About the waiting list:
People are still able to register, so your place in line may appear to go back in time as the overall count grows slowly.
I admit it can be confusing. I didn't expect this project to blow up and thought that this waiting list system would work ok.
If it can reassure you, requests are always processed in the order they came in, according to the exact date and time the form was submitted.
I'm doing my best to keep production going.
Unfortunately banks don't always take small businesses seriously here so my spending limits are relatively low.
About 2/3rds of the progress bar should be filled by the end of August.
About the V0.6 mess up:
Sorry about that.
The currently available V0.6 file should force the update as soon as the console is powered up.
If you're not getting the blinking blue LED at startup, then please try using an older or lower capacity SD card just for the update process.
Be assured that whatever happens, the loader can't be bricked with those updates.
There's a protected program independent from the actual firmware which can detect and run the update file from the SD card, regardless of the state the loader was left in. Sadly that program doesn't like some of the more recent SD cards, causing it to not "see" the update file.
Boring tech details:
The mess up was caused by a mix of bad luck (testing went perfectly fine with my consoles), and the fact that the bootloader in early units doesn't like high-capacity or recent, high-performance SD cards.
-The bootloader in units which are already in the wild uses suboptimal (not buggy but incomplete !) SD card handling code.
-The firmware itself uses updated versions of that code, allowing nearly all SD cards to work for loading games.
The bootloader could technically be udpated to make the update process simpler, but there would be a non-zero risk of borking it and making further SD card updates impossible. However even if a situation caused everything to be f*ed up, the loader could always be reprogrammed via USB with a slightly modified cable.
Current plans to make things easier in the future:
-New loaders will be shipped with an updated bootloader.
-A bootloader update file for existing users will maybe be released (risk has to be considered).