You guys asked for it, I got it.
Originally Posted by Convo
<Davee> We've got all the launcher working
<Davee> and the greater part of the modules work
<Davee> there is a bug in rebootex however, which is really hard to debug as there is no screen or IO
<Slasher> ah I see, so once this bug is fixed then, it should be all ready for release hopefully?
<Davee> probably not
<Davee> but it's close
<Slasher> cool
<Slasher> are you relatively confident that this bug will be fixed? how hard is it to pinpoint it?
<Davee> Strongly confident
<Davee> If all my testing fails, I will reverse 5.00 M33 rebootex
<Davee> pinpointing is hard, as I have no debugging utilities
<Davee> it's a matter of testing each patch individually.
THANK YOU!!!! Look, I think everyone here understands Davee's working hard on it.... but let this be a lesson to Davee and any developers on any homebrew console scene anywhere. I'm sure there will be people who will disagree with what I'm about to say, but whatever - the fact is that this thread is near hostile and this is why:
* * *You do not announce a release date to major software(especially software aimed at geeks/gamers), miss said date, then barely supply any updates to what's going on. You're going to anger people, REGARDLESS if those people are actually entilted to be angry.* * *
Furthermore, the more hype/anger that builds up, the higher the expectations are for the final product. At this point, DaveeHEN better cure cancer, solve the economic-crisis, end the war in Iraq and it needs to work on all future Sony & Nintendo handheld devices - whatever they may be!!!! That info from Davee above, even if 1-in-9999 can understand it, calms people down.
Again, I'm not sayin' everyone is gonna agree with me.... I'm not even sayin' I'm right... but I definitely watched the dominos falling to lead up to all this anger and I predicted it even before the Tuesday-date cuz there didn't appear to be much proof behind it to begin with. Way too much was left up to people's speculation & wild-imaginations and when the date was missed, very little was done to calm the public. This is the natural(justified or not) result.
Maybe the public is immature. Maybe Davee could have provided more periodic updates. I don't know if it's 50/50 or 60/40 or 99/1 ....but I know I can say this - To the coders behind the future M33CFW for the 3000 series that will eventually be released: Be sure to handle this differently.
- To the public: When a release date is announced for M33CFW(or whatever the CFW will be called) for 3000s... don't get your hopes up. Be ready for up to a month delay from whatever date given.
And remember, when all is said and done... we'll all be laughing and smiling playing our homebrew thanks to people like Davee, DAX and the whole gang.