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Paper Mario PC port "Paper Boat" gets its first public release

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After being in the works for quite a while now, the latest project from the Harbour Masters team finally makes port. You can now download the first release of Paper Boat on Windows, Mac, and Linux, with the game being playable from start to finish. At the time of writing there aren't a huge number of enhancements, with the game supporting custom aspect ratios and a few cheats. There is a mod menu included though, so I'll be excited to see what the community comes up with for the game.

As always this project ships without any assets, requiring you to provide your own ROM on first boot. Be reminded that this forum is not a place to request or share such things.

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cearp said:
For those worrying about AI due to energy / ethical reasons, let's just assume they were all using local models on their own hardware, powered via energy from solar panels. It's possible.

As for the code quality issues, that's a shame, but could happen even with "human written" code too.
If the project owners / PR reviewers aren't doing a good job of preventing bad code getting in, that's not AI's fault.

The humans are to blame, and using AI isn't really the issue.
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Very true. People love to blame AI for poor quality code when the reality is that people are not checking the code they are putting into their projects. That responsibility falls solely on the developers, you have to check any code that goes into your project regardless of whether it's AI generated or you found it on Google or whatever the case may be. If you don't, you'll end up with unmaintainable slop.
 
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People trying to defend AI by saying we're complaining about getting something for free which is objectively false.

We didn't get Paper Mario on PC, we've had Paper Mario on PC for decades now. I remember playing it on Project 64 22 years ago on a potato which couldn't even render the active camo in Halo PC

What it cost us is affordable memory to run our games on, clean water and clean air.
 
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Vixi said:
People trying to defend AI by saying we're complaining about getting something for free which is objectively false.

We didn't get Paper Mario on PC, we've had Paper Mario on PC for decades now. I remember playing it on Project 64 22 years ago on a potato which couldn't even render the active camo in Halo PC

What it cost us is affordable memory to run our games on, clean water and clean air.
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Very well said. People won't know the cost of AI until it's too late, unfortunately
 

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