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Fri 06/02/04 at 22:05
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"Plate of glue"
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Is that how you spell it? Anyway, whats an emulator? My friend keeps on going on about it and I don't know hat he's talking about. So please, nlighten me with all your nintendo wisdom.
Fri 06/02/04 at 22:05
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"Plate of glue"
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Is that how you spell it? Anyway, whats an emulator? My friend keeps on going on about it and I don't know hat he's talking about. So please, nlighten me with all your nintendo wisdom.
Fri 06/02/04 at 22:07
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An Emulator is basically a program that will let you play old console games on your P.C, not by putting a cartridge in it, but by data files called roms.
Fri 06/02/04 at 22:07
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"Teal'c"
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Are you serious?
Fri 06/02/04 at 22:08
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"Dr. Chad Niga"
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It emulates (does the same, pretends to be) a console on your PC. You download ROM's which are the games and play them on the emulator.

Look up emulate in the dictionary for more detail.
Fri 06/02/04 at 22:08
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It's not just old games; just look up emulate in a dictionary. For example, you an emulate a GBA program running on the PC.
Fri 06/02/04 at 22:09
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"Dr. Chad Niga"
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Even Xbox and Gamecube, etc.
They dont run well. but they are still there.
I like the SNES and GBA best. Harvest moon has to be the best to get for them. It seems alot better on PC for some reason.
Fri 06/02/04 at 22:10
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"100% Sonic fan"
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an emulator is a peice of software to read games that aint sopposed to be played on a pc. say i want to play sonic advance 2 on my pc i download a gameboy advance emulator and download the game from my gameboy flash reader or the game (rom) from a emulator site.

if you still dont understand that much download an emulator ad a rom and you might like it.

i have one on my website its a megadrive one and it comes with sonic 1

free to play on youre pc www.buck1.co.uk/g.htm
Fri 06/02/04 at 22:10
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Stray away from using emulators of consoles that are still on the market, you know, the sucking the life out of the games industry un all.
Fri 06/02/04 at 22:12
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"Plate of glue"
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Cheers everyone.

Nice site Buck1
Fri 06/02/04 at 22:13
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"Dr. Chad Niga"
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Legendary Link wrote:
> Stray away from using emulators of consoles that are still on the
> market, you know, the sucking the life out of the games industry un
> all.

Not quite as extreme as that. GBA - maybe, but still they remain the biggest selling console ever. Gamecube and xbox, not at all, they dont run well at all on PC, not good enough to properly play a game.

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