Hackers and hybriders of the gt series of games will continue to use the sharkport/xport. All codes are pulled using the PS2 dis and will always be in the GS2v2/AR2 encryption which is why everyone uses those emulators. There has been no contact from MK in about 8 months. No one is aware of his situation as of now. Last time I talked to him he had mentioned that his PC was going to be down until summer, whenever that is in Finland, lol
I don't expect an updated version of the database program from him any time soon, hopefully he will reappear after the release of GT4, but if not we will again pull all the coding from the game over time with or without the program. There will be an attempt to modify the database program or GT4 gamesave to allow it to be opened in the program, but without new coding that will be pointless.