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If you read the GitHub <https://github.com/snes9xgit/snes9x/issues/264> you can see claims that Wayne as his company Datapower Development Limited worked as a contractor providing code to CyberGadget and another hardware-emulator vendor. They specifically allege that he illegally used their snes9x code for commercial use. They post an email from him refuting that this was illegal and acknowledging that CyberGadget has requested him to cease using this code. They later claim that Byuu licensed higaan to Wayne, to replace the use of snes9x code. Nobody in the thread seemed to believe the RetroFreak could actually run higaan so they seemed to indicate it was merely plausible deniability.
I do recall reading early in this/the Byuu thread that Byuu was accused of bringing to light these kind of legal issues to facilitate the sale of his higaan code. I would be interested to hear more about this.
I haven't seen mention of this lately and I can't seem to find the original post in this long-ass thread, but didn't a lot of emulators dislike Near? I thought I saw a post stating that some shit was about to go down in the emulation community regarding Near or something he did, but I may just be mistaken here. I just think it's interesting that once something off of Kiwi Farms goes down, somehow everybody is blaming a dead thread that was honestly quite civil & even had most people in it praising Near & interacting with him on a very friendly level in responses and such.
I feel like the simpler, yet more autistic take would be thatThat Near killed himself due to emulator drama and as an attempt to put the fire off of their asses, a few of them LARPed as him online to make it seem like it was as a result of the farms instead. Although I think that's highly unlikely and even in the realms of a D-list movie rather than reality.
So two main take aways from this.
1-Wayne Beckett is a real person and did have ties with Byuu. I hate to admit it but that might have been the real Wayne Beckett. He seemed like a tard on the github forum and it's very plausible he made an account on here to be a tard on. But that doesn't mean Byuu is dead. Beckett could be on the scheme to make it appear Byuu is dead. That leads me to my second point
2- It sounds like Byuu had some issues outside of kiwifarms. I think it would be wise to dig more into his legal issues. and issues in the emulator community.