mikage

Pausa.

Added 2019-08-31 09:56:47 +0000 UTC

tl;dr: Patrons won't be charged in September. Mikage development continues, but no alpha build will be released next month.

Since Mikage's announcement on 1 July, a lot of progress has been made. About 70 source code changes resulted in many games starting to draw graphics, and those that didn't got much closer to it. As Alex (the author of the PS4 emulator Orbital) put it: "damn i wish i could commit that much time into getting stuff fixed"

Alas, despite the strong and steady progress being made, many patrons expressed it hasn't been as visible as they'd hoped. That's the unfortunate reality of emulation: You spend hundreds of hours fixing things, and then it's that one-line change that gets everything working - but only once the groundwork has been taken care of!

That said, I do want to give people a better feeling of progress, and that's hard to do without user-visible improvements. Also, I don't want to rely on the understanding generosity of patrons who keep pledging month after month either. Hence, I decided to pause the campaign for the time being.

This does not mean Mikage development itself is paused - far from it! Active progress is still made on an almost daily basis, as the Development Update released today shows. See you again in October for more updates and, as always, thanks for your support!