Cure Dragon 255 wrote:Mr, and I'm glad you are so polite. What's a GCD talk btw? I get it that its (Apparently) meant to be really long and so on but I still dont know what that is...
"GDC" is Game Developers Conference, an annual event where video game developers get together to talk shop, share best-practices, debrief, arrange further business deals, etc. Unlike something like E3, it's not really intended for or directed at the press, and even less for regular consumers. This is an example one one such presentation from the event in 2016.
The person presenting the aforementioned talk, Frank Cifaldi (now also of the
Video Game History Foundation), worked with Digital Eclipse on the
Mega Man Legacy Collection product (and the upcoming
Disney Afternoon Collection), which collect old NES games and present them in a playable fashion on modern consoles (things like PS4, Xbox One, and PC). As you'll hear in the talk, "emulation" is a "dirty word" with game publishers, and so even though they're
essentially emulating the older games, they're doing so in a way that isn't technically emulation (it's been rewritten in C). The word "emulation" has been equated with piracy, when that's not the case at all:
the one case of emulation being brought to court was struck down. Emulation in and of itself is not piracy.