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The betrayal (lemmy.ml)
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[โ€“] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How do emulators handle games that want to use the VMU as an auxiliary display? (Did that actually ever matter?)

[โ€“] otp@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

It did rarely matter.

I think emulators can give little windows for the screens now? But no controllers I'm aware of can actually display them (including an official DC controller with a VMU...no adapter sends data back, and the emulators don't know how to send it anyhow)