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It's a rarity to see a comments section in r/emulation that isn't just endless screaming about AI code

• amelius 23d ago
  Why is it a problem? Sounds to me like emulation is a very good fit for AI.
  • Cthulhu_ 23d ago
    I can imagine some people feel like it's cheating because they did it the hard way. I have much respect for those people and their skillset and I hope AI doesn't discourage them.
    • phoghed 23d ago
      Hopefully as AI coding continues to improve they’ll come to view it like chess players do Stockfish
      • protonbob 23d ago
        But playing chess is a game already.
    • goodmythical 23d ago
      Yeah, I'm really pissed at all these car drivers doing marathons in 26 minutes because I've been working on it for years and can't get my time below 4 hrs.
      • dmonterocrespo 23d ago
        Even though I used AI, it took me months to decipher parts of the emulation. I had to study, and I loved learning things I didn't know. It's also a very beautiful learning path; everything related to technology is magical. Engineers from all over the world are trying to revive the iPod and products that are no longer commercially available.
  • ChrisRR 23d ago
    They don't normally give a reason. Just picking a few random examples https://old.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/1wbapys/zevora_emulator_zeebo/ https://old.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/1wbapys/zevora_e... https://old.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/1w8b6rk/ruzu_is_a_nintendo_switch_emulator_using_llm/ https://old.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/1w8b6rk/ruzu_is_... https://old.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/1vz9na6/pc_ports_of_old_console_games_are_the_new_ai_vibe/ https://old.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/1vz9na6/pc_ports...
  • butokai 23d ago
    I think another problem is: vibecoded emulators (like this one seems to be?) are likely to be a stunt, a cool project, but will not be maintained. Upstreaming this to qemu requires at least some human effort, and it is not very likely to happen. So we are left with a cool trick.
  • strangecasts 23d ago
    Some communities are particular about maintaining cleanroom reverse-engineering (case in point: Portal 64 getting taken down for using Nintendo's leaked N64 SDK and not the OSS libdragon SDK) and are wary of people submitting AI-generated PRs without being able to account for their sources