gateway said they have stuff working with 8.0, don't be scared, don't live in fear.
it's got nothing to do with the patch, unless the game is BROKEN no matter what until you install the patch, but, that's basically impossible.
so patch or not, the game should work (but it doesn't since gateway has not released their update yet)
this game DOES require fw 8/7 (for the newer keys stuff), it is not about spoofing, spoofing is just like... 'pretending', like, it says it needs 8.0 but in fact it would work fine on 4.0.
but this needs more than pretending, without the newer firmware functionality, the game WILL NOT PLAY, it's not really based on the number on your fw version here.
-plus, i don't mind that we can't play the game yet because... i haven't got all the youkai in the first one yet! haha... i completed it all, mugen jigoku etc etc, but up until a few weeks ago i was trying to get every youkai, but i got a bit busy. i'll still keep trying, but some take like an hour to get, there is a lot of luck involved, much much more than pokemon.