Emulating Retro Games on Modern Consoles with Robin Lavallée and Bill Litshauer

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Emulating retro games on modern consoles is a growing trend, and allows players to experience classic titles with improved performance, enhanced resolution, and added features like save states and rewinding. However, this process raises many challenging technical questions related to hardware compatibility, performance optimization, rendering, and state management.

Implicit Conversions is a company focused on emulating retro PlayStation games on modern consoles. Robin Lavallée is the Co-Founder and Chief Gaming Officer and Bill Litshauer is the CEO at the company. They join the show to talk about the engineering that’s needed to emulate and enhance retro games.

Kevin Ball or KBall, is the vice president of engineering at Mento and an independent coach for engineers and engineering leaders. He co-founded and served as CTO for two companies, founded the San Diego JavaScript meetup, and organizes the AI inaction discussion group through Latent Space.

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