Will it have a New New Funky Mode?

Not if the admins of an instance want to maintain their echo chamber by shepherding discussions towards extremist viewpoints.

Also have to make sure that the public WiFi network one’s device is connected to doesn’t block VPN connections, as was the case at at least one Walmart I tried using the WiFi at.

If a homebrew game is popular enough, such as Micro Mages, you can sometimes find them in romsets. Unfortunately some cartridge-only and less popular ROMs take a while to get uploaded; took me a year to find a specific Genesis ROM that was cartridge-only.

From the perspective of a piracy community, however, that’s not a win.