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ESA says members won’t support any plan for libraries to preserve games online (www.gamedeveloper.com)

submitted 6 months ago by chloyster@beehaw.org to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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[–] LinyosT@sopuli.xyz 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

There are already PS4 emulators. Though they’re extremely early and work a lot closer to how Wine/Proton do rather than traditional emulation IIRC.

[–] senseamidmadness@beehaw.org 2 points 6 months ago

Yep. The PS4 and Xbone are both very close to off-the-shelf AMD APU's as far as I remember; you could buy very similar processors for desktop use. Emulation would require a ton more power than the original chips, and the original chips are so close to desktop processors that it's more efficient and feasible to reverse-engineer the proprietary API's those console chips use.

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Aren't we at the stage where getting the game to boot to the start menu is a big deal? I would imagine getting games running is a bit further off.

[–] millie@beehaw.org 2 points 6 months ago

If they're bring ripped and preserved, it doesn't really matter if they work yet, in an archival sense.