[spedmetal]

Well CEOrko it sounds to me like your doing this in a some what of an attempt to put HDL and HDA to a head to head comparison. You will find that they work in exactly the same way as we all know HDA is a direct copy of HDL with just some minor graphical alterations. The HDA 2.0 will have some advantages over the original HDL but these advantages where also stolen from the members of the dev scene that are free to download and apply to your HDL. HDA is nothing but a rip off from top to bottom. The only advantage that HDA has over HDL is that to use the patches I spoke of previously you need to then after patching HDL burn your own CD-R of HDL. This of course you would need a mod chip to boot. So the rip offs at HDA are making money off you because you are too cheap to get a mod chip and do it yourself. Also with the 4th generation chips you can load your patched HDL to your memory card and boot it with out any disc in your disc drive at all. This also allows you to add any new patches that might become available to HDL in the future as all you would need to do would be to patch HDL again and re-install it to your memory card again with out the need of sending your hard earned money to rip off artists. Also, this isn’t important to some, but you can patch HDL with your own custom graphic making it look just how you would like it. So hopefully now everyone will understand that HDA isn’t anything special but just a continuation of what HDL would have surely done on there own if Sony hadn't busted them.

The HDL HDA saga goes much deeper then this in fact. From what I know about this crap I will try and make a short summery.

HDL was originally developed by sjeep who was involved in many dev applications and has been doing so for some time. Supposedly sjeep saw the release of HDL as a money making endeavor when many believed he should have released it as a free dev app. On top of this it’s also rumored that sjeep used the works of other dev creators in the creation of HDL with out crediting them or sharing in the revenue. Well despite all of this HDL was released anyway and shortly after Sony put an end to it.

Shortly after HDL was stopped we started seeing HDA surface which is supposedly backed by the folks at ownz. Around this same time it’s rumored that sjeep was no longer welcome in the ps2 dev groups that he once was involved with. Sjeep at some point teamed up with the DMS crew. The DMS crew around this same time teamed up with the folks at ownz. See where I'm going with this.

DMS as you all know has there new DMS4 chip that is a dev only chip when you receive it from the supplier like most of the high end chips now are. There is a group called "Toxic" that has created a hacked bios for the DMS4 that will allow you to play back-ups and blah blah. Well guess who is rumored to be behind the Toxic group....... you guessed it sjeep. Sjeep and crew not long after releasing the Toxic bios released the Toxic OS which can be installed to the DMS4 Pro's on board flash which is nothing more then a reconfigured HDL that loads to the DMS4 Pro. Guess where they announced the news of this stuff when it was released..... You guessed it ownz.

All this is just more drama then I care to deal with or care about and all I have to say it that thank GOD HDL was created and released regardless of all this crap!!!

This has to be my longest post ever!