Yes the project can continue. The original developers, who were obviously best suited to continue it, are gone. I’m sure suyu can do a good job, but I just don’t see how you can call it a positive.
I don’t know who the suyu contributors are, but so far all the activity was renames and migrations to GitLab, not a single technical commit. Are any of them actually able to work on a Switch emulator? Maybe they are, I genuinely don’t know, but the activity on the project so far doesn’t indicate that.
You say the binaries and tutorials still exist. I wasn’t interested in Switch emulation before this, but wanted to try out of curiosity when this happened. I’m a developer myself, and it was difficult finding information. All the download sites and tutorials are dead, and sketchy alternate downloads cannot be trusted. How is the average person, as you say, supposed to download Yuzu now? I eventually got it running but it was far from easy and I had to view tutorials through archive.org. Again, not impossible, but far from the “opposite effect”. Access to Switch emulation for the average person was lowered.
Well, for one thing, I never said it was a positive. I didn’t use that word, nor did I even imply it.
You are saying it’s going to have the opposite effect of what Nintendo wants (curtailing emulation), so your claim is that this is going to make emulation more widespread. Correct me if I misunderstood.
Look at LibreOffice.
I never disagreed that a fork can end up good. I said Yuzu shutting down won’t help emulation.
This statement literally proves my point. The binaries still exist in some repos, like the Arch extras repo.
Your claim was that this is “increased awareness to the average person”. How are you mixing “average person” and “Arch extras repo”? The average person uses Windows, Googles “yuzu” and doesn’t find anything clear. This was my point, it brought awareness to me and I saw myself that Yuzu is no longer accessible to the average person.
Please explain how Nintendo is worse off now if that’s really what you think. All your arguments boil down to “this means nothing in the long term, emulation is going to be fine”, which I agree with. I still don’t see how this is having “the opposite effect” though.
Yes I’m conflating them to illustrate my point. You are right in that it will increase the amount of people wanting to try it. My point is that these people won’t be able to get it running, if, for example, it involves Arch repos which are far beyond the reach of the average person. So the additional awareness might go nowhere.
You say Suyu will have stuff soon, and that there are alternatives. Yes that’s correct, which to me means “emulation is not dead yet, there are still alternatives”, which doesn’t seem like “the opposite effect” at all.
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Yes the project can continue. The original developers, who were obviously best suited to continue it, are gone. I’m sure suyu can do a good job, but I just don’t see how you can call it a positive.
I don’t know who the suyu contributors are, but so far all the activity was renames and migrations to GitLab, not a single technical commit. Are any of them actually able to work on a Switch emulator? Maybe they are, I genuinely don’t know, but the activity on the project so far doesn’t indicate that.
You say the binaries and tutorials still exist. I wasn’t interested in Switch emulation before this, but wanted to try out of curiosity when this happened. I’m a developer myself, and it was difficult finding information. All the download sites and tutorials are dead, and sketchy alternate downloads cannot be trusted. How is the average person, as you say, supposed to download Yuzu now? I eventually got it running but it was far from easy and I had to view tutorials through archive.org. Again, not impossible, but far from the “opposite effect”. Access to Switch emulation for the average person was lowered.
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You are saying it’s going to have the opposite effect of what Nintendo wants (curtailing emulation), so your claim is that this is going to make emulation more widespread. Correct me if I misunderstood.
I never disagreed that a fork can end up good. I said Yuzu shutting down won’t help emulation.
Your claim was that this is “increased awareness to the average person”. How are you mixing “average person” and “Arch extras repo”? The average person uses Windows, Googles “yuzu” and doesn’t find anything clear. This was my point, it brought awareness to me and I saw myself that Yuzu is no longer accessible to the average person.
Please explain how Nintendo is worse off now if that’s really what you think. All your arguments boil down to “this means nothing in the long term, emulation is going to be fine”, which I agree with. I still don’t see how this is having “the opposite effect” though.
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Yes I’m conflating them to illustrate my point. You are right in that it will increase the amount of people wanting to try it. My point is that these people won’t be able to get it running, if, for example, it involves Arch repos which are far beyond the reach of the average person. So the additional awareness might go nowhere.
You say Suyu will have stuff soon, and that there are alternatives. Yes that’s correct, which to me means “emulation is not dead yet, there are still alternatives”, which doesn’t seem like “the opposite effect” at all.