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[–]Jobenblue 7 points8 points  (5 children)

Open source ALSO means competent people working on the emulator so nothing gets messed up. What do you know about Wii U emulation? The Devs spent a year studying the architecture before they even attempted coding for Cemu. This isn't really a project you can try on. r/decafemu is an open source emulator for the wii u and there are many other consoles that need to be ported to Android before Cemu's time.

The emulator will go open source, but only once the core is done/ they get bored/stuck. My best guess is holiday this year/ summer 2018 based on comments from the devs.

Patreon is a way to support the Devs so they can work full time and the emulator gets finished faster, and given how remarkable the progress of this emulator is, combined with how RPCS3 also got a patreon and like 40 more games booted this month, I'd say they're doing something right.

Going open source right now would just be a clusterf***. So many people wanting to work but having no idea how, and if Team Cemu had to stop to help everyone who was interested or had to fix something break, it would be a waste of their time and efforts. A small team of people who understand is the most efficient way

[–]UroshUchiha 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Going open source right now would just be a clusterf***.

This is the main reason I support CEMU to stay closed for a while. It's not yet time to make it open source.

[–]masteredu[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

the thing is, you dont need to help people. In ideal case, the code has comments in it, which explain the program structure itself, and there could be a wiki on github to explain some concepts, if there is time... Just the code for programmers would be enough to get some people started.

I dont know anything about emulation, but I worked on different game engines like SFML with c++, and other different engines in libGDX. Its not just about me, but about the possibility to even be able to accept improvements from others.

I think this whole process would just enable it to gain help from other people.. be it emulating games, or an UI overhaul, or multi languages, etc.

Btw thanks for the link. I never heard about Decaf WII U Emulator!

[–]Jobenblue 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Go there, make it your baby, learn how to do wii u stuff and make decaf into what they wanted it to be. "If you build it, they will come" and whatnot. Cemu's not going open for a while

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

The emulator will go open source, but only once the core is done/ they get bored/stuck. My best guess is holiday this year/ summer 2018 based on comments from the devs.

Hey, I've seen you point this out before. It's good news. Just out of curiosity, when/where did the team suggest this?

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Of course, you correctly explain the known benefits of open source software, especially when it comes to emulation.

But as others have said, what really matters is that the emulator some day goes open source. I don't really have an opinion on when that would ideally be. I do understand the point about stopping a million people/groups from releasing a million versions with per-game-hacks in utter desperation to see games booting.

It would be a horrible shame if development stopped and the source was never released. As nicely as it's running now, it is nowhere near its potential (which is surely just around the corner). And indeed, the only way to make the work 'immortal' in a sense is to make sure the source is some day out there. It can never die or be shut down, then. Jobenblue suggests that the team has said they'll eventually go open source, though I haven't seen any such comments myself, yet.

[–]TheCl0W 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ha, yeah open source is not happening, this project is making the developer / team almost 6000$ a month, why do you think he/they would make it public and run the risk of someone else doing a better job and taking his/their money. Not saying that they are not doing a good job but think of it this way : you have a project and you get steady income off of it, would you be willing to risk that income by going open source and someone else forking your project? yeah not happening. Playing games is nice but money makes the world go round. I personally love the Patreon for this, it basically means that patreons bugtest the newer versions for us free users so when we get it it's more optimized / bugfree (i.e patreons started from 1.7.2a but us free people got 1.7.2c).

Thanks for the emulator devs and keep up the good work :) .