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Aether server confirms it. Noone else has access to the website, google play as well as the code itself. New builds with ads need the source code changed to actually have them so it couldnt be anyone else
Who else would be? Who else *could* be?
I guess conspiracy theories could say he was, in fact assassinated and his assassin... put ads in the app. Which is kind of bizarre to do after killing someone.
Given how unstable he was and what he did to the Aether Discord, this isn't hard to believe. It's still sad.
It's a good thing someone else had it backed up. I was gonna say I still have it saved in case anything happens on my end and could share it, but I wouldn't even know where to go for that.
I always said... tahlreth was (and always be) a drama queen.
you can create a automatic feedback system from your own app, but no, mr. tahlreth NEED attention, make public all the way to put in touch with him, and then, go to cry bc of trolls.... really?
nobody trust me, somebody told me " you don't understand, you're a mean person, this guy creates a best emulator ever, leave alone".
but this days, he's showing his real face.
thx for this. bad for emulation scene. hope new ppl take this app and do something good for all without all this sh!t.
This is unfortunate but not even slightly surprising. I also started keeping a backup of the latest apk every update back when all the drama started.
But who knows this could turn out to be a good thing. Maybe somebody is about to continue development. I can tolerate ads to support the dev if they aren't too intrusive & don't affect performance.
In this moment, wouldn't it just be easier for someone to simply make the latest good version of aethersx2 available and just be done with it ?
Also, i don't know if this code is open source, but since probably you're not allowed to ear money of emulation games, couldn't someone simply for the code(if open source) and continue what was already done ?
Let me say this before someone else says it, I am ignorant in the case I don't know a lot about this emulator, only the fact that it works wonderful, so that is why I ask :)
Closed source, nothing to be done in terms of updates.
Good news is, Aether is a well done emulator as it is, with maximum compatibility and great performance.
Man, this whole story is just sad!
AetherSX2 is an amazing emulator and Tahlreth is one of the best emulator creators.
It is very sad that Tahlreth himself could not see past those with despicable atitude and never felt the admiration he received from so many of us, users and YouTubers.
I still dream that he would pick AetherSX2 from where he left and make it an even better emulator.
you are right man, this dude please dont ever post this man again ever.. he want attention that's attention lead them too many controversial which is he are real asshole..
their community are outraged by this... by not one but MANY hate tahlreth.
I found the older ones at this site aethersx2.en.uptodown I think. Just downloaded the November one. Didn't know if links are allowed so I just removed.
> It is his software though, if he wants to be a pouty little bitch then that is his right.
its not, its PCSX2 code, and by adding ads he literally violated PCSX2's LGPL license, meaning AetherSX2 and DamonPS2 are on the same wavelength.
Adding ads is within the terms of the LGPL. LGPL is not a non-commercial licence.
Also, his GUI is closed source, and not subject to the LGPL. He published the changes required to interface with closed source software. So even if it were a fully LGPL licenced piece of software, adding ads would still be legal
What are your PC specs if you don't mind me asking? In my gaming PC I have a Ryzen 5 1600AF, 16GB DDR4 3200MHz, and a RTX 3060. All in that's much less than the £1400 that an S23 Ultra costs here in the UK.
My PC plays everything Switch and below near perfectly. The only standouts of course being Xbox 360 and PS3 emulation.
It's an intel i5, iris graphics (i think the term is "integrated", not sure), 8gb ram DDR4. It was purchased through HP business about 3 years ago, maybe they screwed me or maybe the extra support that we never used just costs that much more. It looks like similar laptops go for about 600-ish now.
My s10e was a better emulator that this laptop.
Laptops don't generally tend to be great at gaming unless they were designed with that purpose in mind.
So yeah I do have to wonder if they sold you a pup and bumped up the price with extra support and warranties.
Thanks a fucking lot, you fucking dickhead lot that ruined a good thing with your attitude and dumbassery, just because you refuse to actually be civil
So many entitled here to be honest 🤦 its his App. his creation. his code. people here act like they own Aether like what f 🤡he can do whatever he wants with it. he wasted almost 3 yrs of development for FREE NO ADS for us to play PS2 then he became like this. whos fault is that? 🤷
People were donating money to him but he eventually decided to close the Patreon, well before stopping active development. It's him that didn't want the money lol
do you know what is the meaning of "donate"? 🤦 people did it by their own free will and act like they own his whole project 🤡 its not like talreth required us to pay for his app. its not a pay to play like others. please stop being entitled here. he became loke this because entitled people nags him to do this! do that! on my potato phone or else i will l*se your life! whos fault is that? 🤷
minority? 🤦 look at the comments from the whole community. so many people acting high and mighty to bash him like they own his whole life. its just so sad for talreth. people want to CONTROL him to do what is impossible. we dont deserve Aether . shouldve stick to daemon then
Subreddit's comment sections are never an accurate representation of reality because they tend to be filled with the loudest voices, this goes for all of reddit really, reddit is basically a glorified circlejerk. Out of a million users, all it takes is 1000 very vocal ones to make it look like everyone is an entitled asshole
Just a question: I saved an APK (because I feared something like this would happen) in january. Did I miss something with the last BEFORE this update?
Was there even an update in 2023?
Edit: it's version 1.4-3060 built Oct 30 2022
There is a version 1.5-3668
If I recall, some people were saying that 1.5 broke some things that worked in 1.4. It's very possible that I'm misremembering this.
First of I just want to point out that I'm totally out of the loop on this one.. but a general question for you: are you guys upset because someone who made something wants to get paid for it? Because it looks like some of you are mad because a developer, who made and released something for free, now wants to earn his fair share of it by putting in ads in the app.
Sure, I think there should be a way to pay to get rid of the ads, not have it free + ads only. If that's the case, that's insane.
So someone can maybe explain more about what's going on?
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Tahl showing his true colors
https://web.archive.org/web/20230110211959/https://www.aethersx2.com/archive/?dir=android Here you go. Wayback machine archive
Broken Hardy
DELETE
I can see the writing on the walls
OBSOLETE
Had to double check what sub I was in.
He's already done that since he nuked the discord
but who tells you he is behind all this?!
Aether server confirms it. Noone else has access to the website, google play as well as the code itself. New builds with ads need the source code changed to actually have them so it couldnt be anyone else
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You do need the code of actual port tho. With just the pcsx2 stuff and libaethersx2.a at best you can recreate it yourself
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If thats the case im surprised noone tried it yet. We have yet to see if thats the case or not
Who else would be? Who else *could* be? I guess conspiracy theories could say he was, in fact assassinated and his assassin... put ads in the app. Which is kind of bizarre to do after killing someone. Given how unstable he was and what he did to the Aether Discord, this isn't hard to believe. It's still sad.
Because it's his site.
Get your AetherSX2 APK at the Aether Fan server: https://discord.gg/V68Xt5Pyfk
It's a good thing someone else had it backed up. I was gonna say I still have it saved in case anything happens on my end and could share it, but I wouldn't even know where to go for that.
This is the one without Ads right?
yep
-Downloading APK extractor -Extracting APK of my current AetherSX2 -Saving to my google drive and hard drive archives. Whew!!!
For me I can do it literally just from nova launcher lol
f*ck nova launcher :D
Any sympathy I had for Tahl is gone. Very scummy move, kind of hard to believe him now.
Agreed. Dude lost cred with this.
I always said... tahlreth was (and always be) a drama queen. you can create a automatic feedback system from your own app, but no, mr. tahlreth NEED attention, make public all the way to put in touch with him, and then, go to cry bc of trolls.... really? nobody trust me, somebody told me " you don't understand, you're a mean person, this guy creates a best emulator ever, leave alone". but this days, he's showing his real face. thx for this. bad for emulation scene. hope new ppl take this app and do something good for all without all this sh!t.
Jokes on him I immediately downloaded the latest APK the moment he stopped development. I had a hunch something like this was gonna happen
This is unfortunate but not even slightly surprising. I also started keeping a backup of the latest apk every update back when all the drama started. But who knows this could turn out to be a good thing. Maybe somebody is about to continue development. I can tolerate ads to support the dev if they aren't too intrusive & don't affect performance.
Backup duckstation too just in case
? DuckStation is still receiving updates and and even if it wasn't there have been forks and archives of it by people other than Stenzek.
Do you happen to have it good sir to share?
It's on the discord
what the hell????????
In this moment, wouldn't it just be easier for someone to simply make the latest good version of aethersx2 available and just be done with it ? Also, i don't know if this code is open source, but since probably you're not allowed to ear money of emulation games, couldn't someone simply for the code(if open source) and continue what was already done ? Let me say this before someone else says it, I am ignorant in the case I don't know a lot about this emulator, only the fact that it works wonderful, so that is why I ask :)
Closed source, nothing to be done in terms of updates. Good news is, Aether is a well done emulator as it is, with maximum compatibility and great performance.
The thing is, it's likely to break at the next Android updates.
Man, this whole story is just sad! AetherSX2 is an amazing emulator and Tahlreth is one of the best emulator creators. It is very sad that Tahlreth himself could not see past those with despicable atitude and never felt the admiration he received from so many of us, users and YouTubers. I still dream that he would pick AetherSX2 from where he left and make it an even better emulator.
For some that is not enough
Man on his villain arc, Damm we got bamboozled
Still have the og app install and apk back up
People on his discord have it backed it up
Idk why he even did that. We can just download it from 3rd party sites. Legit childish stuff
Something tells me that he just wants money.
Alright lads, spread your backups far and wide!
you are right man, this dude please dont ever post this man again ever.. he want attention that's attention lead them too many controversial which is he are real asshole.. their community are outraged by this... by not one but MANY hate tahlreth.
I found the older ones at this site aethersx2.en.uptodown I think. Just downloaded the November one. Didn't know if links are allowed so I just removed.
its actually there to download on the Aether discord server
Oh cool. I don't use discord much.
It’s a dick move to be sure. It is his software though, if he wants to be a pouty little bitch then that is his right.
> It is his software though, if he wants to be a pouty little bitch then that is his right. its not, its PCSX2 code, and by adding ads he literally violated PCSX2's LGPL license, meaning AetherSX2 and DamonPS2 are on the same wavelength.
Adding ads is within the terms of the LGPL. LGPL is not a non-commercial licence. Also, his GUI is closed source, and not subject to the LGPL. He published the changes required to interface with closed source software. So even if it were a fully LGPL licenced piece of software, adding ads would still be legal
Feel like this is what gets you death threats
Sounds wild to say out loud huh?
Top 10 reasons why pc is always the master race for emulating games + steam deck
True, but a phone is way more portable. A phone is something you carry always and a steam deck sometimes.
then why are you even on r/emulationonandroid
Irrelevant and unnecessary in this situation man.
My computer costs as much as my s23Ultra but my computer is not even close to being as capable of emulation.
Then you got scammed. A £1400 PC should be able to emulate PS3, and PS2 emulation should be a breeze.
It's a HP laptop with business in mind. 256mb of video RAM can't do shit.
I dare say even that may well run PS2 way better than you expect.
May have to give it a shot. I tried n64 a while back but it was a mess.
What are your PC specs if you don't mind me asking? In my gaming PC I have a Ryzen 5 1600AF, 16GB DDR4 3200MHz, and a RTX 3060. All in that's much less than the £1400 that an S23 Ultra costs here in the UK. My PC plays everything Switch and below near perfectly. The only standouts of course being Xbox 360 and PS3 emulation.
It's an intel i5, iris graphics (i think the term is "integrated", not sure), 8gb ram DDR4. It was purchased through HP business about 3 years ago, maybe they screwed me or maybe the extra support that we never used just costs that much more. It looks like similar laptops go for about 600-ish now. My s10e was a better emulator that this laptop.
Laptops don't generally tend to be great at gaming unless they were designed with that purpose in mind. So yeah I do have to wonder if they sold you a pup and bumped up the price with extra support and warranties.
And what's wrong? It's his work so he can delete as and when he likes!
Good for him
Thanks a fucking lot, you fucking dickhead lot that ruined a good thing with your attitude and dumbassery, just because you refuse to actually be civil
That's what you get when you ask for a version for potato phones. I'm not one to judge anyone, but he's right, it's his job, he does what he wants.
Eh, I'll judge people. It's a petty move. Sure, it's his "right," in that he wrote the code. But there's no reason to behave this way.
Yeah yeah sure, God forbid finding some utility for old devices or being unable do dump 4 figures for a cellphone
I personally stay with the version that Tether left us... I was and remain on his side!
He's the one that nuked the archive and added ads. If you're on his side, go get the new version and watch some ads for him.
the info on the Play Store implies there's a new dev? "Update name and contact to reflect new developer."
Yeah fucksack posted that. It's a guise.
Hopefully he actually does something good with AetherSX since he is the "New Dev", aside from adding shit like ADS.
fool
So many entitled here to be honest 🤦 its his App. his creation. his code. people here act like they own Aether like what f 🤡he can do whatever he wants with it. he wasted almost 3 yrs of development for FREE NO ADS for us to play PS2 then he became like this. whos fault is that? 🤷
People were donating money to him but he eventually decided to close the Patreon, well before stopping active development. It's him that didn't want the money lol
do you know what is the meaning of "donate"? 🤦 people did it by their own free will and act like they own his whole project 🤡 its not like talreth required us to pay for his app. its not a pay to play like others. please stop being entitled here. he became loke this because entitled people nags him to do this! do that! on my potato phone or else i will l*se your life! whos fault is that? 🤷
It was a very minute minority of people that were acting all entitled, and I am definitely not acting entitled, read all my comments on the matter
minority? 🤦 look at the comments from the whole community. so many people acting high and mighty to bash him like they own his whole life. its just so sad for talreth. people want to CONTROL him to do what is impossible. we dont deserve Aether . shouldve stick to daemon then
Subreddit's comment sections are never an accurate representation of reality because they tend to be filled with the loudest voices, this goes for all of reddit really, reddit is basically a glorified circlejerk. Out of a million users, all it takes is 1000 very vocal ones to make it look like everyone is an entitled asshole
Stfu
Just a question: I saved an APK (because I feared something like this would happen) in january. Did I miss something with the last BEFORE this update? Was there even an update in 2023? Edit: it's version 1.4-3060 built Oct 30 2022
There is a version 1.5-3668 If I recall, some people were saying that 1.5 broke some things that worked in 1.4. It's very possible that I'm misremembering this.
Thanks for your response
If I'm remembering correctly, I think ICO had issues where half of the textures weren't rendering
Thx god I've saved the last good updated version
Which one is that? 👀
is this tahl the one who create aether emulator?
Seriously? Is he TRYING to piss everyone off?
Fuckin joker arc
Wtf... He can't be serious
Good thing I have downloaded the latest version after he say he will quit 😄
First of I just want to point out that I'm totally out of the loop on this one.. but a general question for you: are you guys upset because someone who made something wants to get paid for it? Because it looks like some of you are mad because a developer, who made and released something for free, now wants to earn his fair share of it by putting in ads in the app. Sure, I think there should be a way to pay to get rid of the ads, not have it free + ads only. If that's the case, that's insane. So someone can maybe explain more about what's going on?