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How do you explain emulation to your Mom?
shateredsoul1979:
Yeah... my arcade got more attention when setup to run NES games because mame was having issues at a party. They don't care if it's not the arcade version or if it was even on an arcade.
try explaining frontends.. and then emulators.. hah!
Mario:
I thought of a good analogy that I'd use to explain emulation to my mom:
Emulation is the equivalent of installing something on your CD player so that it can play your old LPs.
Mario
codefenix:
--- Quote from: boardjunkie on November 30, 2011, 05:18:56 pm ---I just simplify it like this: The actual "game" is contained in a number of memory chips on the original board. The rest of the stuff on that board is needed for reading the came code, processing it (along with I/O) and displaying it on a monitor. The MAME program replaces all the rest of the stuff on the board except for the game code which is read from the real game's ROM chips and stored in various files. So the game code is tricked into "thinking" its running on its correct original hardware and you get the same result as the full hardware version.
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How is that simplifying? :D
thebyter:
--- Quote from: Hoopz on November 30, 2011, 10:20:16 am ---"Remember all those video games that you said I was wasting my money on 30 years ago? Guess what I'm wasting my money on again?"
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Um, plusplus. :applaud:
Actually, since I'm a fledgling guitar player (my wasted youth is apparently happening in my forties), I've explained like this: Even though I'm not Chuck Berry, I can play something that almost sounds like Jonny B. Goode. I can also (sort of) play Back In Black, House of the Rising Sun, and My Sharona -- songs from lots of different artists. And even though it's not exactly the same as the original, it's close enough that it's still fun. Just like running emulated arcade games. 8)
I have a harder time explaining to people why I want to build an actual cabinet. "Can't you just play that on your laptop?" I try to explain how it just doesn't "feel" right, but I get an "ohhh..kay" and a confused stare. Any ideas for fixing that?
boardjunkie:
--- Quote from: codefenix on December 01, 2011, 11:42:50 am ---
--- Quote from: boardjunkie on November 30, 2011, 05:18:56 pm ---I just simplify it like this: The actual "game" is contained in a number of memory chips on the original board. The rest of the stuff on that board is needed for reading the came code, processing it (along with I/O) and displaying it on a monitor. The MAME program replaces all the rest of the stuff on the board except for the game code which is read from the real game's ROM chips and stored in various files. So the game code is tricked into "thinking" its running on its correct original hardware and you get the same result as the full hardware version.
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How is that simplifying? :D
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Well...maybe not "simplifying", but explaining how it works.
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