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This section will be devoted to any correspondence received by me the editor, NOT author of these documents. Note that the original email will be black text while my editorial comments will be in blue. All correspondence will be left intact as received. So happy reading and let the discussions commence. Page 1 Author:Erick Brown I'll get right to the point, you're pathetic. Before I go further, I suggest if you
have any confidence in your opinions that you start a public forum. I have read
through several of your "Letters to the Editor" where your responses have been
lame and irrelevant to the point that the original author was trying to make. I find
it especially amusing how you take an exaggerated example so literal. It's almost
as if you have no comprehension at all. It is obvious that you like to proclaim
yourself a winner by default simply based on the fact that you get the last (public)
word in (regardless of how empty your responses are). I'm not going to bother going into excessive detail here because I would end up
wasting hours attempting to pre-interpret all of your inane, possible responses that
I would usually expect anyone remotely intelligent to grasp the first time. CPS-2 Shock is providing a service. More over, it is a FREE service. Donations are
purely voluntary. If you don't like it, DON'T DONATE. The team has busted their
ass on the project. They have done what no one else (to this very day) can do.
...and all they're doing is ASKING for support. Do you honestly think all the
donators are so anal as to whine and complain like pre-adolescent children
because ALL the money wasn't spent specifically on the project? ...you know, like
you're doing. The money was donated in order to SUPPORT the project. If the
team needs to make a car payment... but they didn't get support, they would
have to take time AWAY from the project in order to earn the money some other
way. That means that the project is STILL being supported in an indirect way.
Are you really so ignorant and naive to think they're making enough "dirty money"
to buy a new BMW or something? I can't even begin to conceive how many
projects I've seen put on hold or even canceled because the people behind it
need to concentrate on work or "real-life". The point is... it is jack-asses like you that kill projects. Because you can be damn
sure if I had to put up with your crying and complaining about a project I was
working on in MY FREE TIME, I wouldn't do a damn thing for you either. I'm sure you were first in line to harass the Ultra-HLE team about OpenGL
support. These people DO NOT have a requirement or responsibility to fill your
demands! I find myself retching in disgust of the obvious amount of time you've
put into this. The fact that you actually spent the time to come up with actual
estimated figures... I just have to laugh at you. How about you take that energy and try applying it to program decryption? I'd like
to see how well you do... and without asking for those exceptionally greedy
donations. That was called "sarcasm", by the way. I end how I started; you're
pathetic.
Author: Ben F**ddy Hi, I just read your 'The Razoola Files'. I only casually follow the emu scene, but I
found the link to your site on the cps2shock site.I find it weird that your site has a
list of people trying to disprove to you that Razoola is spending the donation
money, and holding XORs back from everyone but the board owner. I don't see
how you could find anything wrong with that! I don't find any of the charges you
lay against Razoola even remotely bad. 1) Cps2shock performs a service which is in high demand and apparently
NOBODY ELSE in the world is capable of doing. You and I get our xors for free.
Consider other services which are unique. Would you expect to get the best
brain-surgeon for free? Would you expect to get the U.S. airforce to bomb your
enemies for free? Even if Razoola spends ALL the donation money, and ALL the
money raised from selling boards, he's getting JACK SHIT, my friend. And the
money doesn't come from you or me, it comes from donators, who apparently
don't mind if he spends the money because they are *donating money*, not
buying something. 2) Yes the board donators are 'special', as you put it. If Raz gets tired or pissed
off, and doesn't want to release stuff to ungrateful people for free, that's his
choice. But he has to give the donators something back for their generosity, so
they aren't left with nothing. If people piss Raz off and he wants to stop, that's
his right - but you can bet it's not the donators pissing him off. 3) It's not a government agency, where every penny needs to be accounted for
and you have a conspiracy if a cent goes missing. It's some nice guy who makes
the emu scene better for everyone else, and if he makes a couple of thousand
dollars for three years of work, good luck to him. If I make a donation, I hope he
spends it on a bong or too, and forgets about ungrateful people who criticise him. On your page, you seem to forget that Razoola doesn't owe you anything. He
doesn't owe anyone anything, except that he owes xors to the board donators. I
don't know about you, but I'd feel embarrassed having your page in my name. Bennett
Author: SaiyanAce Hi, My name is SaiyanAce, and I am on of the board collectors/donator of CPS2 Boards. After reading this site and "the Raz files" I feel The need to rectify some things. A bit about myself: I collect Arcade boards mostly CPS1,2 and 3, I have donated and bought boards of and from Razoola. I have Donated Street Fighter Alpha (Euro Blue) to Raz,from wich he made two
revisions since I send him a board with an old revision wich he dumped and XOR'd
then he upgraded my board to the latest revision and dumped & Xor'd too, so
both releases are thx to one board. I have bought 3 boards of him, being: X-men Vs. Street Fighter (USA Blue) ($50 USD) So do the math and you get a grand total of a $150 USD with $30 USD shipping
and handling costs you get to a $180 USD. (wich is a pretty darn good price if you
ask me) Alternative Game Pricing Source - http://www.arcadeheaven.co.uk/games.html Source - http://www.vektorlogic.com/ Daimahoo Blue - $495 USD Source - http://64.176.80.208/kits_and_pcbs.htm Source - http://www.arcadegames.net/pcbs.htm D&D TOD Blue - $100 USD current bid Source - www.ebay.com Now if we look at this list of prices and use a nice average, hell yes you've got a GREAT price! No wonder Raz needs donations cause he's practically giving the boards away. The following rectifications will be pure facts and experiences on my part with
Razoola and CPS2Shock, nothing will be speculated or opinionized. I will however
refer to you as Emuchrist since thats the main name of this site and you don't
leave a name on the bottom of your writings (hmmmmmmm) 1. Emuchrist:"Mind you I haven't seen any purchases mentioned so far" SaiyanAce: so now you've seen:P, And I am currently in negotiation with Raz for
buying a 4th board. 2. Emuchrist:"I'm also sure that most could shop around and get better pricing" SaiyanAce: better price then $50 USD for X-man VS. StreetFighter? I don't think
so and I speak from experience. 3. Emuchrist:"Now remember that current status indicates that Xor releases will be slow or non-existant until donations increase. I'm sure this is more than okay with board donators waiting to play the game that they so generously donated huh?" SaiyanAce: The donators get the roms and XORs from the boards the donated
as soon as they have been done and are EXPLICITELY told NOT to give them to
ANYONE else! (speculation: wich is where some files get floating around the net) 4. Emuchrist:"By definition any form of playing arcade game roms on your computer is illegal but we will leave that discussion for another day shall we." SaiyanAce: no we shall not, that is exactly what this is about, people like you
bitching about releasing dumps and XOR's to people like you who don't OWN the
boards, and wanting to play them anyway and if you don't get it fast enough you
bitch about it. ( my 2 cents worth anyway) "Your just pissed cause you want Marvel vs Capcom released lamer!" Let me repeat myself here. I hate fighters. To me and this is MY personal opinion, they have almost zero redeeming features. Its the same tired old concept with a few extra characters if your lucky with each release. I personally would rather see all of the old eighties stuff completed rather than unending supplies of regurgitated trash. I don't hold this against anyone who likes them, its just me! 5. Emuchrist:"You would find completed drivers for late games that have been commented out" SaiyanAce: Yes, and what is wrong with that? you don't have them roms/xors,
mame knows the crc's so implements them in the drivers already for donators
who have the roms/xor's and testing purposes, needless to say for CPS2Shock to
test and verify it will work in MAME. 6. Emuchrist:"This would indicate that the elite in the scene have the roms and are playing them as we speak" SaiyanAce: testing purposes anyone? Need I remember you about the faulty
XORs of Powered Gear? so CPS2Shock members and Emulator authors need
them in order to verify if they would work ok. 7. Emuchrist:"I submit this proof to you of this scandelous state of affairs." SaiyanAce: I don't call this proof, 1st Photoshop Anyone? we all know what a little photoshop can do so this pic is made easily, second do
you have actual proff that this is IN FACT Razoola? 3rd I know alot of CPS2
collectors and all of em have a admirable amount of CPS2 boards so it could be
anyone of the also with a little photoshop. 4th Bong? what if it is? we all deserve a
little rest and relaxation at times, I'm sure you drink something to relax too, don't
be so uptight. 8. Emuchrist:"Afterall, you need to get to them before the suicide protection rolls on in" SaiyanAce: No you don't need to, the batteries last 5 years, I change them after
4, it takes 5 minutes to change them and can be bought at your local electronics
store and can be done with anyone with some soldering experience. 9. Emuchrist:"Gigawing on your PC. Well I've gone to the hard work of dredging the internet to try and give you some form of indication. Have a look at this photo" SaiyanAce: Again, photoshop anyone? this could be just a snapshot from the
arcade implemented in this pic, 2nd I explained testing purposes, so sorry dude
still no proof. Thats enough for now to think on, as I said these are all facts and based on my experience that is why I have not commented about money donations because I do not know what will be done with the money, and I haven't donated money myself. Final Thought: without razoola and the CPS2Shock there would be no CPS2
emulation for the time being, so be content with what you have now (especially if
you don't own the original boards) and stop bitchin, if you don't trust a money
download then just don't do it, it's that simple. In the words of raz: "peace"
Author: Robert Petersen http://emuchrist.com/therazfiles/therazfiles1.html Let us start. Regarding donations. You make alot out of adding up an imagined sum of total donations over a long
period of time. You come up with a total of : $5760.00 Wow, big number right?
Nope, as I said these donations took place over a long period of time, and were
spent on various things like, buying dumping equipment, shipping boards to Raz,
and shipping boards back. Boards were sold if the donator did not want the board
back. If yo consider even a one year period $5760.00 / 12 months =
$480/month. Have you ever shipped arcade boards, insured over sea's? Do you
fathom the cost? And that is based on your completly guessed average donation.
Id think there would be alot of $5 and $10 donations myself. Also, donation does
not = money necisarily. DOnated webspace (xor mirros) may also be included. " . A case in point would be Mame itself. If you take the trouble to download the mame source and look at it. You would find completed drivers for late games that have been commented out. This would indicate that the elite in the scene have the roms and are playing them as we speak. " Complete bullshit. Name one TESTDRIVER in MAME newer than 1995 that, when
enabled allows a new game to fully work. There are none. They are either
incomplete drivers, buggy/unplayable, or incomplete / bad dumps / no known
dump at all. There is no hiding of anything, turn on the driver and try for yourself. Regarding: http://emuchrist.com/therazfiles/cartbedimage.html I believe this picture was taken at a time when Raz had a lot of boards that
needed to be shipped back and needed donations to do so. The picture was
meant to illustrate that. Do you honestly think the man loves arcade boards lying
around all over his house? Regarding: http://emuchrist.com/therazfiles/gigawingplaying.html That is not gigawing playing via XOR's on a PC. Raz was using his SuperGun +an
upscan converter to play on his monitor. Buy one at:
http://www.gwtrading.com/hga.shtml . They are pretty cool. Can we say hook
line and sinker? kthnx. Regarding your theory that Razoola is selling newer boards on eBay, your out of
your minds unless you can honestly believe Raz has a few dozen eBay accounts
in various countries. As far as the donators getting nothing back, again complete bullshit. We are
playing CPS2 games on our PC's that *is* the reward. No one was tricked into
donating, and everyone knew what thier donations were for. Do the "sk3n3" a favor. Don't look for conspiracies where they don't exist. Try to
find honest things that are wrong and help to correct them. But posting biased
unresearched 'news' makes you no different than " The National Enquirer " or "
The weekly world News " or other trashy $1 supermarket tabloids. I look forward to your response and any note you make of this on your news
page. You guys are supposedly champions of free speech right? We'll see. Incidently, we actually have discussion forums for this and welcome discussion on this topic. We even have a board devoted to it. Don't be afraid to use it. |
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