Author Topic: the origins of acidmods? (Read 7403 times)

kink192 · « **on:** December 16, 2009, 12:21:11 PM »

im doing a graduation project on my school on modding, one of the things the teacher has asked from me is how companies like Sony and Microsoft take mods into consideration and use them to better shape future models. what i want to get at is i know acidmods started on the PSN forums, but id like the entire story so i can include that.

ProperBritish · « **Reply #1 on:** December 16, 2009, 01:55:28 PM »

we don't shape future models, we help them figure out how to barricade us from getting in again and messing

up... even if what we do does make the console better.

robin1989 · « **Reply #2 on:** December 16, 2009, 01:57:49 PM »

check out this topic and board as it gives some info about the site and some of its older members

https://www.acidmods.com/forum/index.php/board,255.0.html

https://www.acidmods.com/forum/index.php/topic,13420.0.html

kink192 · « **Reply #3 on:** December 16, 2009, 09:38:49 PM »

exactly what i am looking for, thank you mr. mendez lol

Reaper · « **Reply #4 on:** December 17, 2009, 01:18:56 AM »

I was one of the original members as well, back in the PS Forums days, I never got my little thing in the tutorial section though

robin1989 · « **Reply #5 on:** December 17, 2009, 02:06:39 AM »

feel free to add it reaper

Luke · « **Reply #6 on:** December 17, 2009, 02:25:20 AM »

January 24, 2008, 01:23:31 AM.

The Greatest Day in Acidmods history, In which was the Joining date of the Member Luke101a, in which he changed his name to Luke, then following ¢Starrz. If you would like to find out more about ¢Starrz feel free to message me.

dedafmonteur · « **Reply #7 on:** December 17, 2009, 03:31:08 AM »

i am an old member and i got only one thing to say:

beardmods ftw

Luke · « **Reply #8 on:** December 17, 2009, 08:31:40 AM »

I was always able to see beardmods, however wan't allowed to post in it

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ProperBritish · « **Reply #9 on:** December 17, 2009, 09:22:43 AM »

lol i remember getting local position and going

wtf beardmods

~:Dhruv:~ · « **Reply #10 on:** December 17, 2009, 10:25:28 AM »

whats beardmods ? The domain seems to be registered to Robin n is supposed to redirect here i think but wtf is it ? !

Jumbo · « **Reply #11 on:** December 17, 2009, 12:12:39 PM »

Its back in the f00 times everyone was obsessed with having beards. Lol.

beardmods also hosts backups for AM and some other crap.

There was a section when i first got global but it wasnt there one day.

jrfhoutx · « **Reply #12 on:** December 17, 2009, 12:23:55 PM »

Beardmods was started as a spoof of acidmods. the idea was started by some of the older (in age) members of the site as a place to show off their beards and the goofy things we could do with them. The idea was tossed around (mostly as a joke) on a drunken late-night MSN chat after F00 showed off his very full beard and everyone had a good laugh about it. it was then put up as a spoof mirror of AM... If I remember correctly (we had all imbibed quite a bit so the memory is a bit hazy, correct me if I'm wrong Robin...)

As for the beginnings of AM, the short bit Mr. Mendez (that sounds so weird) linked you to has the start correct. AM started on the PSN forums with a mod made by the founding member of the site, CyberPyrot, and his discussions of the mod with Chaos (I believe the thread can still be found buried in the PSN forums, but I could be wrong). The first AM mod was the LED lit PSP-1000 trigger buttons. The Buzz created by the mod created such a demand for information about recreating the mod that CyberPyrot decided to create a forum solely dedicated to the modding of video game consoles. Once the forum was created he invited his friends and cohorts from the PSN forum to join him here. the site was small and had a small member base, but with interesting ideas and modifications to consoles, and a great deal of hard work on the part of the sites administration, some clever cross promoting (with greg from psp-hacks) and some high profile exposure on other PSP news sites, the site became quite popular and well known. With some very well known mods (mainly the 'Doc-Oc' mod by F00 f00), some amazingly skilled modders, and some sponsorship of the site and it's mod-off contests (initially by CAMY) the site become even larger.

Modded Matt · « **Reply #13 on:** December 17, 2009, 12:55:45 PM »

lol beardmods is still there, I use it to test things before I make changes to AM so I dont crash aacidmods

it has a different address though. saved on my home pc, I will look it up when I get home. it looks like now beardmods.com is just a bunch of random ads, and redirect that dont work. lol

wow I just realised how badly all the group permissions need looked at. Luke, you can see beardmods?

jrfhoutx · « **Reply #14 on:** December 17, 2009, 01:05:40 PM »

Quote from: modded matt on December 17, 2009, 12:55:45 PM

lol beardmods is still there, I use it to test things before I make changes to AM so I dont crash aacidmods

it has a different address though. saved on my home pc, I will look it up when I get home. it looks like now beardmods.com is just a bunch of random ads, and redirect that dont work. lol

another area, prolly none of you know of is ethical hacking. acidmods still has tricks up its sleves. lol

lol yeah just ads right now... oh man, I forgot about the ethical hacking section... not much went on in there tho, kinda hard to be ethical about it... lol

Modded Matt · « **Reply #15 on:** December 17, 2009, 01:09:08 PM »

who can see beardmods?
who can see skulls jewl shop?
who can see ethical hacking?
wow I got alot of work to do.

dedafmonteur · « **Reply #16 on:** December 17, 2009, 01:17:30 PM »

i can even see your house matt...

i miss chaos he never said much, but when he did it never made sence....lol
guess he still lives in cuba..

kink192 · « **Reply #17 on:** December 17, 2009, 01:36:01 PM »

i cant see beardmods, ethical or any of the places you rattled off.

Tri-edge · « **Reply #18 on:** December 17, 2009, 01:45:46 PM »

Quote from: modded matt on December 17, 2009, 01:09:08 PM

who can see beardmods?
who can see skulls jewl shop?
who can see ethical hacking?
wow I got alot of work to do.

damm I can't see any these. I didn't even know there was a ethical hacking section

jrfhoutx · « **Reply #19 on:** December 17, 2009, 02:12:49 PM »

Quote from: dedafmonteur on December 17, 2009, 01:17:30 PM

i miss chaos he never said much, but when he did it never made sence....lol
guess he still lives in cuba..

Chaos was a good guy, he always made sense but he was short tempered, I feel like he's here though when I read posts by PSPKicks... lol no offense kicks, Chaos was a good friend on AM...

He didn't live in cuba, he was cuban but lived in Florida... Miami I believe...

@matt

I can see all that stuff except skulls jewel shop...

GhoSt · « **Reply #20 on:** December 17, 2009, 02:29:38 PM »

lol robin beardmods links me to the no longer existing smashgfx (CWHI old site)...

PspKicks316 · « **Reply #21 on:** December 17, 2009, 02:40:17 PM »

I used to be a member of Beardmods to test stuff for Robin occasionally...

I was here in the early days, came March 2007.
IIRC I had posted in that PSU thread before it all started, and ultimately that's what brought me here. xD
Besides the Admins and founders, I think I'm one of the only people who are still here from way back then, besides

really. I can't believe it's been that long. Haha

I can't see any of those extra boards (feel free to let me, though!... no, seriously).

~:Dhruv:~ · « **Reply #22 on:** December 17, 2009, 08:14:19 PM »

Nope cant see any of those boards....

Wow , i wish i was here in the old days of AM ! It sounds so much fun... lol , we didnt even have proper internet in my country then though :P

Kilokk · « **Reply #23 on:** December 17, 2009, 08:48:28 PM »

Quote from: PspKicks316 on December 17, 2009, 02:40:17 PM

I used to be a member of Beardmods to test stuff for Robin occasionally...

I was here in the early days, came March 2007.
IIRC I had posted in that PSU thread before it all started, and ultimately that's what brought me here. xD
Besides the Admins and founders, I think I'm one of the only people who are still here from way back then, besides really. I can't believe it's been that long. Haha

I can't see any of those extra boards (feel free to let me, though!... no, seriously).

2007 was the early days? MAN i wish i posted more back then XD

jrfhoutx · « **Reply #24 on:** December 17, 2009, 11:30:32 PM »

Quote from: Kilokk on December 17, 2009, 08:48:28 PM

2007 was the early days? MAN i wish i posted more back then XD

technically... yes 2007 was 'the early days' the site actually started in 2006... according to Member registration November 14 2006, if you go by the fact that Cyber started the site and is the first registered member...

robin1989 · « **Reply #25 on:** December 18, 2009, 08:32:13 AM »

lol all i remember was waking up and find a congratulations you just bought beardmods.com email in my inbox

jrfhoutx · « **Reply #26 on:** December 18, 2009, 09:56:29 AM »

Quote from: Mactastic Mendez on December 18, 2009, 08:32:13 AM

lol all i remember was waking up and find a congratulations you just bought beardmods.com email in my inbox

LMAO... ahh, the good old days... lol

dedafmonteur · « **Reply #27 on:** December 18, 2009, 09:58:22 AM »

this is like my third account...lol

cyber liked to delete my account and make a new one.

i would ask him why, and he would say: because i can.

lol

Tri-edge · « **Reply #28 on:** December 18, 2009, 12:45:36 PM »

I think this is like my 6th name change. lol

jrfhoutx · « **Reply #29 on:** December 18, 2009, 02:05:08 PM »

Quote from: dedafmonteur on December 18, 2009, 09:58:22 AM

this is like my third account...lol

cyber liked to delete my account and make a new one.

cyber would ban you not delete your account, if he had deleted your acct you wouldn't have a reg date of 11-20-06 (same as mine)...

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Author Topic: the origins of acidmods? (Read 7403 times)