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I thought that quote was great. The modding community always amazes me for their frequent dedication without any kind of financial reward or recognition.
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Where are the Mario clones? I'd love some good Mario clones. Instead they all seem to be Double Dragon/Castlevania/Metroid clones
I favor Braid, a Mario clone with a time-travel button. :P
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My favorite reason is that games from 10 years ago still run, and as a last resort I can fire up a VM, on a modern computer. My N64 cartridges, meanwhile, stopped working in new machines as soon as the Gamecube came out. And if the console ever dies, they get harder and harder to find.
Wat? One of the things I like about consoles is that they are plug 'n play. No fiddling with trying to get emulation settings just right.
You can fiddle, and get 1080p out of your N64 emulator, but that's usually not required, in at least the past few years. Further back (possibly significantly) yeah, they were pretty awful for everyday users.
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But Peter's method, as he himself said, isn't good enough for software that would be released by a company for people to use: > Thoman says the difference between his fixes and official patches are primarily an issue of quality assurance. “When I write and program something, I make sure I didn’t make any obvious errors, and then I just release it,” Thoman told WIRED. “If it works for 90 percent of people, I already c…
What's wrong with having having a checkbox to "Enable experimental renderer" and let people tweak the settings there? Certainly that's better than restricting your entire customer base because some of them don't have the right setup.
People might complain that your car's top speed is 60mph, and that the acceleration is crap, and that is bad for your car and company's reputation.
It would be much worse if there was a switch a driver could flip that would double the speed and acceleration, but would soimetimes eject the windshield, exhaust pipe, and door handles.