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There's also a weirdly huge amount of drama in the N64 emulation space, so a lot of the more talented people have left over time. It's not that tremendously hard to build an N64 emulator, it was just a weird social space for the longest time and nobody really wanted to put up with it.

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What kind of drama is there? Seems like a weird place for there to be drama about anything.

The emulation scenes are... odd. Not quite free software. Egos and entitlement on the part of the users a lot of the time.

The GameCube scene was excellent, however

You can broaden the scope to console hacking in general. Even if drama's your thing, you probably won't last more than a few years.

I wasn't very clear; yeah, exactly! I was talking more about the broader console hacking scene. It's a mess, heh.

Because there's just one emulator, dolphin. I'm unaware of any other major ones?

Exactly. The GameCube/Wii emulation scene does not have any of that drama like the N64 scene has, which leads to everyone in the scene being happy to work together on one single emulator instead of everyone working on their own projects.

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