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Why do people who write emulators all seem to dislike each other?
by jordemort 5y ago
Why do people who write emulators all seem to dislike each other?
- pram 5y agoA lot of emulators are basically vanity projects written by one person, so it can become super personal. Criticism can feel like an attack. My friend wrote an NES emulator decades ago and he fit this model. Got into flamewars on Zophar's Domain and such lol
- lemmiwinks 5y agoTIL https://www.zophar.net/ https://www.zophar.net/ still exists
- ChrisRR 5y agoFrom what I've seen of the emulation community, I can only think it's because many emulators are small enough that they're feasible for a single person to work on and maybe get too attached to. It's difficult to let go of your code baby, especially when you could technically do it all on your own. It's probably easier when the task is so large there's no way you could do it alone
- rnd0 5y agoEgo, and a lot of emulation devs have straight-up social problems. IE "do not play well with others". I've been following the 86Box project from the sidelines and seems to be one of the few projects that actually handles people issues well.
- touisteur 5y agoI'd add dolphin there, mostly because it's an amazing project and their write-ups are very interesting. Always learning lots of things!
- navjack27 5y agoYou ever go back on the PCem forums and see the old posts where battler would request completely ignorant things from walker? I beg to differ on 86 handling anything well. The constant PCem smearing to the point where walker just left from all the stress. I consider 86box a patchwork mess. They might strive for accuracy but I don't believe there is a full understanding of the original code.
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