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Originally Posted by Elly
Well, its up to the emu author himself
Sure, Open Source will make a good start to anyone intersted to start his own emulator by looking at another source and see how does an emu work. Not to mention that the amount of contribution that project can get from various other coders
On the other hand, going Open Source might lead to many rip offs and ports to other OS/gaming systems without taking the permission of the author, and such acts are the main reason why some coders persist that their emu's source remain closed.
Yours,
-Elly
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I can understand not wanting ripoffs (Although I don't see a problem with cases where the original author is given credit, such as "Feon, an Xbox emulator derived from SF's Xeon", not like a fork like that would be a good thing. (In 90% of cases, forking a project is Bad.)
On the other hand, what's wrong with ports to other OSes? Hell, that's one of the greatest things about open source. I would love to see Xeon working under Linux, and I'm sure plenty would love to see it under OSX.
For all the examples of open-source projects that were failures, there are other examples of ones that were successes. Look at zsnes and snes9x, for example.
Oh, and don't dismiss PCSX. I use it and it's great. Far more reliable than ePSXe on my system (I'm suspecting binary compatibility issues with my Linux distro).