Yet another emulator dev quit over death threats and fucking idiots complaining they can't play PS3 games on a 2008 Android phone or iPhone.

This is why you gatekeep the normies out and not make any software for them.
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@ryo You said PS3 when this is clearly about PS2 which got me confused for a second because I couldn't believe anyone would be dumb enough to believe that there are PS3 emulators for phones now.

I didn't realize that there were still that many people still using ObamaPhones. Even if there are, it shouldn't have been enough to bully someone out of a project. You could also have troll accounts asking stupid questions, which is something I can understand.

iPhones, I actually can understand. It used to be much easier to jailbreak them and install emulators on. And I think it's still possible to do and maybe it should be an option for those who know how to do it.

Honestly, the best approach is to make the emulator PC only, and let other people develop forks for mobile platforms, modded consoles, etc, so you don't have to deal with the mobidiots (new word I just made up ^^).

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> You said PS3 when this is clearly about PS2 which got me confused for a second because I couldn't believe anyone would be dumb enough to believe that there are PS3 emulators for phones now.

Oh yea, it's just so hard to distinguish between 5 different consoles with almost the exact same name while having very little hands on experience with (if at all).

> I didn't realize that there were still that many people still using ObamaPhones. Even if there are, it shouldn't have been enough to bully someone out of a project. You could also have troll accounts asking stupid questions, which is something I can understand.

Just visit Japan and look around, there's no shortage of people using an iPhone 4, some ancient Android phone, or flip phones right in between those with the newest and latest iPhone on each side, or people playing Pokemon Go on 3 or 4 different satanphones at the same time, but that aside.

@ryo
>Oh yea, it's just so hard to distinguish between 5 different consoles with almost the exact same name while having very little hands on experience with (if at all).

I never owned a single PlayStation console or handheld either, but I know each one. Here is a simple guide:

* PS1 - The CD system that could've been Nintendo's if their deal didn't fall through.
* PS2 - The DVD player that could also play 3D games
* PS3 - The $600 Blu-Ray Player that can also play games and used to be able to run Linux until Sony killed that feature
* PS4 - The system that can still play used games and interactive movies pretending to be games
* PS5 - The paper-weight developed by Californians

* PocketStation - Some Japan-only PS1 memory card that also acts like a small handheld console (like the Dreamcast's VMU)
* PSP - Sony's iPod that can also play 3D games
* PS Vita - The handheld for weebs because western gamers stopped caring about handhelds and moved on to mobile garbage

@xianc78 @ryo
>PS Vita
Sony made the switch before nintendo but completely forgot about it. Then they completely shit canned it without realizing weebs still played on it.
Nintendo was more than happy to pick up the tab on that one.
"Sony made the switch before nintendo"
Yeah, but it doesn't say Nintendo on it, so it didn't sell. Nintendo is the Apple of video games. Except the consoles aren't that overpriced... unless they're older "collectable" consoles, then it's exactly like Apple again.
I have a PS Vita which I didn't even turn on for many years.
The vast majority of the gaymes on it were PS3 ports, Wii Sports-level tech demo's, and light novels that can be bought for a lot cheaper for PC, and Gravity Daze which was the only worthy PS Vita exclusive (at the time I played it, because they released a port for PS4 almost 4 years later).
I owned the PS1 and still own PS2 (it runs PS1 games as well), PS3 and PSP. Got all of them when they were from a generation or two ago, and for cheap. Only ever owned official games for the PS3, because it's a Superslim (which is a funny name, because it's still absolutely enormous and the biggest console that I ever owned), so it wasn't possible to run pirated games on it at the time, and the price for the physical games was reasonable anyway, but now it is possible. PS2 has a Matrix Infinity mod chip (as well as software that I installed on my memory cards, with a file manager to load programs from, a media player, and a game loader that can load games from USB, ethernet, or a hard drive but only on the fat model), PSP has custom firmware that I load from an SD card (and games of course, but also some emulators), which is also basically what you can do to the Superslim as well. https://social.076.moe/url/56174
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