ika_chan @ ika_chan @lemmy.ml Posts 0Comments 4Joined 11 mo. ago
If I understand this correctly, you value Steam's honesty over a few instances in which GOG hypocritically violated their own DRM policy. That sucks, for sure, and GOG should be called out for it -- but at the end of the day, the vast majority of games in my GOG library can be downloaded as offline installers that don't need to contact a server, while the vast majority of the games I own on Steam can't (barring, of course, circumventing Steam's fairly weak DRM scheme, which is illegal).
I don't follow the logic here. You said it yourself -- GoG has only allowed DRM onto their platform four times. This is a violation of their anti-DRM policy but it still means like 99% of games on GoG have no DRM. It's good to be principled about these things but I don't see how this merits a knee-jerk response to run to Steam (a platform where 99% of games do have DRM and no guarantee other than an informal promise that they'll do "something" to make their games available if Steam were to shut down).
It's too early to decide which Citra fork to get behind yet. PabloMK7's Citra fork existed before the Yuzu takedown and has ex-Citra contributors involved, so it's probably a good bet to use already. Lemonade might go somewhere. I'm skeptical of Lime3DS, last I checked the commits were mostly cosmetic changes and readme edits.
Ares has a N64 core that's mostly homegrown (not based on any existing emulator like Mupen) and has a lot of promise. It's actually probably already the best N64 emulator, but I don't think many people know that.