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Retro Gaming Has a Port-Slop Problem (gardinerbryant.com)

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[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

The problem isn’t the good ports, it’s the broken vibe coded ports that are a worse experience than an emulator.

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[–] nightlily@leminal.space 20 points 2 weeks ago

Most of them end up using a hacked up emulator in their backend. So they push out the original reverse engineers who made them even possible.

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