OK let's get some FACTS straight.
PCSX2 is a ps2 emulator. The coding team is this:
http://pcsx2.net/contact.php
This team
codes the emulator. That means they write code, which creates this program that lets you play PS2 games. The
place they put that code is an SVN.
This is the link:
http://code.google.com/p/pcsx2/source/browse/
ANYONE can download the code and make the PCSX2 exe. That does NOT mean that the person who took the code and made the exe (this is called compiling) made the emulator. The ones who made the emulator are the ones who wrote the
code for it.
PCSX2 v0.9.6 was the last
official release from the
PCSX2 coding team. Then after that there were many
beta releases from the same
official team with the last being beta 1888.
After that, the
coding team switched the version of the emulator to 0.9.7
alpha. So since then, they are working on
0.9.7. The beta 1888 got released at 19/09/2009. From then to now it has been
5 months that PCSX2 v0.9.7
alpha exists. So yes, we have known it for 5 months. Just because you think you discovered it some days ago doesn't mean it hasn't been around for
5 months.
Now PCSX2 'maetel' and PCSX2 'extremum'. These projects are using the code of the
official PCSX2 SVN that the
PCSX2 coders team wrote, change it a bit to get more speed (but reduce compatibility by A LOT) and change the name. That is why these are
illegal hacks, because they steal the code from the
PCSX2 coders, change it and create their own 'project'.
PCSX2 supports memcards up to 128 mb since 0.9.5, we just don't create these files by default.
About the news post, because I saw that many people have
no idea what is going on, I made the news so you find out the
progress that has been made in the past 5 months. If you STILL don't believe this, see this thread
HERE where one of the
PCSX2 coders talks about PCSX2 0.9.7 at 13/10/2009.
I really really tried to make this as simple as possible. If you still don't understand you're an idiot and your IQ is around 10, sorry.