Violating an emulator's terms of use for your commercial product is really, really gross. That it's happened to endrift at least twice now is awful.

April 08, 2026 - 20:19 UTC

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Four years later, and this video still holds up well. I hate LRG so much.
youtu.be/lS3ja5JnkAQ?si=OtzVIPNjdLOB6Rb4
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What was the first time?
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a Japanese Medabots collection for Switch www.medarotsha.jp/classics_plus/

LRG's been accused of violating GPL multiple times at this point…

also worth noting that Mighty Rabbit Games, the studio credited on many of their recent emulated reissues, is the recently-ousted CEO's new company
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Common Limited Run Games L
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haven't they put out gba releases before? like Ninja Five-O?
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Yeah, Shantae Advance too.
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So what's the point of their 'Carbon Engine' if they just use other emulators?
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I always took it as their version of something like RetroArch, an abstraction layer to handle the frontend, controls, settings etc. wrapped around the actual emulators.
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That was the point of it, to have a cohesive user interface for them that could be reused across projects.

It wasn't a bad idea! A configurable, reusable frontend for commercial re-releases! But how can you even do that without getting permission for the tools first?!
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They didn’t even have the decency to use an LLM to make sure it was convolved with half a dozen other GBA emulators first?!
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Underappreciated comment
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Oh, I was not even aware of this. I guess that pushes LRG from "no thanks" to "yuck". 🙃
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