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Some of the ports we're seeing in the retro handheld community lately have been great, and I love seeing developers push these little devices beyond what they were ever intended to do. But I've definitely noticed what feels like a growing amount of 'port-slop', with new projects appearing seemingly every few hours, many of them feeling more like quick experiments than anything particularly worthwhile.

I'm not against the experimentation at all, but I do wonder if we're reaching a point where quantity is starting to overshadow quality. Anyway, I put together a short opinion piece about it, just my own thoughts on something I've been noticing lately, especially here with my favorite old system: the PSP.

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[โ€“] jaygray91@piefed.zip 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm wishing you well on covering the good sides of the retro gaming hobby, and weathering these flood of AI slopware. It's one thing for me as a passive enjoyer to just see some of them and ignore. It must be hella exhausting to see something interestingly niche pop up and found out it's going to be abandoned slopware in a short time.

I've enjoyed all the posts you shared here and on the other site, to get differing views.

[โ€“] PerfectDark@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Thabk you Jaygray!

That's really kind of you, to not only read my regular articles but my (newish) NeoCities experiment. That means a lot!

This whole new rapidly changing world is a lot. A lot to see happen so quickly. I feel for some of the talented dev teams I know, because things are changing so darned quickly now :(