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This sucks. Just a couple of days after I updated our best emulators on Android article, featuring Duckstation as the best PS1 emulator around, it turns out that
There seems to be a pattern here where the community has a (possible?) minority of extremely negative people who make life difficult for developers who are giving away their software for free.
Reverse engineering an entire piece of hardware, and re-implementing that as code, must be such an involved task. The PS1’s hardware is absolutely bananas to me - I tried to learn to use PsyQ (the Psygnosis SDK) years ago and the furthest I got was flashing some multi-colored text on the screen because you had to understand the hardware at a fairly low level (buffers, z-tables, and a bunch of other shit) just to get sprites working iirc.
I just don’t get the sense of entitlement from a userbase who aren’t paying anything for the emulators, the games (in most cases), and aren’t even contributing to the code themselves because they don’t want to put the work in, but will happily cause stress to the devs without thinking twice about it?
Yeah. You see the same thing happen with videogame mod devs. You know someone’s been through it when they have comments turned off
You just need a loud minority screaming to seem as a majority, and from that you manipulate the target as you wish.