-transphobia (https://x.com/LeaksRetro/status/1063966217789210624)
-bullying of countless emulator devs (MAME, DuckStation, Redream, etc) including byuu
-misappropriating donations meant for developing cores, with that money spent on unrelated things
thanks for the info about all this. heard in passing to avoid but didn't know full details.
this is admittedly a very silly question and i apologise, but SquarePusher, is that the same dude who does music, or are they two different people who just happen to have the same alias?
I remember him throwing a tantrum in some MAME blog comments over a DECADE ago calling SDL "trash" and whining that MAME wouldn't do the work for them of making a "core" - arguing stuff like "the debugger is useless anyway" - unsurprised that he has not changed his tune in all those years
Cool. RetroArch is dogshit anyways.
inb4 "but muh portability" yeah you have fun spending hours setting up several cores and troubleshooting everything just for one console. (God help you if you're trying to run arcade games. You're basically fucked.)
also parallel launcher uses RA (and it is really cool for playing N64 games and SM64 rom hacks)
and also, the picodrive core is the only way to play sega 32X games on android afaik
Didn’t think that would work, especially since I tried S2CC beforehand and it crashing on me. As well as seeing its github sitting abandoned for a while.
VirtualJaguar's main dev also should be added to that list. I remember when they swarmed his forum and they got upset at being called nazis and he said "well, if the boot fits" and SP freaked out entirely.
Also, gentle reminder that he has his project names and all his aliases in Google Alerts, so wherever there's "controversy" being discussed about it/him, he shows up. It's how the whole VirtualJaguar thing happened to begin with.
I just want to make super sure. honestly the amount of people flocking to this has already kinda scared me enough. really don't want to deal with a horde of bad folk all because I expressed a disliking over a person's practices.
Small question, does Parallel Launcher require RetroArch to function correctly? I use it alot for SM64 hacks, and I really don't want to look like I'm endorsing this guy.
I thought it didn't work because I was doing it wrong. None of my troubleshooting research brought me to "it's a piece of shit run by a piece of shit."
I'm really glad this got posted. I had no idea. I also had no idea about Aphex Twin so that's good to know too.
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-transphobia (https://x.com/LeaksRetro/status/1063966217789210624)
-bullying of countless emulator devs (MAME, DuckStation, Redream, etc) including byuu
-misappropriating donations meant for developing cores, with that money spent on unrelated things
among others
https://retroarchleaks.wordpress.com/
this is admittedly a very silly question and i apologise, but SquarePusher, is that the same dude who does music, or are they two different people who just happen to have the same alias?
inb4 "but muh portability" yeah you have fun spending hours setting up several cores and troubleshooting everything just for one console. (God help you if you're trying to run arcade games. You're basically fucked.)
and also, the picodrive core is the only way to play sega 32X games on android afaik
I think most of the dogpiling worshippers fucked off a few years back though, so you're probably fine.
the utter fucking disrespect of it all
byuu deserved so much better
The day I get real hardware is the day I kick RA to the curb.
(BizHawk isn't approved for the games I run, afaik)
I'm really glad this got posted. I had no idea. I also had no idea about Aphex Twin so that's good to know too.
an actually valid reason to hate retroarch aside from being a bitch to work with (especially with emulating higher end stuff)