emulators

[patvdragon]

What exactly are emulators, and how do they work, yada yada? Any info would be appreciated, thank you

 

[mrface]

they makwe it so you can play old skool games (like nes, snes genesis, etc.) games on your computer.

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<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by PhukFace on 05/17/04 09:15 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[phsstpok]

There are also emulators (like MAME) for coin-op games and emulators for old computers.

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[Spitfire_x86]

<A HREF="http://dosbox.sourceforge.net" target="_new">dosbox</A> is an example of emulator

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[Wolfy]

emulators allow u to play ye olde games on yur pc. Mainly mame for arcade game, snes9x or zsnes for snes games, ultra64 for n64 erm i have other emulators at home but cant think of their names but u can get emulators for sega, gameboy gameboy adv and also for n64 playstation and the better consoles.

So, say u wanna play yur old snes games but cant be arsed digging up the said console or the games no longer work then locate and download znes (the emulator) and then run a search for snes ROMS. these used to be easy to locate but were getting rare when i last looked for roms (i have all i need so i dont look anymore). then to use em u just start up the emulator and open the rom up from within it and bobs yur uncle a perfect working game. u need a joypad obviously for max fun. I still play me old faves every now and then being zelda link to the past, super punchout (brill game) and my fave super metroid.

just run a google search and filter through the [-peep-] time wasting sites and u should do alright.. i guess u will also find that sort of stuff on P2P software like winmx etc.

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[meBigGuy]

LOL So many replies --- so few answers

Emulators emulate the instruction set of a computer or the behavior of a graphics chip on a different machine than the original. That is, they decode and execute instructions (for example, on your PC) as if they were a different computer (like a Z80 microprocessor). For example, if you had ROM code for a Z80 processor (very common in old arcade games) and a Z80 emulator running on your PC, you could point the emulator at the ROM code (dumped into a file) and it would decode and execute the code as if it were a Z80. Basically, the programmer that built the emulator went through the Z80 instruction set and wrote Intel X86 instructions to decode the runtime binary files and mimic (emulate) the behavior of the Z80.

The MAME project has emulated many processors and graphics chips, and so they can play all the old arcade games almost exactly as they played on the original machines by loading ROM dump files taken from the original arcade games.

A SNES emulator has emulated the chipsets in the SNES console, and so can play SNES games from SNES rom dumps.

And do on

 

[phsstpok]

Actually arcade machine emulators emulate the entire hardware, not just the CPU. They also emulate the memory, the ROMS, the PIO chips, multiple CPUs (some games had 8 Z80s). The physical controls are also emulated. Buttons, joysticks, etc are simulated in software to make use of the PC game controllers which have a completely different interface than the original arcade controls. You can even use different types of controllers than the original game. The emulators let you use keyboards instead of wheels (if you want), joysticks instead of trackballs, mice instead of light guns, and you can mix up combinations pretty much any way you want (at least with MAME).

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[meBigGuy]

yup

 

[Wolfy]

you just gave a bullshit way of answering.... oooh they emulate the chip instructions look at me

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[the_Prisoner]

I thought his post was interesting and instructive.

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