Dark Alex 3.80M33 CFW News Update

***wraggster*** · January 13th, 2008, 21:53

Hi all still no confirmed details of a release but tonight mathieulh (Dark Alexs Friend and right hand man etc) posted this over at Brakkens Blog:

EVERYONE PLEASE BEHAVE.

This is not only about zeus or Max-console or even Datel. We wish to only release on dark-alex.org or through network (not even on exophase, lan or anywhere else.) for the time being for our own reasons.

Mostly because we are tired of people making money on our backs, wether it is max-console qj or anyone else. That doesn't only include news sites but also shops that ILLEGALLY make money by flashing m33 firmwares on psps or even selling pandora batteries/memory sticks sets, some will ask over 50 euros per installs !
Some even have the guts to claim sending a percentage of the money to m33 or c+d when this is not true!

We took that decision not only against max-console but every other sites that do make money over our work. Of course most/all of news sites do exist for the purpose of making money and yet, those are needed.

We can always dream of decent sites that make news with no earning whatsoever but considering the tiresome job that it is and how time consumming it is for people to actually look for news and report it on a 24/7 basis, I doubt that we will see such a thing happening any time soon.

Nevertheless we hope to be able to move things and that such a change may happen if we keep having a fair release system between each and every psp related sites (by only releasing on our website or through network, then we do not care of what sites do of the binaries once they got those.)

Another thing we are pretty much fed up of is the "news race" that tend to happen between all sites that try to be the first to news stuffs all the time, and everyone of them try to get news from us almost every minutes despite the facts that we do have lives of our own for the sole purpose of getting ranked up on Alexa.

To be honest I like the max-console comunauty which seems more mature than the ones of most other sites, this is what kept and keeps me staying here, the fact that we stop releasing from that place does not mean we wont keep posting in there. I think that most sites got carried away and forgot that comunauties are before all created by the users, for the users.

P.S. I do not think that deleting the threads is a solution, and I do not believe that moderators were closing those on purpose. A forums need to be moderated. As long as we discuss of things peacefully there is no reason for a thread to be deleted, if not then indeed there is. If people start flamming, bitching or cursing all over the forums, then indeed those threads need to be deleted or closed. I personally know most of the moderators responsible for the psp section on the max-console forums, and I pretty much doubt that any of them would have deleted threads just to prevent anyone from express themselves or share their opinion (wether good or bad) about this forum.

Also a personal message to Brakken: We (the M33 team or even the Prometheus group) never worked for divineo even once, and even if we did, how would this be ANY of your business ? I have yet to see your so called "proofs" about us working for divineo (which do not exist since we never done such a thing) Keep in mind that we were not forced to make free releases available to everyone, we just CHOSE to do so. I can tell you for sure that we would have not if we worked for such company as divineo to begin with. Now please stop making pointless assumptions without proper evidences. Thank you for your understanding.

Personally when you have your own website why would you release anywhere but on your own page, its great to see that from now on the Dark ALex homepage will be the only release venue and im sure like most others do that the whole team behnd these custom firmwares deserve all the donations they can get for the tireless work they put in on behalf of the PSP Community.

It is nice to hear it straight from one of the people behind the custom firmwares.

**Elven6** · January 13th, 2008, 22:00

Its to bad he can't take legal action, I can't really think of anything that can be done to stop this stuff from happening. Unless, he goes to the continent that would allow you to sue a corporation for really stupid things, hmm, O Wait THE EU! (For those that don't know, companys like to sue Microsoft in Europe becaue Europe is lets you win even the stupedist of cases, like bundling Windows Media Player with Windows Xp!

**celestial_guru** · January 13th, 2008, 22:05

It's really sad when someone does something awesome for a community only to in the end be stabbed by the greed of individuals

**devdj** · January 13th, 2008, 22:06

well at least its an update and i too am pissed off with max-console datel and codejunkies

**Nikolaos** · January 13th, 2008, 22:10

Wow, Money-hungry people these days..Sickens me. I just hope that 3.80 M33 gets released soon.

**michael_dack_2005** · January 13th, 2008, 22:13

Its a shame that people have to disrespect all the hard work that DA, the Prometheus team and all the others put in.

PLus charging 50EURs for installing CF on PSP is rediculus! that the main reason i joined thi here:
http://www.darkmessiah.byethost13.com/freeservice.html

gr8 work so far m33 the psp homebrew community should be waiting patiently - how many ppl do you know put in there own time 4 no benifit for themselves. could probably count the number on 2 hands.

lookin 4ward to a bug-free 3.80 M33

**DarthPaul** · January 13th, 2008, 22:19

Ok so where's 3.80M33?

**bumfacekilla** · January 13th, 2008, 22:19

These people just out to make quick money damage the community as a whole.

Dark_Alex and the whole of team m33 work tirelessly on these projects and ask for just what people can give. I don't know if I'd have continued working for a community that was so quick to betray.

Not that I could ever hope to be as accomplished as team m33 or any of the community's other great coders/hackers for that matter. One day, I hope to learn some coding. These people inspire me.

**Raziel-chan** · January 13th, 2008, 22:21

Originally Posted by Elven6

Its to bad he can't take legal action, I can't really think of anything that can be done to stop this stuff from happening. Unless, he goes to the continent that would allow you to sue a corporation for really stupid things, hmm, O Wait THE EU! (For those that don't know, companys like to sue Microsoft in Europe becaue Europe is lets you win even the stupedist of cases, like bundling Windows Media Player with Windows Xp!

Naah, just go to the US. You can sue anyone for anything there and you have a good chance for winning and an even better one for a settlement that will make you rich.

cya
Raziel-chan