WildC*rd statement on the use of our source code and explanation of the leak

August 16th, 2007, 02:11 Posted By: wildcard

We shall now explain this fully. Hopefully this will clear all misconceptions and misunderstandings.

We had reversed DA's OE CFW and were in the middle of updating it to 3.51/3.52. We already had a working 3.40* but we were never planning to release it, since we knew it wouldnt be able to compete with M33 (who had by then already released a 3.52 version of theirs with advanced features such as NO-UMD). More importantly, we hadn't ironed out all bugs yet. So we were waiting until our 3.52 version was complete before releasing.

However, team member accounts on MaxConsole were compromised (the problem has now been solved - credits to Zeus). Hence, Lamers had access to all of our PMs, and several Wildcard members were completely unaware that their PMs were being monitored. Gradually, because of the information from those PMs, Lamers got access to a private forum setup for the Wildcard team. And from info gathered there, eventually got access to our private SVN.

Lamers leaked everything from our private SVN. Now, these people are the absolute scum of the PSP scene (and in fact have been 'infecting' every console scene ever in existance), they have known to lie, cheat, & steal all in the name of money. They grab every homebrew release they can find from all PSP sites and have the original authors names hex edited out and post them on their site pretending that they were the authors. They even posed as Dark_AleX on their forums and posted his releases there with his username to intice extra visitors.

They mainly gain their income through advertising, traffic, & site visits (hence their desparation to lie and cheat to gain more visitors). So when they leaked our source, we knew definitely it would bring a huge increase of traffic to their site. So to prevent them gaining anymore traffic (and hence income) and to prevent their name from being heavily promoted and advertised due to this leak, we decide the best course of action is to "officially" release our source instead. Now mind you, we never in a million years ever wanted this source to be public. It was done purely to pre-empt the release of the leak by Lamers. And also to further isolate their "big news item", we decided to publically release our 3.40 CFW (which was in the middle of being updated, hence why the recovery menu said 3.51* WildC*rd). So because of this rushed release, there were still bugs left and we apologize for this. But we then realised that this CFW was becoming quite popular so we decided to support the fans and start officially supporting 3.40* LE as an official release (hence the quick bug fixes).

Now having said all this, out of respect to the devs that worked so hard on this source and also out of respect for Dark_AleX, Team WildC*rd politely requested that this source be used for educational purposes only and not for public releases.

Now regarding Ketchup's release, firstly, we got permission from the author of SCEP to use his source in our release (you may ask him yourself to confirm). Secondly, even though members of Team WildC*rd wish to remain anonymous, there are members that know DA personally and we can assure you we have his blessings. Thirdly, we completely reversed DA's PRX's rather than using his direct source, Ketchup is not reversing our binary release of 3.40* LE, he is using our direct source code.

It is not that we do not respect Ketchups work, on the contrary, we were quite impressed with what he had achieved. What we do not wish however, is for the source to be used. Ketchup may of course still reverse our recovery.prx binary that we released from 3.40*. If he really wants to release something, reverse the prx himself from scratch like we did, do no rely on the source instead. We would have no problem with that. And the same goes for anyone else, if you wish to release something from our source, get the source by reversing the prx's, not by just downloading the leak. I believe we are respecting his wishes that way, he may release a recovery, only if its based on our prx and not the source code.

Like I mentioned above, out of respect for the hard work Team WildC*rd Members put into this CFW and out of respect for DA, we politely request that the source not be used for public releases. Realise that we were forced into a corner and we had not much choice but to release the source. We never wanted either the source nor 3.40* to be ever publically released. But of course, we cannot force anyone to do whatever we want, PSPGEN have have already said that Ketchup will release another version soon. We cannot force you not to, we can only ask for you to respect our wishes.

And finally, a quick note to those who see our source release as an opportunity to release a ripped clone of 3.40* or even 3.10* (read: Test30 and his pals) - Don't. It will not improve your reputation (or the size of your e-penis), sites such as QJ and MaxConsole will not support you, and members of the scene will discount your work.


Thank you all for your understanding.


- Team WildC*rd

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