emulators
By CRIVAS
@CRIVAS (1815)
Canada
February 25, 2009 3:50pm CST
Last night I was playing video games with my husband, after our daughters had gone to sleep for the night. We were playing video games on the computer, they were not your regular PC games either. We were playing games from a bunch of different game systems, that were converted. I had no idea what a emulator was, until my husband explained it to me. Apparently the emulator can be used to covert game system files (for example N64 games) into ROM files that you can play on your computer. I swear, technology never ceases to amaze me. So have you ever heard of an emulator? Would you even know what to do with one? Have you ever come across such an option on your computer?
2 responses
@juliotostado (168)
• Chile
26 Feb 09
Yes, in fact if you think technology its very hard to understand, like how it was possible to record music in a thin digital layer? like it does on the CD? Well I can explain you about the emulators. When a new console appears, like the ones right now on sale, lets say, the PS3, the company that creates the console also creates an official emulator for the Computers of the developers, so they sell the emulator to the game developer companies to try out the work that theyre doing and how its supposed to work the game in this fictional console. And when a videogame is finished and released, it contains a very little info on it about the emulator in what was tested, because after all the game itself it was created on a computer, so hackers or informatics take this little data and start to expand it to recreate in the better way the emulator that the console creator provided, but this is really hard, thats why most of emulators have some glitches and bugs, I hope this explanation served you, greetings.
@Lurkin (12)
• United States
26 Feb 09
Wow, that was Informative, Props or THANKS!! I couldnt figure that out either but now I think I put it together. I have found plenty of sites that offer emulator downloads and never found out what they were for. Now I know, and thats the shizzle sticks cause Im a huge gamer, just not that upto date on the tech.
