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Someone posted a vibe-coded Genesis/Sega CD/32X emulator to the emudev Discord today. It's not particularly fast (a debug build of BlastEm is faster), it's not particularly accurate, it's not portable and the code looks about as you expect, but it does run games. Not sure how I feel about it.

Michael Pavone

@retrodev.com

On the one hand, at least in its current state, it kind of sucks so I don't think it will get much use. I'm not really surprised that this is possible. Kind of expected better results given that the README claims a number of other emulators (including BlastEm) were used as a reference.

Michael Pavone

@retrodev.com

On the other hand, I spent a huge number of hours over the past 14 years to get BlastEm to where it is today. Some of that time was spent expanding our knowledge of the platform and I guess that's more durable than the software itself, but a lot was writing code or fixing bugs.

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