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Give an error for XNA/.NET games instead of just crashing

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#1,496 opened on Oct 28, 2019

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Description

Continuation of #529.

Quote from @benvanik:

Could still be nice to detect them and throw up an error message that they are not supported.

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Research direction
Investigate how XNA games are detected (e.g., by examining game metadata or executable signature) and add a check during game loading to display an unsupported error message.
Tech stack
csharp
Domain
backend
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2
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1-3 hours
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Stale
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Clear
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80