As the title states, it's been over 4 years since Hard4games covered the PCNY Rom Distribution hardware / software - and outside of this post, it's been nothing but radio silence. That said, I have a couple questions:
1) Is Gridelin still actively working on circumventing the Altera chip on the writer? They haven't released a video on their YouTube channel in over a year (and it's been even longer since they covered anything related to the PCNY distro rom).
2) If in fact efforts to crack the Altera chip problem have stopped, can we say that it's finally time to release the PCNY Distro Rom as open source for other bright minds to begin tinkering around with? With the release of incredible works of other recent distribution roms (IE Goppier and Undead Reality's work in gen 3), I'm confident that the community can release this content effectively and authentically.
Ultimately, I've tried to remain optimistic that a breakthrough in releasing this content to the masses is underway (outside of sharing dumped gen 2 / 3 save files with the PCNY mons on them) - with one of Gridelin's YouTube video's here from over 2 years ago stating that "progress has been made" as being one of the anchors to that optimism. However, due to the complete lack of updates on this matter, I've started to believe that this project has been abandoned entirely.
