Fair, I suppose I understand the idea but like… idk I can think of MANY reasons (patent bullshit, could be useful, or prove to be cheaper, or developed further into something better) why having something similar to an already existing process is still good. Look at Sodium batteries potentially now being 10% of the cost of lithium ones, even if they’re a similar but generally worse storage technology. I don’t think it should be a requirement that a new process or discovery have an inherent reason/advantage. Shit like that is how we end up with leaded gasoline.

sounds like saying “we already have a lung in our body why make an iron lung.”

Like I know obviously it’s not like plug this into your spine and cure paralysis but I could definitely be very useful.

I mean yeah, GN did a whole movie on how easily available they are still, both for purchase or modding them to fit your needs. Link below. But yeah, this is pretty normal for China to try and keep cash flow within country. They wouldn’t limit themselves if they hadn’t caught up, but if they have now then it makes sense to try and stop cash flowing out by restricting to their version. Do it with apps and plenty of other things so it’s nothing new. Literally irrelevant that it’s export banned from the US.

https://youtu.be/1H3xQaf7BFI

Note: it is 3 hours… but it’s not a bad watch if you haven’t seen it and are interested.

Nvm, now seems like maybe I can get the windows bizhawk version working but it won’t run to lua script correctly, again probably a “this isn’t windows” issue but, fuck if I know.

I’m… asking for a Linux emulator that can run a lua script. That’s not a problem with archipelago or jets of time. From my search all the easily available on Linux SNES emulators (looking mostly in bazaar on bazzite) do not have lua scripting available. So… I am asking for help on how to get one running with lua scripting enabled on Linux. I can get it working fine on windows because I was using SNES9x-rr but even trying to run that through proton did not work for lua scripting and I don’t know why.

I can play the generic randomizer fine, it’s the archipelago support that uses SNI to connect with a lua script that I need to be able to sync up with a host game. (Syncs your random items with random items in other people’s games they’ve chosen so you all unlock stuff for eachother as you play)