Posted Sep 25, 2006 at 01:40PM by MyQJ Listed in: News, MY QJ Tags: Fanjita, harleyg, Hex, Dark-AleX, Mathieulh, psp250
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While we bloggers can differentiate a good site from a bad one, we generally aren't vocal about it. Normal users can rant all day, but when we make a statement, it is counted as an official stand of the parent website. While this is normal, we do feel restricted in a way... We can't warn the people against other "bad" sites because of the sole reason that it would cause nothing but in-fighting in the scene.

But it gets different when some sites start to rip-off other people's great work and modifying it for their own glory. A few hours ago, I got a humble request from Mathieulh, Dark_Alex and harleyg. It was about the fact that a certain site, PS2NFO, was editing the readme files of homebrew releases to remove their names from the credits section. It seems that they even went to the lengths of hex-editing the applications to remove the names of Fanjita, Skylark, psp250 and Mathieulh, all of whom have been hugely responsible to get the PSP homebrew scene where it is today.

That's still not all. We also noticed the fact that the PS2NFO admin started impersonating Dark_Alex in their forums to get more glory. Mathieulh, Dark_Alex and harleyg wanted us to put this statement up on our site. Here's the official statement:

"Dark_AleX never goes to PS2NFO and never will. PS2NFO go as low as impersonating developers to make themselves seem exclusive. They lie to everyone and steal credits. They impersonated Dark_AleX several times despite our warning on Maxconsole. When people post that Dark_AleX is a fake on their forums, they just delete the post and continue to make it look like he is the real one.

Because we fear for the sake of the entire scene due to such behaviour, we have no choice but to warn as many people as possible. They also remove credits from the people they banned such as Mathieulh. When the libtiff helloworld was released, they hex edited the tiff to remove all credits apart from NOPx86. Fanjita, Skylark and psp250's name was removed. We hope they won't repeat such lame acts again and they will leave the PSP scene alone"


Now in case they think of editing their posts after seeing this, we have proof of them doing these malicious acts:

Proof - Image 1

Proof - Image 2



Now while this might be surprising to most of you people, we were not surprised. In fact, Fanjita had this to say in one of his posts in our forums:

"Bleh, standard practise from that site. Low pirate scum, the lot of 'em."


Here's what PS2NFO had to say after news spread that they were impersonating Dark_Alex:

"After it ran it's course for a day, we received unconfirmed reports that it wasn't the real Dark_AleX who actually posted the thread. As a result, we posted the IPs logged from the account and an offer to Contact Us for the real Dark_AleX to (re)claim his account here. Until he chooses to, we have now seized the account and I will personally use it in his absence on our boards. Not much more we can do at this"


Now while I cannot give an official statement regarding this, you guys should realise how we at QJ feel about PS2NFO. Our advice to everyone here: Stop going to that site and make sure to get untampered homebrew from any of the rest of the sites, especially from http://dl.qj.net. And make sure to spread the message to your friends!



The article above was created by a user on MyQJ and received enough Jumps to be automatically posted to PSP Updates. As such, it may not be accurate and does not reflect the opinions of QJ.NET or its staff.


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   by some austrian :o (Unregistered) - 2006-09-26

oh boys .. most of them arent "gods" or something, most of them are just developers to want destroy the psp!

fanjita wants it, dark_alex wants it .. i dont know the others coz i dont want to know the names of some pirate scumbags

but u know, when the psp dies they come and say: it was us! see, our credits! lol
so now they must kick evryones asses who thinks he can steal the credit of destroying the psp!

   by Messers - 2006-09-27
 » dOs attack the *****ers

as i sad...

   by omfg (Unregistered) - 2006-09-27
 » who to blame ?

lol there is more fake haker on pspupdates forum then any where else lol ............pleasee give us a break !!

   by kiddiescenehater (Unregistered) - 2006-09-27
 » LMAO

"Back when I was on the gamecube scene, they had the viperGC exclusive, and used it to ruin the entire gamecube scene. They sued a Friend of mine (Brakken) who was the author of ps2banz who displayed the true nature of the ps2nfo (ps2ownz at the time) website and admins, they harrassed him by phone, mail, everything."

Yeah, and brakken hasnt done anything bad to the scene ehh? Like contributing to sh1tty, needless scene wars between sites like PS2HD and PS2-scene for nothing? Or posting peoples personal contact details around the net? Or trying to get people to commit Denial of service attacks on other sites he has a beef with because they didnt want to a) join him or b) give him a home for his virtual soapbox? Dont be spouting that brakken crap cos I've been around a long time and I know brakken for what he is.

Brakkens a piece of sh1t and always has been, he stirs the pot where its not needed and thinks his little banz page is somehow fighting the good fight when people with sense know its a way to generate hits to his "tehskeen" site which shares the same sponsors as PS2ownz/Nfo, whatever you wanna call it now.... add that to his attempted sucking of DaMcO's dangly bits on PS2HD and DMS forums in order to stir up more scene drama to get hits on his crappy "tehskeen" website and you see why hes a d1ck only in it for himself.

Ps2Nfo stole brakkens Gamecube guide, Brakken sodding stole it from elsewhere, he's just as bad. they didnt just sue him out of nowhere as you claim in your post it was for other reasons that you miss out, and no doubt Brakken keeps close to his chest aswell.

So many people talk like they know the score and dont give full stories. Homebrew scenes are sh1te in general, the only one that did well was xbox, less little kids creating scene drama, less little kids taking existing programs and adding a new graphic, or a line of code or two and taking credit for the 'new revised' version. Anything to make them think there 'coders'. Laughable.

Its a good maketing tactic posting scene drama to get hits in the comments section and on the site for ad revenue, and it works, check the amount of comments in this post, then look at the misplaced PS2 news about vice city posted on the front page for hits. Notice a trend? Drama gets hits, hits make money. No wonder Digg banned you, your trying to push hits up to earn money constantly, either with scene drama or desperate attempts to get people to further post your blog, on other blogs.

You dont mention yoru editing of readmes when people say bad stuff about you in the included notes do you? That sh1ts fine and all your blind users postign in here convieniently forget about you doign anything of the kind. Like this site wasnt part of the PSP media program either? Yeah righto. Pull the other one QJ, its got money on it....

   by dude (Unregistered) - 2006-09-27
 » Well, it looks like Dark AleX is going to stop his projects

from his site:
"Just wanted to say it. If that site doesn't stop impersonating and blaming me, i will leave the scene. I do this for fun, and those guys are achieving that I feel bad. DO NOT IMPERSONATE ME, STOP ANNOYING ME."

I really doubt PS2NFO will stop impersonating him because that would be admitting that they're doing something wrong. So I guess this is goodbye. :(

   by aazxq23 (Unregistered) - 2006-09-27

pleaz.....

   by blueJ (Unregistered) - 2006-09-27
 » ***** the fack one

I should attack the fack one

   by Zombi3 (Unregistered) - 2006-09-27
 » @#126

Got a source for that?

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   by Zombi3 (Unregistered) - 2006-09-27
 » Disreguard that

I didn't read your post the first line of your post @126. My bad, dude.

   by dude (Unregistered) - 2006-09-27
 » @129

the soure (DA's website): dax.lan.st

   by Taorn (Unregistered) - 2006-09-27
 » Putos pringados

==================

PS2NFO es una puta mierda de pagina Web que solo sabe robar lo que los demás hacen.

No visiteis su página.

==================

PS2NFO is the very big crap web site. They just steal that sceners do to take all the credit.

Do not visit that web

   by nukeme (Unregistered) - 2006-09-27
 » lets

lets nuke their a$$

   by Dark Jaguar (Unregistered) - 2006-09-27
 » No official statement?

What sort of obligation do you think you have to not make an official statement? I'm not entirely clear on your reasoning. It'll cause "infighting"? Well, maybe it should. Maybe that's what's needed. C'mon, make some waves. There is no need to actually label them as "evil", just let the evidence speak for itself and put it out there, that's enough of a statement. Holding just short of outright saying exactly what the evidence makes clear is a little silly and so is making a point of it. Just be frank about it. "The evidence clearly points out that these alligations are true." There. Let them rant and moan after that, but your job isn't to be "fair and balanced" because sometimes there's only one side to an issue.

   by Platinum D (Unregistered) - 2006-09-29
 » Ha Ha

I downloaded the homebrew enabler and posted the comment "Hey.... Great release. Thanks Dark_Pool_Boy"

I was banned within around 30 secs! lol

   by Black Alex (Unregistered) - 2006-09-29
 » whats darker than dark

thanks for the link... pretty much a dumb idea to cry about this petty thing in an article. Its not the end of the world, only big egos. And now we have the link. I bet they have more hits now than ever before. nice going.
--- dont misunderstand me - that was totally, and in every way wrong to take his credit. DarkAleX has done alot for the comm. but um, seems like this was more of a publicity stunt to me, and you all fell for it. Im sure the ps2info folks thank you for the links, dumdums.

   by brakken (Unregistered) - 2006-10-01
 » Brakken Bashing!

Welp, seems my previous article about P$2NFO has been deleted. Maybe I shouldn't of gone and mentioned how to contact the owner :P

At anyrate, I'm replying this time to the person who decided to attack me. Not sure who it is, but whomever it is had enough never to go on a rant, but not give out his real name. Pitty.

If you read the main article you'll see Mathieulh is one of the people angry with P$2NFO. If you also read his post you'll see he mentioned me in a more positive light. I hope this and the fact I know the owner of PSPUPDATES counts for something.

Now to address the most disturbing paragraph in the article (I don't have enough time or patience to reply to the whole thing).

"Yeah, and brakken hasnt done anything bad to the scene ehh? Like contributing to sh1tty, needless scene wars between sites like PS2HD and PS2-scene for nothing? Or posting peoples personal contact details around the net? Or trying to get people to commit Denial of service attacks on other sites he has a beef with because they didnt want to a) join him or b) give him a home for his virtual soapbox? Dont be spouting that brakken crap cos I've been around a long time and I know brakken for what he is."

I indeed told people how to contact the owner of P$2NFO. I did this in response to them (1) harassing me via phone, email (2) them trying to sue me for my anti-ps2nfo page which exposed what they are (3) they spread my personal contact information on various sexual related websites/forums.

I never got involved in PS2-SCENE's and PS2HD's little tag team wrestling match. I was decieved by one of the owners of PS2-SCENE and then was stuck in the middle of it. The only beef I have is with the fact I was lied to. That's all.

The rest of the claims are pure nonsense and sound like a 12 year old who just downloaded his first "i can hax0r you" virii latent application.

At any rate - P$2NFO operates like this all of the time. They are known around the world for stealing peoples applications, patches, games, etc ...

The best thing to do is not to visit the site (hence they will get less cashflow) and let your friends know what the deal is.

Brakken OUT :)

   by op (Unregistered) - 2006-10-10
 » .

Ironic since PSPUpdates was accused of editting readme files.

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   by kiddiescenehater (Unregistered) - 2006-10-11
 » Sigh, I knew Brakken would show up

"If you read the main article you'll see Mathieulh is one of the people angry with P$2NFO. If you also read his post you'll see he mentioned me in a more positive light. I hope this and the fact I know the owner of PSPUPDATES counts for something."

Why would that count for anything? It doesnt matter who you know, its what you do with the things available to you mate. You can name drop all you want but it proves NOTHING to me accept you think knowing people makes you somebody. I know a LOT of people in the scene, what good does it do pointing out who? Pointless, pure and simple. Actions speak louder than words brakken and you mad a lot of loud words without many actions.

To adress your post, firstly, Im not 12, im in my 30's mate so dont make comments you cant back up. judging by the numerous typos in your post you'd think you were the 12 year old.

If I gave you my name you wouldnt know it. I dont post under it, I certainly dont release programs under it, and I dont call out irritating 'scenesters' under it. You never know whos going to post it all over the net, ehh brakken? ;)

Secondly, you did contribute to that scene war and theres various posts on ps2HD where you get on your soapbox and help antagonise things between Damco/ps2hd and XianaiX and you know it.

Thirdly, you think posting personal details is acceptable because you were harrased? Pot, black, kettle, re-arrange as needed.

Face it mate, your a has-been, you never did anything of worth yet you wanted a name for yourself, and you got that by childish bickering and acting like you were really put out by PS2NFO and the PS2Scene admins. If anyone seems like a little script kiddie believe me, its you.

Shame only a few people really know what went on isnt it brakk?



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