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Duckstation now on indefinite hiatus (Allegedly from Harassment via Retroarch & others) [Retroarch Responds]
- Thread starter NovumVeritas
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Oof, what the fuck. I didn't use Retroarch much in the first place but now it's an easy avoid.
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I don't know either. But SquarePusher seems just an ass all around. Most of the emu devs have issues with him. Because he likes harassing the emu devs. And I don't know what this idiot is just getting by this. He is the typical benefit from others but without he is just an dumb idiot.
bsnes has a normal gui if I remember correctly. But you are correct with beetle psx. You could switch to mednafen and use a gui for it.
I mean. If multiple people have the exact same issues with the same person... who is in the wrong exactly? lol
lol what, they made that post and BOUNCED, closing account and everything.
Can it do CRT shaders? It looks so much nicer than Retroarch but I can't leave unless shaders are there and all I can find is shaders via Retroarch integrations. Is it worth buying? I don't pay for Retroarch, but it's served me well over the years. I just don't want to use something that's actively ruining emulation on PC and driving talented devs away.
Started using Duckstation recently and was blown away by it, especially since I was coming from XEBRA. Best wishes to Stenzek, mental health and happiness are more important.
Shame that the emulation community can be so toxic.
I've never used Retroarch before but now I definitely won't. That targeted harassment is part of what led to Near, a brilliant mind, committing suicide last summer.
Shame that the emulation community can be so toxic.
I've never used Retroarch before but now I definitely won't. That targeted harassment is part of what led to Near, a brilliant mind, committing suicide last summer.
It's been knew. Retroarch/libretro dev has always been a toxic ass to the community. I remember when he cut-off the mGBA dev because she pointed out he used official PS3 SDK references (i.e. actual illegal shit), and there was a whole bunch of other garbage that I can't recall off the top of my head.
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I also remember the mGBA bit. On of the reason the core wasn't available for a short time.
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Shaders would be set in the individual emulators. LaunchBox is just a frontend that launches the ROM into individual emulators you would have to have installed. So any emulators that had CRT shaders could be used with LaunchBox
Hmm I'll play around with the free version for now and see how it is then.
What's the best alternative to Retroarch? Is there anything else that supports features like run ahead and netplay? I've tried to switch away from it before (I hate the UX) but so many individual emulators just don't have those things.
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It is really odd. After that post happened. Libretro put out the Twitter statement. Just a coincidence? 🤔
It's a piece of trash that's a nightmare to navigate for anyone that doesn't read 300 million guides beforehand.
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Free version is great honestly.
I would only recommend buying if you want BigBox and to support the dev.
I stuck with free for a year before I bought so I could do BigBox
Wouldn't it be possible to fight RetroArch with its own weapons here? Someone could fork it, make sure the cores give credit to the original teams that develop it, and strive towards a culture that makes sure improvements are done upstream (similar to the open source culture you have in the Linux space, for example).
I agree that retroarch won't ever just go away, the idea of having so many emulators accessible using the same frontend is way too comfortable. But it sucks to hear that the people running it are apparently complete garbage, to the point of driving people out and maybe even to suicide.
I tried retroarch once and made mistake of installing it to wrong directory and it wiped the whole fucking thing out when I remove it. Luckily I was able to recover the loss files but fuck that experience and there bullying
Sure, RETRO I fully believe you.lol at this gaslighting:
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What a joke. They did this before and they expect us to buy it. GTFO
you're still able to download it just fine. a project being read only doesn't mean it's lost.
if you find an asshole everywhere, you're the asshole. so disingenuous.
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You can get it here from Stenzek his git hub
Release Latest Rolling Release · stenzek/duckstation
Commits 8fe86ff: GPU/HW: Fix another buffer unmapping case (Stenzek) Fix incorrect streamed counter (Stenzek) Update to SDL2 2.30.1 and Qt 6.6.2 (Stenzek) update simpleini to 4.22 (#3131) #3131 (...
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That, and some harassment, apparently. This is new to me too, and I don't have all the details yet, but it sounds bad.
I will check this out thanks. Do we know anything about the people who make it? Cautious now that I know what the Retroarch developer is like.
RetroArch sure is some strange folk. They were accusing us of trying to "turn back the clock 20 years" of Quake's source code, whatever that means (that's not physically possible for a start, the GPL code release will always remain and exist), and disabling modding (couldn't be further from the truth) when we did the Quake remaster. So it's especially ironic that they have an alleged habit of rebranding other people's code as their own and taking it from pre-release builds.
I've never dipped my toe into the RetroArch pond but I've certainly considered it.
Well that's a definite "never" now.
Well that's a definite "never" now.
It's amazing to me how the only actual thing Retroarch does, be a front end, is pure shit. You've got the defenders who'll give you vague nothings as to why it's not, but it truly is the shitiest front end ever.
Just compare it to something like Retropie. Retropie actually seems like it was designed for someone from the human race and isn't filled with bugs that don't remember/ever work with your settings.
Everytime I fire Retroarch up, I'm reminded of just how terrible it is. I guess it's nice to know the person behind it is of equal footing.
It's why when people say Retroarch is on Steam and just download that for Steam Deck, I shutter. I really hope there are easy solutions for emulation on Steam Deck that don't require that trashy program.
Just compare it to something like Retropie. Retropie actually seems like it was designed for someone from the human race and isn't filled with bugs that don't remember/ever work with your settings.
Everytime I fire Retroarch up, I'm reminded of just how terrible it is. I guess it's nice to know the person behind it is of equal footing.
It's why when people say Retroarch is on Steam and just download that for Steam Deck, I shutter. I really hope there are easy solutions for emulation on Steam Deck that don't require that trashy program.
I like Retroarch, even if I mostly use it in my retro-portables, so this is very disappointing to hear.
Was this an account belonging to someone from Retroarch because talk about timing.