• mesa@lemmy.worldOP
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    My suggestion, get as many private copies of emulators you can before they go after all the Github ones. Seems to be more and more take-downs are happening lately.

    It really is too bad we dont have a federated github alternative. I know theres some projects in development, but I can see the emulator scene getting harder and harder to get into if popular repos go down. Decades of work, gone.

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      We do have a federated GitHub alternative. Perhaps not too mature yet, but it does indeed exist. Forgejo

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        I just discovered that this is Codeberg - I’ve seen a lot of projects there and I had no idea that it was an instance of Forgejo

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      Get a device or two, as well.

      Your computer may very well get obsolete when it comes to software support.

      A handheld or console meant to be an emulation console won’t have to move through time. It’ll be as it is after the day you’re done setting it up, like a hacked console.

      Your PC has to keep up with web standards, codecs, online goings on but dedicated, offline devices do not. I may choose an SBC to do this to, and make a copy of the partition housing the emulators and boot drive for safe keeping.

      I also have two different raspberrypi emulation images. Since those are literally everywhere, it’s a sure bet you’ll be able to find one to put the sd card into, even years from now.

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          just don’t do it

          Oh, that’s a good idea. Never thought of just tossing my entire childhood and lifetime hobby away because a stranger thinks keeping up with less than a terabyte of old games is hard.

          Lmao. Some of us aren’t vegetables.

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              Get rekt by AAA cock, sheepdick. Pay that subscription lmao. Hail corpo!

              Sounds like someone couldn’t get past the retroarch GUI. Oh well, maybe they’ll put it on gamepass for you someday.

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                  You’re a special kind of…

                  Copypasted reply? Really?

                  Fucking hilarious coming from someone giving a blowie to Bowser. Or other than scrappy Nintendo, every other game company is a AAA slop-serving corpo in your delusionland

                  Nah, fuck them too. They don’t get a pass. They’re in the sack with the rest of the greedy shits. Nintendo doesn’t even make up the bulk of most classic romsets size, Sony does.

                  Ah elitism too. Figures. Are you going to say you Arch btw next? Which part of ‘I don’t give a shit about Nintendo classics’ was too difficult to get into your brain? Or were you too busy getting pegged by Princess Peach?

                  Is arch another tree you can’t climb? Pegged by princess peach?

                  (if you must know, yeah, my desktop runs arch)

                  Quit projecting, bro. Insults don’t have to come from so deep in the heart. I don’t need to know you that well 🤣