I understand that there are a few legitimate (as in, not just because you want to pirate games) reasons to want the AP disabled. However, for the most part the only reason people complain is because they can't use his software to continue breaking the law. Any complaining about that should be completely disregarded.
Yeah, note that when one guy came in and made a long post where he listed multiple legitimate reasons for removing the AP (types of damage to wii/drives, etc.), nobody touched his post because he had good points a lot of us agree with.
It's the stupid responses and exaggeration ("he's a prick for not releasing the source" being an example) that are most often getting bashed here.
Even more, if you read how he respond to the people in the Devo thread, you will notice he donts gives a fuck about people's problem.
Link to posts?
Individual example posts.
http://gbatemp.net/topic/330554-devolution-public-release/page__view__findpost__p__4304764
However, pretty much every other post in that topic helped someome
Not doing additional video patching for higher resolutions and out-of-region games is a
problem?
The original system itself doesn't support it. :\
But actually it's not. They could use DM/DML, or they could just play their retail games as was intended. Nobody is losing the ability to do anything.
Devolution is supposedly a USB loader for GC games. However, it is a USB loader for GC games which will not load a number of GC games due to problems with its AP scheme. On that basis, it fails to do what it claims to do.
"The first release fails on some games" is a decidedly different statement then "we lose the ability to do some things".
The first is true, this is an initial release and not fully-working (like most things in the homebrew community).
Hopefully compatibility will be improved, and there's an official thread for feedback.
The second statement is not true in the way you worded it. The release of this program has done jack shit to harm anybody here or take away any functions they previously had.
I get the feeling that once Dios Mios gets audio streaming, Devolution's author will abandon the homebrew scene in a fit of rage.
You probably have that feeling because you think this is some random guy that popped out of thin air one day and hasn't done anything else?
That's a fallacious argument (straw man). I have not demanded perfection.
I have merely pointed out that Devolution fails to do what it claims to do (load GC games from USB), at least with some retail discs for some users. My point is that the current implementation of the AP fails horribly, because it disallows the use of certain legitimate discs.
"I have not demanded perfection, I have complained that the program works less than 100%".
How does Devolution know that a disc has already been verified? Wouldn't it have to save it in some sort of config file or something? And can't people just edit and/or swap said file between Wii's to make Devo think a game has already been verified?
It stores a file for each verification, and no it's not a direct hash so people can't swap the files around.