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I don't know whether this is an appropriate forum to make this topic. Anyways...
I'd like to merge Gens-style RAM Watch / Search and Lua engine to official snes9x. However, I cannot do that directly because of license problem.
I think, Gens and other TAS emulators are GPL. To include GPL code to snes9x, I need to get a special permission from the author of product.
Therefore, I have to ask TASvideos coders about it, but I'm not sure who is the one I should ask particularly.
Possibly, I can develop those features on the rerecording branch, like as we do till now... *1
I don't see what I should do. I create this topic, to tell about the problem, and hear your opinions.
Any thoughts?
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*1 Actually, as you can imagine, snes9x-rr violates the license as well. So, in fact, it doesn't solve the problem. (◞‸◟)
*2 You prefer bsnes-rr rather than snes9x-rr? That's a brilliant idea! Go ahead, I'm really looking forward to it! ლ(╹ε╹ლ) I don't have a big motivation to do that large work for now (including snes9x maintenance).