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[–] 24 points 7 months ago (9 children)

Yeah it kinda mystifies me that anyone is still recommending that shitty bigotware.

In the emulation scene, RetroArch is in a similar boat if I'm understanding things correctly. Awful maintainers, but people keep recommending it and supporting it. Sucks too, because there are even fewer alternatives there.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Whats going on with RetroArch? I havent really paid attention/kept up since I set up my last Raspberry Pi.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    This website details various issues. I'd suggest looking at the Byuu page - as I understand it the RetroArch devs played a large role in the harrassments that were being done to the developer of Higan/bsnes, which eventually led to them killing themself.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I used retro arch a decade ago, and when setting up a emulation pi last year the consensus seemed to be batocera. No idea if its better, but it's as easy to use as I remembered and my kids are still enjoying it, so not too unstable.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Batocera is a relatively minimalist Linux distro for emulation specifically. It's one example that kind of highlights the problem I'm referring to. All of these retro software stacks still use RetroArch to varying degrees, and depend on it. Even alternative frontends like Emulation Station are just built on top of the same libraries. Or as another example, for most game systems, RetroAchievements only currently work on RetroArch.

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