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Andrew Myrick

The retro gaming and emulation community needs to take a deep breath

Fallout 4 running on the Ayaneo Pocket S with the Steam Deck OLED.

To put things bluntly, last year sucked for the emulation community. Nintendo swept through and took away two of the best emulators that we've ever seen, leaving a massive void that has yet to be truly filled. However, it's usually not the massive corporations that are detrimental to the progression of emulators; it's the community.

Earlier this week, the development of Winlator was officially put on pause, following a barrage of harassment. The catalyst for it all was that after Winlator 10.0 was released, someone found a Trojan that was raising flags in Windows Defender when the APK was downloaded to a computer.

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