Giving up my Messiah2 association

[charlie_ps2]

Just to confirm what I told PS2Newz and PSXForum the other day. I'm in the process of giving up my close ties with the Messiah2 Team and return to an independent role in the PS2 scene.

There are two reasons for this:

1. I'm totally fed up with the personal attacks made on me just because of my association. I know it's only been a few nasty people whose axe to grind is mainly with those behind messiah2 - but it isn't worth the hassle. They'll still stay nasty I'm sure - or at least some of them will - but to hell with them.
2. The UK Copyright Act troubles me too. It is an actionable matter to offer or encourage the supply of modchips if there is reason to believe that they'll be used to break copyright laws. So I need to disengage from that even though my terms and conditions stipulated that the customer only buys from me if he/she intends to make backups of personally owned originals that they wish to protect from damage.

I might do the odd install guide (as I did before my past associations) and I will do the Messiah2 v10 install guide in the coming days.

My disassociation will be complete after Christmas when a few commitments have been discharged.

On the question of whether or not modchips are responsible for snuffed PS2s - that will remain a matter of keen interest to me. The v9 situation has had many moving parts thrust into it but running right through the centre of it is the death of the PS2 a few days into use. There are three suspects in this and they probably all figure separately or together:

1. v9 is a flawed series (hence v10 and v9 recalls)
2. LA6 chip overheats with no heatsink and bad media
3. EEProm code is corrupted somehow (modchip or PS2 caused)

This saga will unfold and resolve itself with time.

Otherwise everything normal.