What are emulators? [Archive]

NorthViking

06-19-2004, 07:13 PM

Basically an emulator is a program to emulate console or computer games so you can play them on a PC.
The games are called roms.

What are Emulators?

In Layman's terms, emulators are programs that let you play games designed for a specific console on a different console. Doesn't make sense? Well, this means that, an emulator is a program that will allow you to play a NES game on your PC, or a SNES game on your dreamcast, and so on.....
Actually Emulators are of various kinds and there are lots of emulators for different systems out there. In case you are wondering, How the hell can I play SNES games on PC ? Well, you CAN and that is possible because there are lots of geniuses out there who make these emulators. This site is basically about that, we provide you with emulators for playing console games on your PC and DC. But wait, that is not all, the best part is that we ALSO provide you with the games to play using these emulators!
Pretty cool huh? Well, if you're interested and have more questions, read on...

How big are these games and emulators?

Well, the size of the emulators is pretty small, around 200kb-1MB, but the size of the games depends on the system for which those games are designed. For example, A SNES rom is usually between 500kb-6MB. On the other hand an N64 rom size ranges from 8MB to as much as 64MB. There are even larger games for PSX and DC as those are from CD's they are a maximum of 650MB in size.

What are these "roms"?
The files you use to play the games with the emulator(the games files) are called roms.

Taken from www.emuparadise.org (http://www.emuparadise.org/)

For many emulators visit http://www.zophar.net (http://www.zophar.net/)