Halo Cero for PSP" basically a clone of Halo Zero only for the PSP console. After much work I began to wonder if possibly Dobermann may give us permission to port over this amazing game. So my team set out to ask for his permission. At the time we all thought Dobermann had certain rights to these sprites that would allow him to give permission to anyone he chooses. Well it appears we were wrong... He did give us permission and basically said we could use the sprites as long as all code used in the making of this game was from scratch. Which I was perfectly willing to do; being a new coder I figured this would be a nice way to enter the coding aspect of the homebrew scene.
Well a few months down the road we begin to see these "threat threads" popping up saying we can't use the sprites and Dobermann has no permission to allow us the right to use them. At first we didn't really understand what in the hell was going on at the time. We had gone through all the trouble to get permission and then begin the hard work it takes to make a game. So after seeing all of this we were extremely frustrated. Well it seems these people although their methods of telling us was rather unorthodox, were right in the fact that Dobermann does not have the rights and that we must get permission from the original creators. Which we were told was a guaranteed “no”. During all of this I was sick and trying to stay up in school, this was the worst possible time for something like this to happen to this project and honestly to me. Thanks to PSPdemon as he was able to step up into the leader position of this project and keep these “threat threads” at bay while I could get better and get caught up in school. Anyways I’m back; I’m healthy, and ready to clear up all of these misunderstandings and threats against the well being of this project. Now I have a deep respect for the original Halo Zero Team and so will respect their wishes and will not use their sprites in any public releases of this game. This in no way means this project is dead. I made a promise to myself and my team when I took up this project and plan on seeing it through. If adjustments need to be made in order to release this game then they will be made.
Forgive me if this appears to be more of a rant against those people who have verbally attacked us over these last few months rather than a strait answer but after all these rude people coming up and saying cruddy things about this team and this project. You may understand why my team still feels a bit frustrated. I would like to say thank you to all of those who have supported this project but please if those people come around and begin to post “threat threads or posts” let the moderators take care of it and ignore those people completely last thing we need is a big flame war over a game. This is just to clear things up between us and the original Halo Zero Team and their fans. Hopefully this will be the last of any angered Halo Zero fans… If anyone has anymore questions regarding this project please send them via PM, email, or simply post your
Well as many of you know, I have been working on a project named Halo Zero for PSP. This project originally started out as "Halo Cero for PSP" basically a clone of Halo Zero only for the PSP console. After much work I began to wonder if possibly Dobermann may give us permission to port over this amazing game. So my team set out to ask for his permission. At the time we all thought Dobermann had certain rights to these sprites that would allow him to give permission to anyone he chooses. Well it appears we were wrong... He did give us permission and basically said we could use the sprites as long as all code used in the making of this game was from scratch. Which I was perfectly willing to do; being a new coder I figured this would be a nice way to enter the coding aspect of the homebrew scene.
Well a few months down the road we begin to see these "threat threads" popping up saying we can't use the sprites and Dobermann has no permission to allow us the right to use them. At first we didn't really understand what in the hell was going on at the time. We had gone through all the trouble to get permission and then begin the hard work it takes to make a game. So after seeing all of this we were extremely frustrated. Well it seems these people although their methods of telling us was rather unorthodox, were right in the fact that Dobermann does not have the rights and that we must get permission from the original creators. Which we were told was a guaranteed “no”. During all of this I was sick and trying to stay up in school, this was the worst possible time for something like this to happen to this project and honestly to me. Thanks to PSPdemon as he was able to step up into the leader position of this project and keep these “threat threads” at bay while I could get better and get caught up in school. Anyways I’m back; I’m healthy, and ready to clear up all of these misunderstandings and threats against the well being of this project. Now I have a deep respect for the original Halo Zero Team and so will respect their wishes and will not use their sprites in any public releases of this game. This in no way means this project is dead. I made a promise to myself and my team when I took up this project and plan on seeing it through. If adjustments need to be made in order to release this game then they will be made.
Forgive me if this appears to be more of a rant against those people who have verbally attacked us over these last few months rather than a strait answer but after all these rude people coming up and saying cruddy things about this team and this project. You may understand why my team still feels a bit frustrated. I would like to say thank you to all of those who have supported this project but please if those people come around and begin to post “threat threads or posts” let the moderators take care of it and ignore those people completely last thing we need is a big flame war over a game. This is just to clear things up between us and the original Halo Zero Team and their fans. Hopefully this will be the last of any angered Halo Zero fans… If anyone has anymore questions regarding this project please send them via PM, email, or simply post your