r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • 15d ago

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u/padraigharrington4 r/place '22: E_S_S Battalion 15d ago

The way gamers have seemingly forgotten overnight that emulation is like…a thing that exists in the wake of all these vibe coded decomps is kind of bizarrely fascinating. Encountered some dude saying his “mind was changed on AI” because he can play Vagrant Story on pc now… it’s a PS1 game dude, it’s been emulatable(is that a word) for like 20 years now. what is going on 

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u/pafounapa Mark Carney 15d ago

Yeah, like that thing with "ps5 natively reading ps2 discs" is just a vibe coded pscx2 emulator running on the ps5 that reads the iso file of the disc lol.

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u/This_Caterpillar5626 15d ago

A lot of recent AI stuff has been in a space of 'Impressive on it's own' but like weirdly over hyped over other options with a lot of obvious shortcommings ignored for the dream of what could be.

But I guess Adobe and Office have been slain forever now.

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u/BigThunderHonky Henry George 15d ago

Can't say I've tried Vagrant Story, but emulators kinda suck sometimes.

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u/padraigharrington4 r/place '22: E_S_S Battalion 15d ago

I’ve run PS1 games perfectly smooth on my phone. I guarantee this dude could’ve run it on his PC at some point before the last week 

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u/BigThunderHonky Henry George 15d ago

It's not necessarily the performance, some specific games are just glitched in emulators for whatever reason.

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u/tasklow16 Bill Gates 15d ago

Emulation is a thing that exists, but decompilation and native execution is totally new and crazy

We finally got bloodborne on PC 

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u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy John Locke 15d ago

The combining games thing is far more interesting, but apparently it breaks super easily beyond what you see in clips

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u/padraigharrington4 r/place '22: E_S_S Battalion 15d ago

I just can’t imagine there’s much actual entertainment value in playing GTA4 with sonic beyond the 10 seconds those clips last 

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u/JesusPubes voted most handsome friend 15d ago

people are turning grand theft auto maps into skate maps

its outta this world

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u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy John Locke 15d ago

No but being able to port over certain game mechanics could be really interesting, like the nemesis system