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RE: Your views on the emulation world - Nightingale - Dec 20th, 2022 (Dec 19th, 2022, 03:37 AM)Maniakkid25 Wrote: My God, man. That's SO cool! I do realize that I come across as some sort of digital garbage colector, but I wanna try that too XD RE: Your views on the emulation world - Maniakkid25 - Dec 20th, 2022 I'll be honest, I'm a fan of Jank, too. I was more trying to crack wise about the Jaguar when I originally said that comment about wanting a Jaguar emulator. But more than historical preservation, I like Jank because they're useful as teaching tools on what NOT to do. Oh, sure, there are masterclasses out there, but you can learn a lot from the dissection of games like American Hero and Neuro (and if you've never heard of Neuro, YOU ARE IN FOR A TRIP AND A HALF!) about what went wrong and why. It's WAY more interesting than just watching games that do it right! RE: Your views on the emulation world - Nightingale - Dec 20th, 2022 (Dec 20th, 2022, 01:17 AM)Maniakkid25 Wrote: Nah, I totally get you and I never thought that you had ill-intentions with your comment - if anything, I really dig your sense of humor! And I agree, it is always a good learning experience to pay a visit to the lowest of lows and to see what they contributed to the highest of highs. That Neuro thing... wow. It is absolutely damming to the whole gaming scene that it got ignored at E3. Like, Holy Hell. RE: Your views on the emulation world - Dragon Lord - Dec 20th, 2022 So I found out that Mumu (one of the various Android emulator companies out there) released a new version of the program back in August called Mumu Player X. What's the different between it and normal Mumu? Mainly that X uses Android 12 as a base for its OS. As fare as I am aware, it's the only emulator to run the newest version of Android. I believe Bluestacks runs the next highest version of Android, that being Android 9. This is pretty big for the performance of the emulator. I'm a big fan of Mumu, so when I found out about Mumu X, of course I had to download it and give it a try right away. It's performance is very good so far. I might stick to using this until GPGB finally gets around to adding Azur Lane and Neural Cloud (or AL at the very least -- I can stick to playing NC on my phone and tablet). There's a setting that emulators need to have turned on, but GPG makes you turn off, so I can't run both at the same time, and every time you turn the setting on or off, you have to restart you computer. So until all of my games are on GPG, I think I'll stick to using Mumu X for convenience. RE: Your views on the emulation world - Moonface - Jul 20th, 2023 What Happened to Dolphin on Steam? I'm sure most of you here are aware of the story about plans for Dolphin on Steam falling apart, but if not then a quick catch-up is that back in March, a page was put onto the Steam store for the Dolphin emulator. The page was then removed in May, and the people behind Dolphin announced the release on Steam would be postponed indefinitely, after a DMCA request was sent by Nintendo due to the emulator containing a key in its source code that is used to encrypt Wii game discs. A Nintendo spokesperson stated that Dolphin "illegally circumvents Nintendo's protection measures" and that "illegal emulators or illegal copies of games harms development and ultimately stifles innovation". Since then, not much has really been said about the whole ordeal, until the people behind Dolphin decided to put out this during the night: https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2023/07/20/what-happened-to-dolphin-on-steam/ Here are a few notable takeaways from the whole statement: Dolphin Emulator Wrote: Nintendo's Lawyers Wrote: Dolphin Emulator Wrote: Dolphin Emulator Wrote: It's an overall rather interesting read just because it clears a lot of the uncertainty over what exactly happened. For example, that Valve reached out to Nintendo over putting the emulator on their store, and that it was not a DMCA takedown. All in all though, as long as Nintendo doesn't decide to pursue this any further, it ultimately doesn't affect much, and the only benefit Dolphin had from being on Steam was that cloud saves would be possible using Steam. Other than that I get the impression it would've just been the same as just downloading it the way everyone has been doing so for years already. I've never had a reason to use Dolphin myself but I hope nothing happens to it only because of how it helps with game preservation. Nintendo can piss and moan about how it "stifles innovation" all they want but that's a pretty weak argument against an emulator being used for older games that are no longer sold nor playable on current systems, barring whatever ones got ported or remade or whatever. |