[Gameross]

Making Emu compatible with any off the shelf package isn't going to work.

The issue is that Sonys packages can contain a client that was never available from the Sony patcher, so people would have to keep buying these packages to keep playing Emu. Every release/update I've installed has always resulted in a client download even though I just installed it.

Sony might as well not bother to put the client on the CD/DVD. Maybe they don't. Never bothered to look.

Also, as people have pointed out, there is availability issues with these complete package distributions.

This project is basicly dying a slow death as long as you don't keep Emu compatible to live. This came very evident to me when I hadn't played Emu for a over a year and found less than half the servers there were when I last played. This could easily be attributed to the fact that people can't get the client to even try playing.