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All good things must come to an end!
In a radically unexpected turn of events, Team Acekart has finalized the purchase of AKAIO. Normmatt and Smiths began negotiation discussions in February of this year. The original pitch was to sell the source code outright, but the final agreement is much different. Smiths is no longer on the development team. Normmatt, however, is being kept on the project as the maintainer of the source until the new firmware merge is completed. “We got great homebrew launching homebrew called Menudo, and Normmatt will have it work in AKAIO very soon,” according to the lead programmer of the Official Bliss-Merged Firmware.
SoulAnger, who contacted me with a statement, only had to say that he sold Menudo for a lump sum, and that he no longer owns the source code. He also provided me with a screen capture of the unreleased BETA firmware (see the top of the post).
Normmatt has started pumping out fixes for AKAIO. Currently 31 games have been fixed (see "Loader Fix" link below). I believe this might be his last ditch effort to make his beloved firmware as perfect as possible before it changes hands.
Finally, as if this news was not enough, I have a small edited snippet of a conversation which went on in #acekard.
CODE so the code is sold, and acekard owns the rights?
yes, they ****in’ left me out
NorM NORM! I told you, I told you
what happened?
it isn’t you, it's that n00b SoulAnger
he sold his code with a request that Smiths- is not allowed to touch it, another_world
Smiths- there is nothing we can do about it now.
pfft, I have a real job anyways. **** them.
so what happens now?
AKAIO gets a new Icon based homebrew launcher, I get paid, and eventually they maintain the source, not us.
wait, wait.. so akaio is essentially dead after this? you won’t update it?
Quits: Smiths- (*@*) (www.gbatemp.net)
after v1.5, I will only have the right to OK certain changes and fix the loaders. The firmware, UI, cheat engine, and my proprietary DMA modes will be updated by them.
I guess it’s time to release nOS.
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