Originally Posted by
Exophase
I never said that the PSP scene was "filled with nothing but" these kinds of people, what I said that there are too many people like that. I worded it like that for a reason, so don't take it personally unless you have a good reason to believe I am referring to you. Do you?
Do you think I'm out of line to say that there are a lot of selfish, immature brats in this community? Are you constantly IMed by people who think you're their tech support because they saw your username in a readme? Did you know that there have been people who have found my phone number and voice/txt spammed me because I didn't talk to them on AIM anymore (even though I was patient with them for months, and they just pushed and pushed too far)? Sure, it's not like everyone's like this. It might even be a minority. But look I around and what I see is an atmosphere that tolerates people like this, that doesn't really care. Maybe it's age gap, I think a lot of PSP homebrew users are young teenagers. In the GP2X scene most people are probably adults and have gotten past the stage of life where they expect everything to be provided for them on demand.
By the way, have you ever developed an emulator, or any software? I'm not dumping on you for this but listen because it's relevant. Have you watched some guy release modified versions of your code while you're in the middle of working very hard on it, to get a lot of responses like "at least this guy is releasing." I don't think you have. I have emu dev friends who understand exactly how I feel. It's one of them that alerted me about this topic, and he's probably as pissed off about Takka as I am. And it's not even his emulator.
There are PSP users like that (NO not all of them at all, I have met a ton of very decent people around here), they will praise and support something 100% so long as they think it's going to benefit them, then when they stop believing it will they'll turn on it entirely, as if devs exist solely for the purpose of catering to them. Look at what happened to zx81 with PSPVBA, look at all the people who were praising him like mad over every release because they thought it'd mean fullspeed GBA emulation, then when he cut development they all were really disappointed, with a lot of them going so far as to flame him. Hell, people have been flaming Daedalus because for some reason they expected it to be fullspeed, I hear crap about how he's had so and so long to do it. At the same time people like SHIFTY came around releasing binaries that were literally identical to Daedalus ones already out while pretending that it ran Mario 64 faster, and a ton of people believed it, and praised him for it.
Do you get what I'm saying about lack of common sense being an issue here? No it's not very nice of me to say, but it is true.
Yeah, a big reason for that (his versions supporting things that 0.9 doesn't) is because he has merged in changes I've made in the GP2X version of gpSP, and in the case of FF6 has followed what I have said about it on a blog (referenced on his wiki, so he's okay with reading my blog to use what I say but still doesn't want to actually work with me). Some games were broken in 0.9 because of the new memory handlers but I fixed these bugs within a couple of weeks of releaase, and that's why they made it into the GP2X source. Him backporting my changes in another version and effectively taking credit for them is quite underhanded, IMO.
However, like I said, if you have good reason to use those versions use them. I don't expect (nor want) anyone to boycott legal software out of loyalty. What I do expect is for people to be more discerning about what they compliment and deride.
