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      8 days ago

      This is the dev that changed the license a while back from GPL to CC-BY-NC-ND because they got mad about forks.

      The kicker here is that the AUR package they’re whining about here is based on the last GPL version.

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      Yeah im sure someone will fork and it will be named chickensation or whatever. Then we will move on.

      Hope the developer feels better. Its easy to get burnt out on passion projects. If I were to guess, this is what is happening. They are going to say some pretty insane things in the next couple of weeks and then get a handle on their life.

      Ive always liked: epsxe myself. Works well and no real drama. Its a very old console.

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            Ha! Yeah ok. And looks like its maintained.

            It is but it’s also just a libretro plugin without any stand-alone GUI. That said, with the great strides projects like ES-DE brought in terms of usability atop of standard components make stand-alone GUIs more and more unnecessary.

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        So how would that work? I know we say emulators are allowed…but Nintendo came knocking a while ago, Github removed the repos pretty quick. If they go and applies their fork-less license in a court of law…that would have very nasty consequences for them.

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              Daniel still has the RetroArch trademark registered in his personal name and continues to oversee the project and that’s enough for me that he’s still in a mangerial role, but you’re right in that the last shitty thing I heard about him is fucking up netplay in 2022.