eli5 If video game consoles are essentially just weaker computers, why did it take so long for PCs to get 7th gen console emulators, why are we only just getting 8th gen emulators, and how long until we see 9th gen emulators?
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When youre playing a rom, its not the same as a native pc game. Running an emulator is like running a computer within a computer. So you need significant power to pretend to be the console, whilst also running the rest of your pc.
It also takes time to develop, because people are interpreting how the emulated system OS works. We do not have access to the source code. A lot of older systems also had very different archetectures to how a pc works
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