They don't necessairly. There are hundreds of examples of clean-room reverse engineered decompilations, such as the ones that I have listed. The great part is that once it's done for one game, that game will forever be open source and perfectly preserved, able to be relatively trivially ported to any platform from the present pr future, indefinetly.
lewegee
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In my opinion the future of retro gaming, at least for popular games, is going to be dominated by open source decompilation-remakes. A few have already been released and have become the definitive way to play those games. They are simply the best version possible, free and open source:
Mario 64: https://github.com/n64decomp/sm64 Zelda OoT (and others that are WIP): https://github.com/zeldaret/oot Zelda ALttP: https://github.com/snesrev/zelda3 Super Metroid: https://github.com/snesrev/sm Wipeout: https://github.com/wipeout-phantom-edition/wipeout-phantom-edition Sonic 3: https://sonic3air.org/ Jak & Daxter: https://opengoal.dev/
Those are but a few of the hundreds of such projects that have been released. PC games have benefited from such ports for a long while. A more conprehensive list can be found here:
There are countless other projects that are under developement. Give it a few years and this will become the dominant way to play games, hopefully at least. They will run on everything natively, with unprecedented features (Widescreen, 60FPS+).
If it's not FOSS I'll stick with Logseq, thanks. I'm trying to transition everything I do online and on computers in general to FOSS.
I think I'm gonna keep all of them installed and rotate over the coming months. This is so exciting. It feels like we're the first on a new planet.
Tried it out. Nicest looking UI so far but it's very slow. Long loading screens for no reason. Probably because it's a PWA.
So this is the official r/piracy community?
Switched over today. Finding it surprisingly useable so far. I'm using Memmy for iOS, the best app i've found so far and it feels like a slightly jankier Apollo (to be expected since it's v0.0.2) but still very much useable.
I think I'm done with reddit for good.
I hate WhatsApp so much. I've tried multiple times to stop using it but it's so ubiquitous (at least in Europe) that it's impossible to live life without it. The only way this monopoly could be killed is EU government intervention.