2y ago

What are your thoughts on the Carbon Engine?

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This just popped up in a feed of mine, looks like an interesting project bringing retro games to new consoles. I guess I'm wondering what other's think. Would you be willing to buy your old game again?

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A lot of hype for what amounts to just a proprietary Retroarch. I wish some company could use the same approach but sell these games dirty cheap, like the old PC games magazines we used to have, instead of making premium collectables.
- Tbh there is a good place in the world for "just a proprietary retroarch". Someone's gotta do the work to bind open source emulators to the proprietary sdks, and nintendo/sony/maybems? Don't let you do that in public code.
  So an engine like this, if its basically just a case of dropping a rom in and customising a few menu screens, could help get a lot of things ported to modern systems if companies didn't want to put in the effort before.
  They hype is really just to spread that word to other companies likely.
  
  Right, this isn't a marketing page to tell the general public about a new emulator system we can all start trying out or using to port old games. It's a business-to-business marketing page trying to get other game studios on board to port their back catalog.

"Will you buy your old game again?" I've had to answer this at least a half-dozen times already with Nightwarriors: Darkstalker's Revenge, Ms. Pac-Man, and Galaga. Yes, I will buy the things again. I will always buy the things again. You make it cheap enough and make it work with modern equipment, and I will definitely buy it again.

Personally, I'm interested in the GEX remasters. I'm kind of unclear on how this compares to bog standard emulation, but If they can fix the framerate issues and collision bugs in the 3D games I'll be sold.

Tomba port = happy eric.

- That was kind of my thought. When the systems only exist with collectors and garage sales running roms on emulators feels like an acceptable position. You don't make the games so you aren't losing out on sales. But charging $20-40USD for a SNES remake...idk feels ridiculous.
- They fired an employee who was a public transphobe for bringing that to work and causing their company to get a bad reputation for housing a publicly open transphobe.
  They did what every company would do in that situation, they fired that employee because the alternative is standing behind and in support of a public transphobe who brings hate onto others.
  Consequently online transphobes keep saying shit like this, conveniently skipping thr part where the employee was a public transphobe who brought hate onto others, because they want to rile people up against the company for not supporting transphobes.
  Tldr, op is a transphobe

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