AI-assisted development is bringing old games to platforms we'd never have thought possible. That's exciting, but the growing flood of unfinished ports is beginning to raise an uncomfortable question: how many of these games are actually worth playing?
It’s not like there’s nobody around to decompile and subsequently port games. Up until a short while ago there was a community of decompilers that ultimately shut down because there were too many people forking ongoing projects just to shit out a slop port of the things they were working on. It’s not as simple as “AI porting games to obscure platforms”, it’s also a lot of “AI taking existing work, slopping it to the finish line and then flooding the market”. The market is flooded with machine translations of the same book.
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Machine translation gives them access to the book; does that mean we should create dozens of machine translations of every book out there, for every possible language?