"No support is provided for the Android app,; it is free, and your expectations should be in line with that. Please do not email me about issues about it, or ask for help, you will be ignored." states Duckstation Developer.

There seems to be a pattern here where the community has a (possible?) minority of extremely negative people who make life difficult for developers who are giving away their software for free.

Reverse engineering an entire piece of hardware, and re-implementing that as code, must be such an involved task. The PS1's hardware is absolutely bananas to me - I tried to learn to use PsyQ (the Psygnosis SDK) years ago and the furthest I got was flashing some multi-colored text on the screen because you had to understand the hardware at a fairly low level (buffers, z-tables, and a bunch of other shit) just to get sprites working iirc.

I just don't get the sense of entitlement from a userbase who aren't paying anything for the emulators, the games (in most cases), and aren't even contributing to the code themselves because they don't want to put the work in, but will happily cause stress to the devs without thinking twice about it?

Stenzek vs Android is certainly in the top 10 of anime fights.

Yeah. You see the same thing happen with videogame mod devs. You know someone’s been through it when they have comments turned off

2030: Duckstation only packaged to work on main dev's personal laptop.

That would be a Gigachad move. He could launch a Kickstarter for a TempleOS port

2035: Duckstation releases only permitted on official PS1 hardware.

2040: Disgusted by how his software was once used to play pirated PS1 games, Duckstation now only plays Public Domain roms despite being the most hardware-accurate emulator in existence.

2042: Duckstation author declared "Father of the Playstation" after bit-for-bit identical recreation of SCPH1001 BIOS from first principles.

There seems to be a pattern here where the community has a (possible?) minority of extremely negative people who make life difficult for developers who are giving away their software for free.

You just need a loud minority screaming to seem as a majority, and from that you manipulate the target as you wish.