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jimjimjimjim

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    Comment #31095811

    Thank you :) Users have to upload their own games. You can only play games that you upload. It's like backing up your music to google drive and not sharing it with anyone :)

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    Comment #31094643

    I was sick of this so I made an online emulation platform https://afterplay.io . It's the easiest way to play your retro games.

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    Comment #30917836

    Cool idea. I could imagine a version of this being used by whistleblower to get data out of a company. Maybe a web version and they could capture the data with a voice recording ap…

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    Comment #30627394

    I built Afterplay when I wanted to be able to play Pokémon on my desktop and continue from where I left off on my iPhone later. Would love to hear your feedback and answer any ques…

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    Comment #29118794

    Sometimes there are some manual interventions that you may have to perform.

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    Comment #28302191

    Have you thought about building a site where users could order framed posters of any address they like using the output of this library? I think that would be cool

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    Comment #27199647

    Thank you :) I sure hope so but I don't see why not. It's kind of like uploading cd backups to google drive or dropbox. Users should only upload ROMs of games they own of course.

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    Comment #27196754

    They're based on web assembly ports of mGBA and SNES9x. The rest is built on firebase. Front end is Vue. That is really cool!

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    Comment #27196697

    Yes exactly! I contacted the developer of Anguna and got his permission to include it

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    Show HN: Online Game Emulation Platform – Afterplay.io

    Hello HN users, I made a web app that allows you to upload any SNES or GameBoy ROM file and play right within the web browser. It’s called Afterplay.io. It got a lot of upvotes on …

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    Comment #27183585

    Thank you very much! Yes I used Emscripten to compile the emulators. I plan on adding more emulators soon.

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    Comment #26949292

    It's a strange video for Apple. It surprised me.

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    Comment #26882161

    Yep anywhere in the world! And the nice thing is that a lot of people buy the products so manufacturing issues are usually brought to light and you get extended warranty for that i…

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    Comment #26880291

    I think it's worth it. I'm at the point where I think any non apple laptop is a waste of money. I own a software consultancy and charge about $700 a day for my time. My MacBook reg…

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    Comment #26779562

    I think the beauty of the switch statement is that when you see one you know you're just concentrating on the value of one variable. I think the if else if is actually cleaner for …

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