> > I thought the Ca$H0000La scam had long been accepted as gospel...
>
> At the time the demand was for a way to make CPS2 games playable, and insofar as
> that happened CPS2Shock fulfilled its stated goal.

They were made playable only after CPS2SHOCK changed their publically-stated goal, and that happened AFTER people had donated enough money for Raz to afford an EPROM-emulator device, under the fraudulent belief based on CPS2SHOCK's *original* stated goals.

I do have a (small) inside viewpoint here, seeing as how I was officially part of CPS2SHOCK for what, a week or so? I shared everything that I personally had up until that point, which was enough to convince them to let me join, but then things all went bad after Raz had his sudden about-face, from cracking CPS2, to instead, making them playable, which of course required "send paypal" for every boardset and revision. Totally unnecessary if the algo had been properly understood and cracked. But that wouldn't have PAID like the alternative did, of course.

> 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.

Hindsight isn't "send paypal", sorry. Not the same.

> 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?
>
> Targaff

I've never had a double-standard, my personal interested has *always* been about properly understand the algorithm and "breaking" the encryption. Purely from a technical perspective.