How do Emulators work ?

[Guest ifgy]

Hey all,

I just have one (stupid) question: How does the emulators work ?

If I download say: The GameBoy Emulator I can now play games/ROMs from ? Can I play all the games in the GBA-section :?:

Hope I haven't wasted your time with this silly question, but I'm new to the whole MS-phone scene ..

Thank you all in advance. :)

[Guest midnight]

please DO NOT link to illegal rom dump sites.

[Guest midnight]

and of course, the answer is no, cos that emulator is for GB and GBC, not for GBA :)

[Guest ifgy]

oh - I'm sorry .. haven't read the guidelines :oops:

guess I'm back to square one.

[Guest nxsfan]

emulators work by trying to recreate the original hardwares behaviour in software rather than hardware, ie, rather than reencode a game for it to work in windows natively, an emulator will interpret the original game code into an intelligable form for whatever hardwares it's on, on the fly.

Because emulation is done in software rather than having dedicated hardware, the hardware you are running the emulator on must obviously be higher performance than the original hardware.

However because an emulator is immitating the original game hardware, any images you have of games, (ones that you obviously own the cartridges for already) should run.

Hope this makes sense, i'm shocking at explaining stuff.

[Guest ifgy]

yeah - thanks.

Actually, I already knew that .. :)

I'm just wondering, if I install ie. the SNES emulator, am I then cabable of playing all the games a certain ROM-site carry ?

.. I guess, I am. :D

[Guest spacemonkey]

In general, all the games for an emulated platform should work. However in reality an emulator may not 100% perfectly implement the platform in question and this may lead to unexpected or unstable results with some games.

Also, some games may run but may not run as fast or be as playable as you would hope. Most of the emulators that have been ported to the smartphone are from reasonably mature source code so they work reliably for the majority of games.

[Guest ifgy]

thank you, spacemonkey

:)