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Please Visit Our Sponsor To Support Our Site If you are a new to emulation, you're probably wondering what the heck is it? Why's it around? How does it work? Well when you're done reading this, I'm sure you'll be glad that you've found this page. Here's some common questions that a person new to emulation would ask. Click on a question below to read the answer.
What exactly is emulation? The word emulation basically means to mimick. In this case, you are using a program called an emulator to make your computer mimick a console, an arcade machine, or even another computer. Emulation started to get popular over the last few years. The original emulators were very buggy. Part of the reason were because of the slow computers. Now there are faster computers and the authors of emulators have come along a long way since. Each emulator is started by a person or a group of persons that basically have too much time on their hands. Thanks to them we can relive these classic games that cannot be found at stores any longer. Click to go back to questions. What are ROMs? ROMs are files that are Read Only Memory. These are an exact copy of a game that was copied from the original cartridge. Obviously, emulators are used to run ROMs. A Cool, But Obvious Fact: The size of the file is the exact same size cartridge that the game was on. Meaning if you download Super Mario World for SNES, you'll notice it is 512 KB. That is the size of the cartridge chip as well. Click to go back to questions. How do I get the emulators to run the ROMs? First you must pick a system that you'd like to play that one game for. Next, go to that section at the site and download the emulators. You will need Winzip to unzip any file that is downloaded from here. It is a compression program making the files much smaller. This saves me much webspace and time while it saves you precious download time. When you have Winzip, proceed and download the emulator of your choice. Unzip the files that reside in the zip into a folder, such as snes if you're going to play snes, genesis if you're going to play genesis, et cetera. Now that you have that out of the way, download the ROM(s) that you would like to play. Once it is done downloading, unzip it into the directory that the emulator is in. Now, open the emulator and click on 'Load ROM'. Select the ROM that you would like to play and now you did it! You may also want to configure sound, controls, and video options for maximum performance. Click to go back to questions. Isn't emulation illegal? By law, yes. Even though it is illegal, we are doing no harm to any videogame company - no matter what they say. These games are no longer on sale at stores. This makes it nearly impossible to find. Videogame companies are also not making any kind of profit off of these no where to be found videogames. We are actually doing them a favor by keeping these games alive. We are preserving the classics by providing a free service to you. In a way, emulation actually helps video game companies. Say you are about 11 years old and you don't really know what in heck Mario is. This obviously means that you weren't alive while we had many truly awesome Mario games. How would Nintendo expect a kid of that age to know what Mario is, besides by an advertisement from an upcoming game? Now comes the fun part. He downloads a game called Super Mario World because people say it's such a cool game. Then he falls in love with the game. He will no look forward to getting the latest Mario game and also know what the heck people are talking about while talking about the latest Mario game. Click to go back to questions. How about Nintendo 64 emulation? Probably the biggest reason why Nintendo is against emulation is because they are losing money day to day due to people getting pirated copies of Nintendo 64 games. I, nor emulation, stand for this. Emulation stands for keeping the classic systems alive. It is not meant for getting the latest games that are still on the market. I do however, think that since there are a couple emulators running commercial Nintendo 64 games is truly amazing. This was thought impossible before the surprise release of a working Nintendo 64 emulator. When Nintendo 64 is no longer on the market, I will support it. Until then, sorry but don't dislike my site because of it =) Click to go back to questions. If you have any more questions, please contact me and I will answer it and put it on this page. |
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