GeorgeSpinner
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I agree 100%. It's very common that people need to convince themselves that they are not missing out.It's the same rhetoric with *some* of the Raspberry Pi and Groovy MAME guys in the arcade communities. The amount of times I've cheerfully bought up arcade games in online conversation just to have someone randomly tell me how dumb anyone would be to spend money on original hardware and they don't notice the difference on their "insert emulation device here" rig... yet they've NEVER actually played the original hardware and are just repeating what they read online. Very evangelistic but maybe they need to constantly convince themselves that they're not missing out.
Maybe I'm crazy, but I'm the exact opposite of the emu/MiSTer evangelists.
I find that, if I discover a game that I love via emulation or MiSTer, I want to own the very best version of that game. I become kinda obsessed with it. 9/10, if it's not absolutely cost prohibitive, I purchase the real PCB. I know, with the PCB, I have the REAL game.
i don't enjoy MiSTer nearly as much as I used to.
I feel kinda bad saying this, because I think jotego is a great guy (and I'm a long time Patreon supporter), but I would rather he refine the cores he's already created instead of releasing new cores, with their own sets of issues, every week or two.
We can play all these games via software emulation, if we want to play an imperfect version.
For me, MiSTer is all about the accuracy. I don't understand why there are low and high sound options in the cores. Why not just set the correct volume and have no option? Sound might be an area he struggles with. I've seen sound issues in several of his cores. He's great at going back and fixing issues when he finds the solution, but I suspect he has too many cores to ever go back and fix all of the issues.
Jotego doesn't owe me anything. I've certainly had a lot of fun because of him. I just feel like there's a missed opportunity; he's good enough to perfect his cores. My guess is that he feels pressure to release new content or lose supporters. I do love that he added a helper to his team. And if he hits 4000 subs he's hiring an engineer.