what is a emulator

What exactly is one? can you play ps2 games on the computer or such? please let me know thanks ron

You've got the right idea about emulators, but PS2 emulation hasn't progressed far enough yet that you can play the games on your PC. You also posted this topic in the wrong section of the forums. "Misc Emulation Topics" or "Playstation Emulation & Games" would have been a better choice.

I hate it when I get the topic areas wrong and write a completely different thing to what the topic area is about :rolleyes:

sorry!!! but what about snes, nes, ps1, xbox, and all the alike, how do you get the games on the computer? ron

There are files floating around called "ROMs". You load these in the emulators to play the games. Since these are duplicates of commercial games it's usually against copyright laws to have them, so it's against the rules here to request or trade ROMs.

However, owning such ROMs is not that dangerous, as the game companies generally don't seem to care about private citizens possessing them. You can generally find these files fairly easily just by using Google, though you might have to sift through a few pages of junk results before you find a good ROM site.



SNES emulation is near-perfect, as is NES emulation. PS1 emulation is, generally speaking, fairly good. One thing to note with emulation of systems of the N64 and PS1's generation (and most all systems sine then) is that you need both an emulator and plug-ins. I believe there are a number of cosmetic issues with some games, but almost all PS1 games are emulatable with the right emulator plug-ins and settings.

i once put a chip in my ps1 so it could play copyed games from the computer. needless to say it didnt work. but i did find out how to play ps1 games disc on my computer but that was years ago and i dont even remember what i did or how it worked.

an emulator is software that copys the hardware from a machine to a computer. the most commin is game console emulators.

playerplayer, I know your are new here but please dont dig up threads like this. Besides since 04 most people and there dog knows what an emulator is by now ;P

In short words, an emulator is a software, which describes in programmatically manner a hardware. This hardware, rewritten as software, can be used on a completly different hardware. Game console emulators uses files (mostly) called roms. These roms are dumps (copies via special readers) from the disks or modules. You need A) an emulator and B) a rom to play such games. In some cases special roms alongside the games are needed, called BIOS roms.

For more info, I recommend you to read the Wikipedia entry about Emulation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emulator