You can make PS2 games in JavaScript

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• kamranjon 59 minutes ago
  This is pretty incredibly - Fabrice Bellard builds stuff that just has such a wide spread impact - so cool that QuickJS enabled an old system like PS2 to have a bit of a homebrew revival through this AthenaEnv project
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  • mschuster91 27 minutes ago
    My photoshop skills are near zero, otherwise I'd have long gone and edited xkcd 2347 [1] to say next to the pillar "Something Fabrice Bellard probably implemented while half asleep just to prove he could do it".

    There's a lot of FOSS projects that have something written by him in their dependency chain.

    [1] https://xkcd.com/2347/
• dinobones 29 minutes ago
  Mega cool, I’m curious if there’s a way to burn the ISO to a disc and get this playing on a physical console?
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  • bakugo 2 minutes ago
    You'd need to hack the console to get it to load a burned disc, but if you can do that, you can also just load it from USB.

    Though I guess you could burn it to a disk anyway purely for the sake of authenticity.
• mclau153 29 minutes ago
  people will do anything to avoid using .gdscript and Godot....
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  • ronsor 14 minutes ago
    I like Godot, but you're not getting it running on a PS2.
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    • charcircuit 0 minutes ago
      gdscript does not do any fancy JIT or AOT. I don't see why you can't get gdscript running fairly easily.
  • turnsout 12 minutes ago
    To be fair, it's not as simple as building in Godot and exporting to PS2.
• twosdai 1 hour ago
  Super cool. Thanks for sharing this. I've been looking for something like this for a while.
• animanoir 8 minutes ago
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