http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/ Engadget Comments for PSP modder extraordinare Dark Alex calls it quits http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/Jul 3rd 2007 10:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/Jul 3rd 2007 2:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/Aug 7th 2007 5:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/Jul 3rd 2007 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/Jul 3rd 2007 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.pspmod.com/forums/psp-general/17873-tribute-dark_alex.html]]>Jul 3rd 2007 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/Jul 3rd 2007 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/Jul 3rd 2007 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/
I've got a bunch of classic NES games, Super NES, Turbographyx 16 and Sega Genesis games on a Memory Stick and they work so great on PSP.

My fav's are Shinobi, Contra 3, Soldier Blade and Chessmaster.

There is a shop in Chinatown that sells preloaded Memory Sticks.]]>Jul 3rd 2007 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/
he's got skillz to pay the bills.]]>Jul 3rd 2007 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/Jul 3rd 2007 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/Jul 3rd 2007 11:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/
If i was a good hacker, i would definitely take a job offered by sony or another major electronics corporation... and put my talent to use to make a life for myself... seems like the best route.]]>Jul 3rd 2007 12:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/Jul 3rd 2007 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/Jul 3rd 2007 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/Jul 3rd 2007 11:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/Jul 3rd 2007 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/Jul 3rd 2007 7:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/
but can't you just go underground and invisible so Sony can't trace you?
]]>Jul 3rd 2007 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/Jul 3rd 2007 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/
I have had a PSP for quite some time and after initially playing through one or two games when I got it, it sat unused for almost a year and I was going to sell it for a DS.

Then a friend showed me DAX's OE custom firmware.
Since then, I take it everywhere and have bought two memorysticks (2 and 4 gig) even though I hate $ony's proprietary format.
I have MAME, NES, SNES, SEGA, and N64 emulators as well as ScummVM to let me play games like "Sam and Max: Hit the Road" and "Day of the Tentacle".

Unless someone picks up his torch (I honestly wish I could, but I lack the skill), I only forsee myself loosing interest in a great product that has potential, but is gimped up by it's very maker.

Thank you Dark_Alex for all you've done!
Much respect for your talents and persistance!
You will be missed!]]>Jul 3rd 2007 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/Jul 3rd 2007 11:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/Jul 3rd 2007 1:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/Jul 3rd 2007 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/Jul 3rd 2007 2:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/Just hope DAX is not completely abandonning the modding community...]]>Jul 3rd 2007 2:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/Jul 3rd 2007 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/Jul 3rd 2007 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/Haven't you heard of the terms/names "cracker" and "hacker."?
Although incorrectly, both terms have been used interchangeably.
There was no racial connotation anywhere. ]]>Jul 3rd 2007 10:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/Jul 3rd 2007 10:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/Jul 3rd 2007 2:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/
And for all of your legal teams Sony I say this 'Take your damn legal papers, and forcibly insert them up your anus.....basically, shove it all up your asses you pricks.']]>Jul 3rd 2007 3:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/
If it were someone writing wrappers to run OSX on any computer or Cracks for Windows you would have said they deserved to be squashed.]]>Jul 3rd 2007 3:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/Jul 3rd 2007 3:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/
Fuck Apple and Microsoft too...up any orifice!]]>Jul 3rd 2007 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/
Oh right, you guys think 2D games are awesome.

2D is shit, and so is the PSP.

Get a DS, it's more powerful and has better SCREENS]]>Jul 3rd 2007 4:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/
2D is not shit, though you may be a little whining 8-year-old unable to appreciate e.g. Super Metroid or any of the first 6 Final Fantasy games, which were all amazingly awesome (the rest were mostly awesome as well, but 7 started 3D.

The PSP does not have a ton of good games, but there are a few -- for instance, Portable Ops is a real Metal Gear game squeezed into a handheld, and even has reasonably good controls. I could say the exact same thing about the new PSP Ratchet and Clank. There's a few good RPGs, and a lot of good PS1 games that you can play if you use Dark Alex's OE firmware (YOU WILL BE MISSED!). Hell, some of the PS1 games that are good are even "3D", and therefore not "shit".

The DS screens are smaller and lower resolution than the PSP (though if you add them together, I suppose they might be bigger...), and as for "more powerful", one 66 MHz and one 33 MHz core do not equal one 333 MHz core, by any math that I'm aware of.

That said: I bought a PSP first, to play emulators on mostly, but was pleasantly surprised to find quite a few pretty good PSP-native games (eventually). I got a DS last month (mostly for Castlevania and the upcoming Zelda), and have been thrilled with it as well. I'm certainly not going to say that the PSP is better because it has better stats, but I had to address the nonsense in the post above.]]>Jul 4th 2007 3:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/Jul 3rd 2007 5:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/Jul 3rd 2007 5:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/
This is a great blow to me, and the PSP homebrew scene at large. I sincerely hope that he realizes how much entertainment he has made possible.]]>Jul 4th 2007 1:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/plz help alex to get back on to his feet ]]>Aug 1st 2007 8:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp-modder-extraordinare-dark-alex-calls-it-quits/Aug 19th 2007 11:07AM