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You can make PS2 games in JavaScript

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230 points tosh | 7 comments | 21 Nov 25 16:42 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
1. mclau153 ◴[21 Nov 25 18:17 UTC] No.46007111[source]▶
people will do anything to avoid using .gdscript and Godot....
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2. ronsor ◴[21 Nov 25 18:33 UTC] No.46007337[source]▶
I like Godot, but you're not getting it running on a PS2.
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3. turnsout ◴[21 Nov 25 18:34 UTC] No.46007362[source]▶
To be fair, it's not as simple as building in Godot and exporting to PS2.
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4. charcircuit ◴[21 Nov 25 18:47 UTC] No.46007528[source]▶
gdscript does not do any fancy JIT or AOT compiling. I don't see why you can't get gdscript running fairly easily.
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5. bob1029 ◴[21 Nov 25 19:07 UTC] No.46007747[source]▶
https://github.com/distrohelena/retrongin

Unity has at least one experimental option that does exactly this.

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6. turnsout ◴[21 Nov 25 19:12 UTC] No.46007791{3}[source]▶
It's too bad that Unity is a horrible company and a dying platform
7. wk_end ◴[21 Nov 25 22:15 UTC] No.46009641{3}[source]▶
gdscript itself, sure, why not. Porting the entire Godot engine would be a real feat though, especially because of the PS2’s technical limitations.