Emulating Retro Games on Modern Consoles with Robin Lavallée and Bill Litshauer

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🗓️ 19 June 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Emulating retro games on modern consoles is a growing trend, and allows players to experience classic titles with improved performance, enhanced resolution, and added features like save states and rewinding. However, this process raises many challenging technical questions related to hardware compatibility, performance optimization, rendering, and state management. Implicit Conversions is a company focused on

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0:00.0	Emulating retro games on modern consoles is a growing trend and allows players to experience
0:05.3	classic titles with improved performance, enhanced resolution, and added features like
0:10.3	save states and rewinding. However, this process raises many challenging technical questions
0:15.6	related to hardware compatibility, performance optimization, rendering, and state management.
0:21.7	Implicit conversions is a company focused on emulating retro PlayStation games on modern consoles.
0:27.8	Robin LaValley is the CEO and Bill Littshower is the C.O. at the company.
0:33.0	They join the show to talk about the engineering that's needed to emulate and enhance retro games.
0:38.8	Kevin Ball, or K Ball, is the vice president of engineering at Mento and an independent
0:43.6	coach for engineers and engineering leaders. He co-founded and served as CTO for two companies,
0:49.1	founded the San Diego JavaScript meetup, and organizes the AI inaction discussion group through
0:54.3	latent space.
0:55.5	Check out the show notes to follow KBall on Twitter or LinkedIn or visit his website,
0:59.6	kball.l. LLC.
1:15.8	Hey guys. Hey, guys, welcome to the show.
1:17.1	Oh, great to be here.
1:18.8	Hey, nice to meet you.
1:23.2	Yeah, excited to get to dig into the kind of cool stuff you're doing.
1:25.6	But let's maybe start with the two of you.
1:27.8	So can you take turns, introduce yourself?
1:28.4	Who are you?
1:30.9	How did you get started in engineering and game development?
1:33.2	And what is implicit conversions?
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