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What are your thoughts on the Carbon Engine? (limitedrungames.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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.