Link: https://gardinerbryant.com/retro-gaming-has-a-port-slop-problem/

Some of the ports we're seeing in the retro handheld community lately have been great, and I love seeing developers push these little devices beyond what they were ever intended to do. But I've definitely noticed what feels like a growing amount of 'port-slop', with new projects appearing seemingly every few hours, many of them feeling more like quick experiments than anything particularly worthwhile.

I'm not against the experimentation at all, but I do wonder if we're reaching a point where quantity is starting to overshadow quality. Anyway, I put together a short opinion piece about it, just my own thoughts on something I've been noticing lately, especially here with my favorite old system: the PSP.

Thank you for calling out the port slop. Decompilations and reverse engineering projects used to be worthwhile and exciting and now it’s become an ocean of half baked Claude code projects with no contributors and no base to stand on.

I’m glad we got big ones like SM64 and OOT before the vibe coding craze, now I see a recompilation or port and it doesn’t even register now

My interest and excitement for recomps etc has almost disappeared now :(

What are some other good ones?

I know of these:

• Majora's Mask
• Banjo Kazooie
• A Link to the past (Technically, ports to C and Zig)
• Twilight Princess (arguably, since that one is flooded with vibe-coded mods)
• Star Fox 64
• James Bond: The world is not enough