No, I’m not talking about my evil alter ego. This guy was infamous in PSP circles.
There’s lots of controversy surrounding psp homebrew. Basically homebrew is user-made software that allows the psp to do things Sony hardware designers never intended. You could use your PSP as a remote, websurf while listening to music, and even play old school emulator titles (like Snes and Genesis games.)
Unfortunately this software also made PSP piracy a snap.
Read more after the break!
For many gamers, the ability to copy PSP games onto their memory cards, making the UMDs unnecessary, was almost too great of a temptation to ignore.
“Dark Alex” was largely responsible for making all this possible. His “custom firmwares” for the psp allowed gamers to do all sorts of these cool and/or nefarious activities. No matter how many times Sony would try to patch things, he would find a way around them.
Then in July, he suddenly announced he would continue his work no longer.
Maybe Sony hired him?
If true, it’s probably be one of the smartest decisions they’d ever made.
That’s why Dark Alex’s retirement checks in at number 84 in our top 100 Gaming moments of 2007!
Click here for the rest of Sarcastic Gamer’s Top 100 Gaming Moments from 2007 all in one place!
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Umm… Dark Alex may have retired, but he, well… came out of retirement I guess. He’s still active in the PSP scene.
even if that is the case, his announcement that he was quitting was a big deal at the time.
He never did quit, infact he simply changed his name for a while then changed it back – ever heard of M33?
It doesnt matter.. Supa is right. It was a shock.
yup i have a psp and i was like HOLY F*** HOW CAN HE QUIT!!!??? at the time. Thank god he came back!!!~
hes not coming back no more m33 updates its the end of the world!!!!!! read this
The famous Dark_Alex steps down today from the psp scence. He is best known for developing custom firmwares for the psp. He has decided to cease any further development on the psp firmware.
He writes :
I’ve decided to cease OE development, and leave PSP scene.
The reasons are various.
One of them is the time it consumes, which i’m losing from other things.
The other is related to my security. I didn’t like Sony menaces to PS3 hackers.
I think it is better to leave now rather than end paying the consequences.
how com ei have 5.00m33-6 he made it a coouple monthes ago 2009