eli5: Why do we need emulators to play old games? why can’t we just make the games work without the emulator?

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eli5: Why do we need emulators to play old games? why can’t we just make the games work without the emulator?

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its very similar to why you can’t always run Mac software on windows. The Operating systems are different and often the actual processors themselves are quite different. The more different the processor architecture the more difficult the emulation. Which is why we’re still having trouble with the PS3

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