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Personally I always thought PC ports (or the trendy name "recomps") were kind of a slop concept even when they were human made. There's no real reason why the same game enhancements should get 100x the attention when implemented as one, but ignored when done as a romhack or emulator enhancements

I'm much more interested in the enhancements that can't be done on the original platform, like network play or higher detail assets. Using a modified emulator is how you wind up with hacks that only work on a certain obsolete version with security holes.

Netplay might have the strongest case for running natively, true. Asset replacements, though, feel like they would be best done via a resource pack format that isn't specific to a single game, let alone a single port of one game. Multiple emulators could implement support for such a format.

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