You are right, they are doing good work to help make sure these games run.
One point of clarification though, they are pulling in the fan-patches themselves and building installers to install the emulators/vms as part of the installation. So they aren’t updating these games, they are creating an environment where, regardless of how things change, these games will be playable.
What this means for the end-user is that any mods or other fan patches can still be used, because they haven’t changed any of the game’s code, so they are actually doing a better job at preservation than many of these companies releasing “Remastered” versions of their games are doing.
You are right, they are doing good work to help make sure these games run.
One point of clarification though, they are pulling in the fan-patches themselves and building installers to install the emulators/vms as part of the installation. So they aren’t updating these games, they are creating an environment where, regardless of how things change, these games will be playable.
What this means for the end-user is that any mods or other fan patches can still be used, because they haven’t changed any of the game’s code, so they are actually doing a better job at preservation than many of these companies releasing “Remastered” versions of their games are doing.