This doesn't come as a surprise for many, though, as the AetherSX2 emulator halted development entirely back in 2023, with the developer specifically mentioning the "neverending impersonating, complaints, demands, and now death threats". Although, it took almost a year for the actual emulator app to be taken down from the Play Store, following the discontinuation of the project

[–] RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works 42 points 6 months ago (7 children)

What kind of sicko sends death threats to someone for developing an emulator

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 40 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Open source devs have to deal with the most entitled, messed up people, I swear

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 12 points 6 months ago

Added with games, where game devs also receive some of the most vile stuff around, it's just a recipe for disaster

[–] doctorzeromd@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Especially when the software they're developing is an emulator or for phones. This was both!

[–] nave@lemmy.ca 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I’ve heard that the emulation on android community is extremely toxic because a lot of people don’t know anything about emulators and then get pissed when their shitty phone can’t run every game at 4k 60 fps

[–] RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 months ago

Digital illiteracy and it's consequences

[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 16 points 6 months ago

Same thing happened to Near/Byuu the creator of higan (SNES emulator).

https://kotaku.com/the-brilliant-snes-emulator-creator-known-as-near-has-d-1847182851

[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 15 points 6 months ago

people who have underperforming or incompatible hardware who hound developers for optimaztion on a project that was free.

people tend to not read app requirements (or the fucking manual) because their too lazy to help themselves before bugging someone else.

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Entitled teenagers from poor countries on low end hardware mostly

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Sony?

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

You mean besides bootlicking Nintendo fanboys?

[–] RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

Of course

[–] jecht360@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

While unfortunate, it's not difficult to still run AetherSX2 or its successor, NetherSX2. There was some drama around the Play Store version of AetherSX2 anyway. The Play Store version had ads.

If you want to run an older version of AetherSX2, I recommend v1.5-3668. I believe that is the last version before ads were added. It is missing some performance improvements though. At this point you would have to find an APK of it to install manually.

What I really recommend is to use NetherSX2, which is the successor to AetherSX2. There are two versions, Classic and Modern. Classic is generally the better performer unless you want to run certain games - specifically snowblind engine games (Baldur's Gate, Champions of Norrath). You just download the patcher from github, download an APK of AetherSX2, run the patcher, and copy/install the resulting APK file.

[–] Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You're right about 3668, and the play store version also has worse performance. The classic is like a "reskinned" 3668 and the modern is a "reskinned" play store version that removes ads and fixes issues.

I haven't tried nether yet, only aether 3668, how's it compare?

[–] jecht360@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I haven't noticed a huge difference between NetherSX2 classic and 3668, but the only thing I've been playing is FFX International. Both play it just fine on my device (Moto One 5G Ace running LineageOS).

[–] hal_5700X@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

It sucks, but you can see it coming.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago

I really like this app. Sad to see it get pulled.

[–] UnaSolaEstrellaLibre@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

What's the alternative then?