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This is a tragedy - the psp scene is going to miss his work - me especially :( - but there may be a glimmer of hope if DAX will let someone take over his work - wasn't there just talk of a 3.51OE from Mathieulh - he has been helping DAX code these firmwares some (I think) - . Well - GOOD LUCK to you DAX and have a happy life you still are a god to everyone! Please pass along your works to a compitant individual, don't let it just die.
Surely someone else can pick up and do similar work even without the source code. He's not the only smart coder out there...
Dark_Alex won't get any of these comments.
Anyway, it's too bad for the community that the whole CFW OE dev team will have no part in picking up the project.
If I was DAX, I would have asked for a job at sony, before it all got out of hand.
P.S. And all the idiots who turned this into a war...WHO'S WINNING NOW?? NOT ME. THANKS GUYS
daaammmm.. the homebrew scene has lost one of the MOST VALUABLE people in it. this just sux sh*t.. neways, hankyou dark Alex for everything youve done or the scene( and personally, making the oe fw and the 2./2.6 downgrader... ill neva forget that...) good luck on your life and best wishes yo :D :cool:
yo it would be such a fu**ed up move for sony to right now release every game and requires 3.51 to play it
This tugs at the heart.
Just like when mame.dk closed down it's site.
Very, Very sad day for the psp community.
CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT SONY CAN REALLY DO TO HIM.. AND Y R THEY STARTING TO TAKE ACTION NOW AFTER ALL THAT HAS HAPPENED!!!!
I BELIEVE THAT HE LEFT BECAUSE HE IS SCARED OF SONY.. thats a bad thing to say tho.. so sorry..
This and the Lik-Sang thing go almost hand in hand.
Wtf!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nooooooooooooo!!!
Why????????????
we'll try to survive without you, but I'm not sure we can
bye DAX I'm missing you already ;_;
Lame!!!
not Dark AleX leaving.. good on him I say.. all the retards that think the PSP is dead now.
Get a life seriously! all OE really does apart from PS1 (which you wont lose if you dont upgrade) is make Devhook obsolete (for UMD/ISO loading anyway)
You can still play homebrew games, apps, emulators and even near perfect PS1 emulation and you always will as long as you dont upgrade to an official FW.
Not forgetting Becus and his work with IE I`d imagine that by the time a game comes out that need 3.51 Becus or someone else will have either created a new custom fw or maybe just a hybrid fw like what was released just before the OE series.
ALSO you could either buy a new PSP or one of the modchips and have 3.40 OE and an official FW on the same PSP
Much respect to Dark AleX and what he has done but he was not the first, is not the only and definitely wont be the last or greatest to code for the PSP
Just a thought, but if you're worried about being stuck on 3.40OE, then the next logical step (albeit illegal and would be considered piracy) would be to modify future game releases to make them compatible with 3.40OE.
I'm sure some of you pros can do it. :rolleyes: I've already seen games with custom soundtracks, so the rest is up to you guys to figure out. ;)
I must say that this is very uncalled for. However, my regards to you, Dark_AleX. As a sign of respect to you. I promise never to upgrade my psp.
the only way to get the games is to download them which, of course, IS piracyQuote:
Originally Posted by jefdizon
the next logical step is either devhook or an isoloader/umdloader that takes advantage of any exploits found in the next fw by noobz or c+d, which then allows playability of new games without having to upgrade to the next firmware
The only reason for this is because Sony must have sent him a notice to stop what he was doing. No one has a mood swing that makes u on the path from making the newest OE from 3.50 to 3.51 in a flash then the next day quit...
Likely hood is he got a order from Sony to stop b4 legal consequences are taken... only logical reason ... EVEN if it does take up most of your time it oculd be a hobby to work on coding solely on spare time no reason to quit all togehter
F**k U Sony!!!! I Hope U GO Bankrupt U F***kin Fools... If It Werent For Tha Devs Then Sales Of Your System Wouldnt Be This High!!!! U Fools Are Literally Gonna Lose The $ You So Desperately Want!!!! My Psp Is The Only Thing You'll Ever See Me Buyin From Yall Mothaf**kin Goofs!!!
he can come back as anonymous or just with a different identity..Quote:
Originally Posted by porchemasi
Why? Because the DS has such great homebrew potential? Or because Nintendo is great at getting people to buy a rebranded console? Or because they charge $10 for a 20-year-old game?Quote:
Originally Posted by brunobelo
First off, even if everyone on the planet stoped buying PSP's and PS3's it wouldn't bankrupt Sony. It's actually a pretty small part of their business. Secondly, Sony made THE BEST handheld ever. Period. What Dark_Alex was doing WAS illegal by the fact that he was breaking their encryption code and stealing their Intellectual Property. What could Sony have done to him? Well, since he didn't sell it for profit, and actually drove sales of the PSP up they can't hit him for loss of business damages, but they could get him on punitive damages. Somehow I think DAX knew this and accepted it. Don't get me wrong, I'm sad to see DAX go and I wish Sony would lighten up, but search my previous post in this thread for an explanation on why they can't. Besides, with the head of the PlayStation development team stepping down to pursue other interests this may be the last great portable ever. Kinda sucks, losing Kutaragi and Dark_Alex within one month. They both will be greatly missed.Quote:
Originally Posted by psp411
Dark_Alex,
Its great you have contributed to the scene,
We will all miss you dearly for all the work you have done for us.
Good luck for the future :)
Oh well... After reading 18 pages of posts...
I realize what Dark_Alex meant to EVERY PSP user:( :( :(
Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for your contribution to the PSP Scene. You will always be the heart and soul of EVERYONE's PSP...
You'll return... Won't you?:o
Don't leave us alone:(
I kno that they will stil make $ from theyre other product but i can hope:pQuote:
Originally Posted by robotdevil
Also, i have to agree that this is the best handheld console right now. The reason y it is the best is because of the homebrew that can be ran on it( i remember when i bought my 1st psp and i litterally stopped using it after a month because i was bored of mc3:dub edition). By the contributions of dark_alex and others, we can enjoy homebrew capabilities with the good, useful functions of the sony official firmware. this is why i love oe. Since D_A is leaving the scene for "reasons" (sony.. *cough* cough*) we wont be able to have this unity between sony and the homebrew community. I can see why they want to eliminate oe... to stop piracy but if you really consider the following... only %10 of psp owners even know about and use homebrew and a smaller fraction of that pirate games. I learned about homebrew for consoles when i leared about homebrew for psp(14 yrs old... now im 16).since nobody arond me knew about it(friends, aquintances etc.)i didnt even know that theyre were ways to play games without the offical game.i learned all these things when i learned about the psp community . as average as i am, does sony hoestly think average eople will get up one day and be like" im going to download a game and play it on my current console." this thought wont even occur unless you are hinted about homebrewand the capability of doing so(and no1 can lie about that.) honestly, sony will lose $ by these pirates but to fully lock out homebrew(which makes psp more interesting... well to me:D ) juss to gain more $... bad move. sony cares more about their $ figure than theyre own customers... the ones who put the $ in their pockets. this is what led my rant.:)
(do i pirate? no because i own all the game that i have an iso of. my isos are what i rely on b/c my umd cases are broken and i cant use the disc anymore-.-... pirates are untruthful people who should recognize the damage they cause)
once again, i want to thank D_A for all he has done for the scene and i wish him good luck on his future:D
Hopefully someone else would pickup from where things were left.
Thanks for all your work Dark_Alex, the psp scene would not be even close to where it now is without you. This is a very sad day for the psp scene.
Hopefully someone will be able to pickup 3.51 OE and give us 100% NO UMD compatability. Especially since my UMD drive is broken.
Dark Alex, after what you have done for the PSP homebrew scene I suppose you deserve to move on to better things. Good luck in your future endeavors.
Oh, and to those who are all doom and gloom over this, there are others who will likely keep the scene going. Even if there are no new firmware versions I doubt that people who are enthusiasts over this will allow SONY to put a leash on them (for lack of a better metaphor) as they intended. :p
Some simple input.
Looks like the big company sony got to him. Of course anyone of normal standards would be scared, but its still quite sad to see such talent ending with a "scare tactic" from some company.
Yet there is still hope. If sony has not located/found out/or ect who Dark really is then it would be quite easy for him to conintue his much appreciated work through the various ways to keep himself hidden... That is if he really isnt beaten by sony.
Maby he's just tired... maby he's scared... or maby he cant hack the new firmwares... regardless there is always a way to overcome such an adversary such as sony...
Simply put no one anywere can control the internet. Not the president, not an organization, and certinly not Sony.
Heh if you think about it, what if the internet peeps worked togather to distribute Dark's work. Heh it would be an unstoppable force if people used the right tools and methods of distribution.
But internet peeps working togather for this dosent seem like a reality. And Dark seems quite tired and not willing to take the risk.
Anyways great work Dark, you and your work will be missed. Im sure someone else will carry on the torch, using some other exploit/method. Regardless thank you.
I'm speechless
I think he got paid off.
The legend is leaving. A really bad day for the psp community. He'll be greatly missed. We will all suffer for a bit but we will get threw this. Hopefully alex will still help the new makers in he firmware community.
Wow, this thread is so long I already forgot half the stupid stuff here I wanted to comment on. First off... Hats off to dax. I don't blame him one bit and I truly thank him for his work. Still I wish the source would magically appear on irc or sth and make it's way to the public.
Next... NO downloading ISOs is NOT the only way to get them (not everybody is a damn pirate). How do you think they are made available for download in the first place, stupid? There are several homebrew programs that allow for copying a UMD to your memory stick.
Now... I don't think we have to sweat new UMDs quite yet. The last several firmware revisions iirc have been decrypted/unpacked with the same code so I don't think they have changed much. With that in mind, New games that require 3.50+ could easily still work if you simply use the SXT version changer (iirc the last version that I have lets you make the PSP think it is fw 7.0 or sth)
and/or we will be FORCED to go the ISO route again and swap out .sfos and .prxs just like we did in the beginning (around 2.0 or 2.5)
I think we will still be ok at least until fw 4.0 when they will more than likely update all the encryption and such.
AND... saw news on attack of the show today about a revamped PSP coming out anyway. PSP Slim I think is the name and it will have an 8GB internal flash!
My friend just left for the Navy this morning . . .so this doesnt even phaze me. However, thanks a lot for everything Dark Alex, You're a good man. Dont worry about 3.51OE. . .You've done so much already dude. Thanks for everything!
it's really sad/bad news... thnx D_A for your hard work...
if only i now what method he uses i will continue the research to the greater FW OE
Thank you Dark Alex, for everything. If you ask me $ony should pay you for doing this work. You are the reason me and several of my friends bought a PSP.
Whithout homebrew and emu's there's just no point in owning a PSP.
So.. thank you Alex. I hope someone will step up and continue your work. You're a legend.
So it is true,,,, Aw,, Many thanks to Dark aleX for all his input into the homebrew scene. The king is dead.....
Thank you, for all your work and effort-you released the full potential of the psp rather than stifle it like sony did(regularly!) good luck in any future projects, if they are executed half as well as your oe line you will be onto a winner
Dark Alex - you will be missed, you took a psp and made it into a portable multiplatform gaming system. I thank you for all of your work. I understand the reasons for your leaving, and i hope that Bony backs off it's legal dogs to allow you to return in the future. Without you i would not have bought a psp in the first place. - Ta
To all you out there who are slagging Dark Alex or anyone who does work on a custom firmware - DON'T. - You have a choice to use or not use custom firmware, everyone knows the risks. I presume most of the people out there who are slagging these heroes of our platform off have not made custom firmware of their own, so don't critisize until you can do better yourselves - nuff said.
I wish Dark Alex a happy life and again wish to thank him for converting my psp into the powerful system it is today.
thanks for the Oe version Dark_AleX im sure you will be back after some time... but for now its just sad =(
He's done great things to the PSP community, he will surely be missed!
And no, I'm not giving out his e-mail address so stop PMing me about it!
We should continue the scene whithout him. We need some papers from the DA about the PSP firmware or start to diassemble the firmware ourselves. Never done programming on a psp just the last two years on Windows, but maybe need to change?
certainly a bummer he left
a lil disappointed that we may not see 3.51 OE
of course I do appreciate what he's done *he'd done a great deal if anyone doesn't know*
also this is a great oppurtunity for other people to rise up in the scene