Eli5: What is the difference between Emulation and Simulation?
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Emulation just cares about it’s end behavior. It might as well be a black box.
Simulation cares about the internal process of how it gets there.
If you want to watch the thing do it’s job and play with it and see how it behaves differently, then you need a simulation. You can emulate PS1 hardware and feed it joystick controls and see a picture on a screen and you’re good. A PS1 simulator would ideally know how much memory buffer is being used and how things would slow down when it’s full.
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