EXCLUSIVE: Scene developer becomes a rat, turns resellers into the police!

[GaryOPA]

We all heard about the raids last year with Sony against graf_chokolo in Germany. But never in my scene life I thought I would be posting a story about an actual modchipmaker, helping police to carry out raids. The following exclusive 360 Crunch story is related to Xbox 360 and RGH enabling products, but because of the huge turn of events I thought it would be best to also post it here as this long time reseller 'HardStore' run by Oscar has sold many products including the famous ProgSkeet device for the Sony PS3 and if they can do this horrible act to the one scene regarding the Squirt360 product, what is stopping them from doing the same in the PS3 scene, if sites bad mouth another product that they are pushing in the marketplace.

Hi Gary,

Oscar from Squirt360 Team sends the police to us! Here is the whole story:

Some months ago we are with our store an official reseller from Squirt360 but aren't happy about their announcements and attack against other teams, also the hardware itself had some issues and we have some problems (like our users, I will explain it later) with the Squirt stuff.

After that they told us, that they have some killer features like the DualNAND Mod which was based on Gligi RGH Code which is of course was completely open source. So we are pissed off a little because Squirt/Oscar starts some wars against other teams like Team-Xecuter and Matrix.

So we thought we have to bring the code (VHDL/CPLD) back to the scene with the dualNAND function. This is the reason why we released the RGH_CPLD_MOD v0.1 (without source at first, cause it was crappy) and later after some more tests the new (public) v0.5 with all files included to let devs and users and of course also the teams work with it.

Nothing special for us, nothing special in generally, but enough to let Mr. HardStore aka Mr. Squirt aka Mr. Electronic Mods aka Mr. Argon2 (yep, he is also behind that scene rip off, more about the drama you will find on hackmii.com) go crazy.

After some discussions with him and some descriptions why his Squirt Modchip isn't better for us compared to every other CPLD/RGH solution out there he was pissed off and starts flaming, so we start to ban Squirt360 in our store CodeXecution.Com and blocked Oscar on ModControl.Com.

At this time Squirt BGA 1.2 was out with a locked BGA CPLD Code which was based again on freely available Gligi's work, again with no new big features but with a better DualNAND Code which he announced as a better solution when the floating around of (our code) open source one appeared.

We know that the first code wasn't clean, that is the reason why we didn't release the source files. So we released the v0.5 and v0.5.1 package to the masses to let every TX Cool Runner / Matrix 360 v1Glitcher / and other solutions play with this code which of course is also based on the original RGH code from Gligi.

But of course, the Squirt code didn't reset the SMC, which means, that you aren't safe on Xbox Live. So we talked again about their crappy shit and told our users, that we didn't want to sell or have to support this kind of shit.

Now Oscar/Squirt/ElectronicMod/Hardstore.Com from Italy are pissed-off and announced that he will come back with his lawyer and the police.

Also he send some Samples to our users, 3 of 5 (everything negative result with the samples is still inside our forums, so we didn't need to lie, you know me Gary, I´m a long time scener, so I don't need to lie) so we talked to our users, that we did not support this crap from them.

Some weeks later (3-4 weeks ago) I got raided, thanks to Oscar and his lawyer. This guy really did go to the police.

He announced it twice (look at the quotes here):

(10:24:33) Oscar - hardstore.com: hahaha FUCKING STUPID yo uwill close SOON bastard my lawyer is already warning and collecting proofs
(10:24:51) Oscar - hardstore.com: don't worry you find a CRAZY guy that know very well how to do
(10:25:02) Oscar - hardstore.com: you are selling DRM breaking products
(10:25:06) Oscar - hardstore.com: and is ILLEGAL in germany
(10:25:09) Oscar - hardstore.com: even if I stop all germany
(10:25:20) Oscar - hardstore.com: suggestion close ASAP your shop
(10:25:24) Oscar - hardstore.com: and continue your bullshit
(10:25:33) Oscar - hardstore.com: on modcontrol
(10:25:35) Oscar - hardstore.com: only
(10:25:46) Oscar - hardstore.com: if you don't want to be in a fucking process for a while...
(10:25:48) Oscar - hardstore.com: hahahahah
(10:25:51) Oscar - hardstore.com: CIAOOO COGLIONE

And confirmed his move also more then one time to two well known german resellers.

(17.04.2012 18:52:06) Oscar - hardstore.com: Forum: Squirt360 = Banned! <<< don't worry all my MONEY, TIME LEFT every day and ALL MY EXPERIENCE will be focus to FUCK your ASS MR. BASTARDO
(17.04.2012 18:52:20) Oscar - hardstore.com: You don't know very well what I can do... and I fuck also if al lgermany will not be able to sell ONE CHIP ... important is FUCK YOU
(17.04.2012 18:52:22) Oscar - hardstore.com: byebye

Yeah, of course, to make a long story short, the Squirt guys went to the police and I got raided.

You know what all this means?

A ModChipmaker and a reseller of such products goes like a rat to the police and starts to sing like a bird to attack this scene (he attacked the scene more when one time with his lies, some devs didn't want to go far away from him cause he is a good guy, they went away from him guys he tries to rip them and our scene, we all still live off).

I do not need to say that these kind of moves are totally without honor and a punch directly into the face to every single onlinestore, coder and hacker, because he tried to force us like Sony did with graf_chokolo or others, he really did the same like our enemies but not like Microsoft or Sony did, his move has everything to not do with a correct fair reaction from an actual respected copyright holder like M$, Sony and Nintendo.

When someone like M$, Sony send the police ok, we didn't want it, but of course we have to deal with it, but when actual Modchipreseller and manufacturer sends the police, what did you think what kind of other shit he will also do?

Two middlefingers up from hitman43 / ModControl.com & CodeXecution.com to the Squirt360 leakers/liars (RGH2, Corona v1) with their shit!

Also greetings to: TX, TMT, XK3Y, COBRA, MAXIMUS and all others, sure, I didn't like every campaign or product from them but hey, I didn't need to buy them, thats exactly the same I told about Squirt but the difference is, non of the others send the police to my house, cause they accept that the fair business way!

Fuck Squirt, a real man does not talk with the police, a real man in the scene business does not work with the police, and a modchipmaker never sends the police to a store, that totally breaks the true scene etiquette and trust.

Talk about amazing 'scene' drama, and you all thought only the Sony world was crazy and mixed up with daily drama!

NEWS UPDATE: Squirt Team has replied to this 'news story' and you can read their answer HERE!

NEWS SOURCE: EXCLUSIVE: Modchipmaker helping police to do raids on resellers! (via) 360 Crunch

[gDrive]

Talk about amazing 'scene' drama, and you all thought only the Sony world was crazy and mixed up with daily drama!

Crikey - like I said on the quiet 360Crunch forum - this is just fucked up beyond belief!

[chr15m]

i seriously hope Anonymous, NullCrew or LulzSec’s divert a little attention to this maggot

[goldeneagle999]

What a pathetic scum! It seems to me some still live with a mentality of a child or maybe worse. I mean at least be real man and take it like real men do. Not just becoming whiny b**ch and acting all selfish because they didn't like your s**tty stuff. Business is a deal or no deal and that's that. It's not supposed to get personal. With this idiotic way of thinking, inappropriate behavior and lack of manhood, the Scene is the one which is gonna be hurt not just a reseller/developer. I'm not that into XBOX Scene but I respect all the devs who work in the scene (XBOX, PS3, Wii...etc) for the sole purpose of right of free knowledge and info. I'd like to be included on that two-fingers-from list: squirt..... _|_ _|_

[AlbedoAtoned]

I don't know much about this developer, but I have just lost a great deal of respect for this guy. I keep thinking that perhaps I must have missed something, because all I can remember is how much praise this developer got. On the ps3 side, people seem impressed with the Progskeet. And I heard good things from the xbox side as well. What could drive a man to such immature and indeed malicious acts? He may not have been my hero (like I said, I don't know much about him), but I am sure he was to somebody, and that somebody probably feels like he's been kicked in the gonads. Everything bad in this scene (except the graf raids) and the xbox 360 scene doesn't pale to how low this guy just made himself.

[Ploggy]

Well that's just the lowest of the low. What an ass.

[squirtadmin]

The fantasy in this world is endless!!!

First at all few little notes:

1- Markus wrote PROGSKEET but I think he mean SQUIRT TEAM .
2- Germany is one of the most active country again DRM devices, GaryOPA remembers the GRAF story, but alot of people remember the PS2 and PS3 actions in Germany that gave everyone alot of troubles on many famouse websites (Gamefreax, Freakware, Divineo), etc.

Markus runs one of the largest biggest forum sites 'ModControl' and make tons of modifications for some lucky reason never got a problem before.

Mr. Markus aka HITMAN is well know in germany, is the owner and admin of www.modcontrol.com and many of our customers hate him because he is simply a CRAZY guy.

In the past months a smear campaign was done on www.modcontrol.com again squirt team without any good reason... with personal insults posted public online.

We suggest you just use google GOOGLE LINK HERE and take a bit of time to read all the post from HITMAN43 to understand the person we are talking about.

The "war" again with Squirt was called "BLITZ KRIEG" (check his post HERE).

We sent him an EMAIL to stop writing attacks against Squirt, but he simply ignore our team and we don't have time and time to write posts to defend us, so we threatened legal action against him.

Finally he was caught by police 40 days ago... of course the PARANOID person he is thought that a modchip maker was the guilty partner of this story...

But maybe he forgots he lives in a country that is not BURUNDI but GERMANY and maybe to sell modchips with www.codexecution.com is all safe in Germany... (but it is far from safe)

Everyone is free to think as they wish, but believe me this is only the "poor story of a paranoid man"...

So to summarize:

"SQUIRT TEAM HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS STORY"

[opium2k]

I've always liked Hitman43. He credits and greets people constantly whenever he releases something and he's made some really nice, really well thought out themes for PS3 apps like Rogero Manager.

[uf6667]

scene developer was behind the famous ProgSkeet

please elaborate

I have nothing to do with this but I'm willing to explain the entire clip situation, care to hear? it involved some "sceners", too! and some guys going broke!

[gDrive]

please elaborate

I have nothing to do with this but I'm willing to explain the entire clip situation, care to hear? it involved some "sceners", too! and some guys going broke!

I'll hear you out - fire away!

Update: GaryOPA said the same thing LOL - but yeah - the CrunchStaff will hear you out!