Hey bro, i understand what you are saying, it's just why didn't they follow the Devs' designs, using their recommended BOM list of components? I know why that is, it's because some of the components on the Devs' list for MX4SIO are expensive (due to being high quality) and these people were more interested in making a profit (big profit) while capitalising on the name "MX4SIO".
To the unsuspecting buyer, they think they're getting the original PSX-Place Devs' MX4SIO creation, when that's not true. And anytime these clones have problems due to using less and cheaper components (cutting corners basically) then it's MX4SIO and the Devs hard work here that takes the hit.
If those people reproduced the original MX4SIO, 100% to the original specs, then i wouldn't have a problem with it at all. I have a problem with people giving MX4SIO a bad name due to their drive for money / profits / corner cutting.
The Devs' designed MX4SIO to be the very best it could be for the end user, and then some middle men came along and ruined that hard work. Even to the point of sending their sub-par quality product to many Youtubers to review, but not under the project's real name and location (here in PSX-Place), but instead they re-branded the product as their own. For example, MC2SIO is more known than MX4SIO now.
Angry Helder was plugging his product to Youtubers (with links to buy from his website), not advertising the original project. The whole idea was people could come here and make their own d.i.y MX4SIO version, or use the gerber and BOM files available to make their own high quality version of MX4SIO + 3D printed case.
Many of you know i have done free MX4SIO give aways here on PSX-Place, another one is coming very soon (all being well) with 128GB Toshiba Exceria MicroSD cards, called the "MX4SIO Ultra Pack", because i want to give the community the original high quality MX4SIO just as the devs' had intended it to be. I also sell a few here and there to the PSX-Place community members, but i barely break even with all the costs + time + efforts, i'm just one guy with a very small bank account.
It would be really great if more people would re-produce the Devs' original high quality MX4SIO for people to buy, so we can have some balance out there. The clones took over because they are being mass-produced on the cheap (by using less components, a compromised design, and what few components they do use are of low quality) by people in the USA and in China. Some people promised to help fund the manufacturing of lots of original high quality MX4SIO to be sold at a very reasonable price, but they failed to deliver and i never heard from them again, and that's a shame. If i won the lottery i would mass produce high quality MX4SIOs 100% to the devs' specs, and flood the market selling them for a bargain.