> I thought the Ca$H0000La scam had long been accepted as gospel...
By those people who are the first to cry fake or scam three minutes after anything novel breaks in emulation on the basis of sod all information whatsoever. Even if it did turn out to be a scam, they've only got themselves to blame because they're the ones who make it pretty much impossible to separate the wheat from the chaff in the first place. Personally I would be willing to give Razoola the benefit of the doubt purely on the basis that he's at the receiving end of the emu equivalent of LJDrama.
At the time the demand was for a way to make CPS2 games playable, and insofar as that happened CPS2Shock fulfilled its stated goal. Arguing after the fact that it was possibly not the best way to go about achieving that goal is a complete red herring, hindsight being 20/20 and all that. I didn't hear the masses complaining about suddenly being able to play the games at the time, despite the fact that even then it was obviously a "giant hack", as Haze put it. Aren't double standards a wonderful thing?