I know what you guys are doing and I even appreciate it on a pure technical level. You do the same thing that I did in the 80s when I "reverse engineered" copy protections of 8bit games on various home computers and kept on telling people that I was in for the challenge but of course that's a load of bullshit because it always was and still is about being able to do/play stuff for free. Eventually I came to the conclusion that I played the cracker-monkey for thousands of pale-faced nerds who wanted to get da latest 0-day wareZ, you know, the leeches who could buy ten games a week with their allowance but rather spend it on silly clothes and Justin Bieber haircuts and download the games they want to play for phreeee.
And this is where I have difficulties following you guys. I mean, what's the point in cracking yet another handheld or whatever system is new at the moment just to play rotten old roms on it? And please don't give me that intelligent dude trying to learn new things crap, that was a lie in 1984 and still is in 2013.
I think there is a misunderstanding of my intentions vs the intentions of others. Between the MVS cab; the MAME cab; all the PC's; consoles and the tablets in my house, I have plenty of shit to play my games/ROMs on. I find no joy in switching a couple wires around on the SD reader and calling it "beating copy protection". Though it does bring me great pleasure to find a metric shit ton of extended "features" of the handset that were disabled by default, and enabling them. Making the device, in my eyes, the way it should have been before it was released. Things like a themeable menu system, the media player, networking capabilities, other joystick compatibility, homebrew, USB OTG storage, open access to the underlying OS, and the host of other things Tommo cut us off from that turn my crank.
I like the notion of being able to plug the X into the dock, playing some Neo on the big screen with familiar controls, busting out some TG16 with the arcade pad when I get bored and then switching over to the media player and watching a movie after. All on the same platform, all without changing inputs on the TV.
Does everyone want the same from it as me? No.
Does the majority just want ROMs? Sure.
Do I care? No.
The Neo is a dead platform. Been dead for over 10 years. Nothing anyone does or doesn't do will change that.
Could I have just bought a Neo Geo X arcade controller, plugged it into my media center PC and got the same thing if not better? Yep, and it would have taken me 2 seconds.
But, I enjoy doing this sort of shit. So I spend the time tinkering with it.