July 28, 2004

New Modchips, Factory Expansion,  Shipment Delay.

Time for some more news.

1) Sorry to everyone for the delay in the last shipment. The last two weeks have been really full of delay from our suppliers. The last two weeks shipments are going out only tomorrow to our distributors.

Please give our distributors until Monday 02/August/2004 to receive the goods and distribute them.

2) On the good news side, we are undergoing a full factory expansions, and we will be able to make in house all the assembly process. This should give us the possibility to be always regular in production and shipping.

July 27, 2004

V1.3 Upgrade for the Infinity.

Like most of you already know the V1.3 Upgrade for the Infinity is practically ready from the development team since more than one month.

The problem is that the chief responsible of implementing the Upgrade code underwent a small surgical operation for a minor form of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. 

He was supposed to fully recover about two weeks ago, but until know he still is not able to work.

We have now a new assistant programmer that is undergoing training with him now.

We hope to complete his training and recover all the lost time as soon as possible.

April 29, 2004

Shipments Delay .

Due to the many holydays in this period we will have a  delay in this week shipments.

All shipments will leave on Monday or Tuesday next when the shipping companies will start again to work.

April 20, 2004 

Serious DNS problems.

From the 17/04/2004 until 20/04/2004 we had a major DNS problem.

The website servers and the mail server where offline during most of these days.

If you sent us an E-Mail and DIDN'T receive a reply until now it probably got lost during these problems.

PLEASE SEND IT TO US AGAIN.

April 9, 2004

Infinity Diagrams On-Line.

Diagrams for Infinity are on-line HERE.

The new web site will be on-line in the coming days with the full guide for installing and using the Infinity.

April 6, 2004

Infinity shipped.

We finally started to ship the first batch of Infinity. 

All of our distributor will start to receive some pieces in the coming days to start covering their orders.

Unfortunately the testing equipment is still working slow, only 800 pieces/day now, so we ship daily what we test.

We are updating in the coming hours all the website.

It was a very long road full of unexpected problem. Thanks to everyone for supporting and being patience with us :)

We hope you will enjoy this product and appreciate all the work that it took from us.

March 30, 2004

Infinity slight delay.

The good news is that we have a full batch of Infinity sitting in our store ready to be tested.

The bad news is that we are facing from more than 2 weeks a mechanical problem on the new testing machine that is practically bringing the testing capacity to only 200 pieces day.

We are working very hard side to side with the manufacturer of the machinery to solve this mechanical problem, and we really hope to have it solved in the coming hours.

A big sorry for this delay goes to all of the people that are waiting for the release of the Infinity and also to all of our distributors. 

Just give us a few more hours to fix everything and we will start to test and ship the material.

March 05, 2004

MXL2 USA is also V1-V2 compatible.

The USA MXL2 was designed with V1-V2 compatibility inside but we never had the opportunity to test it on a real machine. For this reason the V1-V2 models were not included in the compatibility list.

Now it has been tested, so we finally are able to announce that the USA MXL2 is also V1-V2 compatible.

A very big thanks goes to w1ze0ne for his time and effort in the testing of the support of the V1-V2 model and also to N£TM£ÇH of www.americanmodz.com for supporting him during installation/testing. 

Diagrams are available HERE.

February 25, 2004

Clarifications for the purchasers of FAKE MXL2.

Due to the recent increase of reports of faulty products coming from the well known resellers of FAKED MXL2, we want to clarify once for all that we CANNOT offer support for this product because we do not have any idea about what kind of code they placed inside and also we have no idea about their production process.

If you are one of the many people writing to us in the last days complaining about these fakes we can only give you one suggestion: 

Bring it back to the shop where you purchased it and pretend to get your money back.

February 15, 2004

A first guide to help people identify FAKE MXL2 is On-Line HERE.

We also placed a comparison chart to help people understand the difference between our Original MXL2 and the various FAKES present into the market.

Due to high request, we will also start to keep a list of companies selling FAKE MXL-2.

Soon On-Line also a small program to be burned on a CD that will automatically check your PS2 and detect if you have an Original or Fake MXL2 installed.

January 13, 2004

GAMEFREAX (www.gamefreax.com) has been removed from our Official Reseller List.

We discovered that the guys at Gamefreax are selling FAKE MXL-2.

We proceeded immediately to remove them from our Official Reseller List to avoid any confusions between the two products.

If you are buying from them BE ADVISED that you are NOT buying an original ACTEL based MXL-2 but a FAKE Modchip based on a lower quality processor and low quality code. 

We will not offer any support for this FAKE MXL-2 and from any other product sold by Gamefreax using the MXL-2 name or our name. 

January 12, 2004

FAKE PAL MXL-2 PRESENT IN THE MARKET !!! 

Like every good product also our MXL2 got someone trying to copy it.

This peoples "www.matrixmod.com" and all of their distributors, are offering a FAKE MXL2. 

BEWARE !!!

The code inside IS NOT our MXL-2 code.

They are using Xilinx processors, erasing the Xilinx name and marking them as ACTEL !!

If you buy their product you are paying a "Ripper clone" or "Magic clone" at the same price of our

original ACTEL -MXL2 Chip.

We are preparing an online guide to help all of you identify in a quick way an ORIGINAL MXL2

from a FAKE MXL2.

This people also released some strange chip called "Infinity".

This has NOTHING to do with our INFINITY.

The release of OUR INFINITY is postponed until we fix a new system to avoid confusion with this FAKE products !!

December 18, 2003

Today we finally shipped the first batch of NTSC (USA) MXL2.

They will be available for purchase to the public by the middle of next week.

Check our resellers list HERE 

December 16, 2003

We shipped the first batch of V10 compatible MXL2 to our distributors today. 

We analyzed different V10 BIOS, and found that the actual MXL2 was working only with some of them. 

To avoid any kind of confusion we decided than to issue a new code upgrade for the MXL2 to make it compatible with all V10 Bios present in the market.

To identify a V3-V9 MXL2 from a V3-V10 we adopted a COLOR CODE over the Actel Chip:

                        

WHITE DOT = V3-V9	GREEN DOT = V3-V10

All the MXL2 shipped from this week onward will be V3-V10 compatible (GREEN DOT).

A temporary installation diagrams for PAL V10 is available HERE.

December 7, 2003

Unfortunately the first batch of INFINITY id delayed due to NON-Availability of empty IC.

The supplier is now giving us the 15th of January as expected delivery date of empty IC.

November 11, 2003

Matrix INFINITY completed!!  

Finally, after much delay due to the new 5000x PS2 release, we completed the INFINITY project.

Test phase will now commence, and we hope to have the first batch ready for the end of the November, first week of December.

Outstanding New Features for this chip are:

1)  DVD Region Free implemented On-Chip.

2)  Only one Mod for V3-V9 PAL/USA/JAP  versions.  

3)  Only 18 wires for V3-V8 models and 19 wires for V9 models.

4)  Macrovision=OFF and Green Fix for DVD movies.

5)  Automatic boot for all media types (PS2/PSX/DVD MOVIES)

No more need to select a boot mode or press buttons for PSX games or DVD movies !!!

All media will be recognized from the Modchip and correct boot mode will be automatically selected !! 

We hope you will enjoy this new product as much as you are enjoying our existing ones ;-)

October 26, 2003

MXL2 V9 diagrams for all version are fully On-Line and available. Click HERE.

October 23, 2003

V9 diagrams are On-Line for now as a .zip file. Get them from the MXL2 page.

October 17, 2003

We are late!! :-)

We got some late issues with some of our suppliers and the custom, so we didn't catch the release date of the 10th of October :-(  .

On the good side, we received today the first batch of chips.

We will spend today and tomorrow to make some quality controls, and will ship to our resellers starting from Monday 20 October 2003.

Sorry again for the delay guys, but we are sure that once you will have the product in your hands, you will appreciate our hard work ;-).

September 25, 2003

Time for some news!! :-)

We moved the site to new and faster servers, so if you where unable to reach the site in the last two days we are very sorry. 

On a good side, we completed the PAL V9 (5000x) support for the MXL modchip line.

The new MXL will have many new features. We are waiting for the first batch of PCB to arrive from our supplier to publish some pictures and the new characteristic.

Release date for our European clients will be around October 10 2003.

April 05, 2003

The new Domain Name and site are ready and online!! Old Site will not be any more updated.

Bookmark the new site now!!!

April  02,  2003

We completed design and prototype production of our new and latest chip, "The Matrix INFINITY".

The chip has many features similar to the DNS3 modchip, but it is improved in many significant features.

We where hoping to release it this week, but testing is taking more time than what was expected, mainly

because we want to be 100% sure about compatibility with every PS2 console available on the market.

Details will be released soon!!

Just keep in touch with us for some more exciting news in the coming weeks.

March 10, 2003

First world chip with 18 wires is finally available. 

The first batch of Matrix DNS-1004 (MXL) has been just delivered to our main reseller. 

Another "FIRST" for THE MATRIX TEAM!!! 

Congratulations to all the members and collaborators for completing this new project.

February 26, 2003 

Matrix DNS-1004 (MXL) project is complete!! We Expect to have the first batch of product 

to be available within two Weeks.

February 06, 2003

Development and testing continues for our two new exciting projects:

a) The first world chip with only 18 wires!!  (Code Name "MXL")

    This chip will be designed specifically for the PAL consoles (European, UK, Australia, etc). 

b) A new chip, Code Name "INFINITY".

    It will be an universal chip, that will include all features available from other different chips on the 

    market, but greatly improved and optimized. 

    A chip where nothing will need to be improved. 

November 22, 2002

First batch of Matrix DNS-1003 (MX3) shipped today.

- FIRST universal DNS (Definitive No Swap) Modchip!! (One chip is suitable for any PAL or NTSC version.)

- FIRST no swap chip to have the MACROVISION=OFF ability integrated on board.