643: The Sunday Soapbox

We pull on a few loose threads from recent episodes, and some of them unravel into way more than we expected.

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• Pick: Gopher64 — Highly compatible N64 emulator.
• Gopher64 — simple64's official and spiritual successor - Libretro — It’s made by the same developer(s). Unlike simple64 however, it’s not based entirely on Mupen64Plus. And it’s aiming for a more LowSpec hardware ov