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- on BlizzCon 2026 Announcements Summary in c/games@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026
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on Palworld lead worries Steam early access has "lost its meaning": players treat it like "a normal game" and the program has been "abused for a lot of reasons" in c/games@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
I can’t believe Valheim just left EA. It’s literally been over 5 years!
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on KytyPS5 (PS5 Emulator) can now run GTA V at 60fps for few minutes before crashing in c/games@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026
But why does that make a difference? Regardless of whether you reverse engineer an API or have the full documentation available, when you translate from it to something else, you’re building the same thing: an API translator. It doesn’t change whether it’s an emulator.
Traditionally, “emulator” refers to hardware emulation. APIs are reverse engineered, mocked, translated, etc. all the time, but we don’t call it “emulation”.
Even simply mimicking the behavior of a unified virtual memory space is not called “emulation”, unless there are hardware-specific quirks that need to be emulated (which may very well be the case for PS5 caches, I don’t know).
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on KytyPS5 (PS5 Emulator) can now run GTA V at 60fps for few minutes before crashing in c/games@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
Ah I see. So what makes kytyps5 an emulator given that proton is emphatically not an emulator?
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on KytyPS5 (PS5 Emulator) can now run GTA V at 60fps for few minutes before crashing in c/games@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
I’m trying to understand, what is being emulated?
You said it’s emulation because it handles ps5’s graphics APIs and unified memory. I noted that proton is also translating vulkan to another graphics API. You said it’s different because the api we’re targeting is proprietary and needs to be reverse engineered, implying that is the distinction. Right?
So then doesn’t that imply that if we did the same thing, but without needing to reverse engineer anything, it would now be an apples-to-apples comparison with what proton is doing?
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on KytyPS5 (PS5 Emulator) can now run GTA V at 60fps for few minutes before crashing in c/games@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
Ok, so if it’s translating to a reverse engineered API, it’s emulation. But if it uses the proprietary documentation and does the same exact translation it…wouldn’t be emulation anymore? What part are we saying is being emulated again?
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on KytyPS5 (PS5 Emulator) can now run GTA V at 60fps for few minutes before crashing in c/games@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026
Isn’t Proton solving the same problem though?
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on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything in c/games@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
Thanks, I knew I was forgetting yet another name for it. Lots of names for the same, very common underlying phenomenon. As it applies to this case, Pareto would be “80% of the value earned by 20% of the games”. But point being: it would be weird if that wasn’t the distribution we saw.
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on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything in c/games@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
It would be weird if it didn’t follow a power law distribution.
Aka the Pareto Principle. Aka “80% of everything is shit”.
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on What is your weirdest self-hosting problem you've had to solve? For me: Mouse inside the server. in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
Optical or roller ball?
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on How can i teach myself to contribute to these projects? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026
Probably the easiest place to start is appropriately reporting a bug that you’re impacted by.
Take note of the version of the affected program you are using (likely depends on your distro). It could be that the bug has been fixed in a more recent release, and you don’t want to create noise for an issue that has already been resolved and hasn’t made it to you, or is specific to the build for your distro.
Once you’ve figured out where the issue must lie, make a report with detailed steps on how to reproduce the issue. Don’t ghost the thread, if a dev asks followup questions, try to help give feedback.
If you’re lucky, and they post a commit to fix the issue, take a look at it and try to understand what it is doing. Over time, you’ll start to get a feel for how open development works.
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on Saber CEO scorns writer who says she was fired in favor of AI with confusing, combative statement in c/games@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026
Let me clarify that the entire story script, were it to win an award, would go to someone who can walk up on stage and receive it.
That’s sooooo not the question
I don’t think retail was a misstep when it comes to milking whales, it’s just not a compelling MMO. So to them, it’s remained a massive success.
I’m also curious about WoW: Forever, mostly because I’ve been hopeful that any studio would see the hype around classic wow and realize there is demand for the old format of MMOs; back before all modern conveniences were added to remove any friction between players. I’ve longed for an experience akin to vanilla, but completely new and unsolved and populated by people who just want to experience organic player interaction.