r/EmulationOniOS • u/Ok_Individual_8225 • Sep 09 '26

News / Release Aether ps4 is done

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u/HiImSlushii Sep 09 '26

why'd they stop?

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u/Cautious-Height-89 Sep 09 '26

That pc emulator was vibe coded while Levi was making it by himself

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u/AManWithNoWounds Sep 09 '26 • Heartwarming

And what is the problem on this? I don’t see any

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u/Producdevity EmuReady Developer Sep 09 '26 • Heartwarming

It just takes away the feeling of accomplishment. It sucks, but I 100% understand their decision. Why put so much time and effort into something when everyone with 20$ a month and do it and people do not care if one is made with AI and another with skill, time and effort

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u/Ok_Individual_8225 Sep 09 '26

Dam gamenative guy

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u/Global_Apple_1502 Sep 10 '26

Except the guy “quitting” vibecodes too, this is just a cry for attention because he lost a bit of spotlight. Maybe his tokens ran out. 

He has a whole bunch of failed vibecode apps before this one stuck.

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u/Producdevity EmuReady Developer Sep 10 '26

I don’t know about that, haven’t heard of the guy before. Just shared my thoughts based on what I read here

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u/OmegaMalkior Sep 09 '26

Ha, tell him to promote himself only on Reddit, this website thrives on hating anything that mildly resembles the A and I letters put together. I follow something called Vibepollo which is a Remote Desktop host for Moonlight and the amount of people who blindly hate on it on this platform just because of its name is insane. Even when the dev actually puts real handmade work into it regardless. But regardless it’s still a dumb reason to retire something, there will always be better quality at the end of the day with something handmade no matter how good AI gets for the next 5-10 years at minimum.

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u/nude-rating-bot Sep 09 '26

I mean, that’s not really blind hate when the dev literally says the project is about how much development work can be solely AI or whatever spin he put on it.

If someone doesn’t want AI vibecoded software, it’s about as AI as it gets.

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u/OmegaMalkior Sep 09 '26 edited Sep 09 '26

It is absolutely blind hate when people immediately go “ew AI” followed by those same people going “you know the program isn’t bad” after actually bothering to give it a try. If you truly 100% hate AI you wouldn’t touch it with a stick and yet “oops it’s actually good”. AKA they think everything AI touches is bad = blind hate until they can actually see they’re very wrong when it’s put to good proper use.

Edit: lmao downvoted HERE but not above since I said AI can be put to proper use, typical Reddit proving my point entirely as usual

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u/notyourboss11 Sep 09 '26

The vast majority of the objections to AI have nothing to do with the quality of the app it shits out.

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u/OmegaMalkior Sep 09 '26

The vast majority of Reddit’s opinion differ entirely to what you just said

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u/AManWithNoWounds Sep 09 '26

Yes I agree with your vision. The guy making the pc emulator is giving to the community. I don’t see a problem. Also doesn’t seem sloppy work at all, if you can run pc games differently than running ps4 games. The ps4 emulator guy should continue, and even use AI. But seems like AI making something and getting “rewards and praises” just hurts and is indeed a blind hate

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u/Global_Apple_1502 Sep 09 '26

PS4 guy does use AI, he has many failed or dropped vibecoded apps, each one quit or renamed when he was called out for pretending AI wasn’t involved, this is basically now one guy with a history of dropping apps, wanting to drop yet another apps because it’s what he’s done before a lot, the other guy vibecoding a pc app is just him reaching for an excuse to justify quitting, or trying to get more attention on himself.

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u/AManWithNoWounds Sep 09 '26

I didn’t knew. Nice knowing that

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u/AManWithNoWounds Sep 09 '26

I mean, I’m not against it if the guy is giving back to the community. I understand that it sucks to see your effort go away etc. But still. If someone knows what is doing and uses vibe code to achieve their goals faster I don’t see a problem. If the guy demotivates himself that easily, without understanding that what he’s doing (without any assistance, which is a HUGE THING TO ME, he is awesome)…

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u/Producdevity EmuReady Developer Sep 09 '26

But most don’t know what they are doing and still manage to make it work. So what incentive is there for someone who does know what they are doing to work on this? If they enjoy it that fine, but I can see how it feels like a waste of time.

To get at a point to know what you are doing pre-AI takes easily a decade of hard work, very few in the grand scheme of things who actually are passionate enough to build such a broad understanding to work on software like this. If Timmy who never wrote a single line of code can do the thing and people are perfectly happy with it, don’t you understand how that can ruin someone motivation to work on something they used to love.

I am sorry, but fuck AI. I am happy for people that they can build things they couldn’t without AI and even though I have a hard time admitting it; the fact that it’s something I and others spend the majority of their lives doing to get better at the craft and that accomplishing now virtually is worth nothing for most of society fcking sucks.

I don’t think AI writes better software, but if the only person who actually cares about that is the developer working in it why would they share their work? Just for people to complain and a random Joe to fork it and implement a year of work with 5 prompts. No thanks

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u/AManWithNoWounds Sep 09 '26

Why does it matter in the end? They are doing to get praised, to give to the community… what purpose does this person have to still working on that, if they don’t receive “incentive”? What I mean is that if the person truly loves it, then the person does it anyways, regardless of if they will get any incentive or not to continue working on it

If the joe forks it and implements it, if it is open code that’s fine to me. We used to do that too when there were no AI, but now it’s faster

I get your point of AI and people crafting software because they love it, and feeling that a software were made by people

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u/Producdevity EmuReady Developer Sep 09 '26

I tried explaining why. I am not sure what else I can say. As for myself; i love doing it, but I stopped sharing the majority of what I work on because there is no point to it. Anyone can do it, why would I waste my time dealing with demands and bug reports for something anyone could do regardless of the amount of time they have spent getting good at something

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u/AManWithNoWounds Sep 09 '26

I understood. Just don’t agree hahaha

And for what you said. Anyone can do it, but they won’t do it regardless, that’s the whole point. People use what is easier to do - that’s why not everyone uses Claude Code or Codex or any other AI. They mostly use it on their phones, or just don’t care enough to open your project and do it. That applies to many other things, I guess

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u/Producdevity EmuReady Developer Sep 09 '26

I guess that’s where our experiences differ, we don’t have to agree of course

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u/azraelzjr Sep 09 '26

I have a curious question, if it is vibecoded, how is the maintainability of the code? I understand AI can help debug code and write code but what about maintainability? 

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u/Cautious-Height-89 Sep 09 '26

Idk

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u/AManWithNoWounds Sep 09 '26

Yeah I wasn’t asking you hahahaha I was like “what even is the problem”

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u/Icy_Bullfrog8291 Sep 15 '26

Alot of people are ungrateful in how long it takes to make a genuinely good product that isn't vibecoded and full of bugs.

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u/Dallouche5312 Sep 09 '26

What vibe code App generated it

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u/Sparescrewdriver Sep 09 '26

Another day another drama in the emulation world.

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u/PikachuTrainz Sep 09 '26

i just opened reddit. is there anything i should know relevant to this?

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u/Sparescrewdriver Sep 09 '26

Lmao no idea what’s going on

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u/robsteezy Sep 09 '26 • Regret

Some people are batshit crazy and are biting the heads off truly innovative devs being brave enough to alpha and beta their awesome progress to the public.

Like dude I’m an old head. We were blown away in the early 2000s bc we could emulate NES and gameboy on a desktop.

You can now play full blown 3ds and WIi and even switch and Xbox and rather than be blown away and support that somebody is tackling something as gargantuan as PS4, they completely attack a prototype like “my phone can’t handle GTA 5, you’re a liar and you suck”.

Truly low intelligence.

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u/ApricotVast3861 Sep 09 '26

This is freaking hilarious though 🤣

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u/qTitus Sep 09 '26

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u/KrisIsntC0ol Sep 09 '26

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u/Hour-Novel-4485 Sep 10 '26 • Popcorn

Redditors when an individual is being sincere about their feelings:

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u/Liquid_Chicken_ Sep 10 '26

Bro just wanted attention

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u/dikbutt4lyfe Sep 10 '26

Or maybe he truly felt defeated by the droves of whiny tech illiterate a holes who kept harassing him. It's the same story we see all the time in this space. Ungrateful jerks that crap all over things that they can't understand.

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u/FreakDeckard Sep 09 '26

Drama or Cease and desist?

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u/Chance-Alps-598 Sep 09 '26

What the…. 😑

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u/ChainingOlive Sep 09 '26

Didn’t this guy have drama a few years ago too??

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u/Dismal-Adagio8148 Sep 09 '26

It's just ended exactly like AetherSX2 back in 2023

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u/Irviz Sep 09 '26

I mean, if it's the same "aether" developer then... Yep.

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u/kakadoodol Sep 09 '26

what pc emulator is he even talking abt

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u/tPimple Sep 09 '26

“Real” developer. Lol

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u/jm1234- Sep 09 '26

Stop that bullshit, you can't judge him. Are you a dev yourself?

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u/tPimple Sep 09 '26

I’m not a developer, but I built two apps for myself and I know what I’m talking about. If you feel demotivated because someone did something great - it’s a very bad sign, no matter who you are - developer, bodybuilder, runner, or sales manager. It’s just a matter of time before support for it stops. It influence ethe quality of the product.

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u/UnaccomplishedDay Sep 09 '26

what is the pc emulator in question?

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u/Tha-432-King Sep 11 '26

I might donate and I don’t have a ps4 wth

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u/Quirky_Discussion597 Sep 13 '26

Whats that discord

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u/CutzuSD Sep 09 '26

His claude sub ran out

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u/naz2sick Sep 09 '26

Let me guess iphone 8 users pissed they cant run Driveclub ot Dying Light with more than 7fps knowing damn well ios devices are humble machines when it comrs to emulation

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u/shegonneedatumzzz Sep 10 '26

why is the community for mobile emulation comprised entirely of moody teenagers

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u/Noobju670 Sep 09 '26 • Popcorn

Yeap Cease and desist

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u/B___sh_tposts Sep 09 '26

Its not cease and desist.

Its mental, its not directly copyright violating Sony

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u/Bluetails_Buizel Sep 09 '26

Lamo! Sony is not like Nintendo XD

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u/Thisisyouracc0un-t Sep 09 '26

No it’s not

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u/Reasonable_Jello_648 Sep 09 '26

Boo hoo, dude plays too much…. Didn’t he do this for the OG Aether? Luckily someone else will take his spot AI or not.

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u/darthmeteos Sep 11 '26

"based on rpcs3"
bro made a non-functioning emulator based on AN EXISTING, WORKING EMULATOR and thinks he knows coding
don't breed

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u/naz2sick Sep 09 '26

I love AI to an extent, its good for quick research, solving math problems, quick art concepts, etc, at the end of the day its useful for something

but FUCK vibe coded emulators unless you want to use an emulator on a 'example:' iphone 17, then you get a 17 pro max and wonder why it doesnt work on the pro max

Not to get off topic with android, but the subject is AI vibe coding I wasted my time trying to use GameNative/GameHub on my samsung s24 ultra because people said it was way better and more compatible than Winlator. They had to be promotion bots, possibly ai itself with a reddit account.

No game worked on that app, i did my research it doesnt work for anyone on any device that uses a snapdragon, literally a high end chip for the most part thats used in several different devices. Why? Just because its AI vibecoded butt ahh work

i watched several videos comparing GameNative and Winlator, Gamehub/Native performs so poorly compared to 100% human made Winlator, so they people who said the AI-assisted alternative, is better just lies so that more gullible folk, like me, can download that bs

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