Donate For The Cause! Help SKFU Get A VITA Devkit

Published on 06-09-2012 10:29 PM

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The things that developers are able to contribute to the scene, whether it may be homebrew or just general knowledge, can go a long way. The end users who are the everyday people like you and I, benefit in some way or another. While donations and [positive] feedback are not necessary, it is all appreciated by the devs. SKFU who is known for his work such as VITA Pr0xy, is asking for help to raise funds for a devkit for the handheld.

Here's what SKFU had to say regarding the matter:

In the PlayStation3 scene, the progress went much easier since development kits and testkits are available to several developers. In the PS VITA scene there is no such kit available to any developer, yet...

With a PS VITA DevKit we will have the same advantages which the PS3 kits brought due 2008:

- file system access
- unsigned code execution
- debugger possibility
- etc etc etc

To enhance the speed of the VITA research a development kit would help A LOT as you know. The kit will be shared with all trusted VITA developers so anyone has a piece of the cake to use it for the work done for you - the community.

The necessary sum is 2000€ which is:
1,900€ - devkit itself
100€ - shipping costs

Source: SKFU's Blog

It's a hefty price tag but are you guys willing to come together to support the cause? Even if you donate 1€, it goes a long way. That makes 2,000 people and I'm sure that there's more than enough people who are willing to donate more than that. Look at where the VITA is now, without a devkit. Imagine where it could be with access to one. Think about it. If you want to pitch in, you can donate by clicking the Paypal button below.

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27 Comments

Goku1992 - 06-10-2012, 07:48 PM
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DeadlyFoez is right, paypal is scum which is why I hesitantly sell on ebay. Lets just say SKFU gets atleast 2000 in donations. Paypal would freeze his account and do an investigation on it to see why is he receiving a large lump-some of money.

Moral of the story avoid paypal of all costs as a seller or trying to receive donations. Paypal is only good for buying things.

On Topic: Seems legit been thinking twice about buying a vita lately I might buy one for 180 off of Craigslist but not really sure yet. But I hate to say this but 95% wont donate to him. Sad but true.

yes159 - 06-11-2012, 07:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Goku1992

DeadlyFoez is right, paypal is scum which is why I hesitantly sell on ebay. Lets just say SKFU gets atleast 2000 in donations. Paypal would freeze his account and do an investigation on it to see why is he receiving a large lump-some of money.

This is a good thing however. It shows that there are some control about who's recieving what. Paypal has rules about whats allowed or not, and people shouldnt put up donation stuff if they are in doubt if it crashes with Paypal's rules.

krytonic - 06-11-2012, 07:31 AM
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Originally Posted by yes159

This is a good thing however. It shows that there are some control about who's recieving what. Paypal has rules about whats allowed or not, and people shouldnt put up donation stuff if they are in doubt if it crashes with Paypal's rules.

You really have no idea. When there is no reason for paypal to freeze an account, nothing dodgy about it at all, paypal will freeze the account. They will freeze it for a set time, which is a few months. They do this so you can't spend any of the money or take it out of the account, so they then profit from the interest for about three months. They do this to a lot of accounts all the time, which adds up to quite a bit of interest.

How is this a good thing?

mad mike 96 - 06-11-2012, 08:01 AM
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Paypal rapers it's users (buyers as well) ever try returning an Ipad 2 purchased through paypal? doesn't work worth a dam They locked my account for a week so they could figure out what was with the sudden very large deposit even though there crap showed it was a refund for a payment made less than a week before!

Frankly I'd rather send the man a money order than put cash into a paypal account for him.

yes159 - 06-11-2012, 03:53 PM
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Originally Posted by krytonic

You really have no idea. When there is no reason for paypal to freeze an account, nothing dodgy about it at all, paypal will freeze the account. They will freeze it for a set time, which is a few months. They do this so you can't spend any of the money or take it out of the account, so they then profit from the interest for about three months. They do this to a lot of accounts all the time, which adds up to quite a bit of interest.

How is this a good thing?

Do you have any examples of where this have happened?

But what you explain here is something different than what i said though. I dont think many disagree with that it sucks if someone gets their account locked for no reason. What i said is that it is good that there is a system in place that freezes the funds if there are doubts about dodgy things going on, and then they do an investigation. And if they see that all is ok, then they unlock the account.

DeadlyFoez - 06-12-2012, 10:40 AM
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This is a situation where they would investigate and they would find reason to keep the account locked because what is going on here is not allowed with their acceptable use policy.

yes159 - 06-12-2012, 02:48 PM
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Originally Posted by DeadlyFoez

This is a situation where they would investigate and they would find reason to keep the account locked because what is going on here is not allowed with their acceptable use policy.

I see. If this specific donation (PS Vita devkit) is against Paypal's donation policy, at least that thing is clear.

Does the Paypal donation work like an escrow by the way? That the money is held until the full donation amout is met.