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> ZSNES is forgotten and overtaken by many more that have done the proper thing. When ZSNES did its thing, which, just to remind people, was back when Pentium
by com2kid 4y ago
> ZSNES is forgotten and overtaken by many more that have done the proper thing.
When ZSNES did its thing, which, just to remind people, was back when Pentium IIs ruled the roost and CPUs topped out at 450mhz, doing things the proper way was not a choice because the proper way needed 3x the CPU power of doing things the ZSNES way that worked.
Dolphin became popular because it could actually play games, and I bet if they had instead spent an extra 3 or 4 years working on code that was "correct" without releasing anything, well odds are they wouldn't have such a large following and would not have attracted so many contributors.
Users do not benefit from "perfect code" that they never get to use because it is still in development.