Did you know you can re-texture NES games with Mesen2? Here's a trailer of an HD remaster of the first Metroid game that is fundamentally the same base game, even requiring the ROM for it.
Hopefully one day someone takes a crack at Street Fighter 2010 or Milon's Secret Castle. Would love to see those games with these kinds of graphics.
Adding in an engine that extracts assets from the the game is pointless here. The dev made everything from scratch, models, programming, gameplay, etc. Only things straight from Bloodborne are a few voice clips and the music. And thats not even the reasoning for the takedown. So an engine to extract as you propose would be completely useless for this project.
I’ve seen in various threads that the current browser engines aren’t good, such as gecko and blink. The question is why? Why do we need a new one, and what’s stopping a new one being made? Is it just the fact that they’re a lot of work to make?
Theres nothing stopping a new engine from being made. People wanna say its too hard or whatever but there are budding projects people are working on from the ground up. See Servo, Ladybird and Flow for non-Chrome/Firefox browsers. It's absolutely possible no matter what these naysayers say.
Ladybird got like at least 250k in funding last year by Shopify. The project refuses to release binaries so you'd have to build it yourself. So far the team has completed a JS engine from scratch and hit a 100/100 on the acid3 test.
Servo's earlier in development but its got some preliminary stuff. They have a few full time devs. The project is written in rust so its getting a lot of hobbyist support too. Their main project is getting CSS compatibility.
Flow is a closed-source browser by some company. Their browser is in beta right now but as evident by this paragraph I don't know much about its project.
Idk how to check commit numbers on mobile but I'd say all 3 are in the thousands minimum.
Servo and Ladybird are the two most serious ones right now. Andreas Kling, the lead dev from Ladybird regularly streams his progress and posts about new sites working. It's been pretty cool watching it over the years get better. iirc their current goal is to get discord completely working in browser on Ladybird.
Love React to. I hope one day I can use it in place of Windows.
OC After too long, my third mixtape, Earth-Station End-Times is out now! (charinusraps.neocities.org)
11 tracks covering all sorts of topics from religion to video games to short stories....
TIL about Swatch Internet Time, a decimal time system that has no time zones. (en.wikipedia.org)
I feel that this is what we should be using instead of the current illogical time system.
Spec Ops: The Line, already delisted on Steam, will be leaving all digital storefronts soon. (delistedgames.com)
Spec Ops: The Line first disappeared on Steam on Monday of this week with no advanced warning or explanation coming from publisher 2K.
Metroid HD: 2.0 Trailer (running on Mesen2) (youtu.be)
A new version of the Metroid "HD" mod for the Mesen NES Emulator was just recently released.
Swedish music stars call for Israel Eurovision ban over Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
Suicide Squad Kill The Justice League adds Denuvo DRM before launch (www.pcgamesn.com)
Sigh…FFS…
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What's the issue with current browser engines?
I’ve seen in various threads that the current browser engines aren’t good, such as gecko and blink. The question is why? Why do we need a new one, and what’s stopping a new one being made? Is it just the fact that they’re a lot of work to make?
Stop using Opera Browser and Opera GX (www.spacebar.news)
Nintendo DMCAs Palworld Mod That Makes Everything Pokémon (kotaku.com)
China urges UN to support two-state solution and Palestine's full membership (mashriqtv.pk)
Palworld Devs Says They Have Received Death Threats Amid Pokémon 'Rip-Off' Claims (www.ign.com)
Lemmy is a perfect reddit replacement in terms of saving a post "for later" and never coming back to it