This just popped up in a feed of mine, looks like an interesting project bringing retro games to new consoles. I guess I’m wondering what other’s think. Would you be willing to buy your old game again?

  • endslavemorality@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    A lot of hype for what amounts to just a proprietary Retroarch. I wish some company could use the same approach but sell these games dirty cheap, like the old PC games magazines we used to have, instead of making premium collectables.

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      1 year ago

      Tbh there is a good place in the world for “just a proprietary retroarch”. Someone’s gotta do the work to bind open source emulators to the proprietary sdks, and nintendo/sony/maybems? Don’t let you do that in public code.

      So an engine like this, if its basically just a case of dropping a rom in and customising a few menu screens, could help get a lot of things ported to modern systems if companies didn’t want to put in the effort before.

      They hype is really just to spread that word to other companies likely.

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        1 year ago

        Right, this isn’t a marketing page to tell the general public about a new emulator system we can all start trying out or using to port old games. It’s a business-to-business marketing page trying to get other game studios on board to port their back catalog.