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[-] yuri@pawb.social 29 points 4 days ago

i think PCSX2 is the maddest i’ve ever been over a name. i’ve been using it for YEARS and have to double check the spelling every single time i type it.

[-] diemartin@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 days ago

Don't recall if it had a Linux port, but anyone remembers Nesticle?

[-] Guttural@jlai.lu 4 points 3 days ago

Followed by the tastefully named Snesticle

[-] bilb@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

I remember the grainy low bit icon of a testicle on Windows.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

i was familiar with zophar's domain, yes.

edit wait fuck. sleep will help with reading comprehension, yes.

[-] vividspecter@aussie.zone 11 points 4 days ago

RPCS3 is similarly awkward to read and spell.

And ncmpcpp, which makes sense as it's about 2 or 3 different forks from the original so the name got increasingly out of hand.

[-] SpaceCadet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 days ago

And ncmpcpp, which makes sense as it’s about 2 or 3 different forks from the original so the name got increasingly out of hand.

Ah yes the ncm program. Used to give my brain half a stroke trying to remember the full name.

[-] ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org 3 points 4 days ago

You mean RCPSX3? Or 4, the scam?

[-] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago

What happened with 4? I didn't even know it existed until just now.

It doesn't exist. Well, PCSX4 doesn't, RPCS4 was a private project some years ago:

RPCS4 was a private project being worked on by one of the original developers of RPCS3, DH. Little is known about the project at the time, but we do know that it was expected to run on Unix-likes and can boot PS4 games without graphics

https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/PlayStation_4_emulators footnote 2

PCSX4 was just malware/adware or similar if I recall correctly. It came into being long before PS4 emulation reached anything remotely resembling the concept of "playable".

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 6 points 4 days ago

I hear you. The one that always gets me is PPSSPP. Every time I type it I miss out a letter and have to go back and fix it.

[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

I memorized it as "PSP, but doubled"

[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 5 points 4 days ago

Somehow, I perfectly remember ncmpcpp (what does any of that even mean? something with C++ I guess?) but struggle with lighttpd (light+httd+daemon).

[-] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

NCurses, Media Player Client, c Plus Plus

[-] nullify3112@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Is that a command to summon the cats? PPSSPP PPSSPP

[-] kirisamemarisa@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 4 days ago

seems easy to remember for me

[-] yuri@pawb.social 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)
[-] DarkSirrush@piefed.ca 19 points 4 days ago

Yeah, its a fun one, but it does have a logical reason.

PSX was the codename for the PS1, and what the internet community latched on to, especially after the PS2 came out and there needed to be clarity on which they were referring to.

One of the early PSX PC emulators decided to name themselves PCSX as an amalgamation of PC and PSX.

PCSX2's team wanted to make a PS2 emulator on par with/inspired by (and maybe forked off of?) the PS1 emulator and decided to continue the naming convention.

And now we have the dislexia-unfriendly PCSX2 name.

[-] yuri@pawb.social 5 points 4 days ago

ah dammit, that’s actually compelling reasoning! lmao

[-] okmko@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Y'all remember the PSX emu Bleem! ? You could buy it commercially as a physical disk from the shelves of a store? I have no idea how they got away with it but that seems unthinkable these days.

I feel like, based on the interface, they just took PCSX, swapped the splash screen, and somehow distributed it commercially, along with even running TV ads. They must've been sued into oblivion by Sony.

[-] DarkSirrush@piefed.ca 3 points 4 days ago

Personally, I wasn't allowed to own a computer until well after Bleem! went out of business (from running out of money for legal defence against sony).

That being said, looking at wikipedia, Bleem! started first, so PCSX was the one that stole the look and feel of Bleem!

[-] okmko@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Wow that's news to me.

[-] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 2 points 4 days ago

PC sex too. That's how I read it.

[-] okmko@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I didn't even know people read it. My eyes just glazed over the letters like it's a picture lol.

[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 points 4 days ago

Then it should PCPSX or PSXPC, but the PCSX trips me up so hard. I hate it so much

[-] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 days ago

Maybe, but it is meant as a portmanteau, and not just two abbreviations stuck together.

Like... if the National Aeronautics and Space Administration made a big light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation device, and decided to call it the NASER instead of NASALASER.

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago

I keep searching "RPCS2" and wondering why it doesn't show up

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