this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2024
104 points (99.1% liked)

RetroGaming

19785 readers
243 users here now

Vintage gaming community.

Rules:

  1. Be kind.
  2. No spam or soliciting for money.
  3. No racism or other bigotry allowed.
  4. Obviously nothing illegal.

If you see these please report them.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Xylinna
Tenthrow
gts
104
DuckStation Creator Considers Shutting Down Emulator Amid License Change (www.retronews.com)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/retrogaming
13 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/25334050

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] [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 But, regardless, it will rapidly become outdated as new "tech" is added to emulation and issues are found with third party libraries or code.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.

[โ€“] [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.