Category: Emulation

Emulation is the process of replicating the functions of a system on another system. This is usually done in two ways in gaming:

1. Hardware emulation (e.g. FPGA)
2. Software emulation (e.g. Gambatte for Game Boy or Snes9x for SNES)

The goal of both is to let you play games from other systems on devices that aren’t the originals. There are some grey areas around this and it’s always advised to own games before you try to emulate them elsewhere.