Retro Gaming Has a Port-Slop Problem

One thing I’ve always loved the homebrew scene, particularly when it involves old hardware, is when someone decides that a console or handheld should be capable of doing something it was never designed for, spends an unreasonable amount of time figuring out how to make it happen, and eventually emerges with a working piece of software that nobody would have thought possible. Sometimes it's a remarkably faithful port of a game, sometimes an entirely new emulator, and occasionally it's something so thoroughly impractical that you have to admire the effort involved.Lately, though, I've noticed a change in the kinds of projects being shared across retro gaming communities. Games are apparently being ported to everything, and at a pace that would have seemed completely ridiculous even a year ago. Titles that once would have represented months or years of work are being announced in a matter of days (or multiple times each day), often accompanied by an exciting screenshot, a short…