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amenome@anemone@ebiverse.social (2026-10-16 07:14:15)
@sandalphon@kinryouku.tenshi.zip @sun@shitposter.world also first sale doctrine applies for physical discs so can’t be an issue there
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Dagda@dagda@netzsphaere.xyz (2026-10-16 07:21:36)
@anemone @sandalphon @sun 
maybe they don't want to go the extra mile to make emulation decent (with their own software)?
Look at the abominations Nintendo shits out these days, getting something on screen is different than reaching full compatibility with a huge legacy library. And you need some amount of polish if you distribute the old titles with emulators digitally. I'd be fine with them just dropping ROMs into the archive and let established free software emulators handle them in an isolated homebrew mode on consoles, but for snoy it would possibly have liability issues for how console games drm and bios files and all that work legally

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amenome@anemone@ebiverse.social (2026-10-16 07:23:35)
@dagda@netzsphaere.xyz @sandalphon@kinryouku.tenshi.zip @sun@shitposter.world Sony already does this with their own paid re-releases, but if they cared they could just hire people who worked on good emulators (or license any that aren't GPL). The problem is they care more about squeezing consumers by selling the exact same game multiple times than any potential customer goodwill they might gain by making their console not a piece of shit