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DuckStation Creator Considers Shutting Down Emulator Amid License Change (www.retronews.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/retrogaming

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] anyhow2503 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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 But, regardless, it will rapidly become outdated as new "tech" is added to emulation and issues are found with third party libraries or code.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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 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.