The highly controversial PlayStation 2 emulator for Android devices, AetherSX2, has been removed from the Google Play Store starting from March 10th, 2024. This doesn't come as a surprise for many, though, as the AetherSX2 emulator halted development entirely back in 2023, with the developer...
  • NotSteve_English
    511·
    7 months ago7 months ago

    Was surprised at this since it’s not connected to Nintendo in any way, but it turns out it’s not actually related to the Yuzu news:

    This doesn’t come as a surprise for many, though, as the AetherSX2 emulator halted development entirely back in 2023, with the developer specifically mentioning the “neverending impersonating, complaints, demands, and now death threats”. Although, it took almost a year for the actual emulator app to be taken down from the Play Store, following the discontinuation of the project

    • RVGamer06English
      440·
      7 months ago

      What kind of sicko sends death threats to someone for developing an emulator

      • NotSteve_English
        430·
        7 months ago

        Open source devs have to deal with the most entitled, messed up people, I swear

        • ScrubblesEnglish
          120·
          7 months ago

          Added with games, where game devs also receive some of the most vile stuff around, it’s just a recipe for disaster

        • doctorzeromdEnglish
          70·
          7 months ago

          Especially when the software they’re developing is an emulator or for phones. This was both!

      • naveEnglish
        251·
        7 months ago

        I’ve heard that the emulation on android community is extremely toxic because a lot of people don’t know anything about emulators and then get pissed when their shitty phone can’t run every game at 4k 60 fps

        • RVGamer06English
          100·
          7 months ago

          Digital illiteracy and it’s consequences

      • DudewitbowEnglish
        160·
        7 months ago

        people who have underperforming or incompatible hardware who hound developers for optimaztion on a project that was free.

        people tend to not read app requirements (or the fucking manual) because their too lazy to help themselves before bugging someone else.

        • RVGamer06English
          30·
          7 months ago7 months ago

          That makes my blood boil every time i think of it. I’m autistic and a computer uber-nerd too and they didn’t deserve it. I beg for the day Kiwi Farms will be gone for good.

      • AdmiralShatEnglish
        71·
        7 months ago

        The dev actually got caught faking death threats at one point, and the dev routinely told users in his discord to kill themselves

      • TORFdot0English
        61·
        7 months ago

        Entitled teenagers from poor countries on low end hardware mostly

      • grayhazeEnglish
        42·
        7 months ago

        So what you’re saying is you were part of the problem?

        • AdmiralShatEnglish
          22·
          7 months ago7 months ago

          I was never a participant in the discord only a passive observer who was their for the downloads section. If you were there you’d understand exactly what I was talking about.

          They would say very hateful things to some users just for asking questions and on multiple occasions told people to kill themselves just for, get this, asking questions.

          Amd it turned out that much of the harassment was faked by the dev, yes actually faked by a person for attention. It was a big controversy in the community at the time