I need to remind some people here who don’t seem to understand something.
Forks may be dead and development may not be as fast as the original.
However - you must think about the future and not the situation right now. Yuzu and Ryujinx sources will be invaluable information for people making emulators later down the line.
It’s a matter of when and not if someone picks it up again.
Oh you mean Android Studio automagically “updating” your versions so that your build breaks and you spent 3 hours figuring out what just happened without you even touching anything?
I used to play Duel Links and shortly Master Duel after it came out. I don’t anymore but hopefully this will help.
If I was going back to the game, I’d go to look for budget deck lists and seeing what ranks up easily. Most of the community is on Discord and Reddit, as well as YouTube (yugitubers and alike) so I’d go and look there. (Not to mention Dkayed’s website, https://masterduelmeta.com and looking at the decks that topped, you’ll be surprised it’s sometimes not all meta stuff)
I’d also go look for some easy farming methods. These usually come in a form of a current event (IIRC in MD there are these “festivals” for each card type, such as Synchro Festival). These events are usually a very easy way to gain a lot of gems for not much playing.
It is what it is. TCG paper Yu-Gi-Oh is even more expensive than MD.
DL is arguably cheaper but it’s been a long time since I last played (2021).
EDIT: Oh and before I forget - there will always be Dueling Book as a free alternative. This is a manual simulator, not an automated one, and allows you to use any card you want with custom rules.
Yep, shadow games had actual repercussions.
The manga is about various different types of games (not just Duel Monsters) and the darkness revolves around the Millenium Items. Shadow Games are initiated by the wielder of an item and the loser (or worse, cheater) dies.
The closest we got are the Season 0 and the first movie.
But don’t disregard the japanese original animes that do involve the new direction. They can get quite dark too.
Yes, both Yuzu and Ryujinx were open source.
Ryujinx is licensed under MIT and Yuzu is under GPLv3.