Make your own emulator/ game emulation?

[kman8807]

Is it possible to make your own emulator/ game emulation?
Just curious, and if it is how?

[-=VampyR=-]

Do you have good coding skills ?
If not,you're wasting your time.

[Zach]

Of course it's possible to make your own emulator... That's how we got emulators in the first place..

[cloud4004]

If your looking for a "Emulator Maker" then no...

[Jay]

The first step to "making" your own emulator will be to learn as much as possible about the console that you'd like to write an emulator for. Here's a link to some technical documents-- http://www.zophar.net/tech/tech.phtml

[alcoatjez]

Try creating a Chip-8 emulator first. That seems to be the easiest system to emulate.

[FFVII Forever]

Chip 8 wasnt actual Hardware or an actual system it was a virtual machine that ran ontop of hardware, i forget which RCA hardware it ran on but it later ran on HP graphing calculators. Think of Chip 8 as the java console and the programs as compiled .Jars, unfortunatly dissaembling and interpreting java is a much harder task.

This aside the nature of a virtual machine is much like that of emulating cross platform machien code so its worth doing very worth it. Taught me alot more about memory addressing.

[SirAuron]

CHip 8 is the bare bones to emulation IMO. If youve managed to understand them concepts, try doing a NES. Im having a hard tym understanding how to program it efficiently in C++

[fallenstan]

hey guys im pretty new to this whole thing, but i was wondering if anyone could give me like instructions on how to start the most simplest emulator or something cause this stuff sounds really cool to me im just not sure where to start out any help would be greatly appreciated

[Dude111]

I dont know much about how emulators work but this sounds like a fascinating idea!


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