MaGiXieN explains release margin for CFW 5.50GEN-D3/ 5.03HEN-C

They’ve explained it before, but it appears that many in the scene weren’t quite satisfied with PSPGEN’s firmware release delay news. Tough break, but don’t worry, you’ll still get to play Gundam vs. Gundam on your PSP eventually. As for their reasons, MaGiXieN obliges and lets us in on their case.

Thanks to cmbeke

They’ve explained it before, but it appears that many in the scene weren’t quite satisfied with PSPGEN’s firmware release delay news. Tough break, but don’t worry, you’ll still get to play Gundam vs. Gundam on your PSP eventually. As for their reasons, MaGiXieN obliges and lets us in on their case.

As posted by MaGiXieN (Pardon the quality of the French translation):

Many of you ask why we decided to give a date as “late” in our Custom Firmwares 5.50GEN-D3 and 5.03GEN-C. As we already explained in the news [WIP] Custom firmare 5.50GEN-D3-C and 5.03HEN announced two new versions of both Custom Firmwares are well advanced but we try to add a few extra things.

However, rather than what we try to include some hoped to see again the possibility to play online via the PSN and especially an equivalent to MS Access Speedup D_a that was included in the latest version of Custom Firmware. Note that this function is really useful if you use memory cards unofficial and slow. On these two points, we can already tell you that the integration of this module is possible and will probably do if everything works well.

To access the PSN, the fight no longer appropriate and it seems unnecessary to provide this opportunity because the Sony will counter a few hours. Moreover, nothing would prevent Sony to follow the path of Microsoft and start banning consoles Custom firmware patch instead of the PlayStation Store itself. We sincerely believe that this side is Sony’s much to keep cheaters away from PSS and ugly ducklings that we all saw on their side, of course. Clearly, to play online, we encourage you to turn to XLink Kai who can play with games not even compatible with infrastructure mode.

So why does not the current version releaser and propose another later?

Despite the pressure put by some Asian members (and not far from all) who suffer from not being able to play with Gundam vs. Gundam, we still kept the release date of December 15, 2009. But why?

The main reason, besides the daily updates that we make is that by then other PSP games have come out strong in Asia (including Naruto) and we would provide the custom firmware that supports it. You can all understand that we have chosen a sensible solution which we probably will avoid having to release a patch the day after the release of one of these games.

We hope you will understand our decision and that you will wait until 15 without falling, as some in insulting us.

Thanks to cmbeke

[via PSP GEN]