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Sony's new PlayStation 2 emulator tested - and it's another disappointing effort. Subpar image quality, poor filtering options and bugs do these classics no favours. (www.eurogamer.net)
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[–] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There are not much good commercial emulator projects, and open source emulators are not easy to license due to the nature of the open source licences (often GPL 2 or 3) used.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A iot of the FOSS projects are developed by a handful of people, often just one or two. So you buy a licence from those individuals and remove and replace the rest. Or just hire the one or two devs and they can pull in the bits they wrote. You're always free to relicense your work.

And if it's GPL v2, there's no problem because you can probably treat it as "firmware" since it's a console and not a PC (e.g. like TiVo did). GPL v3 blocks that loophole though.

[–] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 1 points 3 months ago

Sounds complicated and like a lot of potential legal trouble, have it done by their own staff seems easier.