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This YouTube video by Modern Vintage Gamer might be an interesting watch, for people interested in PS4 emulators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZvSEdFGyxE ht

This YouTube video by Modern Vintage Gamer might be an interesting watch, for people interested in PS4 emulators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZvSEdFGyxE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZvSEdFGyxE

0points 2y ago
MVG is just a clueless hypetrain.
- privacyking 2y ago
  Citation required
  - eur0pa 2y ago
    Do not trust people who speak in SEO
  - 0points 2y ago
    Watch his videos and be the judge. He don't code, he hardly understands the hardware he is covering. He constantly makes stupid "predictions".
    - radicalbyte 2y ago
      He's a games developer and an ex-member of the cracker scene. His technical chops are stronger than many people here.
      - monoau 2y ago
        I feel bad for the people blindly defending him, many of his videos are wrong [1] and his viewers end up incorrectly learning a lot technical stuff, especially when there're actual knowledgeable youtubers out there. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41309281 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41309281
        Rinzler89 2y ago
        > especially when there're actual knowledgeable youtubers out there Care to share them?
      - 0points 2y ago
        Maybe you too just don't understand the topics he is covering well enough to realize he's a phony.
        radicalbyte 2y ago
        He is fairly accurate about topics I have expertise on - modding of the PS1 / PS2 / GC / Xbox / Wii - and has his explanations of videos he made on 8/16-bit generations have been accurate. I can't say much about his videos linked in another post (about PS1 shimmering) as I haven't touched graphics programming / APIs (beyond coding a very basic 3d rendering engine which ran on the CPU). After reading some of the linked discussions - yes he does appear to have posted some bullshit. That doesn't make all of his content bullshit though, and doesn't make him "non technical". The fact that he has shipped several games on constrained platforms is proof that he is technical. He does now go into the same box as I put 99.9% of content creators in - entertaining but don't trust them on the details.
    - mavamaarten 2y ago
      Not really. I agree that these days his videos are of mediocre quality and more speculative than based on facts. But he is a coder, he has a history of developing an emulator running on the Xbox 360 I believe.
    - valianteffort 2y ago
      Odd I've seen multiple videos where he does code, albeit simple examples but still low level C stuff. His video explaining how the original gameboy graphics work is pretty informative imo. I suppose he could just be parroting stuff he has found online but I wouldn't call him clueless.
    - bane 2y ago
      He appears to have a long history in emulation and games development and is presently works as a lead dev at limited run games. What are your claims based on?
      - privacyking 2y ago
        Yeah the OP has no idea what they're talking about. MVG has demonstrable technical skills. OP has none.
        tigeroil 2y ago
        Funnily enough from the way that he talks in his videos I always assumed he wasn't that knowledgeable, until I found out more about him and realised what an incredibly skilled programmer he actually is. I think maybe he just comes off that way because of how he presents things in videos.
        hnlmorg 2y ago
        The problem with making hard things sound accessible for wider audiences, is that people who understand the hard stuff natively then cannot separate the layman’s explanation from the technical capabilities of the person making those explanations. Perhaps ironically, over the years I’ve found it’s those who cannot look past the tech-jargon to be the lesser experienced because they learn the words without fully understanding the concepts.
        serf 2y ago
        >The problem with making hard things sound accessible for wider audiences, is that people who understand the hard stuff natively then cannot separate the layman’s explanation from the technical capabilities of the person making those explanations. it can also be the case that the 'laymen explanation' is actually patently wrong -- not just over-simplified or 'dumbed-down'; wrong. some things just require a certain level of background knowledge; this is why generally any 'celebrity scientist' explanation of anything with the word 'quantum' in the subject line is generally just down-right wrong. there is no decent metaphor by which to onboard a laymen in certain technical topics. that isn't to say that the 'wrong' answers don't have value in educating the laymen, but the liberties that some experts take in 'wrongness allowance' is quite different from one another. personally I think it's the responsibility of the explainer to step aside at some point and say : "Look, this is wrong, but without the background this is as close as I can get you to understanding this thing, so just don't take what I say as gospel from this point forward." -- the reason this is important is simply due to the fact that the laymen doesn't stand a chance at finding out which parts are wishy-washy by themselves without some further guidance. not mentioning where the fairy tale begins is what leads people into thinking that there is actually an alive/dead cat out there somewhere. they grasp the metaphor itself rather than the statistics concept that is being explored.
    - deelowe 2y ago
      He developed the Shantae port which I believed included emulation development. He’s released a few games with limited run games. In the 2000s he ported several emulators to the original Xbox.
  - monoau 2y ago
    Many mistakes that are never corrected, still misinforming people: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26222361 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26222361 https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/fnl0o1/why_playstation_1_graphics_warped_and_wobbled_so/flamnve/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/fnl0o1/why_playstati...
    - donatj 2y ago
      Reading the follow up comments on the Reddit tread, it seems more like people misinterpreted what he said than him having been wrong.
      - monoau 2y ago
        I can only say that after watching the respective video, I found MVG's explanation to misinterpret fundamental concepts of computing graphics, as the linked comment explains. Granted, everyone can make mistakes - but it's the fact that he doesn't correct them that I find disrespectful, it only spreads wrong information!
        Narishma 2y ago
        Not only did he not correct the info, he repeated the mistake in a newer video. I stopped watching him after that.
- GaggiX 2y ago
  Well, this time he was very right, just two weeks after the Bloodborne character screen, the game is already in-game.
  - egypturnash 2y ago
    Hey, that’s pretty much on par with how long it took for the initial release of the game to load, before From did a massive round of optimization!
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- TheRoque 2y ago
  Do you have an alternative ? For some informative, yet entertaining tech youtuber focused on gaming ?
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0points 2y ago

MVG is just a clueless hypetrain.

privacyking 2y ago
Citation required
- eur0pa 2y ago
  Do not trust people who speak in SEO
- 0points 2y ago
  Watch his videos and be the judge. He don't code, he hardly understands the hardware he is covering. He constantly makes stupid "predictions".
  - radicalbyte 2y ago
    He's a games developer and an ex-member of the cracker scene. His technical chops are stronger than many people here.
    - monoau 2y ago
      I feel bad for the people blindly defending him, many of his videos are wrong [1] and his viewers end up incorrectly learning a lot technical stuff, especially when there're actual knowledgeable youtubers out there. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41309281 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41309281
      - Rinzler89 2y ago
        > especially when there're actual knowledgeable youtubers out there Care to share them?
    - 0points 2y ago
      Maybe you too just don't understand the topics he is covering well enough to realize he's a phony.
      - radicalbyte 2y ago
        He is fairly accurate about topics I have expertise on - modding of the PS1 / PS2 / GC / Xbox / Wii - and has his explanations of videos he made on 8/16-bit generations have been accurate. I can't say much about his videos linked in another post (about PS1 shimmering) as I haven't touched graphics programming / APIs (beyond coding a very basic 3d rendering engine which ran on the CPU). After reading some of the linked discussions - yes he does appear to have posted some bullshit. That doesn't make all of his content bullshit though, and doesn't make him "non technical". The fact that he has shipped several games on constrained platforms is proof that he is technical. He does now go into the same box as I put 99.9% of content creators in - entertaining but don't trust them on the details.
  - mavamaarten 2y ago
    Not really. I agree that these days his videos are of mediocre quality and more speculative than based on facts. But he is a coder, he has a history of developing an emulator running on the Xbox 360 I believe.
  - valianteffort 2y ago
    Odd I've seen multiple videos where he does code, albeit simple examples but still low level C stuff. His video explaining how the original gameboy graphics work is pretty informative imo. I suppose he could just be parroting stuff he has found online but I wouldn't call him clueless.
  - bane 2y ago
    He appears to have a long history in emulation and games development and is presently works as a lead dev at limited run games. What are your claims based on?
    - privacyking 2y ago
      Yeah the OP has no idea what they're talking about. MVG has demonstrable technical skills. OP has none.
      - tigeroil 2y ago
        Funnily enough from the way that he talks in his videos I always assumed he wasn't that knowledgeable, until I found out more about him and realised what an incredibly skilled programmer he actually is. I think maybe he just comes off that way because of how he presents things in videos.
        hnlmorg 2y ago
        The problem with making hard things sound accessible for wider audiences, is that people who understand the hard stuff natively then cannot separate the layman’s explanation from the technical capabilities of the person making those explanations. Perhaps ironically, over the years I’ve found it’s those who cannot look past the tech-jargon to be the lesser experienced because they learn the words without fully understanding the concepts.
        serf 2y ago
        >The problem with making hard things sound accessible for wider audiences, is that people who understand the hard stuff natively then cannot separate the layman’s explanation from the technical capabilities of the person making those explanations. it can also be the case that the 'laymen explanation' is actually patently wrong -- not just over-simplified or 'dumbed-down'; wrong. some things just require a certain level of background knowledge; this is why generally any 'celebrity scientist' explanation of anything with the word 'quantum' in the subject line is generally just down-right wrong. there is no decent metaphor by which to onboard a laymen in certain technical topics. that isn't to say that the 'wrong' answers don't have value in educating the laymen, but the liberties that some experts take in 'wrongness allowance' is quite different from one another. personally I think it's the responsibility of the explainer to step aside at some point and say : "Look, this is wrong, but without the background this is as close as I can get you to understanding this thing, so just don't take what I say as gospel from this point forward." -- the reason this is important is simply due to the fact that the laymen doesn't stand a chance at finding out which parts are wishy-washy by themselves without some further guidance. not mentioning where the fairy tale begins is what leads people into thinking that there is actually an alive/dead cat out there somewhere. they grasp the metaphor itself rather than the statistics concept that is being explored.
  - deelowe 2y ago
    He developed the Shantae port which I believed included emulation development. He’s released a few games with limited run games. In the 2000s he ported several emulators to the original Xbox.
- monoau 2y ago
  Many mistakes that are never corrected, still misinforming people: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26222361 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26222361 https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/fnl0o1/why_playstation_1_graphics_warped_and_wobbled_so/flamnve/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/fnl0o1/why_playstati...
  - donatj 2y ago
    Reading the follow up comments on the Reddit tread, it seems more like people misinterpreted what he said than him having been wrong.
    - monoau 2y ago
      I can only say that after watching the respective video, I found MVG's explanation to misinterpret fundamental concepts of computing graphics, as the linked comment explains. Granted, everyone can make mistakes - but it's the fact that he doesn't correct them that I find disrespectful, it only spreads wrong information!
      - Narishma 2y ago
        Not only did he not correct the info, he repeated the mistake in a newer video. I stopped watching him after that.
GaggiX 2y ago
Well, this time he was very right, just two weeks after the Bloodborne character screen, the game is already in-game.
- egypturnash 2y ago
  Hey, that’s pretty much on par with how long it took for the initial release of the game to load, before From did a massive round of optimization!
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TheRoque 2y ago
Do you have an alternative ? For some informative, yet entertaining tech youtuber focused on gaming ?

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