Whats going on with RetroArch? I havent really paid attention/kept up since I set up my last Raspberry Pi.
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AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Yeah it kinda mystifies me that anyone is still recommending that shitty bigotware.
In the emulation scene, RetroArch is in a similar boat if I’m understanding things correctly. Awful maintainers, but people keep recommending it and supporting it. Sucks too, because there are even fewer alternatives there.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
This website details various issues. I’d suggest looking at the Byuu page - as I understand it the RetroArch devs played a large role in the harrassments that were being done to the developer of Higan/bsnes, which eventually led to them killing themself.
Liketearsinrain@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Did I miss what you’re talking about? It just mentions Xbox SDKs being proprietary, which I couldn’t care less about. Apologies if I missed what you mentioned
AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
This is the page I’m referring to, where one of the main RA devs is shown saying a lot of really toxic things about byuu. It’s kind of hard to find any reliable info about the dramas, but there are various threads online where people bring up a number of dramas, like this thread.
Tja@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
I used retro arch a decade ago, and when setting up a emulation pi last year the consensus seemed to be batocera. No idea if its better, but it’s as easy to use as I remembered and my kids are still enjoying it, so not too unstable.
AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Batocera is a relatively minimalist Linux distro for emulation specifically. It’s one example that kind of highlights the problem I’m referring to. All of these retro software stacks still use RetroArch to varying degrees, and depend on it. Even alternative frontends like Emulation Station are just built on top of the same libraries. Or as another example, for most game systems, RetroAchievements only currently work on RetroArch.
Tja@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Interesting, TIL.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
My only issue with batocera is that GameCube was broken out of the box and I haven’t had the time to figure out how to fix it