I mean he said "super" not special, he was trying to sell superpowers to level the playing field and reduce the general public's perception of super heroes.

It's a quote from a villain. You're not supposed agree with it or him.

I get where you're coming from, but imo I feel like the quote applies to video games and their publishers a good bit. At least nowadays.

Everyone wants to be The Next Big Thing, everyone wants their game to be the only one people are playing.

Context clues are huge. Maybe you should try to pick up on some.

The on the fly translation hit might be a major bottleneck

https://deepwiki.com/RPCS3/rpcs3/2.2.3-jit-compilation-and-recompilation

That I can confirm firsthand. Recompiled code is just prebaked CPU instructions in another language that can be compiled. That's all there is to it.

So for modding, it's only slightly easier technically as you have the option to inject code easier than on the emulated platform and providing facilities for the host OS to load them (dynamic libraries, which is a big benefit which most of the slop coders don't fully understand how or why it is).

For proper modding research, a decompilation (of the portions of the game you want to mod very extensively) is needed.

For a simple aspect ratio and UI fix patch (and other simple improvements) - that is achievable on the original code itself via cheats/code injection (anything that has an FPU should work, PS1 and older are harder generally). You generally do not need a whole recompilation/decompilation for this kind of a thing.

Sometimes even the original hardware without any performance boost can handle it, but most of the times this is where emulator's overclocking and memory extension features come into play to help.

Honestly, in my opinion, machine code hacking is not that hard. It takes way less time and energy to do it than this to achieve the same "improvements" with way lower barriers to entry.

It's hardly different from an end user perspective (except emulators often have extra features the direct games don't), but it is a very different way to get things running.

But emulating does not give you Ultrawide(in beta) or 4K @ 240FPS, FSR (currently still disabled in source, coming soon), Discord Rich Presence and Background Shader Compilation.

I am on linux. Tbf, I did try it a while ago, so maybe I need to give it another chance.