Now that there is a very bold statement. But it has it’s reasons.
So this is the story, all about how Zodttd turned upside down. And I’d like to take a minute, just sit right there, I’ll tell you how he became the ass of the Jailbroken iPhone…

ZodTTD is a very talented and hardworking software developer, he is best known for porting emulators to the iPhone and iPod Touch. Enjoyed by many, his projects are very successful with thousands of Jailbroken iPhone and iPod touch users using his software. However there is a fee for his two most popular products, SNES4iPhone and GpSPhone, but it wasn’t always like that…
About a year ago he offered all his ports free of charge out of consideration for the community, but allowed for donations for those who appreciated his work. He showed his appreciation of donations, by offering all the betas of his software to donaters before he released them to the public. His work was very generous, and so personally I felt he deserved the donations, so I of course donated what I could, he only allowed a few “set donations” so I made the “Generous donation”.

However his offer of unreleased betas soon died out, and everyone got the software at the same time. This isn’t such a bad thing as donaters still get software as its ready, it simply isn’t delayed for the public. However a few months later ZodTTD made a controversial move, he put a price on GpSPhone. He didn’t hold his word for donaters to get all his software first and now donaters don’t get it at all, without giving out more money. This made him lose some followers and lowered his reputation. But due to the negative reaction, he promised it will be the only commercial emulator. Which lessened the impact to his followers.
But once again, a few months later he broke his word. Now snes4iPhone also has a price on it. For us donaters, we felt as if we were scammed. We believed that our donations were going to the cause of continuing his great work in offering free software for the community, but that wasn’t the case.

He also put snes4iPhone on the controversial and much disliked RockApp. Which many of the community have disliked.
Throughout all these events he did not announce his intentions before hand, the community only found out about the new prices when it suddenly cost money to download the software. snes4iPhone has had a price for over a week now, and he has yet to post an update about it on his blog. This spontaneous price addition catches a lot of people off guard and it seems he purposefully hides his intentions from the community, he doesn’t announce any of these additions and he also REMOVES large discussions on the topic from his forums, so much so, that he has now removed his forums to stop people from making such discussions.
This constant deception has earned ZodTTD a bad reputation, and from me the tagline: The ass of the Jailbroken iPhone.

Ricardodude | Category: All Posts | No Comments » | November 27, 2009

Time for a new Game Of WhenEver I Feel Like It.
This time it’s Pokemon Fire Red for the Gameboy Advance, why? Well, this is the first Pokemon game I have beaten in a long time, the last one was probably Ruby a number of years ago.
You may have noticed I started playing Ruby again last year and may be wondering why I didn’t finish it then. Well I suck, ok?
My strategy for Ruby was train up 6 varied pokemon equally. This didn’t go so well, as they were all underpowered by the time I got to the Elite Four.
So this time around I learned from my mistakes and decided to only train 2 pokemon. A Charizard named Zard, and a Parasect named Zect. Why Parasect? Well it was the only Grass pokemon I had at the start of the game.
So anyway, I got through the whole game with ease, except I failed on my first try at the Elite Four. So I trained up some more, caught the 3 legendary birds, and owned the elite four.
(I previously wrote a huge post about this on my iphone, but I lost it, so I guess that was probably a good thing )
Anyway here’s the intro to the game:

Ricardodude | Category: All Posts, Game of Whenever | No Comments » | April 25, 2009

I first found this video a few days ago on <a href="http://gametrailers.com">Gametrailers</a> when somebody posted it on their <a href="http://screwattack.com">Screwattack</a> blog.
Anyway, it was funny and I thought about posting it, but I didn’t bother.
Then just yesterday, I noticed a youtube version was posted on the <a href="http://bttfhillvalley.com">BTTF: HillValley</a> forums, so I decided to post it…
Anyway, who really cares, here is the video:

<blockquote>this is my first time playin so i might suck…

…credit to GWSampy for most of the microgame ideas </blockquote>

Ricardodude | Category: All Posts, Video Favourites | No Comments » | October 6, 2008