Bleem, the company that helped make emulation legal, is being resurrected and teases "the largest retro gaming project" (gbatemp.net)

submitted 3 weeks ago by RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works to c/emulation@lemmy.ml

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Over two decades ago, a small company by the name of Bleem! appeared and offered a unique product in the gaming market, the ability to play PlayStation games outside of the original hardware, in what would be popularly known as "emulation" worldwide, be it in Windows PCs at the time (Windows 95...

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[-] Hupf@feddit.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

Phew, for a second there I was thinking of Microsoft .NET

[-] Ferk@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

oh sorry, maybe that's why I got downvotes. Just to be clear: I was talking about it being "bleem.net" vs just "bleem".

That rebranding does not bode good, imho.

To me, one of the things that make emulation interesting is that it's released from DRM. If it turns out it's an attempt to lock things to an online platform you might as well just play many of the retro indies that are available on Steam.

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