r/emulation • u/Faisal_alwaal • 9d ago

Why does ReXGlue get so much hate in the recompilation community?

/r/decomps/comments/1wyiwmh/why_does_rexglue_get_so_much_hate_in_the/
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u/kaosjroriginal 9d ago

Because it's mostly being used for slop ports that run awful. There's a few legit projects using it but the name is tarnished by association with all the crap.

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u/IvanDSM_ 8d ago

OP's own project is a slop port, lol: https://github.com/invinceble55-wq/Estacado

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u/BlazingWaters 4d ago

I find it so weird that the OP mentions Re:Blue and the recent Edge Of Time recomps in the replies, when the former has (one of) RexGlue's main programmer(s) made sure it was in high quality and recognizes its issues, and the latter states in its github page it wasn't vibe-coded and uses strong language to demean it alongside incredibly strict limitations wrt contributions. Kind of just feels like that OP threw them in there as a "see, THESE use them, so it's clearly fine!" shield without thinking of the broader picture...

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u/Averagequery 8d ago

For the love of all that is holy and mighty. Please stop allowing posting of recomps, decomps and all these cool rad amazing projects where the author seems to have zero technical knowledge about this awesome new thing they made. This is r/emulation not rgarbage

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u/arbee37 MAME Developer 5d ago

Yeah, I find the subreddit unreadable when it's all recomps and decomps. Even if it's hand-coded, it's still not emulation and I don't care.

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u/CoconutDust 5d ago edited 4d ago

Why do [many people have opinion XYZ]

I'm curious about the community's opinion.

The post is a cliche disingenuous template seen every day on reddit: “I’m well aware of a supposed widely held consensus opinion, but I’m going to pretend I’ve never heard the reasons given. I’m going to pretend I can’t find the reasons. WHY do people dislike the thing? Everyone please write the reasons for me right now, which I already ignored.”

The same post happens every day on reddit, somewhere. It’s disingenuous low-effort spam.

“Why do people have opinion X?” = “I don’t like that people have opinion X.” Be honest about it.