I have a love hate with discovering stuff like this.
Libretro
It is hard for me to stop thinking about. I want to blow off current projects and study the new idea.
I know that behavior leads to failure and nothing is ever finished so I wont do it.
BUT.... If any of you want to study it and let me know what you find that would be cool. Otherwise I personally will ignore it until all my other projects are closed.
The frontend seems limited, ignore it as I would replace it and just use the command line features.
Questions I have are.
1. Any slow down? Introduced bugs? Increased system requirements? Latency? If yes can that be fixed? I played a couple games and there was audio cracks. Not sure if some adjustments could be made to fix that or not but if not then that probably means it would be a dead end for us.
2. How difficult is it to customize. Need to be able to securely disable cheats, saves etc and upload inp (they call it bsv) to server for score verification.
3. How fast is there development progressing?
4. Are there other similar existing projects?