Quoting: dibz

Quoting: DesumThis is the ReDream mistake all over again but worse for the project (Flycast has pretty much replaced ReDream as the top Dreamcast Emulator). Duckstation already has a hard fork which probably has more users called Swanstation that will remain under the GPL. So why contribute bug reports and code to Duckstation when more people are using Swanstation anyway? I'll stick to Swanstation and Mednafen, thank you very much.

This developer is far too prone to flying off the handle to put much faith in, especially with the most locked down CC license there is.

You know, Swanstation was actually the related drama-with-Retroarch in the past I was referring to. Frankly, SwanStation were "the bad guys" from that situation, not the good guys.

Honestly, the current situation sounds a LOT like that situation, almost identical really. I would not be surprised if it's still the same situation resurfaced. Last time he almost closed his own project/quit, or did rather, before coming back and resuming development. This time it sounds like he's taking a different drastic approach that doesn't involve him closing his passion project.

Really if nothing else, this shows the pitfalls of open source as opposed to the virtues.

I don't think it's fair to say the guy is too prone to flying off the handle. He was driven to flying off the handle, and the aggressors were never in the right. Could he have handled it better? Sure. Should he have been in that situation? No.

I will continue to use DuckStation, personally.

The maintainers Swanstation are the good guys now. The developer of Duckstation has basically done a bait and switch on every single user. As it stands, why would I submit bug reports to Duckstation and not Swanstation?

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This is the ReDream mistake all over again but worse for the project (Flycast has pretty much replaced ReDream as the top Dreamcast Emulator). Duckstation already has a hard fork which probably has more users called Swanstation that will remain under the GPL. So why contribute bug reports and code to Duckstation when more people are using Swanstation anyway? I'll stick to Swanstation and Mednafen, thank you very much.

This developer is far too prone to flying off the handle to put much faith in, especially with the most locked down CC license there is.

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: Desum

Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: Desum"B-but these other companies are bad too"

So, if everyone else is being unethical and scummy, that makes it OK? I don't care about Sony either. Nintendo is an unethical company selling low-quality hardware and subsists mostly off of nostalgia addiction.

I'm not convinced that Nintendo is doing anything unethical.

Attacking game preservation is unethical. Selling hardware you know is defective is unethical. And those are just two very obvious examples.

Right, "game preservation", by which most people mean "free games". :tongue:

Nintendo THEMSELVES sell you ROMs originally from pirate sites, you know that, right? You are literally re-buying a copy of a a pirated game from Nintendo because they couldn't be bothered with archival until the Wii.

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: Desum"B-but these other companies are bad too"

So, if everyone else is being unethical and scummy, that makes it OK? I don't care about Sony either. Nintendo is an unethical company selling low-quality hardware and subsists mostly off of nostalgia addiction.

I'm not convinced that Nintendo is doing anything unethical.

Attacking game preservation is unethical. Selling hardware you know is defective is unethical. And those are just two very obvious examples.

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: Desum

Quoting: Mountain ManNintendo is just protecting themselves. I've never had a problem with that. They're still a great company.

No they are not. They are a soulless corporation who'd rather see games disappear forever than preserved, ultimately. They advocate for the worst kinds of DRM AND knowingly sell defective hardware to people (joycon analog drift ring a bell?) without fixing it for half a decade and counting.

Joystick drift is actually common across the industry. I know a number of Sony's more expensive controllers have suffered from it, but for whatever reason, they don't get hammered for it like Nintendo. And to be fair, Nintendo continues to offer a free Joy Con repair service, at least here in the US, so while they may not have offered the groveling apology that some people seem to want, they have implemented what I think is a reasonable remedy.

As far as game availability, they are really no better or worse than the majority of other publishers and developers in the industry. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"B-but these other companies are bad too"

So, if everyone else is being unethical and scummy, that makes it OK? I don't care about Sony either. Nintendo is an unethical company selling low-quality hardware and subsists mostly off of nostalgia addiction.

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Quoting: Mountain ManNintendo is just protecting themselves. I've never had a problem with that. They're still a great company.

No they are not. They are a soulless corporation who'd rather see games disappear forever than preserved, ultimately. They advocate for the worst kinds of DRM AND knowingly sell defective hardware to people (joycon analog drift ring a bell?) without fixing it for half a decade and counting.

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I thought Wayland's security made running Wine without xWayland a technical nightmare because of all the unsafe things Windows allows programs to do?

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Well, I'm feeling even better about my vow to never give a dime to Disney.

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Great game, but the mission installer still crashes FREQUENTLY on Linux. This has been a problem for years and I can't really excuse it at this point.

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Quoting: Tuxee

Quoting: DesumNeat gimmick, but I can't get behind proprietary emulators. I'm not even a Stallmanist, but the point of emulation is preservation. Having your emulator be closed sauce runs counter to that.

Why? This emulator does all sorts of things, but it does definitely not "preserve".

Quoting: Tuxee

Quoting: DesumNeat gimmick, but I can't get behind proprietary emulators. I'm not even a Stallmanist, but the point of emulation is preservation. Having your emulator be closed sauce runs counter to that.

Why? This emulator does all sorts of things, but it does definitely not "preserve".

Yes it does. But with a 3D gimmick.

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