@notimp - we all have something to bring to these forums, but the thing you should bring is silence.
Strange, because the thing most people seem to bring to this forum, is a self entitled believe to have to post what they feel about things, even if they didn't think about them at all. Some even see themselves as "supportive", when they launch a hype train into nowhere.
So sick, burn on the poetical front ("oh your comment sounded so nice!") - but zero representation on actual reality.
We have this "religious believe" threads, that go for three pages into entirely make believe directions, and people want to cheer them on, because those are their expressions of "being".
People get wrong ideas, wrong impressions based on self believes and not reality ---
And then someone with a north korean avatar tries to stand up, and order "silence" over whoever takes offense with that. Because we want "be" and "express" and "self believe" and "hype".
F*ck reality. No one cares about how stuff gets made, all that people in here care about is superflous BS. But don't take their believes away, or they get very angry.
The SNES Mini "homebrew scene" was an utter trainwreck - where people learned nothing, got baited into "sign up and win today" support structures, run by people with close relations to addon structures. They were lead into the believe, that people would support them "trying to run one game they have issues with - at a time" for months on end. Their coalitions got formed based on ego to have certain names associated to hakchi - the retroarch underbelly was hidden rom sight - so people had no understanding what they were running, or what they should learn about. Cores were distributed on github with baked in proprietary bios files, they didn't care - advancements in emulations cores were atvertised on a "gamy by game basis" (thats not how that works) - so there was always a release that everyone could hop on and be excited about. They used 8bitdo controllers with digital signal chains to retro arch, but were happy that they could use "tha analog stick" in Mario 64...
And now this project is hinting at bringing that experience over - and all the same people are back in here asking "can you make Snes Mini, but like - faster?".
I'd be very receptive towards actual arguments, I'm very careful that the statements that I make are not outright wrong, in act - I am one of the only persons in here that goes by this principle. But now, thats a cultural issue - because people dont want to hear how wrong the concepts they go by are?
In their worlds - "everyone says a thing". and everyone that gets excited says "amazing, and great" - and then free stuff rains over them, that they get personal support on, because they were so supportive in the beginning. None of that is needed in a development community.
All of it is problematic in a sense that wrong expectations get set, and no one cares about structure ("hekate is wonderull - I can have now!" of course none of the devs is working towards that as a target, but yes, you can have now - how wonderull).
Entire projects are dismissed (ScummVM doesnt work, it tells be to put in numbers in monkey island) - because people look at them or two seconds and dont bother to read even the controller mappings.
And i you say something against it you are being painted as the bad guy.
Also - when hint at those things in a small and silent voice - I get immediatelly slaughtered ("dont shit on dev, dev give me stuff or free!") - and the dissemination of wrong information continues.
Now this is a thread about a Hombrew Launcher replacement - all of a sudden. No one ever intendet to launch Nintendo games with this.
Because its the last "sane" point o retreat thats still open. The last standpoint where people would not have to admit, ok - we entirely misrepresented this thing and what it was supposed to do.
But you, you should have stayed silent. Because you made us stop partying - like its 2012.
Also you write long texts - lol. And that youtube video said.... (Most Youtubers you link in here are lying to you, are reading text excerpts to you that you dont want to read yourselves, without understanding them - I've participated in the experimet, I've watched 10-20 of the videos in here people held at high regard - and linked to others as help. No one corrects a youtuber, ever. He's in a bubble of his own. Alone. At the same time - reaching hundereds.
No arguments get developed on youtube. Its only the medium that reads forum entries and release logs to an apparently very large audience.
And this youtube video falls in the same category - Its a great tease - but it stops right before it would show you what the purpose of the thing is. You just get the "UI experience part". Looks great, does nothing (as of now), has potential (if the assets werent lifted straight from Nintendo.) )
And this is more on topic than any of the "amazing, great, wonderful - look, we even can run N64 on it!" sentiments, that 80% of the folks in here shared.
Rotflmao 
