In related news, Coldbird recently outlined the team's future plan for their ongoing Custom Firmware 6.35 PRO project., in which the dev says:

"There is one big remaining offline feature we wish to implement after PSX gaming, which we will include into a PRO-B subversion, like we did for A to A4, namely the often-requested recovery menu to enable plugins, etc. on the fly right on the PSP.

"PRO-B will mark the last offline related version change for a while, after this it’s all about bugfixing problems you guys report and online themed programming for PRO-C.

"PRO-C in turn, will be the last closed source release we intend to do for the PRO series custom firmware, all followup versions will be released including FULL gpl licensed sourcecode and documentation."

He then went on to add...

"This marks our last and final attempt to rescue the PSP scene which became corrupted and despicable a long time ago… people flame each other over stupid shit everywhere (no PRO is better, NO TN IS BETTER, OMG how dare you dont use GEN, its stupid guys, stop it…), developers, instead of sharing their knowledge, hinder scene development by keeping their code under a lock, in terms of development that is… good examples of this behaviour are those of Total_Noob, Dark_Alex, Team Gen, etc…

"Before someone tries to flame me for that statement please try to think about it yourself, we would have had a 6.X based custom firmware a long time ago, way earlier… if we had access to a working custom firmware sourcecode a long time ago… the way it currently is, every new iteration of custom firmware required a full reinventing of the wheel… instead of minor modifications of existing code.

"And to ensure that the PSP remains alive, even after Sony drops it in favor of the NGP, we should work together on one good and stable codebase and improve it together, instead of fighting for something stupid like eFame which many developers obviously do.

"The reason for our set time of opensourcing the PRO components is easily explained aswell: we intend to hand in 6.35 PRO-C as a Genesis Competition entry so we can get back the money we have invested in the scene so far… (3 PSPs of mine died in the progress of developing PRO for you guys… may they rest in peace), cause unlike Total_Noob, etc. we never cashed donation money from you guys for required Hardware making it quite a expensive task to develope PRO.

"In fact it’s not a secret, we only got a total of 5$ donation – WORLDWIDE – by far not enough to cover our existing costs of development, so I think it’s just fair that we keep the source under lock till then so we can participate in the Genesis competition without someone hexediting our code to display a different version string (watch out for the m33_user faker who distributes our cfw under M33 label…)."


Via [Coldbird's Blog]

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