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Dark-AleX.org forum closes, is Dark AleX leaving too?

Posted Aug 27, 2009 at 7:02AM EST by Ryan F.

Listed in: News Tags: Dark AleX, homebrew community

Alek, the Admin and Webmaster of Dark-AleX.org, has announced that they are closing down the sites forum after more than one year of existence. The Dark-AleX.org forum is the home of Dark AleX's great homebrew releases, a place for various developers to chat and exchange ideas and a great reference for the homebrew community.

According to Alek, there are many reasons why they want to close the forum :

The forum, by itself, has been a challenge. A challenge that, without any doubt, has exceeded all of our expectations, and a challenge that now, after all that we have been through, we find ourselves happy and proud of having gone this far. However, its, professionally speaking, a moment for evolving and taking ourselves a little time for relax and so we can study whats next.

Since the beginning, the people' answer has been something amazing and indescribable, something that we won't have enough grateful words, and that fills us of satisfaction. This support has been so huge that we have found ourselves overwhelmed, and when we wanted to give the deserved service for each user, we have gone into problems and we have got to take this hard but consistent decition; that, the same way as we wield a smile when all this was starting, this last decition makes us sad, but we know that is the best choice at the moment.

Again, thanks to all, to our moderators, to our friends, to our old and new partners, to the English Zone and their help to this project, and everyone of you that have helped us on any terms.

So for now, we bid farewell to one of the great PSP homebrew resources on the net. But what will happen to Dark AleX you asked? Well, you'll never know...

Thanks to kryptonite.36 for the heads up!

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What is the most popular custom firmware in use these days? I have the latest M33 on mine, but it hasn't been updated in ages and I can't use the PSN store any more, so I was kinda wondering if everyone else had moved on to something else. There seems to be a few newer alternatives out there but I haven't been following the scene that closely.

# meh — m3rox 2009-08-27 08:37

IMO Dark Alex has been gone for a while now.

# Game Categories (Revision: v4) ??? — b|ank Crossfire 2009-08-27 08:39

wtf? where? I don't see this anywhere on other sites...

# GEN 5.50 B — OMightyBuggy 2009-08-27 08:40

You should try it its not that bad and with all the plugins that Total_Noob, Davee, Bubbletune makes GEN firmware pretty good. All that would rank it up there with M33 is the speed up mem stick option. Don't go with MHU 5.50 sense it is just a crappy hex edit version.

# Game Categories (Revision: v4) — OMightyBuggy 2009-08-27 08:43

http://bubbletune.x-fusion.co.uk/

# - — APerson 2009-08-27 08:59

I'm not happy using a second rate CFW, I hope DA is tinkering in his shed on a new M33 update. It cant die! Maybe he just took an extra long summer holiday...

# Awesome — b|ank Crossfire 2009-08-27 09:02

Thanks Man.

# pspgo — lucknell 2009-08-27 09:06

right b4 the pspgo comes out y dax i hope the rumor that he was bride by sony isnt true will team m33 continue to work i hope so

LONG LIVE Dark_AleX

# waiting for go... — ov3rkill 2009-08-27 09:11

in due time when the psp go will be released, i'm pretty sure dax or a prodigy would be able hack their way through... or not. xD

we will probably see another group or a new name for the m33.

# PSP GO, ROFL. — OMightyBuggy 2009-08-27 09:22

I doubt it. First of all the battery is built in so no service mode via battery. Secondly it has firmware 5.70 way above 5.55 which also has not been made into a network update. So no 1000 or 2000 PSP Cfw. Lastly the 3000 has not been cracked just exploited. So with 5.01 patching the ChickHEN Kernel exploit I doubt that there firmware will have any chance of another exploit from 5.51, 5.55, and 5.70. Anyways the PSP Go looks like crap, no umd, and too expensive for a change from a more expensive umd player to a 16GB memory.

# ¿?¿?¿?¿?¿?¿?¿?¿?¿?¿?¿?¿?¿?¿?¿?¿? — SolidSnake117 2009-08-27 09:29

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He should atleast said good bye with one last update

It would have been epic if right after you updated,

and it finished flashing the firmware that

instead ,of shutting the the psp that you would then have to turn on and tada!!!,

he should have put the announcement there, so it would be an epic final M33 cfw firmware.

That would have atleast kept people happy, cause it would be so epic, but now, it's just a crap message from Alek.... Not even DA Himself!!

# Man... — RSX46 2009-08-27 09:44

I can only hope that Dark Alex will continue with CFW! We need him now more than ever!

We are falling behind sony's OFW very fast now..

Take a month off DA and then come back with a vengeance!

Also, thanks DA for all the work you have done thus far...!!!

# For simple: — rathalos 2009-08-27 09:53

G-bye m33,Hello GEN

its hard to choose since 5.00 m33 is still better than the GEN cfw's......

maybe another awesomely talented coder would show up...

# .. — failtorespond 2009-08-27 10:57

Who cares if they are slow on the news, at least they report it. If you don't like and appreciate what they do here then why waste your time coming back for disappointments ?

# Also... — FreePlay 2009-08-27 11:17

The fact that all PSP Go games will be stored internally or on an MS means that they can be updated at will to patch exploits.

# I know how you feel — doomplayer75 2009-08-27 12:04

i was hoping a good-bye from DA himself also.

# Thanks — WiiRolled 2009-08-27 12:18

OMightyBuggy and FreePlay , thanks for sharing your wisdom.

You'd also like to mention that you're bound to the PSN prices and you won't be able to get your hands on any of the retail bargains the PSP-X000 users will get.

# It wasn't a good-bye just a cya... — Kaneco 2009-08-27 12:25

Just because he's website is closed doesn't mean he's out.

It's happened before...so only time will tell.

# 3000 — phoenix1414 2009-08-27 12:28

Ive got a 3000 on 5.03 MHU. i really want an update that will work for the 3000 :(

# ... — DJ PON-3 2009-08-27 12:41

Saw that this morning... pretty sad :(

# hmm — DJ PON-3 2009-08-27 12:45

He's done it in the past with his last 3.40 OE-A CFW then came back with some russian hackers.

Only time will tell... he should at least give us a new cfw.

# No. — Mikagami 2009-08-27 14:02

Dark_AleX owes you nothing. You are an example of what is wrong with the PSP scene. Those who expect to have everything handed to them.

# kudos. — zackfair_13 2009-08-27 15:00

DaX. thank you. its all thats left to be said,

# ... — astaroth001 2009-08-27 15:33

DA is tha'man, but there are other great people who might do something...i just hope they crack 5.51 or the one the new games will use like Persona...I dont wanna use OFW and let my PSP go boring..and by that I dont mean my PSP Go...I mean go as an going...whatever...you got my point

# ThanX, DaX — Metal Jody 2009-08-27 15:34

You're the reason I still have my psp. M33 will never die. GEN can go rape a frog. lol jk jk.

# ... — buttheadrulesagain 2009-08-27 15:47

I don't get why D_A surrounds himself with so much secrecy. I know he owes us nothing, and we owe him a lot, but he could (didn't say should) just say "guys, I won't work on the psp anymore" or "keep watching", or anything...

Oh well... farewell Dark Alex forum.

# hmmmmmmmmmm — vizard00 2009-08-27 16:09

hmmm Dark alew leaves just befor PSPGO i smell a big black bag in front of ALex home writen " from sony with love and go "

# +1 Mikagami — Kotonoha 2009-08-27 16:33

This is why I will not be putting my programming skills towards developing on the PSP, and I'm sure a lot of developers feel the same.

# Hmm.. — sicksider 2009-08-27 16:37

Hope DAX is still staying. He the one of the best developer in this PSP scene.

# True — DJ PON-3 2009-08-27 17:15

True... he doesn't owe us. We the community kind of owe him.

# Gen — animebuster 2009-08-27 17:28

i dont really want to use gen cfw, No offence to the creaters of Gen but its just not m33. Im still on 5.00m33-6 i hope Dark-Alex will still make cfw

but if he retires we will just have to live with it suck it all in and upgrade to gen cfw

# Found this at psp wiki — spyro3214 2009-08-27 17:45

This really isn't "Wiki News" but seeing as there is a traffic increase with the wiki, I figured it will fit here: The forums are closed down due to expenses. Dark-Alex isn't leaving the scene or forgetting about us. So please don't have the "mental image" that he's ditched us for good. The forums are only down, the rest of the network isn't. If you have any issues, feel free to contact the staff throughout the network. ~~

# I agree that... — suckmyofff 2009-08-27 17:57

Dark Alex should update the community of what's going on and whether he's on hiatus or just stopped making CFW completely. Just because the forums are down doesn't mean he's gone, but if he is he should at least say so. He's still awesome either way.

Long live M33.

# So... — Stealth! 2009-08-27 18:35

Is this the end of CW? Pretty funny if it is.

# SALUTE to Dark_Alex — Troy Gerbrandt 2009-08-27 18:43

Dark_Alex my friend we love you i bet your just sitting there laughing at us some say hes working on the ps3 rite now but who knows Dark_Alex,Dark_ Alex, oh dear,Dark_Alex, we love you so, no one can compete, no one can delete, the memory of the best person in the world

we love you Dark_Alex

hahaha i made it sound like he died

# R.I.P. Dark_Alex 2006-2009 (i think) — Troy Gerbrandt 2009-08-27 18:51

Dark_Alex 2006-2009 (i think i dont know when he started with the psp)

# ... — bbtgp 2009-08-27 21:28

I think he'll be back soon, i find it quite hard to stop developing for the psp, its the only platform i like to work on and im sure DA is the same way. Just a matter of time...

# Hmm... — demon_sunrise 2009-08-28 04:25

KAY

# how — Brendan_McCoy 2009-08-28 08:18

is it funny? :|

# Only the web is closing... — Fero23 2009-08-28 10:09

I was on IRC with some guys and admins of Dark_AleX.org and they said that DAX isn´t leaving, soo lets se what happens later....

# Auto-patched, but... — downloader1122 2009-08-28 10:58

Lower barrier to entry and skimpy QA on PSP Minis means an influx of useless but exploitable apps. I can only imagine one luck but careless bedroom programmer becoming an overnight millionaire from everyone downloading their app only to run an exploit through it.

# i hope so — SolidSnake117 2009-08-28 12:35

Hopefully they are just sick of everyone whining and complaining cause they don't know how to install an update of cfw.

Hopefully they are just shutting down the forum cause they hate having to moderate it.

Hopefully they are just doing that, but still going to be a team and make cfw,

but they are just sick of having to help people and all the time that is wasted on helping could be put to making cfw of every 5.XX firmware available.

# Thanks for the info — doomplayer75 2009-08-28 14:36

can you give us a link plz

# Serious???!? — RTAgent5 2009-08-28 19:12

@ DOOMPLAYER75

...You serious dude? The link is www.dark-alex.org.

# psp scene = dead now — 1337-Scruffy 2009-08-29 07:07

if you guys dont recall, GEN is, or was, just a nice little hex edit of M33, with some of the new modules, how long can that last before the flash is filled up.

# Nope. — OMightyBuggy 2009-08-29 07:49

That was 5.02 GEN not 5.50 GEN they were not hex edited the were reversed engineered from M33. 5.02 GEN had added stuff that was removed in 5.50. 5.50 MHU was hex edited that is why half of the things don't work on it and the M33 driver is broken. So the scene is not dead just thrashed with fakes and rumors.

# good — aceking01 2009-08-29 15:28

hope he got a new m33 update release.. gladly to know hes not quitin making new CFW.. horray m33 much better and stable... no offense..

# Bad — Armegeddonizer 2011-05-26 19:34

well 2 years after the last comment. DA is gone, forever.

Its okay we will have to move on. everybody should learn to make their own cfw.

# Mr. — FNetV1 2011-09-30 21:50

I think that Dark AleX got bribed by Sony at BEST, or Sony managed to successfully prosecute him at WORST. Anyways, assuming he got bribed, and maybe to the tune of million(s) of dollars, do you think that DaX will decline that in favor of making more freeware M33 firmwares for your pleasures? Put yourself in his position, would you give up millions of dollars for the sake in continuing the development of something free that gives you absolutely zero monetary benefits? I know I wouldn't be the fool to decline such offers, so if that's what happened to Dark Alex then all what I have to say to him is...CONGRATULATIONS !!!, enjoy your new money and your new rich life style, you deserve it for such a hard work and devotement for the PSP consumer community, like many here has said (and I will too say), you are the reason why I still own a PSP (a first generation model 1xxx that I purchased back in 2004). Now, assuming the WORST case scenario, that Dark Alex got arrested and he spent months in jail (and maybe that's the reason for the SLOW news?), then sony be damned, because that's not how you treat one of your platform's best supporters. Well, regardless of which scenario took place with him, we now have new hackers in the community, most commonly known by GEN as in New Generation Custom Firmware to pick up where DaX left off.

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