I check this site pretty much everyday.
This habit started towards the beginning of the Switch's life because everything was developing so quickly. From the discovery of the first exploits, to some PoC emulators, to themes, sys-modules, media players, and more, there was a ton of stuff to follow daily. Within the past year though, it feels like things have fizzled out. It seems that most projects are either abandoned, updated at an alarming slow rate, or no longer supported. The most significant example of this in recent memory is nx-btred, a program that lets you pair bluetooth headphones to the Switch. It was created, got a couple releases in a few days, and then disappeared. Same thing seems to have happened with emulators like Citra and Mupen. I know that m4xw is still working on those, but I can't remember the last time a significant update was released for either. I know that the dynarec made most n64 games playable, and when overclocking was added, that was even more so the case, but there are still a ton of incompatibilities, instabilities, and general slowdowns. This may be nostalgia goggles, but I feel like the Wii U, or even the Wii homebrew emulators ran much more stably than what we have now. Another example are all those game streaming programs. Things like sky-nx, in-home-switching, and moonlight-nx are awesome in concept, but still have a ton of bugs and haven't been updated in ages.
I want to make it clear that I'm not here to shit on devs. If I here one "stop being entitled" I'm gonna be not a happy camper. The point of this thread is simply to ask "why?" I understand that this doesn't apply to every bit of homebrew. I'd like to give special props to catlover007 for their incredible work on melonDS recently. I do not expect any of these devs to deliver a fully polished, or even fully functional product. That would be entitled. I just feel as if previous Nintendo consoles have gotten much more developed homebrew, and I would like to know what happened.
This habit started towards the beginning of the Switch's life because everything was developing so quickly. From the discovery of the first exploits, to some PoC emulators, to themes, sys-modules, media players, and more, there was a ton of stuff to follow daily. Within the past year though, it feels like things have fizzled out. It seems that most projects are either abandoned, updated at an alarming slow rate, or no longer supported. The most significant example of this in recent memory is nx-btred, a program that lets you pair bluetooth headphones to the Switch. It was created, got a couple releases in a few days, and then disappeared. Same thing seems to have happened with emulators like Citra and Mupen. I know that m4xw is still working on those, but I can't remember the last time a significant update was released for either. I know that the dynarec made most n64 games playable, and when overclocking was added, that was even more so the case, but there are still a ton of incompatibilities, instabilities, and general slowdowns. This may be nostalgia goggles, but I feel like the Wii U, or even the Wii homebrew emulators ran much more stably than what we have now. Another example are all those game streaming programs. Things like sky-nx, in-home-switching, and moonlight-nx are awesome in concept, but still have a ton of bugs and haven't been updated in ages.
I want to make it clear that I'm not here to shit on devs. If I here one "stop being entitled" I'm gonna be not a happy camper. The point of this thread is simply to ask "why?" I understand that this doesn't apply to every bit of homebrew. I'd like to give special props to catlover007 for their incredible work on melonDS recently. I do not expect any of these devs to deliver a fully polished, or even fully functional product. That would be entitled. I just feel as if previous Nintendo consoles have gotten much more developed homebrew, and I would like to know what happened.