Years ago I bought both a Steam Controller1 and a Logitech F310. The steam controller struggled to work at all outside of steam, was uncomfortable to use for any extended time and half the games I owned needed a ton of setup to be playable.

Despite being cheaper the Logitech worked with everything, required zero setup and is comfortable for hours. I sold my steam controller and am still happily using the F310.

To the same place everyone you know goes to when you aren’t thinking about them.

Users didn’t flock to zsnes because it was the most accurate, they used it because it completely nailed the user interface for loading, saving, input, and configuration.

“Father, bless me for I have sinned, I did an original sin… I poked a badger with a spoon.” –Eddie Izzard

I could see it working as a themed area inside a larger tourist theme park with rides and things. If most of the structure is fake just to get the look right on the surface it might not be too pricey to setup and could generate revenue just on admittance fees.

Looks like there are already interesting projects coming out of the de-compile like an unofficial android launcher:
https://github.com/Ekyso/StS2-Launcher

You are allowed to charge for most libre-licensed software, but of course in practice if it’s popular enough somebody else will just build it and undercut you.

I do wish there were more institutions funding FOSS work though it can be hard to measure the benefits and progress for individual projects.

Yeah I guess you could argue that not encrypting or obfuscating the binary makes it a bit faster to create a pirated version but it doesn’t really effect piracy rates beyond that.
I’m just happy to see a FOSS engine being noticed as important to the game’s success.

Yeah unfortunate. At least the first comments there corrected them.