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To be able to play retro games on current hardware/OS?

Why does it always need to be so complicated - I have zero interest in learning about these legacy platforms but I definitely want to play some nostalgic games.

Mindboggling that you see this as a negative and even want to kick out people to “protect” the community

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Also to fix bugs. Someone recently ran Shadowrun (Genesis) disassembly through chatgpt and discovered that weapon upgrades were completely broken (using the wrong value as an index and ending up reading character stats as upgrade flags), defensive spells actually buffed your enemies, not you, etc. and released a romhack to fix things.

Lately I've seen this statement that I agree with: for some people, a hobby is a means to an end (which means using AI to achieve the goal is a heresy), for others, it is the end in itself (which it isn't).

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