• NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    As much as I like Duckstation as an emulator:

    Good for him. When the response to trying to protect the project and reduce harassment is… harassment and outlets insisting that they are shitting all over open source and continuing the false narrative that code was stolen? Fuck 'em. They don’t deserve the emulator and we don’t deserve it for letting them be the minimally opposed voices.

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    2 months ago

    I’m fully out of the loop on what’s going on, but I really hope the emulator doesn’t shut down, I love my PS1 emulation…

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    2 months ago

    Wasn’t he the same developer that decided to abandon AetherSX2 and released an update that nerfed the app?

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    Even if he shuts down the emulator, the code is out there forever. Can’t put the toothpaste back into the tube. Was this guy born yesterday?

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      2 months ago

      What do you mean? This analogy doesn’t make sense for whats happening here.

      He’s trying to avoid crap like SwanStation

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        2 months ago

        Even if he shuts down the emulator, the code is out there forever. He will be playing whackamole with forks and various other projects just like Nintendo does. The analogy absolutely works for what’s happening.

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        2 months ago

        What’s the problem with SwanStation? Forks are perfectly okay and normal with the GPL, that’s the fucking point of the GPL.

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          2 months ago

          That’s exactly why they’re changing the license. The problem with Swanstation are the developers. Retroarch in general has some pretty horrible people maintaining it and this isn’t the first time they’ve harassed an emulator dev over nothing.

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            2 months ago

            And “it is already out there so they can’t take it away”:

            swanstation is already a few versions back feature wise? But, regardless, it will rapidly become outdated as new “tech” is added to emulation and issues are found with third party libraries or code. Good software needs good support and just having a ten year old hash is almost always worse than useless.

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              2 months ago

              Is that really even true of emulators of old consoles? There’s not a lot of new features coming out for the original PlayStation. Either way, part of the reason that SwanStation is dead is that it’s not even the best libretro PS1 emulator anyway.